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All other NASCAR Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. The Cup Series is back at one of the fastest Oval tracks on the schedule with Michigan International Speedway. Michigan is one of the largest tracks in the Cup Series where drivers are known for approaching speeds of 200 miles per hour or... Read More
Erik Jones Will Start In 10th
Erik Jones will start in 10th place as he looks to sneak into the playoffs on Sunday at Michigan International Speedway. Jones will need a win to make the playoffs, but if Michigan is run like Atlanta, Jones could be a dark horse to win. Jones is also 175 points out of a playoff spot,... Read More
Denny Hamlin Starts In Ninth
Denny Hamlin will be starting in ninth place at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday. Hamlin has been having a down year by his standards, and it hit a low point at Pocono when he was disqualified for a race he thought he won. However, Hamlin is still locked into the playoffs and needs to start... Read More
Kyle Larson Starts In Eighth Place
Kyle Larson will look to dominate at one of his favorite tracks and will start in eighth place at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday. We think it's safe to say Larson won't have another season like he did in 2021, and he still only has one win on the year. However, Larson has been one... Read More
Martin Truex Jr. Starts In Seventh
Martin Truex Jr. will be looking to secure his playoff spot when he starts in seventh place at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday. Truex might be one of the most talked about drivers as he holds the last playoff spot in 16th place. To make matters worse for Truex, two drivers who have not won... Read More
Tyler Reddick Aims For Third Win
Last week's winner, Tyler Reddick, will be looking to go back-to-back when he starts in sixth place on Sunday at Michigan International Speedway. Reddick was surging up the NASCAR standings a couple of weeks ago when he had zero wins. Reddick now has two wins and is looking for his third win of the season.... Read More
Austin Cindric Starts In Fifth Place
Austin Cindric has been on a roll recently. He will be starting in fifth place at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday. It looked like Cindric was dead in the water during the middle of the season. But in the last seven races, he has turned a corner and has had three top-fives and five top-10... Read More
Joey Logano Starts In Fourth
Joey Logano will be starting in fourth place on Sunday at Michigan International Speedway. Logano is on a mission to earn his second career championship. He already has two wins on the season and sits in third place in the standings. He has five top-fives and nine top-10 finishes in 2022, which is a down... Read More
Kyle Busch Starts In Third Place
Kyle Busch will be looking to finally score a top-10 finish while starting in third place on Sunday at Michigan International Speedway. Busch hasn't had a top-10 finish in over two months, but he is going to be in a great position to snap that streak. He could have snapped the streak at Pocono if... Read More
Christopher Bell Starts On The Front Row
On Sunday, Christopher Bell will be starting on the front row in second place at Michigan International Speedway. Bell has already clinched his spot in the playoffs, but he will be looking to strike fear into the rest of the field. Bell has been putting together some good runs of late with a win at... Read More
Bubba Wallace Nabs The Pole
Bubba Wallace dominated qualifying at Michigan International Speedway and will start on the pole on Sunday. This will be Wallace's first-ever pole, and he is on one of the best stretches in his young career. In his last three races, Wallace has two top-fives and three top-10 finishes, which shows he is finally starting to... Read More
Brad Keselowski Could Move Up On Sunday
The 2022 season has been a lost one for Brad Keselowski. Keselowski has been behind from the beginning even with the 100 point deduction early on. The RFK Racing driver even starts way back in 33rd for Sunday's race at Michigan. This is a driver who does have three top-tens in his last five races... Read More
Ryan Blaney Can He Win At Michigan Again?
Ryan Blaney won the race last year at Michigan. The Ford driver tested rather well and then proceeded to qualify 24th for Sunday's race even behind Justin Haley. Yes, he was not the only one but it was a surprise. Blaney has not won in 2022 yet and the pressure does seem to be getting... Read More
Ross Chastain In Unfamiliar Position On Sunday
Can Ross Chastain climb from 22nd on Sunday? That is the question. Michigan is different compared to other tracks for the TrackHouse Racing driver. There is quite a bit of unknown but for two previous teams, Chastain has never finished higher than 26th in four appearances. That likely will change on Sunday. How high does... Read More
William Byron Might Thrive At Michigan
William Byron charged up the field last year at Michigan. He started 18th and wound up second when all was said and done. The Hendrick Motorsports Racing driver even led 18 laps and finished in the top-nine during both stages. His car was fast. This year looks familiar as Byron qualified only in 20th. Byron... Read More
Cole Custer Might Struggle At Michigan
Cole Custer starts 17th on Sunday at Michigan and though he has shown flashes of speed, Custer may struggle again. In three races, the Ford driver has finished no higher than 23rd. To be fair, his qualifying has left a bit to be desired. Even his fourth effort produced another start outside the top-15. He... Read More
Kevin Harvick Should Contend At Michigan
Kevin Harvick and his Stewart-Haas Racing Ford should at least contend at Michigan. Winning is another completely different question as issues have just plagued the No. 4 Ford all season. He is around the top ten in points despite of pit strategy and all sorts of maladies. At Michigan, Harvick has won three of the... Read More
Daniel Suarez Hit Or Miss At Michigan
Daniel Suarez has shown an ability to race well at Michigan International Speedway. He has two top five results mixed in his past five races there. However, those came when Suarez was still racing for Stewart-Haas Racing. How will TrackHouse Racing fare at the 2.0-mile track on Sunday? That is a great question. Consider that... Read More
Can Michael McDowell Do It Again At Michigan?
