NAS $125K Burnout [$25K to 1st] (Cup)<\/a><\/p>\nTop DraftKings Picks for the Enjoy Illinois 300<\/p>\n
Denny Hamlin ($11,000) \u2014 DraftKings prices him below both Larson and Blaney this week. His season-long wARP leads the whole field at 7.2. Three of his last five Bristol finishes were first, fourth, and second.<\/p>\n
Kyle Larson ($11,500) \u2014 The highest price tag on the slate belongs to him, mostly because of his recent win at Gateway. Two wins and six top-five finishes came in his last seven Bristol races. That track record makes the price tag easier to justify.<\/p>\n
Ryan Blaney ($11,200) \u2014 Nobody in the field has a better Bristol record than he does. That average finish sits at 6.6, and it keeps improving. Three wins this season back that up, along with a season-long wARP of 8.1, second only to Hamlin\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Christopher Bell ($10,700) \u2014 This is the track where he won last year\u2019s Night Race. A 33-race winless streak just ended for him at Darlington. Across the summer\u2019s short tracks, he is averaging an 8.7 finish, second-best in the field.<\/p>\n
Ty Gibbs ($10,400) \u2014 The spring race at Bristol went to him. His No. 54 JGR Toyota has been the most consistent short-track car this year besides Blaney\u2019s. Over the rest of the summer short-track slate, he is averaging an 8.0 finish.<\/p>\n
Chase Briscoe ($9,900) \u2014 Nothing flashy shows up on his Bristol resume. He is averaging a 7.8 finish across five starts here. This track has never given him worse than a 13th-place finish.<\/p>\n
Joey Logano ($9,500) \u2014 His five-year average finish at Bristol is 17.2, which looks bad on paper. The last two races tell a better story, a fifth and a seventh. Penske\u2019s short-track program has been strong lately, and he already has two wins this season.<\/p>\n
Tyler Reddick ($8,500) \u2014 With five wins this season, Reddick leads the Cup Series. None of those wins came at a track like Bristol. His average finish at The Last Great Colosseum sits at 17.4, his worst number at any track type he runs often.<\/p>\n
Bubba Wallace ($7,500) \u2014 Bristol has not been kind to him in the past. His average finish is 19.2. A price this low for a Toyota at a short track makes him worth a shot in a GPP lineup.<\/p>\n
Brad Keselowski ($8,100) \u2014 The 2012 champion should not be forgotten this week. A runner-up finish to Bell came in last year\u2019s Night Race. Keselowski should have won that race. His average finish at Bristol is 12.2 in the Gen-7 package.<\/p>\n
Carson Hocevar ($7,900) \u2014 Aggressive driving separates him from most of the field. That style sometimes pays off at Bristol. A 14.6 average finish and a group-worst wARP of 16.0 say the floor is low, but his ceiling can show up on any given night.<\/p>\n
Chris Buescher ($8,300) \u2014 Low ownership follows him into most fields. His average finish at Bristol driving an RFK Ford is 14.0, and he has not had a bad race here yet. This consistency makes him a leverage play.<\/p>\n
Ryan Preece ($7,000) \u2014 Buescher\u2019s Bristol numbers and his look almost identical. The RFK Fords have been strong in the bullring that is Bristol. His short-track roots keep showing up in that same range every time.<\/p>\n
Chase Elliott ($8,700) \u2014 A 17.0 average finish at Bristol tells the story for the No. 9 Hendrick Chevrolet this year. This track has not suited him the way it used to. Two wins elsewhere this season keep him relevant anyway.<\/p>\n
William Byron ($9,200) \u2014 His Bristol numbers are the softest of this group, a 20.0 average finish across five starts. He has not finished inside the top 15 here since 2024. This is a fade more than a play, but the price reflects that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol is a half-mile bullring made of concrete, and the surface chews through tires fast. The track rewards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,100909,294128,634,82],"class_list":["post-900502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dfs","tag-draftkings-fantasy-advice","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}