Trucks in canada

The Trucks series has its one and only road course race on Sunday.  Here's a few notes to help you with lineup builds -- primarily for cash games.

• Only 65 laps and two stage break cautions already built in, so we're not going to have a lot of laps led or fastest lap points.  Also it's difficult to pass so we won't see big position difference swings unless a guy has an issue in qualifying that causes a starting spot that doesn't match the truck's speed.  So, the primary focus is on raw finishing position and trying to avoid any negative position difference.
• A few things are not what they might seem at first glance.
  • Ray Ciccarelli -- Don't even consider using him.  He is not in his regular #49 truck for his self-owned team. He is driving the #0 truck which is a second truck for Jennifer Jo Cobb's team. This is almost always a start and park truck. Ray only did two laps in practice that were 20 seconds off the pace, further supporting the thought he'll be parking early.
  • Josh Reaume -- Same situation here.  He is not driving one of his own trucks.  This is the #8 Joe Nemechek truck which is also a start and park unless Joe or his son are in the truck.  Don't use him.
  • Alex Tagliani -- Unlike his prior races here, he's in the #51 Kyle Busch truck this week. He's got the best crew chief in the garage and top notch equipment.  "Tag" has raced here several times in the Truck Series -- finishing 10th just last year.  He's always been with a mid-level team and never in top level equipment like he has this week.  A Top 5 finish is very realistic.  He is expensive though, so he's not a must use guy by any means.
• Other top end targets:
  • Austin Hill -- Maybe not top end, but his salary is $7,400.  I don't know why.  He ran in the Top 10 here last year in lesser equipment.  This is a pricing error and you should take advantage of it.
  • Brett Moffitt -- Looks poised to contend for the win again.  He finished 3rd here last year.  Had the best single lap time in final practice.  Expensive, so not a must use.
  • Johnny Sauter -- He can be crazy, but the facts don't lie.  He's finished 6th or 7th in each of the last four races here.  $9,300 is a very fair price to get him at.
    
  • The other KBM trucks with Todd Gilliland and Harrison Burton are too cheap as well.  They were 1 - 2 in first practice and Gilliland was 5th in final practice.  
    
• Mid to low end targets
  
  • I've got no problem with Jason White at $4,700.  This is a Josh Reaume truck and these guys do the same thing every race -- go slow but run the whole race.  White is very familiar with this track because he runs it every year in the Canadian Pinty series.  He ran here last year for Reaume and finished 23rd after starting 27th.
    
  • Dylan Lupton and Raphael Lessard are too cheap.  Lupton will be in the #20 which is usually the Spencer Boyd truck.  It's a solid team that will give a full race effort.  He had the truck in 7th for single lap time in final practice.  Lessard is in the #54 DGR truck that usually has Natalie Decker behind the wheel.  He's done four truck races this year and done a respectable job in all of them.  Given their salaries, I like both of these guys as long as they don't qualify too well.