As with Xfinity, it's hard to get too deep without starting positions, but here are some notes and ideas about how I'm leaning heading into qualifying Sunday morning. I wouldn't go too crazy relying on practice times since it was their first exposure to the track and a short practice where most guys ran only about 15 laps. But it is some extra information.

• Chase Elliott -- Consistently awesome at the road courses. He ran well in the Xfinity race Saturday and just having those laps of experience gives him a big leg up on the field. Strong case to play him no matter where he starts. If he's up front, he can lead laps and get fastest laps. If he's back in the pack at all, he has place differential upside.
• Kyle Larson -- A stud anywhere. Slight underdog to me since he has no race experience at this road course. But he was 3rd quick in Saturday's practice.
• Denny Hamlin -- Two consecutive (and three total) Top 5 finishes at road courses this season. 4th fastest in practice.
• Austin Cindric -- Won Saturday's Xfinity race and was probably the best car at last year's Xfinity race as well. He is simply really, really good here. He was 5th fastest in Saturday's Cup Series practice.
• Christopher Bell -- 2nd and 7th place finishes at the last two road course races to go along with his win earlier this year at the Daytona road course. 6th fastest in Saturday's practice.
• A.J. Allmendinger -- Top 4 finishes at both Xfinity races at the Indy road course. Always a threat at any road course. But has been terrible on pit road in his Cup races.
• Kevin Harvick -- Don't really love it, but this is incredible. Kevin Harvick is $8k. He did get to run some extra laps in Xfinity practice on Friday, but it hurt to get knocked out in Lap 1 of Saturday's race. I probably won't go here, but I just had to mention how crazy this is.
• Love the $7k range.
  • Chase Briscoe $7,900 -- Won the Xfinity race here last year. 6th, 6th and 9th place finishes at three of the last four road course races this season.
  • Ross Chastain $7,700 -- 4th, 7th, 7th and 12th in the last four road course races this season. Was 6th in the Xfinity race last year on the Indy road course. It is big that Briscoe and Chastain have a full race of experience here -- albeit in an Xfinity car.
  • Tyler Reddick $7,600 -- Top 10 finishes at three of the last four road course races this season.
  • Matt DiBenedetto $7,400 -- 10th and 11th in the last two road course races. Probably my least favorite in this group, but still an option depending on starting spot.
  • Michael McDowell $7,200 -- He's always been a strong road course racer but has struggled since finishing in the Top 10 at the first two road courses this season. He was 14th fastest in practice on Saturday.
  • Chris Buescher $7,100 -- On a streak of fifteen (15!!!) consecutive Top 20 finishes at road course races. He's not going to get you a Top 10, but something in the 15th-20th is as safe a bet as there is in this field.
• Nothing really sticks out in the cheaper range. That might sort itself out in qualifying. Of the guys down there, here's who I'm most interested in:
  • Cole Custer -- Crashed in the rain at COTA, but has Top 20 finishes in the four other road course races. 12th fastest in Saturday's practice.
  • Austin Dillon -- Got experience in the Xfinity race on Saturday and has four consecutive Top 15 finishes at road courses this season.
  • Corey LaJoie -- Solid finishes at the last four road course races and was 15th fastest in Saturday's practice. He pitted on the last lap last week to tighten lug nuts or he would have had a Top 20 run.

Bets

• C. Bell +1800 to win
• C. Bell -150 W. Byron
• Maybe more to come

Xfinity is really goofy this week.

First, pricing is crazy. There are way too many good cars/drivers priced under $6,500 to where it's pretty easy to stack the three studs -- Austin Cindric, AJ Allmendinger and Ty Gibbs -- with three cheaper guys and still make a really good lineup top to bottom. Whether we want to do that, or take a more balanced approach, will be determined by qualifying.

Second, we've got 40+ entries for 36 spots with race day qualifying. So we'll have a lot of cars that don't make the race and likely some decent cars that get a bad lap in qualifying and start towards the back. How qualifying shakes out will, in large part, determine how we want to build our lineups.

