Latest / Daily Fantasy Sports by Ship It Nation / NASCAR DFS - Food City 500, 2026 | DraftKings Drivers, Dominators & Place Differential
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- 0:41Speaker 2: Hey, good morning, and welcome to this weekend's NASCAR quick hit.
- 0:44Speaker 2: Here for ship at Nation, I am Eric, also known
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- 0:51Speaker 2: discussing the Food City five hundred taking place at the
- 0:54Speaker 2: famous Bristol Motor Speedway. But before we go and talk
- 1:00Speaker 2: about the race taking place today at the last Great Coliseum,
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- 3:49Speaker 2: Where's my notes? This weekend, the NASCAR Cup Series is
- 3:53Speaker 2: once again short track racing and they are tackling the
- 3:56Speaker 2: last great coliseum, Bristol Motor Speedway. There are five hundred
- 4:02Speaker 2: laps on deck on Sunday, which equal out to roughly
- 4:05Speaker 2: three hundred and fifty Dominator points. If you want my
- 4:10Speaker 2: thoughts on the dominators and how I rank these potential
- 4:13Speaker 2: dominator plays, check out the slate plan only available to
- 4:17Speaker 2: members ship nation dot com. This weekend practice was lean
- 4:22Speaker 2: and green, with thankfully no incidents to report. However, I
- 4:26Speaker 2: did want to mention that Group A this week did
- 4:29Speaker 2: have the fastest practice speeds. They had the best track conditions.
- 4:35Speaker 2: If you are not aware, Bristol is a concrete racetrack,
- 4:38Speaker 2: so as the race progresses, if everything is working well
- 4:42Speaker 2: with the tires. The racetrack takes rubber from the tires
- 4:46Speaker 2: and begins to slick off. So drivers like who did
- 4:50Speaker 2: I mark out here? Ricky Stenhouse Junior had the fastest
- 4:53Speaker 2: lap in practice, Noah Gregson had the second fastest lap
- 4:58Speaker 2: in practice. Eric Jones had what the fourth fastest single
- 5:03Speaker 2: lap in practice. Yeah, Group A had the best track
- 5:06Speaker 2: conditions to be able to set these blistering speeds.
- 5:10Speaker 3: Kind of a red herring.
- 5:12Speaker 2: I'm not saying to ignore all drivers who were in
- 5:15Speaker 2: Group A practice because you obviously will need some of
- 5:17Speaker 2: them to fill out your playpool. But don't think like
- 5:22Speaker 2: Noah Gregson is going to be like the fastest car
- 5:25Speaker 2: in the field today because I highly highly doubt that. Plus,
- 5:29Speaker 2: like I mentioned before, five hundred laps on deck, right,
- 5:33Speaker 2: so who really cares about how quick you were in
- 5:36Speaker 2: one run or one lap? Rather long run is the
- 5:41Speaker 2: key today. So Group A did have the best practice conditions,
- 5:45Speaker 2: as you'll see by the results. For the most part, however,
- 5:49Speaker 2: the cream of the crop was mostly in Group B,
- 5:52Speaker 2: as you'll see on the stone, and you'll see my
- 5:57Speaker 2: rabbit who just jumped in top of her hum in
- 6:00Speaker 2: the blur behind me. All right, Hey, good deal. One
- 6:04Speaker 2: other thing I want to mention this week is this
- 6:07Speaker 2: weekend marks the return of Alex Bowman to the NASCAR
- 6:11Speaker 2: Cup Series after he has successfully battled Vertigo. Bowman is
- 6:16Speaker 2: starting this weekend in the twenty seventh starting position, and
- 6:21Speaker 2: he has very good track history here, and he looked
- 6:25Speaker 2: fairly decent in practice, and he has a very nice
- 6:29Speaker 2: price tag at seven thousand. I'm expecting to have I'm
- 6:34Speaker 2: expecting Bowman have a decent amount of ownership on DraftKings.
- 6:40Speaker 2: He won't have it on FanDuel because they haven't added
- 6:42Speaker 2: him to the slate. Why your guess is as good
- 6:45Speaker 2: as mine. We've known he's been back since Thursday. Do better, FanDuel.
