It’s time to see if Patrick Mahomes will win over the Arizona Cardinals without his top receiver … oh wait, wrong sport.
The NASCAR Cup Series heads to Kansas Speedway for the second race in the playoffs this Sunday, Sept. 11 (3 p.m. ET, USA Network). Which drivers should be on your daily fantasy NASCAR DraftKings radar for the Hollywood Casino 400? Read on to find out!
The last time Cup raced on this 1.5-mile course, Kurt Busch came out on top after leading 116 circuits. However, he’s still out with concussion-like symptoms, so it’s anyone’s race to win this week.
The series competed at four different 1.5-mile racetracks this year, but I’m excluding Atlanta Motor Speedway from my research since the style is more like a superspeedway than a regular intermediate. I added Auto Club Speedway, Pocono Raceway and Michigan International Speedway to this group of tracks since all three are high-speed tracks that ran a bit similar to Kansas. Granted, Pocono is a triangle with a very wide frontstretch, so you shouldn’t put too much stock on how its race was run. However, the drivers who did well there will likely run well at Kansas, too.
As usual, be sure to check out practice and qualifying results to see whether the same ones who had speed in May are fast this time around. Practice starts Sept. 10 at 12:05 p.m. ET and airs on USA Network. Qualifying will then take place at 12:50 p.m. ET.
Before I share which drivers I’m considering for this week, here’s a look back at Darlington Raceway:
| Salary | Driver | DraftKings Score |
| $11,400.00 | Kyle Larson | 30.95 |
| $8,700.00 | Christopher Bell | 40.95 |
| $8,500.00 | Kevin Harvick | -7 |
| $7,300.00 | Bubba Wallace | 36.35 |
| $7,200.00 | Erik Jones | 68.35 |
| $6,900.00 | Chris Buescher | 17.9 |
| $50,000.00 | Total | 187.5 |
I may have jinxed Kevin Harvick when I said he caught fire in the last month, as his car literally caught fire at Darlington. Oops. This resulted in a negative score for unHappy Harvick, which set the lineup back. Also, Kyle Larson had some issues early on and didn’t lead any laps. He also finished five spots worse than where he started, so his DraftKings total wasn’t where I would have liked it. At least I had the winner (Erik Jones!) in this lineup.
A score of 190.4 in the $1 multi-entry double up was the lowest one needed to win some money. In the $5,000 Quarter Jukebox tournament, the highest DraftKings total was 254.75 and had Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, William Byron, Jones, Brad Keselowski and
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