It's hard to know what will be most useful come Saturday afternoon, but here are some notes to help you sort things out after qualifying --

• Austin Cindric is the man here. He was dominant last year and would have been even more dominant if he didn't get a bogus restart penalty that sent him to the rear. He was fastest by a lot in Friday's practice. Likely lap leader and favorite to win.
• Ty Gibbs and AJ Allmendinger are the only two guys in the same area code as Cindric. Gibbs as been so impressive this year at the road courses and AJ is always good at the road courses. If something goes wrong for Cindric, these guys become the favorites. Depending on pit cycling, etc., they could lead at times. They'd be the favorites to finish 2nd and 3rd. They will probably start close to the front, so it might be tough to use them in cash games if you agree that Cindric will lead the bulk of the laps.
• Kevin Harvick is eye candy. He's not going to lead laps and only comes into play if he is starting way back in the field.
• Justin Haley has Top 5 potential and could come into play if he qualifies outside the Top 10. He finished 2nd here last year, but that was probably inflated a couple of spots. He's finished inside the Top 10 at all five road courses this season.
• Andy Lally and Preston Pardus might be too expensive, but I feel like they're both pretty reliable road course racers that can pay off if their qualifying spot isn't too high. Lally did not run here last year. Pardus finished 10th here last year.
• Sage Karam has a ton of road course experience, including several Indy Car races at this Indy road course. He may qualify too well to be a viable play, but he is on the radar. I also don't fully trust the #31 car. Eric Jones had a brake failure in this car last week.
• I love the Jade Buford, Jeremy Clements and Brett Moffitt clump. All have Top 15ish potential and are pretty reliable options. Clements was 13th and Buford was 14th here last year.
• Brandon Brown and Josh Williams are ridiculously under priced. Brown has Top 12 finishes at four of the five road course races this year and finished 11th here last year. Williams has Top 17 finishes in his four road course races this year and finished 22nd here last year.
  • Ryan Sieg is another super cheap option, but I feel like he's always a more risky play because of the crazy strategies they try sometimes. He's essentially in a must win scenario to make the playoffs, so there's even more incentive to take a swing at a wild strategy.

Bets

• Gragson +115 Hemric
• That's all I've got in play right now. There might be more Saturday afternoon.

My cash game group is pretty small for The Glen on Sunday. Here it is:

• Chase Elliott - Won the last two races at The Glen and has been a Top 2-3 car at all the road courses this season. Starts 11th so offers some position difference points to go along with race dominating potential.
• Kyle Busch - Starts 20th and has strong Top 5 potential. 5th at Sonoma and 3rd at Road America. Historically runs very well at The Glen. If you believe in narratives, he deserves something good here after getting screwed by the rain at New Hampshire.
• Kurt Busch - Very similar profile to his brother Kyle. Maybe a little less upside, but also a little cheaper. 4th, 6th and 4th at three of the road courses this year -- slide off track in the monsoon at COTA for his only bad finish on a road course this year. Has finished 11th or better in the last seven races at The Glen.
• Chase Briscoe - Not cheap, but he's a really, really good road course racer. He'd have to have something go wrong to not get to +10 position difference territory and he's got upside to +20.
• Ross Chastain - A bit risky, but 4th, 7th and 7th with excellent speed at the last three road course races.
• Chris Buescher - Four Top 18 finishes at the road courses this year. 11th, 20th and 13th in his last three races at The Glen. He has now established himself as one of the most reliable road course racers in the Series.
• Michael McDowell - Top 18 finishes in the last four races at The Glen and two Top 10 finishes on road courses so far this season.
• Cole Custer - Cheap. Three Top 20s at the road courses so far this year. He wrecked in the rain storm at COTA for his only bad finish. Did well at The Glen in the Xfinity Series as well.
• Corey LaJoie - 20th, 18th and 21st at the last three road course races this year. Has a better car then everyone starting behind him, so should only move up. Cheapest guy I can play with a decent confidence level.

Bets
Not a lot I'm seeing right now.

• Stenhouse -115 Bubba Wallace
  
• Stenhouse -115 Ryan Newman

This is the first time the Trucks Series has come to Watkins Glen in over 20 years, so none of the drivers have any experience in the trucks at this track. A lot of them are running the ARCA race Friday night, so that will be something to look at and factor into our thinking for Saturday. It seems to me the pool of cash game drivers is pretty small for this race.

