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NASCAR Enjoy Illinois 300 2024 | DraftKings DFS Drivers, Dominators & Place Differential · Daily Fantasy Sports by Ship It Nation

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  Fall system's gone clear for lifting. Hey there, good morning, and welcome
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  to this week's NASCAR Quick Hit. Here at ship At Nation. I am
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  Eric, also known on Discord as the Game, and today we will be
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  discussing the Enjoy Illinois three hundred taking place at the Worldwide Technology Raceway or if
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  you're a longtime NASCAR and the Gateway Motorsports Park located in Illinois. Yeah.
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  and why you should join us. Let's head back and discuss Enjoy Illinois three
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  hundred at Worldwide Technology Raceway this weekend. TV coverage is back on Fox Sports
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  one in America and TSN five in Canada and green flag is three thirty pm
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  Eastern Time today. There are two hundred and forty laps this week, which
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  is a bit shorter than year average Cup Series race. So since there's only
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  two hundred forty laps since three hundred miles, there's only one hundred and sixty
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  eight dominator points up for grabs, so not as many as we would normally
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  see at a at a race like this. And since there is so few
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  dominator points and passing is at a premium where I should say has been at
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  a premium at this racetrack in the past, I will be having at least
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  two dominators in my each line up this weekend, and based off so qualifying,
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  that shouldn't be too hard to do. Okay, so let me go
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  ahead and pull up the blank version of the stone. Here Where am I
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  at? Here? Hide? This close? This? There's my desktop?
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  Hey that's disgusting. Hey boo? Here we go? All right, First
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  thing I would like to discuss is practice. So earlier this week, everything
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  was scheduled to go as normal as you see here. They were separated into
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  Groups A and B. However, inclement weather was in the area right around
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  the start of practice on Saturday morning, so NASCAR scrapped the Group A and
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  Group B practice and instead let all the drivers on the track at one time.
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  Oh my god, we finally got good practice information. All the cars
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  had the same track conditions, and as you could tell just by looking at
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  this at the very blank version of the stone right here, the cars who
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  were good in practice qualify towards the front, and the cars who weren't so
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  good in practice qualified near the back. This is This is about as Nascar
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  as NASCAR can get. Frankly, one practice session with all the cars and
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  you can very easily tell who has the speed and who doesn't. God,
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  NASCAR, please go back to just one group practice sessions because it makes everything
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  easier from a content standpoint. I think the drivers and teams prefer it as
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  well. Yeah, please give us one practice all the time. All right,
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  Let's see here now for some drivers who I would like to highlight,
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  and let's just start off with the two biggest surprises of practice and qualifying,
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  well maybe not so much practice, but definitely qualifying. And that is our
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  front Row Michael McDowell of front Row Motorsports and Austin Cindric of Team Penske.
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  As you could see, we aren't really breaking the bank salary wise with either
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  of them. Michael mack is sixty five hundred on DK and Centric is sixty
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  two hundred on DK. Look, Michael McDowell was was okay in practice,
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  ninth in the single lap, averages, twelfth in the five lap, and
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  then ninth and fifteenth and ten and fifteen lap. All right, no one
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  expected him to go out and put it on the pole and he did.
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  And passing at this race track. So let me let me quickly circle back.