History says no but Michael McDowell, even with sanctions, still finished in the top ten last week at the Brickyard. That eighth was more surprising than any other result this season. Can he do it one more time at Michigan? McDowell faces an extremely uphill battle to get in the playoffs. He needs a win... Read More
Chase Elliott Possible Contender At Michigan
Other than one DNF, Chase Elliott and his #9 car have finished in the top ten the past four times at Michigan International Speedway. That average finish of 10.6 ranks a respectable seventh among all active drivers. The Hendrick Motorsports Racing driver has some built in DFS upside since he qualified 13th. With the Next-Gen... Read More
Ty Gibbs Starts Just Outside The Top Ten Sunday
Ty Gibbs was the last Toyota to qualify on Saturday but still placed 11th among all cars and was easily one of the five or six fastest in terms of lap time. Because of NASCAR's qualifying matrix, it is more how one advances in the groups. That being said, Gibbs has some interesting experience driving... Read More
FireKeepers Casino 400 DFS: DraftKings, FanDuel Daily Fantasy NASCAR Lineup Picks
The NASCAR Cup Series heads to Michigan on Sunday for the first race at the track with the Next Gen car. How will the track race with this car? Will we see a wild race on Sunday? Last week, Tyler Reddick won his second race of the season at Indianapolis. He's now 11th in points.... Read More
NASCAR Xfinity Series: DraftKings DFS Lineup Picks for Michigan New Holland 250 (8/6/22)
The NASCAR Xfinity Series heads to Michigan on Saturday for 250 miles around the fast, 2.0-mile speedway. Noah Gragson rolls off the grid first. Last week at the Brickyard, A.J. Allmendinger dominated, leading 42 of the 62 laps on his way to the victory. The win pushed his lead in the point standings to 17... Read More
NASCAR DFS Tiered Rankings: FireKeepers Casino 400 (Premium Content)
All other NASCAR Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Welcome to RotoBaller's Tiered Rankings for the twenty-second race of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season, the FireKeepers Casino 400 at Michigan International Speedway. For those that are viewing these rankings for the first time, here is how the sheet works. There... Read More
Kyle Busch Starts In 10th Place Sunday
Kyle Busch is coming off a disqualification and will start in 10th place at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday. Last week at Pocono looked like the week where Busch broke out of his slump with a second-place finish. However, in the post-race inspection, Busch and teammate Denny Hamlin were disqualified and they finished 35th and... Read More
Verizon 200: NASCAR DFS Value Picks (Premium Content)
All other NASCAR Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. It’s time for the Brickyard as the Nascar Cup Series heads to Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Verizon 200. This week’s race will not take place at the oval track but instead on the road course for only the second time in Cup... Read More
Todd Gilliland Will Start In Ninth
Todd Gilliland, shockingly, will be starting inside the top 10 in ninth place at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday. Gilliland has not done much this season, so this is a pleasant surprise that he did this well in qualifying. Gilliland has stats this season of zero wins, zero top-fives and zero top-10 finishes, which shows... Read More
Chase Elliott Starts In Eighth Place
Chase Elliott will be looking to get his fifth win of the season while starting in eighth place at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday. Technically, Elliott did win last week, but he came across the line third, so he will be looking for back-to-back wins. However, he has a fantastic streak going on in the... Read More
Michael McDowell Will Start Seventh
Michael McDowell will be starting inside the top 10 in seventh place at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday. McDowell has been in the news lately, as he has been stripped of 100 points, which drops him a lot in the standings. However, McDowell needed to win to get into the playoffs anyway, so it doesn't... Read More