• Paul Menard, Parker Klingerman and Sam Mayer - You can't really go wrong with any of these guys. They are starting 38th-40th and each have Top 10-15 upside.
  • Menard raced here 16 times during his years in the Cup Series and was a fringe Top 20 guy. He was never known as a great road racer, but was pretty solid. He raced in this #66 truck earlier this year at COTA -- finishing 11th after starting 26th. It's a ThorSport truck, so should be plenty reliable and fast.
  • Klingerman is another solid choice. He started and finished 13th at COTA in this same #75 truck earlier this year. He also has 8th place finishes at the Daytona Road Course in 2020 and the Canadian road course in 2017. The biggest issue here is he can be pretty aggressive at times.
  • Mayer is in the #32 Holmes truck, which has had an up and down season. He did run this truck at COTA earlier this year and finished 6th after starting 21st. He's running the ARCA race Friday night.
• A.J. Allmendinger - Had to add AJ before posting since he was a late add to the field replacing Chase Purdy. He'll be in a very good GMS truck and AJ is obviously one of the top road course racers in anything he gets into. He will have to start in the back for a driver change, but will still be scored from the 25th starting spot. There is race winning upside here, but it's been over 12 years since he's been in one of these trucks, so that's a concern. I'm not too worried about that, though, because he can easily stay on the lead lap and take it easy while learning the truck during Stage 1. And, at the end of the day, I'm just not too worried taking a chance on AJ at a road course.
• Sheldon Creed - Top 5 finishes in each of his four road course races in the Trucks Series. There's no reason to think he can't do that again here. 2nd at Daytona and 5th at COTA earlier this season.
• Grant Enfinger - Never known as a premier road course guy, but definitely opened some eyes with a 4th place finish in the #9 truck earlier this year at COTA. Enfinger starts 30th and offers +20 position difference upside with a very solid floor. A slightly cheaper option then the Menard-Klingerman-Mayer group above but with a very similar profile.
• Timmy Hill - Timmy finished 9th at Daytona and 24th at COTA. Something around 22nd-24th is a reasonable expectation here. Starting 36th, there's a super solid floor. The $7,100 salary is not cheap, though, and he'd need to finish 21st or better to hit a 5x return.
• Will Rodgers - He's had some decent success at road courses in the lower NASCAR series and has a few Xfinity Series starts at road courses. This will be his first experience in the Truck Series, though, so that's a concern. He'll be in the #41 Cram truck on Saturday -- which isn't the fastest or most reliable piece out there. But it should be good enough to gain at least a few spots from the 29th starting spot.
• Jack Wood - Really just a salary play here in a good GMS truck. He should be able to move up a few spots, but there's not a whole lot of history or anything else to back this up. He finished 28th earlier this season at COTA. He's running the ARCA race Friday night, which I believe will be his first experience at Watkins Glen. I'm not aware of much road course history in his background.
• Austin Wayne Self - Quietly a pretty dependable guy at road courses. 15th and 16th place finishes at the two road courses this year and Top 16 finishes at six of the last seven road course races in the Trucks Series. Kind of risky starting 20th, but the $5,700 salary is nice if he can finish around 15th or 16th again.
• Spencer Boyd - Don't like much in the low end, but wanted to list at least one more cheap option because we may need a couple with the great high end plays. Of the drivers down in the salary range, I see Boyd as the safest bet to actually complete the race and not go backwards. That said, he won't be fast and won't gain too many spots unless we see an awful lot of chaos.

This is an interesting slate with a number of different ways to go. In the end, I think we've got some great plays in the $9-10k range, so I'm looking to load up on three of those guys and take my chances fading the most expensive drivers. The biggest risk with that approach is that one of the Kyles (Larson or Busch) dominates the race. On balance, I think the value in the $9-10k range is just too good to pass up.

• I like the over $10k drivers. I really do. Larson has been a beast and I can see him dominating just like he did at Nashville in this same package. Kyle Busch has been really strong lately and could dominate from the pole. Even William Byron is a strong play. I wouldn't fault anyone who choses to pay up for those guys.
• Denny Hamlin - He dominated the two races this year that I find most comparable at Martinsville and Richmond. He led 276 laps and scored 145 DK points at Martinsville and he lead 207 laps and scored 134 DK points at Richmond. He's finished 2nd in the last two races at New Hampshire and scored 90 and 118 DK points in those races.
• Martin Truex - I just don't get pricing Truex down to almost $9k. Short, flat tracks are his strongest track type. He has two wins already this season at these tracks (Martinsville and Phoenix) to go along with a Top 5 at Richmond. He's finished in the Top 6 in the last five New Hampshire races. Just too cheap for a guy who should finish in the Top 5 and can certainly dominate this race.
• Joey Logano - Another guy with a superb record with this 750 HP package. Four straight Top 10 finishes at New Hampshire. He starts 15th and had Top 5 upside. Things would have to really go sideways for him to not hit 5x the $9,500 price tag. (Basically William Byron, but for $1,100 less.)

The other tier I'm really focused on is the $7-8k range.