- 6:50Speaker 2: Bowman will get a lot of clicks because of the name,
- 6:54Speaker 2: because of the price tag, and because of the team
- 6:58Speaker 2: he's driving for, right Hendrick Motorsports. That's an easy click
- 7:02Speaker 2: most of the time. Let's not kid ourselves here and
- 7:05Speaker 2: act like that forty eight car has been like fantastic
- 7:08Speaker 2: in Bowman's absence. That car really wasn't setting the world
- 7:12Speaker 2: on fire when Bowman was healthy and when all Geyer
- 7:16Speaker 2: jumped in, it really wasn't setting the world on fire
- 7:18Speaker 2: then either, yes, Bowman is a replacement driver, had to
- 7:23Speaker 2: gel with the team et cetera, et cetera. But it's
- 7:26Speaker 2: not like Bowman doesn't do sim work for you know,
- 7:30Speaker 2: next Gen and et cetera, et cetera. So Bowman is
- 7:32Speaker 2: familiar with the team the cars, not Bowman Algeyer, I
- 7:36Speaker 2: mean al Geyer is you know, familiar with the car.
- 7:40Speaker 2: So yes, he was a replacement driver, but he was
- 7:43Speaker 2: still pretty good, talented, known replacement driver, right, so he
- 7:48Speaker 2: didn't really do great in this car. Bowman beforehand didn't
- 7:52Speaker 2: really do great in this car. It kind of seems
- 7:54Speaker 2: like the forty eight is just down on speed in
- 7:57Speaker 2: my opinion. So while I will have exposure to Bowman,
- 8:02Speaker 2: I'm playing twenty max in twelve dollars single entry today,
- 8:06Speaker 2: I will have exposure exposure to Bowman. I'm not going
- 8:10Speaker 2: to go crazy because I just it's his first race
- 8:15Speaker 2: back after dealing with vertigo, and he's doing five hundred
- 8:19Speaker 2: laps at half mile Bristol, where you're lapping in fifteen seconds.
- 8:25Speaker 2: It's basically four laps a minute, right, Like that's a
- 8:30Speaker 2: tough day if you didn't have vertigo, and now you're
- 8:33Speaker 2: coming back after your first race, after battling Vertigo, after
- 8:37Speaker 2: being away for a couple of weeks, and you weren't
- 8:39Speaker 2: that great to begin with. I understand the play, trust me,
- 8:44Speaker 2: I understand the play, but I think that as an
- 8:47Speaker 2: easy spot for me to go overweight on.
- 8:50Speaker 3: And that's it for my notes. Now.
- 8:52Speaker 2: I'm just going to quickly look at the stone and
- 8:53Speaker 2: go off the top of my head here because I
- 8:55Speaker 2: go I like little peak behind the curtain. I kind
- 8:58Speaker 2: of like doing this on Sunday more. I normally do
- 9:02Speaker 2: them on Saturday night, but I personally preferred on Sunday
- 9:05Speaker 2: morning because I feel like I'm much more fresh and
- 9:07Speaker 2: all the data is like ready to roll, whereas sometimes
- 9:11Speaker 2: it's like I'm waiting for odds and stuff like that
- 9:13Speaker 2: on Saturday nights. So we might keep this Sunday morning routine.
- 9:16Speaker 2: I'm not positive on that, but we might keep this up.
- 9:19Speaker 3: Ryan Blaney on the poll. He is phenomenal at high.
- 9:24Speaker 2: Tirewar short tracks, as you can tell by his recent form.
- 9:28Speaker 2: His track type breaking and his track ranking and his
- 9:31Speaker 2: odds are disgusting. I had this conversation at the spring
- 9:34Speaker 2: Car track last night where I hate the way odds
- 9:37Speaker 2: to win are going in NASCAR.
- 9:39Speaker 3: Plus three point fifty for Blaney to win is disgusting,
- 9:42Speaker 3: but it is what it is.
- 9:44Speaker 2: He will probably be everybody's top dominator play today, and
- 9:48Speaker 2: for a good reason. He's fantastic here. Reddick put on
- 9:53Speaker 2: a fantastic lap. He basically did a burnout at the
- 9:56Speaker 2: start of his qualifying lap, which was like the first
- 9:58Speaker 2: driver to do that yesterday and he set a blistering
- 10:02Speaker 2: qualifying lap. We all know Reddick has been crushing it
- 10:06Speaker 2: this season so far. Could he potentially dominate today? Yes,
- 10:09Speaker 2: that's why I have him marked as such, But I
- 10:12Speaker 2: would be surprised if we see him lead like one
- 10:15Speaker 2: hundred plus and in Victory Land at the end of
- 10:17Speaker 2: the day. It's possible, yes, but I would be surprised.
