Latest / Daily Fantasy Sports by Ship It Nation / NASCAR DFS Freeway Insurance 500, 2026 | DraftKings Drivers, Dominators & Place Differential
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- 1:01Speaker 1: at phoenix raceway normally this is championship weekend not anymore
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- 1:11Speaker 1: down the Freeway Insurance 500 at Phoenix Raceway, let me
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- 3:14Speaker 1: Back over to the Freeway Insurance 500 at Phoenix Raceway.
- 3:19Speaker 1: We have, I believe, 312 laps on deck. I didn't
- 3:24Speaker 1: write any notes down, so I don't remember how many
- 3:26Speaker 1: laps we have. But I'm pretty sure it's 312, which
- 3:29Speaker 1: should equal out to 218.4 dominator points. I know that's
- 3:34Speaker 1: how many dominator points because I did that math and
- 3:36Speaker 1: I just typed it out this morning. 218.4 dominator points
- 3:40Speaker 1: up for grabs. And really, you are choosing between one
- 3:45Speaker 1: and two dominators today. Normally, this race is like a
- 3:50Speaker 1: slam dunk two dominator race. However, there is a driver
- 3:54Speaker 1: who's known as Young Money who had a decent little
- 3:59Speaker 1: practice session in the qualified middle of the pack.
- 4:01Speaker 2: So it all depends.
- 4:03Speaker 1: If you go one dominator, you're probably putting Larson in.
- 4:06Speaker 1: If you're going two dominators, you're probably not putting Larson in.
- 4:10Speaker 1: So that is your big question of the day today.
- 4:14Speaker 1: I will be playing some Kyle Larson. He is the
- 4:17Speaker 1: championship leader. Next week is Talladega, which is a wild
- 4:23Speaker 1: card beyond wild cards, right? So they have a 49
- 4:30Speaker 1: point lead. I just did this math too. Larson has
- 4:33Speaker 1: a 49 point lead in the championship right now over
- 4:38Speaker 1: Danny Hamlin. They want to maximize today by any stretch
- 4:43Speaker 1: of the imagination so they can go into Talladega next
- 4:46Speaker 1: week with a little bit of a bumper.
- 4:48Speaker 2: That way, if something really goes haywire, they're not totally
- 4:51Speaker 2: out to lunch. Right. So plus, I found it funny
- 4:56Speaker 2: in Larson's media this weekend.
- 4:57Speaker 1: He said he sucked at Phoenix Raceway.
- 5:01Speaker 2: Larson's words, not mine. You can find it on Twitter.
- 5:05Speaker 1: Then you go dive into the stats a little bit
- 5:08Speaker 1: and you see Larson has the best averaging finish at
- 5:11Speaker 1: Phoenix since two thousand twenty three. He has like a 4.9,
- 5:15Speaker 1: no wins, but he has a 4.9 average finish, I think,
- 5:19Speaker 1: compared to Blaney's 5.9 average finish. So Larson says he
- 5:22Speaker 1: sucks here, still has the best average finish of any
- 5:26Speaker 1: active driver in the Cup Series.
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- 6:02Speaker 1: What we haven't had for a couple weeks, and that
- 6:05Speaker 1: is glorious, glorious practice data with glorious, glorious qualifying. Yes. Finally,
- 6:12Speaker 1: we have a race where that we have practice and
- 6:15Speaker 1: qualifying for, and.
- 6:18Speaker 2: We have no surprises.
- 6:19Speaker 1: We have absolutely no surprises. The biggest surprise really is
- 6:24Speaker 1: a Larson qualified. What?
- 6:26Speaker 2: 22nd. Yeah. Is that a Larson qualified 22nd?
