🏎 Gas-N-Go: Fr8Auctions 200 NASCAR DFS Trucks Picks for DraftKings

The field is set for Saturday’s NASCAR Truck race, with John Hunter Nemechek and Kyle Busch on the front row. Let’s dive into this week’s top Trucks NASCAR DFS picks on DraftKings and FanDuel for the Fr8Auctions 200 at Atlanta.

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Lineup Construction Thoughts

With just 130 laps on tap for the Fr8Auctions 200, our need for dominators is deemphasized. On the lowest end, one dominator makes sense in cash and tournament lineups. At the most, your lineups should have two dominators. The salaries of two Cup drivers complicate things, but even with their salaries, I still think you need a minimum of one and a max of two dominators in your Trucks lineups.

Fr8Auctions 200 NASCAR DFS Trucks Picks | DraftKings

John Hunter Nemechek, 1st ($9,600)

Our early leader is coming from either Nemechek or Busch. The conundrum with Busch is easy to analyze, and it’s all salary-based. If you’d like some analysis on Kyle Busch, skip down to the Ross Chastain section.

As per Nemechek, the last time we saw the Trucks Series race, Nemechek won the event and led 94 laps in the process. In his years prior at NEMCO, Nemechek had six career victories but never truly dominated, leading at most 46 laps at Gateway. Now, in perhaps the best equipment in the Series, he showed at a track not named Daytona that he’ll be a force to reckon with. It’s easy to see Nemechek leading early and holding that lead, as intermediate races have been his bread and butter.

Furthermore, he has shown promise at high tire-wear venues before too. His first two career Truck victories came at Chicagoland in 2015 and Atlanta in 2016.

Austin Wayne Self, 12th ($5,200)

Welcome to DraftKings where your punt plays either start in the rear and finish where they started. Outside of a plate race, I can’t bring myself to play the likes of Jennifer Jo Cobb, Norm Benning, Ryan Ellis or Akinori Ogata. I’m taking a deep breath and playing these cheaper drivers who could drag down an entire lineup with a wreck, cut-down tire or bad pit stop. Out of this ilk of a driver, Self has been the most consistent this season, with finishes of 21st, 15th and 14th — nearly mirroring his driver rating. If he can do like he has done and finish where about he started, then he’ll easily outscore everyone in his price range.

Grant Enfinger, 19th ($9,000)

Enfinger is this week’s pricing algorithm head-scratcher. Obviously we can’t load up on all the potential dominators in this field. You would assume that last year’s Atlanta winner, starting near the middle of the field, would see a salary close to Zane Smith or Austin Hill. However, Enfinger comes in at just $9,000 and makes a finishing position play with the potential to win and gain considerable place differential.

In Enfinger’s five starts at Atlanta, he has no finish worse than ninth. The last time we saw Enfinger, two weeks ago at Las Vegas, he came across the stripe in seventh.


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Bill Lester, 31st ($6,200)

If you knew nothing more than Lester than his age (60) and how long it’s been since he’s been in a Truck (2007), you’d say no way to this play. Sure, in tournaments I’m fine with a pivot to Timothy Peters at just $100 more. However, for cash I’m not so hot for Peters starting 16th when I can play Lester in 31st.

Lester is a seasoned veteran, obviously, and he’s in David Gilliand’s ride. All things considered, I’ll take Gilliland’s equipment over Rackley W.AR. Furthermore, Lester knows exactly how to race Atlanta even though he may need the first few laps to get his sea-legs underneath him. However, in the COVID era of NASCAR, this is a handicap all drivers have to account for. With Busch and Chastain demanding so much salary, I need cheaper drivers with place differential upside. Lester fits the bill this week at Atlanta.

Ryan Truex, 32nd ($7,200)

There’s an unfortunate reason that Truex is starting this far back in the field, 31st at the Daytona Road Course and 38th at Las Vegas. Finishing three laps down in a road course race, understandable for a driver who cut his chops in the K&N West Series. 38th at Las Vegas, understandable again when you take into account that six other Trucks joined him in that accident. Following that wreck, Truex’s day was done, as the Truck was trashed. Two poor back-to-back finishes disappoint us, but they have their legitimate reasons.

Now Truex returns to Atlanta, where he finished 13th last year and 13th back in 2017. While I don’t know if Truex is going to make the circle complete and finish 13th once again, I do think this Niece Truck should pick up 10 to 15 spots and be a value in cash games.

Ross Chastain, 40th ($13,000)

Speaking of Niece, Chastain is making a spot start for his old Truck Series team. Chastain’s reward for driving this Saturday is starting dead last — a chore for him but fantasy goodness for us. While Niece may not be throwing the best equipment out there, Chastain showed in his Truck time that he can take practically anything and make it a top-10 vehicle. Therein lies the issue. Because of this top-five or top-10potential, DraftKings made Chastain the second-highest-priced driver at $13,000.

Due to the bloated salaries of Busch and Chastain, I can’t envision a scenario where you’re playing both together. You can easily play one of Busch or Chastain but not both. The decision you’ll have to make is, does Busch score enough dominator points from the second starting position to outscore Chastain with his cheaper salary and better place differential?

In Chastain’s last two Atlanta starts, he finished sixth both times. If he reproduces that finish on Saturday, he’ll finish with 72 DraftKings points. Because of Chastain’s cheaper price tag, you may need 40 or more dominator points from Busch for him to be the better value for the Fr8Auctions 200.


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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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