- 10:20Speaker 2: Chase Briscoe love him all every week, no different here.
- 10:24Speaker 2: Eighty nine hundred decent price tag for him. Riley herbs
- 10:28Speaker 2: Yo forty nine hundred for Riley Herbs F's across the board,
- 10:34Speaker 2: set a fantastic qualifying lap. You have to think he
- 10:37Speaker 2: is going to just fall backwards. If he doesn't and
- 10:43Speaker 2: he can keep, you know, in the top half of
- 10:46Speaker 2: the field, keep on the lead lap, he could be
- 10:49Speaker 2: a great play.
- 10:50Speaker 3: Is he going to lose spots from fourth? Yeah?
- 10:53Speaker 2: Absolutely, But he's forty nine hundred dollars, Like that's cheap cheap.
- 10:58Speaker 2: So is he gonna make my twenty max playerpool?
- 11:02Speaker 3: Probably not. Is he gonna make my single entry? Probably not.
- 11:06Speaker 2: If I was playing one fifty, he would be clicked
- 11:09Speaker 2: for sure. Ty Gibbs, I love this spot for Tie today.
- 11:13Speaker 2: He's been great here. He's been knocking on the victory
- 11:17Speaker 2: lane door. No reason not to take a chance on Tye.
- 11:20Speaker 2: I wish he was a little bit cheaper.
- 11:22Speaker 3: But he's he's grown into that ninety five hundred dollars
- 11:26Speaker 3: price tag.
- 11:27Speaker 2: Chas Taine had a decent qualifying run after a not
- 11:30Speaker 2: so great practice.
- 11:32Speaker 3: Track House has been kind of all season.
- 11:36Speaker 2: If he was starting deeper in the field, I'd be
- 11:38Speaker 2: all about it, but I don't love it starting at
- 11:40Speaker 2: sixth a Busher and Larson in seven and eighth. I
- 11:43Speaker 2: like them both. Sindric, I'll take a shot. Not the
- 11:47Speaker 2: best history at Bristol, but he's in good equipment and
- 11:52Speaker 2: teen Penske knows how to do Bristol right, So I
- 11:55Speaker 2: wouldn't mind taking a shot on Cindric host of ar
- 11:58Speaker 2: Hamle and Bubba Hosavar could surprise today he kind of
- 12:03Speaker 2: got boned and Martinsville with getting just absolutely dumped by Bubba.
- 12:08Speaker 3: Right, So.
- 12:12Speaker 2: Plus one that he's plus my thoughts these odds are crazy.
- 12:17Speaker 2: Like him today, Denny, Yeah, he's a smash play. Love
- 12:20Speaker 2: him as well as Bubba Wallace. Bubble was fast. He's
- 12:23Speaker 2: been good here in the past. Could absolutely see him
- 12:25Speaker 2: leading laps today. Suarez, I'm probably off the Suarez training today.
- 12:30Speaker 2: He's He's been quick all season, don't get me wrong,
- 12:32Speaker 2: but I don't love that spot for him.
- 12:35Speaker 4: Uh.
- 12:35Speaker 2: Se Bell not great in practice, already wanted Bristol this
- 12:39Speaker 2: weekend and the trucks. Uh love it for him. I
- 12:42Speaker 2: think he uh defending winner as well. It could be
- 12:45Speaker 2: wrong on that. I need to double check on that,
- 12:50Speaker 2: but he's a fantastic play A plus is across the board.
- 12:53Speaker 3: Love me some Sea Bell.
- 12:55Speaker 2: Then we kind of hit Zaane Smith, nor Gregson, Ryan Priest,
- 12:58Speaker 2: Saine Smith probably having the pool Noah, I'm out on
- 13:02Speaker 2: Ryan Priest.
- 13:03Speaker 3: Yes, Chase Elliott.
- 13:05Speaker 2: I like him today, Hendrick really besides Larson didn't have
- 13:10Speaker 2: great qualifying, right you have Chase an eighteenth bowman who
- 13:14Speaker 2: had mentioned at twenty seventh and Willie B thirty fourth.