- 6:30Speaker 1: And we have a 36 starting Corey Heim, which is
- 6:32Speaker 1: another gift from the DFS gods. Other than that, The
- 6:38Speaker 1: people who you think are going to be good at
- 6:40Speaker 1: Phoenix are starting up towards the front, and the people
- 6:43Speaker 1: who you think will be bad at Phoenix are starting
- 6:46Speaker 1: towards the back. Look, folks, I fully expect today's race
- 6:51Speaker 1: to be boring. Boring is normally really good, though, for DFS,
- 6:57Speaker 1: so take that as you will. But this race has
- 7:00Speaker 1: not had a... Like, last year's race is memorable because
- 7:04Speaker 1: of a late race caution and Denny Hamlin lost the championship, right?
- 7:07Speaker 2: But it's not like... There's not many like beating.
- 7:10Speaker 1: Banging, door slamming, fantastic Finnish memories at Phoenix. That's why
- 7:17Speaker 1: everybody in the NASCAR circles for years begged and pleaded
- 7:20Speaker 1: for this race to go, for this race meaning the
- 7:23Speaker 1: championship race, to go back to Homestead where it belongs.
- 7:27Speaker 1: And finally, the good folks at NASCAR listened and it's
- 7:30Speaker 1: back at Homestead this year. And this race moved up
- 7:33Speaker 1: to the fourth race of the playoffs. So like I
- 7:36Speaker 1: mentioned for Kyle Larson earlier, Kyle Larson is currently your
- 7:40Speaker 1: NASCAR Cup Series playoff point leader, 49 points over Danny Hamlin.
- 7:45Speaker 1: He really needs to have a good day because next
- 7:48Speaker 1: week is Talladega, and we all know Talladega's a wild card.
- 7:53Speaker 2: We know the.
- 7:54Speaker 1: Big one can happen, and he could be caught up
- 7:56Speaker 1: in that accident lap three and finish dead last, right?
- 8:00Speaker 2: So the majority of the playoff.
- 8:03Speaker 1: Drivers, Hamlin, Blaney, Briscoe, Larson will want to do everything
- 8:10Speaker 1: in their power today to have a good, good points day.
- 8:15Speaker 1: So let's go ahead and break down that starting lineup
- 8:17Speaker 1: and starting on the pole. We have T or starting
- 8:20Speaker 1: on the front row. Rather, we got team Penske, Ryan
- 8:22Speaker 1: Blaney and Joey Logano. Blaney is a dog here. Plus
- 8:27Speaker 1: 275 on the books. He's always on the podium here
- 8:31Speaker 1: at Phoenix. fantastic in practice. And what's really key for
- 8:36Speaker 1: Blaney is he has the very first pit stall and
- 8:40Speaker 1: the very first pit stall is an advantage here at Phoenix.
- 8:44Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it's as much of an advantage
- 8:48Speaker 1: as years ago, because I think they made some changes
- 8:50Speaker 1: to make it not such of an advantage, but still
- 8:54Speaker 1: the first pit stall really at any racetrack is always
- 8:58Speaker 1: an advantage and even more so at Phoenix. Not to mention,
- 9:03Speaker 1: this race has been dominated by the front row for years.
- 9:06Speaker 2: So, Mr. Blaney is in the catbird seat. A pluses
- 9:10Speaker 2: across the board.
- 9:12Speaker 1: Fantastic in every aspect of practice and the best pit stall.
- 9:16Speaker 1: This is Blaney's race to lose. Outside of him, though,
- 9:20Speaker 1: is Joey Logano. He's no slouch here at Phoenix either.
- 9:24Speaker 1: He was fantastic in practice as well. Yeah, there's some
- 9:27Speaker 1: red marks in the middle of the road here.
- 9:29Speaker 2: I don't think that's for real.
- 9:31Speaker 1: So I would bypass that 23rd and 22nd in the
- 9:34Speaker 1: 15 and 20. Look, if anything happens to Blaney on
- 9:38Speaker 1: the start, if he misses a shift, if he, you know,
- 9:43Speaker 1: if anything goes wrong, I fully expect Logano to take
- 9:47Speaker 1: advantage of that, but it's kind of hard to see
- 9:51Speaker 1: anything going wrong with Blaney. Chase Briscoe and Danny Hamlin
- 9:54Speaker 1: are up next. Chase Briscoe won one of these races
- 9:57Speaker 1: back in Stuart Haas days. I want to say spring 2022.
