NASCAR DFS Picks: CRC Brakleen 150 Trucks Series Race at Pocono on DraftKings

The field is set for Saturday’s Trucks race at Pocono with Todd Gilliland and Zane Smith on the front row. With the help of Awesemo’s expert NASCAR fantasy point projections and ownership rankings, let’s dive into Saturday’s top NASCAR DFS picks on DraftKings for the Trucks Series CRC Brakleen 150 race this weekend.

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NASCAR DFS Picks: CRC Brakleen 150

Todd Gilliland, 1st ($10,300)

Following back-to-back disappointing finishes in Las Vegas (13th) and Atlanta (17th), Gilliland has been running with a head of steam. He has yet to finish worse than ninth and that includes multiple top-five finishes. The argument can be made that Gilliland is running the best he ever has in the Trucks Series, including his time with Kyle Busch. Now he returns to a track where he’s finished no worse than seventh in three races.

With the pole position and preferred lane, Gilliland should easily lead the first segment. However, that’s just 15 laps, and it will only be a matter of time before both John Hunter Nemechek and Kyle Busch make their way forward. Playing Gilliland in cash in a 60-lap race is a hard sell. Yet in tournaments maybe Gilliland can earn enough dominator points that he takes away enough from Busch and makes it hard for him to pay off his $15,000 salary.


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John Hunter Nemechek, 7th ($11,000)

Nemechek rolls off the grid seventh on Saturday. This starting position, matched with the second-highest salary, puts Nemechek in a position where he needs dominator points in order to pay off his salary. Projecting him to do so is easy; he has found his way to the front in practically every race this season. However, how long he does that before he has to contend with Busch is another issue.

Compounding this is the lack of laps in Saturday’s race – 60, to be precise. Nemechek’s path to viability as a potential dominator is going to need this race to go green so that he can establish a cushion out front between himself and Busch. The fewer dominator points that Busch has access to will obviously increase Nemechek’s own score but decrease the likelihood that Busch is optimal himself if all he has is a score based on place differential.

Kyle Busch, 22nd ($15,000)

This will be Busch’s first Trucks race at Pocono since his win back in 2018. For reference’s sake, this will be Busch’s final Truck race of the season as well. In Busch’s previous four starts this season he has two wins (Kansas, Atlanta), while his other two finishes were placing runner-up to Nemechek at Las Vegas and Richmond. It has been a pretty good year for KBM when either he or his own driver wins in Busch’s Truck starts.

Thus, the question isn’t can Busch win this event, he’ll always be the favorite in any Trucks event he enters. The real question is what does the path look like for Busch to pay off his salary? With just 60 laps, that path gets much harder this week. Especially if this year’s event looks anything like the 2020 race that was caution-filled and took a majority of the fastest laps points off the board. However, via his starting position, Busch does have a path to the highest NASCAR fantasy score with place differential. With a first-place finish and double-digit dominator points, Busch can still score enough points to hit 5x value and be worth rostering on Saturday.

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Grant Enfinger, 31st ($9,600)

Above it was mentioned how last year’s race here turned into a yellow-flag affair with multiple spin-outs and ensuing cautions. The more that this year’s race resembles that race, the more likely it is that Enfinger approaches being optimal. Starting 31st, Enfinger has one of better place differential upsides of anyone in this field. However, in Codie Rohrbaugh’s equipment, there is definitely a ceiling to how far forward Enfinger can go in 60 laps.

Yet there will be cautions at lap 15 and lap 30. Add in a few more cautions, and the field could be packed up enough that Enfinger will go from having a finish in the latter teens to ending his day in the top 10. For the season, Enfinger has seven such top-10 finishes and no finish worse than 17th. If Saturday is a greener race, then Enfinger will score enough to be valuable in cash. Should this race go yellow for the majority of the 60 laps, then Enfinger may turn in the best point-per-dollar return on the slate.

Josh Reaume, 35th ($4,900)

Continuing this theme of attrition, Reaume becomes appealing as a punt play allowing DFS players to fit in practically whoever they want. If multiple drivers are going to wreck out, it’s naturally going to propel these backmarkers. Consequently, if forced to choose a punt play who can actually pick up place differential, Reaume fits that bill considering his starting position and past here at Pocono. In back-to-back Pocono races, Reaume has finished within the top 24.

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Phill Bennetzen is the creator of the RaceSheets; all-inclusive stats and data NASCAR DFS spreadsheets for the Trucks, Xfinity, and Cup Series. Phill and the RaceSheets can be found at racesheetsdfs.substack.com

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