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  There have been two Next Gen Error races at Gateway Motorsports Park, and
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  the first race had a tremendous amount of passing for the league and I think
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  want to say there was like six or seven different leaders. However, last
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  year's race, I think there's only like two leaders and it was very,
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  very difficult to pass. And I truly think that's what we're going to see
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  on Sunday. So Michael McDowell, your pollsitter sixty five hundred, great good
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  practice speeds, no reason not to play him this weekend, and the SAM
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  goes for Austin Cindric. Right. Austin Sindric is almost always an automatic removal
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  for me from my player pool, but not this weekend. He was always
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  going to be someone I wrote up and spoke about. He was probably gonna
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  be one of my favorite value plays of the slate, and then he went
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  ahead and did amazing in practice and put it on the outside pole. Worldwide
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  Technology, Raceway, gateway, motorsports Park, whatever you want to call it,
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  is by far Austin Sindric's best track other than like Chicago's street course and
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  I think Indie road course. Right, so you have two road courses and
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  then Gateway for Austin Sindric. If you're ever going to roll out Austin Cindric,
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  today is the day to do so. Do I think he or Michael
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  McDowell will lead two hundred of two hundred and forty laps and just crush the
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  field? No? Do I think either one of them can get out and
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  lead the entirety of Stage one. Absolutely do I think both of them can
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  Probably stay in the top ten all day. Absolutely, maybe a little bit
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  more Austin Schintrick than I do McDowell. But I have no reason, even
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  though there's there's studs behind these two drivers, I have no reason, no
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  reason at all, to fade either Michael McDowell or Austin Cindric this weekend.
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  And it makes fitting two dominators into your lineup quite easy in my opinion.
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  So Michael Mack and Austin Cindric sixty five and sixty two hundred on DK,
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  Yeah they are. I'm playing them both with confidence and I'm not afraid.
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  I'm not afraid of them. This Sunday also, and this actually wasn't on
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  my notes, but I'm gonna speak about it anyway. Team Penske and Joe
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  Gibbs Racing absolutely seem to be the class of the field here for Sunday.
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  As you can see, the highest Hendrick Carr is Willie b at eleventh,
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  and the entire top nine is nothing but Ford's in Toyota's right. Syndric Blaney
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  and Logano Penskes are two, three and eleven. J g R. You
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  have Christopher Bell starting fourth, Denny sixth, Ty Gibbs ninth, and then
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  MTJ Mark Drewex Junior at nineteenth. I do think, and I truly think,
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  the THEFS industry thinks that those two teams are the class of the field
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  on Sunday, and I do as well. I'm not gonna give you some
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  spicy hot take. I do think those are the two teams to beat on
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  Sunday. So yeah, make sure you get some ownership to all of Team
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  Penske and JGR drivers, including Logano who starts twelfth and MTJ who starts nineteenth.
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  All right, moving on, Josh Barry starts twenty ninth on Sunday,
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  And truthfully, this is more of just a gut play from me this weekend.
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  He wasn't the best in practice twentieth in the first and fifth, but
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  then he starts climbing up the ranks thirteenth and the ten, twelfth and the
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  fifteenth, eleventh in the twenty and then not that many cars did twenty five
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  laps, but he was eighth in that. But I think that was technically
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  last in the twenty five lap averages. Yeah, racetrack should fit. Actually
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  no, he was fourth in the twenty five lap. My apologies, this
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  kind of racetrack and tire fall off as NASCAR has brought the Phoenix tire here
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  to Gateway. This kind of race and this kind of tire fall off should
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  fit Josh Berry to a t he is. He's a racers racer right.
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  He can get the most out of a car. He knows how to manage
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  and save tires for a long run, which is what I think you will
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  see on Sunday. And as well as Stuart Hass has some restwart Hoss Racing
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  rather has extra motivation in my opinion. Yes, earlier this past week,
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  Stuart Haas Racing did announce that they will be closing their doors at the end
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  of the twenty twenty four season, and I think a lot of people just
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  based on that news automatically goes into fade mode. However, I'm not.