- 10:02Speaker 1: Hasn't been great here in JGR, but still, he's a
- 10:07Speaker 1: playoff driver. He's had some success lately. Would not surprise
- 10:11Speaker 1: me to see him have a good day today. Denny
- 10:13Speaker 1: Hamlin led over 200 laps of the championship race last year.
- 10:16Speaker 1: Late race caution came out. Uh, his crew chief made
- 10:20Speaker 1: a bad pit call and not only the Denny Hamill
- 10:22Speaker 1: lose the race, he lost the championship. So, uh, bad
- 10:26Speaker 1: memories for old Denny here at Phoenix this time of
- 10:28Speaker 1: the year, a second place, 49 points away from Larson.
- 10:35Speaker 1: He needs a good points day to day. Like as
- 10:38Speaker 1: much as Larson needs a good points day to day,
- 10:41Speaker 1: Danny needs a good points day to day to keep
- 10:42Speaker 1: a touch. Right. So, Not that we care about the championship,
- 10:47Speaker 1: but you got to think these drivers have more on
- 10:50Speaker 1: their plate than just finishing this race today. And you
- 10:52Speaker 1: need to consider that when building said DFS lineups. Christopher
- 10:56Speaker 1: Bell and Red Dog Tyler Reddick up next. Christopher Bell,
- 10:58Speaker 1: I think, has led like over 400 laps here since 2023.
- 11:02Speaker 1: He's fantastic at Phoenix. This is his cup of tea.
- 11:06Speaker 1: He finishes fifth. I think a lot of folks will
- 11:08Speaker 1: be clicking on Blaney and Bell if they are fading Larson.
- 11:14Speaker 1: If you're not fading Larson, I think a lot of
- 11:16Speaker 1: folks would then go Blaney Larson or Bell Larson. So
- 11:20Speaker 1: I think if you want to get different in any GPPs,
- 11:23Speaker 1: just go different than those three combinations, and that could
- 11:25Speaker 1: probably be enough. Tyler Reddick, he's looked great in long-wind practice.
- 11:31Speaker 1: Good history here. It seems so far away from when
- 11:34Speaker 1: he was dominating. So that's fantastic there. We got Michael
- 11:42Speaker 1: McDowell and Josh Berry.
- 11:43Speaker 2: Mike. Oh, sorry.
- 11:45Speaker 1: We have Ty Gibbs. Ty Gibbs is a no for me, dog.
- 11:48Speaker 1: Mike Mack and Josh Berry. Or I shouldn't say Ty
- 11:51Speaker 1: Gibbs is a no for me, dog. Ty Gibbs is
- 11:53Speaker 1: never a no for me, dog. But it's just hard
- 11:56Speaker 1: to see him having such a fantastic day with everybody
- 12:01Speaker 1: who's ahead of him.
- 12:02Speaker 2: Right. Michael McDowell.
- 12:04Speaker 1: No, I don't think that I don't think that starting
- 12:07Speaker 1: spot is going to last long. Josh Berry, yes. Josh
- 12:10Speaker 1: Berry's had a fantastic go of things. William Byron or
- 12:14Speaker 1: Ross Chastain? William Byron is the one who caused that
- 12:16Speaker 1: caution last year. So probably no for me for William Byron.
- 12:20Speaker 1: And he just hasn't had that strong, strong run lately.
- 12:25Speaker 1: So I don't know.
- 12:27Speaker 2: We'll see.
- 12:28Speaker 1: I much prefer Larson for obvious reasons, but Willie B's there.
- 12:33Speaker 1: Ross Chastain, yes. okay, I'll give him a shot like
- 12:37Speaker 1: track house. I won't give Connor Zillow shot, but I'll,
- 12:40Speaker 1: I'll give, I'll give Ross a shot. So we'll see.
- 12:43Speaker 1: They've been track house has not been great this season.