• Christopher Bell - Killed the field in the Xfinity race Saturday and the Cup 750 HP cars race much closer to the Xfinity package than the Cup 550 HP cars do. So that win means something and what Bell learned can certainly help in the Cup race. Bell has won the last three Xfinity races here. At the short, flat tracks this year he's finished 9th, 7th, 4th and 9th.
• Ricky Stenhouse - Out of the blue he's been really good at the short, flat tracks this season with 12th, 15th, 17th and 6th place finishes. He was 14th last year here at New Hampshire. 
• Ryan Newman - Usually very good at New Hampshire with two Top 8 finishes in the last three races here. He starts 28th and is pretty reasonably priced at $7,200. 
• Ross Chastain - 19th, 17th, 15th and 2nd at the short, flat tracks this season. His work helping his teammate Kurt Busch last week showed that he's starting to get it. He really needs a strong finish to help his shot at getting a decent ride for next season.

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• Guys like Suarez and Almirola are also in play, but they're more expensive and I'm not entirely confident they can hit value at those salaries.
• If you need to save more, I'd look at Eric Jones, Bubba Wallace and Anthony Alfredo as a last resort. ​Adding Corey LaJoie to the salary saver options.

All in on C. Bell for the Xfinity race on Saturday. Joe Gibbs cars have won the last five New Hampshire Xfinity races and Bell has won the last two. He starts 14th, so offers position difference upside too even if he doesn't dominate the whole race. It helps Bell that there is a competition caution on Lap 20. He should be well inside the Top 10 for that restart.

• I like two other Gibbs cars as well. Brandon Jones starts 23rd, so offers +15 position difference upside and a reasonably safe floor. Daniel Hemric starts 13th, so has a little less position difference upside, but more chance to lead laps. They're about equal plays for cash games in my book.

Outside of the Gibbs cars, Josh Berry is my other favorite. He won the Martinsville race this year, which is another similar short, flat track -- albeit with much tighter corners. Josh is in the #1 Jr Motorsports car this weekend in place of the injured Michael Annett. He starts 21st and has +15 position difference upside with an outside chance to lead laps.

In the middle tier, there are some decent plays that could work, but I can't confidently say any of them will hit 5x value:

• J.J. Yeley - Really good driver, but somewhat questionable car. He starts 36th and could make it into the Top 20 if all goes well. But he's very expensive and really needs to hit a ceiling performance to hit value.
• Jordan Anderson - Don't fully trust the car or driver - especially without practice.
• Brandon Brown - Starts 22nd, so has +10 position difference upside. It does not come without risk, though, because he's aggressive and they sometimes resort to goofy pit strategies to try to steal a win or track position.
• Brandon Gdovic - Starts 32nd and could get you +10 position difference on his best day. Not a very experienced driver or team though and I'm concerned with no practice.
• Landon Cassill - Starts 31st with about the same upside as Gdovic but a safer profile since he's a veteran driver with an established team.

Punts are ugly:

• ​David Star - Not cheap. Starts 38th so can only really go up. Finished 28th and 22nd at the two short, flat tracks this season.
• C.J. McLaughlin - Very similar to Starr.
• Spencer Boyd - Starts dead last so literally can't go backwards. Will be slow. We just want him to finish and beat the 8-10 cars that drop/wreck out.
• Kyle Weatherman - Pretty decent driver, not so decent car.

Bets

• Brandon Jones +2500 to win. Too high for a Gibbs car when this company has won the last five races here. 
• Hemric +140 Allgaier. I think Allgaier will be fine. Just think the +140 is too good to pass up for cars that should be pretty equal (if not slightly better for Hemric).

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We've got 400 miles of Cup Series racing Sunday from Atlanta. All recent races here have been 500 miles, so this is a little shorter. But I don't think that will have a ton of impact on our analysis. Here are my main targets heading into Sunday:

• Kyle Larson - Duh. He's been incredible at the 1.5 mile tracks this season. In the earlier Atlanta race, he led 269 laps, ran 104 fastest laps and scored 160 DK points. In the two 1.5 mile track races since then, he's led 132 and 327 laps and scored 100 and 157 DK points. I just don't see how you can fade him in cash games. But I would be open to it in tournaments given the price tag and other options.
• William Byron - Byron has a win at Miami and finished 9th or better at all five 1.5 mile track races this season. If it weren't for Larson, I think we'd be talking a lot about Byron's performance overall and at the 1.5 mile tracks in particular. Starting 19th, he offers 10+ position difference upside with the potential to lead laps, run fastest laps and finish in the Top 5. Huge ceiling here and it would be a shocker to not see him crush 5x his salary.
• Alex Bowman - Very similar story to Byron, just a bit less consistent performance at the 1.5 mile tracks this season. He ran 3rd at Atlanta earlier this year and has had success throughout his career at worn out tracks with high tire wear -- including wins at Auto Club and Chicago. A similar huge ceiling to Byron, although I think it's a bit less likely he gets there.
  • Quick comment on Kevin Harvick and Ryan Blaney. I like them both and either or both could have a really good day with position difference upside. But I just don't see why they're more expensive than Byron and Bowman. For cash games or single entry tournaments, I just can't recommend them over the Hendrick drivers. They could be good contrarian plays if you want to go that way. But, even then, I probably prefer someone like Kyle Busch or Martin Truex who could be a surprise dominator.
• Ryan Newman - Starts 29th and offers +10 position difference upside for a good salary. Started 28th and finished 13th earlier this year at Atlanta. In ten combined starts at the 1.5 mile tracks this year, the Rousch drivers (Newman and Buescher) have nine Top 20 finishes.
• Anthony Alfredo - If we want the Hendrick studs, we need some salary savers too. Alfredo should work alright starting 32nd for only $5,500. To be clear, I don't like this or think he'll do any better than a 25th-28th place finish. It's a mean to the end -- which is getting the Hendrick guys who could blow the roof of the slate. Alfredo has finished all five races at the 1.5 mile tracks in the 23rd-27th range.
• Bubba Wallace - Another potential salary saver. He was 16th here earlier this year and turned in a 14th place finish at the last 1.5 mile track race in Charlotte. We've been starting to see some improved performance from this team -- including three Top 15 finishes at the last four non-road course races. A Top 20 is certainly a reasonable expectation.
• Michael McDowell - Last salary saver option. Five for five Top 20 finishes at the 1.5 mile tracks this season. He was 19th earlier this year at Atlanta.
• Ryan Preece - High floor starting 34th. He's not cheap though. So he probably needs to come through with a Top 20 run to make this work. He can do that, but I'm not overly confident he will. 
• Daniel Suarez - Suarez was 17th here earlier this year and has finished in the Top 18 in four of the five 1.5 mile track races this year. Again, though, not cheap. It can work, but it has to be a perfect run for him to make it work.

Saturday brings us 250 miles of Xfinity Series racing at Atlanta. Here are my top targets:

• Kyle Busch - Starts from the pole and should dominate this race. It could be his last Xfinity Series race and you know he wants to go out with a dominating win. Martin Truex was in this #54 car in the Spring race at Atlanta and absolutely crushed the field until a pit road speeding penalty later in the race. That's about the only thing that could possibly keep Kyle from crushing it here again.
• Justin Allgaier - He ultimately won the Atlanta Spring race and was the only other car that stood out as capable of possibly challenging Truex. Allgaier and his crew chief seem to really improve with practice and in later stages of the race. The fact that we already had a race here a few months ago is a big advantage for them. Allgaier is also one of the better Xfinity drivers on hot, slick tracks which we'll probably have on Saturday. He's finished 6th or better in the last four Atlanta races.
• Jeb Burton - This is a pricing play because he's too cheap. The Kaulig cars were very strong here in the Spring race. Jeb was running in the Top 5 but got caught up in a wreck during a late race restart. The 51 of Jeremy Clements restarted on the outside of the front row, spun his tires and stacked everyone up. Jeb was behind the 51 and tried to get around him and they just got together taking Jeb out of the race. He should be a Top 10 car and move up a couple of spots.
• Ty Dillon - Ty is in the #23 Our Motorsports car this weekend. This car has finished well at the 1.5 mile tracks when there is an experienced driver. Tyler Reddick ran at Miami and Las Vegas and finished 2nd and 12th, respectively. Ty ran at Charlotte and finished 7th. I think Ty can reasonably finish around 10th-12th and that he's a bit safer than Sam Mayer and Josh Berry.
  • Mayer is in the #8, which is a better car, but he still lacks experience at these faster, longer tracks.
  • Berry is in the #31 for Jordan Anderson which is generally old RCR equipment. He's done five races a 1.5 mile tracks in the #8 car (better equipment) and has only one Top 10 finish. 
• Noah Gragson - Noah got some damage early in the Spring Atlanta race and was never really at full speed. Based on what we saw in the Spring, this is most likely to be a Kyle Busch show with Justin Allgaier hanging around. If someone else is going to challenge for the lead, I think it would be Gragson. He seems to like these tracks that grind away the tires and have a higher groove. In his three Atlanta races he's finished 9th, 2nd and 4th.
• Jeremy Clements and Ryan Sieg - Both of these guys should be able to gain a few spots and are pretty cheap. They do carry some risk though because Sieg in particular likes to take strategy gambles and pit (or not) at odd times. Atlanta is a tough place to do that, but it wouldn't shock me for Sieg to do something crazy because he very likely needs a race win to make the playoffs. (For example, he could stay out at some point to save a set of tires hoping for a late race restart where no one else would have fresh tires.) Clements is currently the last driver in the playoffs on points, so he's likely to play it a bit more traditional and conservative -- which we'd prefer in cash games.
• Jeffrey Earnhardt and Colby Howard - JD Motorsports teammates in what should be Top 25 cars. If they can do that, they'll get you 10+ position difference and do very well for their lower salaries. In his three Atlanta races, Earnhardt finished 6th (with Joe Gibbs Racing) and 21st and 19th (with JDM). In his two Atlanta races, Howard finished 15th and 21st. We'll take any one of those on Saturday.
• Bayley Currey and Kyle Weatherman - I really try to avoid the Mike Harmon cars in cash games, but they might be too good to pass up here. Really cheap, can't go backwards and +15 position difference upside. These guys ran 24th and 28th in the Spring Atlanta race. It's just so hard to tell if these cars will be able to finish the race mechanically. 
• David Starr - Another sketchy punt option. Starr is in the #61 this weekend, which has been fairly reliable this season. Generally speaking, I'd prefer a Carl Long car over a Mike Harmon car, but the gap isn't too big. David starts 35th and should be able to move into the 20s as long as he doesn't have issues.

