NASCAR Fantasy Fusion: Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas

 

Drivers with Most Top 10s (Last 5 Years):

By Race
Kyle Busch - 5

All with 4 - Chase Elliott, Kevin Harvick, and Martin Truex Jr.

All with 3 - Alex Bowman, Joey Logano, and Ryan Blaney

By Track
Both with 8 - Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch 
Martin Truex Jr. - 7
All with 6 - Brad Keselowski, Chase Elliott, and Kurt Busch

All with 5 - Alex Bowman, Erik Jones, and Ryan Blaney

Last Year's Race Winner:  Joey Logano

My Final Four: Kevin Harvick, William Byron, Erik Jones, and Daniel Suarez.

Points to Ponder: 

• Eight of the 31 NASCAR Cup Series races have been won from the front row (25.8%). 
• Hendrick Motorsports and Joe Gibbs Racing are tied for the lead in the NASCAR Cup Series in wins at Kansas Speedway with seven victories each. 
• Four manufacturers have won at Kansas Speedway in the NASCAR Cup Series; led by Chevrolet with 12 victories, Ford with nine. 
• Eight of the 15 NASCAR Cup Series Kansas Speedway winners are active this weekend: Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, and Kevin Harvick with three each; Brad Keselowski, Kyle Busch, and Martin Truex Jr. with two each; and Chase Elliott and Ryan Newman, each with one win at Kansas. 
• Kevin Harvick (2014, 2015, 2016, 2020, 2021) leads the NASCAR Cup Series in runner-up finishes at Kansas Speedway with five second-place finishes. 
• Among active drivers, Kevin Harvick also leads the NASCAR Cup Series in Top 5s at Kansas Speedway with 11, in Top 10s with 18, in average finishing position with a 9.097, and in laps led at Kansas Speedway with 949 laps led in 31 starts.
  

Remember, if you're playing Driver Group Game, make your final picks by 3 p.m. ET today.

Enjoy the race!

Carol D'Agostino has been playing Fantasy NASCAR for 15 years. She launched  NASCAR Fantasy Fusion for Skirts & Scuffs in October 2011. Each week, Carol pores through statistics and combs through her personal notebooks to arm fans with analysis and picking strategies that will leave their friends wondering how they got so smart. Carol also does race coverage for Skirts & Scuffs at Richmond Raceway and occasionally at her home track, Dover International Speedway. She is also part of the distinguished NASCAR Expert Picks panel at frcs.pro. formerly called Fantasy Racing Cheat Sheet.

 
When she isn’t wielding her fantasy-racing superpowers, you’ll find Carol hammering out a news release or creating a marketing strategy at a small niche public relations firm she founded called Purple Cat or executing downtown revitalization projects for a small town on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.