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  I'm not afraid of any SHR cars this weekend. Josh Berry is my favorite,
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  but I'm not afraid to play any of them, truthfully. But the
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  reason I'm playing Josh Berry is not only a because this track should fit him
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  like a tee perfectly, even though he has no Next Gen experience. Here,
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  Rodney Childers came out and Rodney Childers is the crew chief for Josh Berry
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  and the Stewart House Racing Ford and he came out in an interview post SHR
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  closing news and made it very very very very clear that no one is quitting
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  on that team and that Rodney Childers is damn sure not gonna quit on Josh
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  Berry. If you're new to NASCAR, Rodney Childers is one of the most
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  respected crew chiefs in the garage. He is Kevin Harvick's longtime crew chief and
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  truthfully, in my opinion, Stuart hass Racing wouldn't be nearly what they are
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  today without Rodney Childers. Rodney Childers is probably the number one free agent out
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  of Stuart Haas Racing, to be honest, even more so than any of
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  the four drivers. That's how respected and how good Rodney Childers is. I
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  have full confidence when Rodney Childers says he's not going to quit on Josh Berry,
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  that he will do everything in his power to get that car to Victory
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  Lane this season. Is that gonna happen on Sunday at Gateway? I have
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  no idea. Could it? Absolutely? He yeah, Josh very I haven't
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  seen or read many folks talking about him this week, so I do think
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  he's going to go a little bit under owned, and he will definitely be
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  in my player pool seventy two hundred on DraftKings and seventy two hundred on Fandels,
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  so equal prize on both. And he is starting twenty ninth on Sunday.
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  And now let's go to my bottom barrel sheep play bargain bin whatever we're
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  calling it, play of the week. And I'm going to use this joke
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  I wrote in the NASCAR slate Plan All the Ship a Nation website. I'm
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  going to use it here because I think it's good. If I would write
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  a children's book based on the twenty twenty four NASCAR season, one of the
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  working titles would be Zane Smith and the Terrible, horrible, no good,
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  very Bad Cup Debut Season. Look, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna vince
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  words here. Sat Smith has been awful this season. Right. He came
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  in I don't want to say with hype, but he came into the season
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  with you know, like okay, like great truck driver, high ceiling,
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  Rookie Cup season, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. It has
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  been anything but positive for Zane Smith. However, this is, this is,
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  this is. However, however, he is dirt cheap on DraftKings fifty
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  four hundred and truthfully, uh, I think what Cody Ware is under him
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  at five k Uh. Yeah, I'll take Zane Smith over Cody Ware.
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  Harrison Burton fifty two. Uh yeah, no, I'll take Zane Smith at
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  fifty four over Harrison Burton. Uh. Daniel Hemric, Yeah no, I'll
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  take Zane Smith. Derrick Krause, Yeah no, I'll take Sane Smith again.
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  So Zaye Smith with fifty four hundred starting dead last, so what he
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  won't be able to lose us any place differential points. The only way he
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  can go is up. His practice speeds compared to those around him aren't bad,
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  right, So twenty six in the one lap average, twenty first in
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  the five, fifteen in the ten, thirteen in the thirteenth and the fifteen
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  lap average, and then eighth in the twenty lap right, not the best,
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  but better than those starting in front of him. And he has track
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  experience here and a lot of it. The truck series raced here for many
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  years before the Cup Series came, and I think Zayan has five five truck
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  starts and he does have one next Gen Cup start here for raush Fenway back
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  in twenty twenty two, so he has the track experience, the speeds should
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  be able to allow him to work up his way through the field at least
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  past those drivers starting around him, and his salary will make a lot of
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  lineup building or a lot of lineups work just based on how cheap he is.
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  So Saint Smith is my bargain bin value play of the weekend fifty four
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  hundred starting dead last on Sunday. Can't lose us any place differential points.
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  Please please let the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad season reverse
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  itself into a great, good, very good, very very good season for
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  Zade Smith on Sunday. And I think let me quickly scroll through my notes
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  here. I think that's all I got. Yeah, hey, that is
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  everything I have for this week. Just like we did last week, who
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  do you think is gonna win? Let us know in the comments that was
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  we had some engagement with that. I like that. I'm gonna try to
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  get us a giveaway for next week, even if I just sponsored out of
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  my own pocket. Uh So, go ahead and let me know who you
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  think is gonna win this week. M Yeah, and that's it. That's
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