Bets

• Jeb Burton -115 Josh Berry
• Noah Gragson +115 Daniel Hemric

No trucks stuff from me today. Xfinity will be up late, late, late tonight.

I will try to post a quick update after qualifying.

​Only 62 laps for the Cup race on Sunday, so not a whole lot out there for laps led or fastest laps. In addition, there are multiple pit stop strategies that could come into play so we're very unlikely to see anyone dominate and lead a bulk of the laps. Larson essentially did that at Sonoma, but that one had 90 laps so offered a good deal more points for laps led and fastest laps. So, the focus is more on finishing position and position difference points.

Obviously, a lot depends on qualifying spots. Here is my main target list heading into qualifying. But anyone driving for a good team can come into play if they qualify way worse then expected.

• Kyle Busch - Won Saturday's Xfinity race and is generally good on road courses. Will have to start from the rear after wrecking in practice, so watch his official starting spot. He may take it easy in qualifying and have an official starting spot well back in the field.
• Ryan Preece - Same as Busch. But also concerned he didn't get any practice time. Busch and Haley both ran the entire Xfinity race, so not worried about them.
• Justin Haley - Same as Busch and Preece. Haley is a good road course guy. The main question here is car reliability.
• Kyle Larson and Chase Elliott - The best two road course guys in the Cup Series.
• A.J. Allmendinger - Arguably the best road course racer in the field. 7th at Daytona and 5th at COTA this year. Ton of Road America experience. His pit crew has been really, really bad in the Cup races.
• Christopher Bell - Won at Road America in the Xfinity Series in 2019. Also won earlier this year in the Cup Series at the Daytona Road Course. 
• Chase Briscoe - A lot of experience at Road America from the Xfinity Series and a good road course driver. 
• Tyler Reddick - Like Bell and Briscoe, he has some Xfinity experience here. Not known as a road course guy, but he threw down a great lap in practice. 
• Joey Logano - Top 5 finish in the last four road course races. The negative is he lacks Road America experience.
• Martin Truex - I do not expect him to challenge for the race win. But he should be Top 10.
• Austin Cindric - A lot of Road America experience from Xfinity and a top road course guy.
• Eric Jones - 14th, 16th, 11th at the three road course races this year.
• Kurt Busch - Struggled in the COTA rain race, but two 4th place finishes and a 6th place finish in the other three most recent road course races.
• Ross Chastain - Not really known as a road course guy, but a ton of speed at the road courses this year. Lots of Xfinity experience at Road America.
• Chris Buescher - 13 consecutive Top 20 finishes at road course races -- including 11th, 13th and 16th this year.
• Michael McDowell - 8th, 7th and running in the Top 10 before getting spun in the last corner at Sonoma in the three road courses this year.

Bets

• Kyle Busch +100 Truex
• Kyle Busch +155 Chase Elliott
• McDowell +125 Reddick
• Cindric +4000 to win