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Folks, I have been around the block a couple times, kicked some rocks and chucked some stones across the water. And there two things I know about Nascar that I don't like. I hate Nascar off-weekends and my hatre for night races grow as the seasons goes by! This is more from a Fantasy Nascar's perceptive than anything, honestly. The off-weekends always kill my momentum and then we go to a unfriendly track like Martinsville. Yeaaah that is not very ideal! As for the night races, the fan in me still love them! But the fantasy writer and player in me HATES them. Everything get moved up a day which makes my life a lot more challenging. Not only that they are a lot more difficult to predict. Maybe less so with no practice and qualifying being held, but still night races make everything harder!
I also believe with more of them, they are becoming less special. It's like if you eat the same meal every single day. What happens? You are gonna get bored of it. That how I feel about night races, but to a much lesser extent. I don't hate them by any means, but they aren't special as they once were.
Alright folks, let's get rolling!
Sleepers -
Michael McDowell - McDowell is off to a great start to the season and we are the point where we have to just keep riding the good results. I am willing to bet that he finishes are worse later in the season than they are now. How much? I really don't know, but you always ride guys like McDowell until you can't anymore. Long as he is knocking off good results, then you keep rolling the dice with him. It will likely pay off and McDowell is very underrated at this kind of track. He knocked off a top 15 finish here last season and easily could do that once again.
Bubba Wallace Jr - Bubba has gotten some heat for his performance so far this season, but it really hasn't been that bad. Sure, it is a lot worse when you look at PURE RESULTS at the checkers. And that the problem for a lot of people out here, they strictly looking at results. We don't select drivers based on what we might think could happen. We SELECTED THEM BASED ON THEIR POTENTIAL! If we think a certain driver have a certain potential, then we take a shot with them. If we don't then, we simply don't. If we learned anything good about Bubba at RPM, it was that he was underrated when we came to places like Martinsville. This was a really good track for him in the #43 car! In his last four starts, he had 4 straight finishes in the top 21 and three of them ending in the top 17! He is very capable this weekend to deliver a top 15 finish, if everything goes right! Don't sleep on him!
Dark Horses -
Kurt Busch - I don't mention Kurt or give him high praises very often, so when I do you best have him on your radar! I have a really good feeling on him this weekend at Martinsville and his numbers here are really good. This season so far, he has been meh but I think this is a place that could turn it around. He currently has 6 straight top 12 finishes at this track and has 3 straight top 9 finishes overall. I don't know I just have a really good feeling about him and I really don't say that very often. Believe this is a major compliment for anybody's considering to use him this weekend!
Kyle Busch - It is weird to have Kyle listed as a dark horse pick, but that where he is right now. He is no longer a weekly favorite to win. I know some people won't like hearing that, but that is NOT the same driver we saw a couple years ago. He is so godly talented, but something is off and has been off for nearly a season and a half now. He has his strong runs here and there, but they aren't consistent. And they typically aren't good enough to be a strong race-winning contender. I do believe Martinsville is a track that he could make a strong run on.
Ballsy Pick of the Weekend -
Aric Almirola - Aric has STUNK this season, but he is really good at these kind of tracks. If I wanted to be ballsy and just throw something dumb at the wall, then Aric might be my guy. He has always been stupid underrated at these places. Fun fact: Since joining SHR, he has finished in the top 15 in every race at Martinsville that he DID NOT DNF. So last 3 of 5 races overall at Martinsville! That is pretty good, but what make me believe that he might have a shot? There's one race on this schedule that might have even a little relevancy to this weekend and that would be Phoenix. He had his best race of the season and finished a solid 11th. Not only that, but he also started 32nd. Folks, he is gonna be better than most people think.
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