- 12:45Speaker 1: I don't think they found a magic bullet to make
- 12:47Speaker 1: them crazy fast, but still, um, we need some drivers
- 12:50Speaker 1: to build up these lineups.
- 12:51Speaker 2: So I'll take a yes for Ross. I'll take a
- 12:54Speaker 2: no for.
- 12:54Speaker 1: Zillow, uh, Gilly and Daniel Suarez, uh, Gilly looked really
- 12:59Speaker 1: good in practice, right?
- 13:00Speaker 2: Am I looking at that correctly? Yeah.
- 13:03Speaker 1: Um, So in that case, you have to include him
- 13:06Speaker 1: because he was fast on that surface yesterday in those cars.
- 13:09Speaker 2: So we'll include Gilly in the pool. Mi amigo Suarez. Sure.
- 13:14Speaker 1: Um, I'm not going to go over the moon to
- 13:17Speaker 1: get him in lineups, obviously, but if he gets in there, great. Uh,
- 13:21Speaker 1: Austin Sindrick.
- 13:22Speaker 2: Yup. He's been fantastic lately.
- 13:25Speaker 1: Um, he'd had a misgo with things a couple weeks ago,
- 13:28Speaker 1: but other than that, he's been phenomenal. Um, We love Blaney,
- 13:32Speaker 1: we love Logano, and we love Josh Berry, who are
- 13:35Speaker 1: Penske and or Penske-affiliated cars. We've got to think the
- 13:38Speaker 1: same for Sendrick. I just wish Sendrick was starting a
- 13:41Speaker 1: little bit deeper in the field. Chase Elliott, Chris Buescher.
- 13:46Speaker 1: Chase Elliott's going to be a no for me. I
- 13:48Speaker 1: have him as a GPP play, but I don't think
- 13:53Speaker 1: he's $ 8, 500 worth. If he was $ 7, 500, I would consider it.
- 13:55Speaker 1: No Chase Elliott for me. Chris Buescher, he looked super
- 14:04Speaker 1: slow in practice. I don't know if RFK is now
- 14:08Speaker 1: going to hit a... Well, I shouldn't say that. I'm
- 14:11Speaker 1: fairly positive RFK will now slide backwards since Keselowski's leaving.
- 14:15Speaker 1: I'm surprised it's happening this quickly. You wouldn't think Chris
- 14:19Speaker 1: Buescher would be that slow off the truck, but he
- 14:21Speaker 1: is that slow. Can they turn it around? Does he
- 14:23Speaker 1: have the ability to? Absolutely. I just don't think he will.
- 14:28Speaker 1: Brad Keselowski, Riley Herbst, Brad Kaye, No, sorry, Brad. Riley
- 14:32Speaker 1: Herbst looked good in practice and cheap and in a Toyota. Yeah,
- 14:38Speaker 1: give me some Riley Herbst. Zane Smith and AJ Allmendinger.
- 14:43Speaker 1: They're in there, meaning I have a mark as possible
- 14:46Speaker 1: GPP plays, but I probably not going to get any
- 14:50Speaker 1: of them or worry if I don't get any of them.
- 14:53Speaker 2: Then we have the hitters of Larson and Bubba Wallace.
- 14:56Speaker 1: Larson, as I mentioned earlier, if you're fading one of
- 14:59Speaker 1: the dominators, you'll probably jump down and get Larson.
- 15:01Speaker 2: And hope for that PD play. Bubba Wallace looked really
- 15:04Speaker 2: good in practice.
- 15:05Speaker 1: He's an every weekend player pool driver. That's no different
- 15:08Speaker 1: this week. Austin Dillon. Yeah, I actually have him ranked.
- 15:13Speaker 1: I think last on my place differential plays on the site.
- 15:17Speaker 1: I don't really have any hot takes about Austin Dillon.
- 15:20Speaker 1: There's just not a lot of really fancy names on
- 15:23Speaker 1: this side of the thing. on this side of the field.
- 15:27Speaker 1: And he has raced here tons. And more often than not,
- 15:30Speaker 1: he finishes ahead of where he started. So that's what
- 15:34Speaker 1: you need at a racetrack like this, right?
