The next NASCAR stop is in Nashville. Get your summer started with Honky Tonk and DraftKings fantasy NASCAR contests. Check out the DFS NASCAR rankings below and make your fantasy racing picks for the Ally 400 at Nashville.
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1. Kyle Larson ($10,500) — Yung Money won the inaugural Nashville Cup Series race in 2021. He led 264 of the 300 laps. Last season, he earned his third top-5 finish in the three Nashville races. He could have won if he had better track position.
2. Christopher Bell ($10,000) — Bad luck is a thing in auto sports. During the middle of the 2024 season, Bell took his lumps. That time has passed. He has a top-10 finish in six of the last seven races (top-15 finish in all seven), and he won at Charlotte and New Hampshire.
3. Chase Elliott ($9,700) — Nashville is a concrete track. Elliot is the king of concrete. Bristol, Dover and Nashville have all been strong tracks for Elliott. He won at a similar one-groove intermediate track in Texas earlier this season.
4. William Byron ($9,500) — Hendrick Motorsports has been locked in at Nashville. They’ve mastered the single groove in the groovy town. Modern Nashville may be an eclectic mix of music, but this track has a single groove. It’s a one-groove honky tonk and HMS knows the jam.
5. Ross Chastain ($9,000) — Nashville is the home track for Trackhouse Racing. Chastain led the most laps and won the 2023 race. He’s earned a top-5 finish in each of the three Nashville races.
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6. Martin Truex Jr ($9,800) — Ross Chastain ran away with the 2023 Nashville race, but Truex was there all race. Truex led 50 laps and was the runner-up.
7. Denny Hamlin ($10,300) — There is speed and there is luck. Hamlin doesn’t have the latter at the moment. He has failed to earn a top-20 finish in the last three races. Before this spell, he was on a streak of five consecutive top-5 finishes and had collected three race wins during the course of 2024.
8. Daniel Suarez ($7,500) — Don’t buy into the home track narrative? It’s not a narrative. Trackhouse Racing plans on building a shop on Broadway. This is an important race. They focus their resources on Nashville. Suarez has a top-15 finish in every Nashville race.
9. Ryan Blaney ($9,300) — Some people can’t make it in this town. Nashville has not been kind to Blaney. He finished outside the top 35 in two of the three races at this concrete intermediate track. It’s a small sample size, but what matters more — current form or track history?
10. Ty Gibbs ($8,400) — As a rookie, Gibbs finished 14th at Nashville. That might seem unremarkable. Look at the field’s stats at Nashville. It’s unremarkable. Gibbs is an interesting DFS NASCAR tournament pick for the Ally 400 at Nashville.
11. Tyler Reddick ($8,800) — DFS NASCAR is all about hog points (fast-lap and lap-led points). Reddick scored 21 hog points in the 2023 Nashville race and is averaging 21 hog points in the last six intermediate-track races.
12. Chris Buescher ($8,300) — RFK has been quiet. Quiet does not mean bad. Teams go on runs. JGR gets hot then Penske goes on a heater. Last Month, Buescher was the runner-up by inches at Kansas and nearly won at Darlington.
13. Brad Keselowski ($8,500) — The last three races have been at short tracks and a road course. The three races prior were intermediate-track races. Keselowski finished first, second and third in those races.
14. A.J. Allmendinger ($6,500) — When the Dinger runs, he’s a top-15 driver for Kaulig Racing in 2024. In his two Cup Series races at Nashville, he’s finished 10th and 19th. He almost won the 2022 Xfinity Series race at Nashville. The next season, he did win the Xfinity Series race.
15. Daniel Hemric ($5,100) — This is a pricing error. Hemric has been bad but not this bad. Before the recent schedule of short tracks and road courses, Hemric earned top-20 finishes in back-to-back intermediate-track races.
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