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The NASCAR Xfinity Series heads to Dover on Saturday for the A-Game 200.
Last week at Talladega, Noah Gragson drove to victory lane, with Jeffrey Earnhardt finishing second. As always at Talladega, a lot of drivers crashed, including Austin Hill, who led 67 laps. Dover should be a lot less unpredictable.
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John Hunter Nemechek ($10,600) - Starting 9th
Nemechek makes his fourth start of the season and his second in the Joe Gibbs No. 18 car. His first start in this car was at Richmond, when JHN started second, led 135 laps and ultimately finished second. He also was fifth at Phoenix in the No. 26 car.
In addition, Nemechek has a solid track record here. He finished just 32nd in his 2021 Xfinity start here in the 26, but he had three top 10s in his first four Xfinity starts at this track. His results haven't been as good in the Truck Series, but he did take a NEMCO truck and finish sixth in 2014. And he was decent here in Cup for Front Row, with an average finish of 22nd.
Anyway, Nemechek is a good pick to win this race and he offers a slight amount of place differential upside from the ninth position.
Josh Berry ($10,100) - Starting 4th
Berry finished second here last year, leading 48 laps but finishing behind Austin Cindric. His teammate Justin Allgaier, a former winner here, is going to be the chalkier play in this price range, but Berry is my Contrarian Special this week.
Second in his only Dover start, Berry has also run well this year at tracks that compare to Dover, finishing third at Phoenix and seventh at Martinsville.
JRM seems to always run well here, so if you're building a GPP lineup, why not take the JRM play that's least likely to be rostered by everyone else?
Austin Hill ($9,000) - Starting 20th
Hill's had a weird season.
He won at Daytona. Then he finished outside of the top 15 in the next three races, including two finishes of 27th or worse. That victory was beginning to look like a fluke.
But then Hill was second at both Atlanta and COTA before an 18th at Richmond. He then was back in the top five at Martinsville. Last week, he led 67 laps at Talladega but crashed.
It looks like Hill's got some momentum going.
In terms of Dover, he's run six Truck Series races here, but only two of those were in what I'd call "good" equipment. He finished top 10 in those two races, including leading 21 laps in 2020.
Really like Hill's upside this week. Starting 20th offers some really nice place differential upside.
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Ryan Sieg ($8,200) - Starting 38th
This is such a good place differential play. It'll be an extremely chalky one, but that's fine because it's so rare that you get a driver with an average finish of 12th who starts way back in 38th.
There's not really a lot to say here. You should probably go a little lighter on Sieg in GPPs just because of how many people will play him, but he's a must-play driver in Cash games. Subtracting his DNF at Vegas, his worst finish is 11th. Sieg is officially this year's "driver for a small team who develops some wild consistency" guy.
Mason Massey ($5,900) - Starting 34th
Going to do a couple of these deep value drivers this week, starting with Mason Massey.
Massey starts 34th in the No. 91 car. His average finish this season is 24.4, which includes DNFs in his last two races.
Before that Massey posted consecutive top 20s, finishing sixth at Atlanta and 17th at Richmond. He finished top 30 in his first three races.
Not an exciting play, but Massey has been running solid for this team. I think there's decent upside for him on Saturday.
Ryan Ellis ($5,800) - Starting 28th
With Rajah Carruth in the 44, Ryan Ellis slides over to the other Alpha Prime car. He's made three starts this season, with top 20s at Vegas and Phoenix before he finished 32nd at Talladega.
Ellis has the best average finish of any Alpha Prime driver this year at 20.3. Ellis was 17th in practice. The 45 has four top 25s in seven races. I'm assuming that him qualifying 28th while his teammate qualified 15th isn't proof that there's a big gap between Alpha Prime's two cars, but it does worry me some that even Kaz Grala couldn't get a top 20 in this car, but...ehh, Ellis has been driving well and at $5,800, he's worth being thrown in a lineup or two.
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