- 13:17Speaker 2: Willie B will obviously he'd be crazy Chalky with his
- 13:20Speaker 2: starting position. Chase Elliott could bleed today, could absolutely get
- 13:25Speaker 2: to the front. Not the greatest in practice. He wasn't
- 13:29Speaker 2: really that confident afterwards either in his interviews. But still
- 13:33Speaker 2: it's Chase Elliott plus sixteen hundred to win. He's worth
- 13:37Speaker 2: being in the pool. Michael McDowell, Joey Logano, Brad Kay.
- 13:42Speaker 2: Michael mcdowell'm okay taking a chance on Logano.
- 13:45Speaker 3: I love.
- 13:47Speaker 2: I know Logano treated us terribly a few weeks ago.
- 13:52Speaker 3: What was it Darlington?
- 13:53Speaker 2: I forget where he absolutely just was like the worst
- 13:56Speaker 2: driver in the world right and we all swore him off.
- 13:58Speaker 2: Am I saying that you should absolutely go out of
- 14:01Speaker 2: your way to click him today. I'm not, but he
- 14:04Speaker 2: is worth a play. He's fantastic at Bristol. Maybe not
- 14:09Speaker 2: so much in the next gen era, maybe more so
- 14:12Speaker 2: that's Gen six, Gen five era. But like I said,
- 14:15Speaker 2: team Penske starting midpac in twentieth could gain you fifteen
- 14:21Speaker 2: spots easily. Like what wouldn't surprise any of us to
- 14:24Speaker 2: see Logano finished fifth at Bristol.
- 14:27Speaker 3: No, so I'll take a shot there.
- 14:30Speaker 2: Kezilowski, I love him all the time at high Tire
- 14:32Speaker 2: where racetracks. His practice speeds don't scare me at all. Yep,
- 14:36Speaker 2: give me Kasilowski.
- 14:38Speaker 3: U Dinger.
- 14:40Speaker 2: I'm I find myself wanting to play Dinger this weekend,
- 14:44Speaker 2: and I really don't know why. Not the greatest history here,
- 14:48Speaker 2: not the greatest recent history here, but Midpac sixty six hundred,
- 14:54Speaker 2: aj Allmendinger. I think he could be a surprise, so
- 14:58Speaker 2: it'll probably be my player put on. Don't know how
- 15:00Speaker 2: much exposure I'm going to end up having to him,
- 15:02Speaker 2: but I'll probably end up with some Dinger. Stenhouse Junior
- 15:04Speaker 2: is a no for me. Austin Dillon is a no
- 15:07Speaker 2: for me. Josh Berry, Yes, not the best. He has
- 15:12Speaker 2: two twelve's in both spring races. At Bristol he finished
- 15:15Speaker 2: twelfth twice. His other finishes in the fall races have
- 15:17Speaker 2: been pretty deep in the field. Cut his teeth on
- 15:21Speaker 2: shore tracks. This is a team Penske prepared Wood Brothers
- 15:24Speaker 2: Ford seventy one hundred.
- 15:27Speaker 3: Yeah. I like the upside. I'll take some Josh Berry today.
- 15:31Speaker 2: Connor Zilich won the Infinity won the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto
- 15:37Speaker 2: Part Series race at Bristol yesterday biffed it in his
- 15:43Speaker 2: qualifying run. For sure, I will take a chance on Zilich.
- 15:47Speaker 2: I know I mentioned earlier that track House has been
- 15:50Speaker 2: kind of this season.
- 15:52Speaker 3: Well they have been, but Zilich.
- 15:54Speaker 2: Is starting in twenty sixth at sixty nine hundred, and
- 15:58Speaker 2: we really don't know what we have yet in the
- 16:01Speaker 2: Cup Series with him, and he, in my opinion, is
- 16:05Speaker 2: a more talented driver than some of the drivers starting
- 16:08Speaker 2: ahead of him, so he should be able to gain
- 16:11Speaker 2: some spots through the day. He is going to be
- 16:13Speaker 2: a yes for me. I understand if you do click
- 16:16Speaker 2: off of him because it is his first Cup Series
- 16:18Speaker 2: race at Bristol.
- 16:20Speaker 3: Bowman.
- 16:20Speaker 2: We already talked about Eric Jones. He's a no for
- 16:23Speaker 2: me because this isn't Darlington. Kyle Busch. I can't believe
- 16:26Speaker 2: I'm going to say this. He is a no for me.
- 16:30Speaker 2: There was at one point he was the King of Bristol.