- 15:36Speaker 2: SVG, no. He hasn't had speed lately.
- 15:40Speaker 1: I will play him probably next week at Dega if
- 15:42Speaker 1: he qualifies like Junk. I will probably play him at
- 15:45Speaker 1: Homestead if he qualifies like Junk. Or I should say,
- 15:48Speaker 1: if he qualifies good at Homestead, I'll probably play him there.
- 15:51Speaker 1: But I have no interest in a 25th starting SVG
- 15:54Speaker 1: at Phoenix. Ryan Preece, he is 16th in the points currently,
- 15:57Speaker 1: which is dead last in the Chase playoff standings. But
- 16:01Speaker 1: he is in the playoffs, which means he's one of
- 16:03Speaker 1: the top 16 drivers. And he's starting 26th. So, yep,
- 16:07Speaker 1: we'll take the shot on him. Cole Custer, he's so
- 16:10Speaker 1: dirt cheap, and I think he's better than Cody Ware.
- 16:13Speaker 1: So if you need to save some pennies, I don't
- 16:16Speaker 1: hate the Cole Custer idea. Carson Josevar was fast. That
- 16:20Speaker 1: kid's fast all the time. He hasn't pissed anybody off lately,
- 16:22Speaker 1: so no one should dump him.
- 16:24Speaker 2: So, yep. We'll go take a shot on the host
- 16:26Speaker 2: of our Eric Jones showed some speed and practice. We'll
- 16:29Speaker 2: take a chance on him.
- 16:30Speaker 1: Noah Gregson looked really slow in practice, but kind of
- 16:33Speaker 1: like my thoughts about Austin Dillon, like he's cheap and
- 16:38Speaker 1: I trust him kind of more than some of the
- 16:40Speaker 1: other cheapies. So that's why I have him as a
- 16:42Speaker 1: possible GPP play.
- 16:45Speaker 2: Where am I at here?
- 16:46Speaker 1: Ricky Stenhouse. That's a no for me, dog. John Hunter,
- 16:49Speaker 1: Nima check. I'll take a chance just because he's in
- 16:51Speaker 1: that Toyota car. Ty Dillon's going to be a no
- 16:54Speaker 1: for me, dog. Austin, not Austin, Alex Bowman has ran
- 16:58Speaker 1: good here in the past. I have not been shy
- 17:01Speaker 1: about my lame duck Alex Bowman worries, and that doesn't
- 17:06Speaker 1: change today. But still, he has had success here in
- 17:10Speaker 1: the past. He is a 7,300 Hendrick car starting in 34th.
- 17:15Speaker 1: He's going to get love from the public just because
- 17:17Speaker 1: of that. Austin Hill in 35th. I don't like Austin Hill, period.
- 17:26Speaker 1: But if my mind tells me Austin Dillon can do
- 17:31Speaker 1: it from his starting spot, Austin Hill can probably gain
- 17:35Speaker 1: some positions from his starting spot.
- 17:37Speaker 2: He's starting 35th.
- 17:38Speaker 1: I don't love it because we have a 36 place
- 17:42Speaker 1: Corey Heim. This is Corey Heim's, I think, first cup
- 17:45Speaker 1: start at Phoenix. but he's already a two-time cup winner
- 17:48Speaker 1: this year. So people are going to be over the
- 17:51Speaker 1: moon to click him, myself included. And then starting dead
- 17:54Speaker 1: last is Cody Ware. Cars will probably wreck out. Cody
- 17:58Speaker 1: Ware probably won't finish last, and I'm still not going
- 18:00Speaker 1: to click on Cody Ware. So anyway, that's it for
- 18:04Speaker 1: today's NASCAR quick hit here for a ship at nation.
- 18:07Speaker 1: Four races left today at Phoenix next weekend, the wild
- 18:12Speaker 1: card at Talladega, baby. Then we got Martinsville, and then
- 18:16Speaker 1: we wrap up the season with Homestead. So as always,
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