Fantasy Nascar: The Smoke Problem

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Yahoo Fantasy Racing is an 7 day a week game. The best players always thinking ahead about the upcoming race. Even if only Monday. Today we will examine Tony Stewart aka Smoke. His unimpressive performances at terrific tracks have got me scratching my head. There a good possibility I will leave him off.

Of course like any good expert , I have supporting reasons to back my claim. Below represents Stewart best 5 racetracks where he underperformed. Note his overall performance on that day is more relevant then his finish:

-Indianapolis: Last weekend race at IMS may have been his worst performance of the summer. Not because how he ran. More because his awesome track record there. He started 6th and finished 17th. At times during the race , he didn't even have a 17th place car. It was frustrating to watch really.

-New Hampshire: Stewart finished 7th in this race. Don't be fooled though. He wasn't very good. In fact , he would have finished in the middle teens. If that late caution didn't wave. He wasn't happy with his car much at all. This was one of his worst races at New Hampshire.

-Sonoma: 75% of the Sonoma race , Tony spent outside of the top 20. He ended his day at P18. He wasn't very competitive overall in that race. He struggled mightily to even be relevant. I forgot he was in the race. Until he was mentioned for receiving a speeding penalty.

-Daytona: Tony finished about 40th. Didn't really have a chance to complete. As Ricky Stenhouse Jr triggered the big one just before the competition caution on lap 20. Hard to tell how he would have performed. But again another missed opportunity.

-Charlotte: He finished top 10 at Charlotte. But he wasn't very good overall. Smoke ran most of this race a lap down. Got a lap back late and rally to finish solidly.  Wasn't impressed by him in this race.

By point being , Smoke isn't what he once was (before his injury). Until he proves he is that driver again, he will just be a secondary option in my mind.

Twitter - @JeffNathans

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