- 16:34Speaker 3: The King. I mean I watched him in person sweep
- 16:39Speaker 3: Bristol once, maybe twice. I know he swept it twice.
- 16:43Speaker 2: I think I watched it live once where he won
- 16:45Speaker 2: all three races in a weekend. In the Gen four
- 16:50Speaker 2: Gen five era, Joe Gibbs, Kyle Busch was a menace
- 16:54Speaker 2: at Bristol. God, take me back to those days. Those
- 16:59Speaker 2: days are gone. Those days are gone. They're gone for now.
- 17:02Speaker 2: Can they come back?
- 17:05Speaker 3: Maybe?
- 17:05Speaker 2: Maybe if they introduce a new car that drives like
- 17:08Speaker 2: the Gen for right, whatever generation it was. I get
- 17:11Speaker 2: confused with these generations, but yeah, I don't. It's not
- 17:17Speaker 2: looking good for Kyle Busch and RCR. In my opinion,
- 17:20Speaker 2: if he wins at all this year, it will be
- 17:23Speaker 2: at a super speedway. I just don't see him getting
- 17:26Speaker 2: it done today or really this season in the NASCAR
- 17:30Speaker 2: Cup Series. It's that bad for Kyle Busch in my opinion.
- 17:35Speaker 2: My opinion, Cole Custer, if you need someone sheep. I
- 17:43Speaker 2: don't hate the click. He's f's across the board. He
- 17:46Speaker 2: has finished well here like long, long ago, decent runs
- 17:50Speaker 2: in the Extinity Series back in the day, So I
- 17:52Speaker 2: don't hate the click, but it's not like the prettiest
- 17:55Speaker 2: click in the world.
- 17:55Speaker 3: Obviously. John Hunter is probably.
- 17:58Speaker 1: A no for me.
- 17:59Speaker 3: Ty Dlan's gonna you know for me? SVG. I'll take
- 18:03Speaker 3: a shot on SVG.
- 18:06Speaker 2: He has been progressing on ovals okay, and this is
- 18:12Speaker 2: a high tirewear racetrack which should work into his skill set.
- 18:16Speaker 2: So am I suggesting you go crazy over the board
- 18:20Speaker 2: with SVG. Absolutely not, But I do think he is
- 18:24Speaker 2: worth consideration of a click in your playerpool.
- 18:26Speaker 3: For sure? Will he be we talked about?
- 18:29Speaker 2: He will be crazy chalk because of where he of
- 18:32Speaker 2: the talent that he has, et cetera, et cetera. I probably,
- 18:40Speaker 2: I don't know what I'm going to do with believe
- 18:42Speaker 2: yet will he make my playerpool? Absolutely the place that
- 18:44Speaker 2: theferential upside is too real to ignore. I don't know
- 18:48Speaker 2: how crazy I'm going to go with it, though, Just
- 18:52Speaker 2: don't love the mojo behind that team. Like to me,
- 18:54Speaker 2: I feel like like Larson is leading the way for
- 18:57Speaker 2: Hendrick Morllersports today. I'll be surprised if any of the
- 18:59Speaker 2: other three win, but he's set up to smash today
- 19:03Speaker 2: as far as Fantasy points go. Todd Gilly no for me,
- 19:08Speaker 2: Cody Ware no for me, and Chad Fincham is a
- 19:12Speaker 2: oh hell no for me. So I really wasn't gonna
- 19:15Speaker 2: do the whole starting lineup, but I did it anyway
- 19:19Speaker 2: and we got done an under twenty minutes and baby
- 19:22Speaker 2: Game is still sleeping, so that's a win win win. So,
- 19:26Speaker 2: as always, thank you for tuning in. Good luck in
- 19:29Speaker 2: all of your contests today. Like I said, it's Big
- 19:31Speaker 2: Baseball Day. Final day of the NBA is going on
- 19:35Speaker 2: today and of course Round four of the Masters, which
- 19:38Speaker 2: I assume the majority of us will be tuning in for.
- 19:41Speaker 2: So good luck in all of your contests today. Smash
- 19:45Speaker 2: this NASCAR slate. If any drivers end up going to
- 19:48Speaker 2: the rear, I will make note on discord. You have
- 19:51Speaker 2: any questions about any drivers, please tag me on discord,
- 19:55Speaker 2: and as always, let's ship it.
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