NASCAR DFS Pit Stop: Digital Ally 400 – Cup Series from Kansas

Welcome to NASCAR DFS Pit Stop for Saturday night’s 400 mile race from Kansas Speedway. This weekend we have a hug 40 driver field (the max NASCAR allows). Last year at this event Kevin Harvick came home with the victory from the pole, which was the 6th in this tracks history. Harvick is still looking for his first win this season, but does have 8 top 10 finishes in 2019.

Martin Truex Jr. is probably the most eager to get this race going, as he has the most success at this Speedway over the last 4 races here. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver has performed exceptionally well in those 4 races with 2 wins and second and fifth place finishes thrown in for good measure.

NASCAR DFS – Betting Odds

Kyle Busch 7/2

Martin Truex Jr. 6/1

Brad Keselowski 7/1

Kevin Harvick 7/1

Joey Logano 7/1

Ryan Blaney 10/1

Chase Elliott 10/1

Kyle Larson 10/1

Clint Bowyer 18/1

Denny Hamlin 20/1

NASCAR DFS – Leaders of the Pack

Martin Truex Jr. ($11,400)

Qualifying Position: 6th

Truex Jr. is the only driver to have finishes in the top 5 in each of the last four races at Kansas. During that span Truex scored two wins and combined to lead 208 laps. This year, Truex has posted an average finish of 7.5 in the four races at both 1.5-mile and 2-mile tracks with the 550 horsepower rules package. I really like Truex more that he qualified 6th, he will run up front all night and has a really good chance to go back to back this week

Kevin Harvick ($10,600)

Qualifying Position: 1st

Harvick leads all drivers with three wins in the 13 races since Kansas was repaved 14 years ago. Harvick is the defending race winner as I mentioned earlier and has combined to lead 276 laps in the last five races. As you know I don’t generally like to use pole sitters in Cup series, but Harvick has one the best cars this weekend and has great track history here, plus he’s hungry for a win. There’s a good chance Harvick leads the most laps tonight and wins this race.

Other Options: Kyle Busch ($11,900) , Chase Elliott ($11,000)

NASCAR DFS – Middle of the Pack

Denny Hamlin ($9,100)

Qualifying Position: 17th

Hamlin has finished 5th in two of the last three races here at Kansas, including this race last year. Hamlin does have a win at Kansas, but it came in back in 2012, which was under the previous track set up before it was repaved and reconfigured in the current setup. Some people may be scared off Hamlin a this price after his poor performance last week, but that was the car not Hamlin. Denny has a top 10 car in my opinion after seeing his practice times.

Clint Bowyer ($8,500)

Qualifying Position: 3rd

Bowyer might have the best car in the field this week and should give Harvick a real run for his money up front to start the race. After having the 2nd best lap in first practice, he had the 3rd best lap in final practice on Friday, and also had the 3rd best 10 lap average in final practice. If Harvick doesn’t win, it might be his Stewart-Haas teammate Bowyer.

Austin Dillon ($7,500)

Qualifying Position 22nd

Austin Dillon‘s best finish at Kansas is a pair of 6th place finishes in 2016, and since then he’s posted an average finish of only 12.8. Similar to Hamlin, Dillon has a car that could easily run top 10 on Saturday night, if everything breaks his way he could have a great DKFP day for us.

Other Options: Jimmie Johnson ($8,300), Aric Almirola ($8,100) 

NASCAR DFS – Back of the Pack

Alex Bowman ($7,000) 

Qualifying Position: 10th

Bowman has posted an 11.3 average finish in his 3 career starts at Kansas while with Hendrick Motorsports. Two of those finishes are top 10’s with his best being a 7th place finish coming back in 2016 when he subbed for Dale Earnhardt Jr. Bowman, who is coming off consecutive second-place finishes this season, wants to win his first race bad and he has the car to do it. The Hendrick cars have been coming on the last few weeks and are getting faster and better each week.

Ryan Preece ($6,100)

Qualifying Position: 31st

Preece has a top 20 car this week in practice but qualified 31st, which is the kind of play we love to use. There is a really good chance that Preece can pick up 10-12 place differential points and be the difference we need for a big pay-day.

Ross Chastain ($5,800)

Qualifying Position: 36th

I almost feel like I have to roster Chastain this week. He won his first Truck Series race last night after Stewart Friesen ran out of gas with 3 laps to go. Luck seems to be on Chastain’s side this weekend and maybe if can continue to a top 20 or better finish tonight.

Other Options : Paul Menard ($7,100), Bubba Wallace ($5,900), Reed Sorenson ($5,100)

NASCAR DFS – Place Differential Play

Kurt Busch ($9,600)

Qualifying Position: 14th

There are not many great place differential plays this week with a lot of the top drivers qualifying high up in the field. Kurt Busch is my favorite play for this spot this week because of his speed in final practice on Friday, which had him sitting atop the leaderboard with the fastest lap. Busch also had the 4th best 10 lap average in final practice as well. Busch has also finished inside the top 10 in two of the last three races here at Kansas.

NASCAR DFS – Lineup Build

I plan on starting my build with Harvick and Truex at the top since I feel like they are two of the drivers I feel like have the best chance to win. After that I will look to someone like Bowyer or Johnson, and then I almost feel like I need to roster Alex Bowman with how well he has been driving. As for the bottom drivers, I want to use Sorenson because he is starting 40th and like last week he can go only go up from there.

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