Chicagoland MYAFIBSTORY.com 400 Fantasy NASCAR Mid Pack Predictions

Brian Vickers – Chicagoland has been a pretty good track for Brian Vickers and he should be considered a legitimate dark horse / sleeper pick. A solid case could be made that this is perhaps his best track on the circuit. Last season he ran very well but walked away with a 38th place asterisk mark finish. Around lap 163 shortly after a restart while he was running in 2nd he was off pace and then pushed behind the wall because of engine issues. If he could’ve avoided that problem he would’ve finished well. In the event he started in 25th and he raced his way up to 2nd without any pit trickery. In his Chicagoland races prior to last season’s engine failure he had a 9.5 average finish. In 2011 he made his next most recent start and finished 13th. This season on 1.5 mile tracks he’s shown some strength. At 1.5 mile tracks he’s scored the 11th most points, has a 13.0 average finish and a 13.5 average running position. (Yahoo B Driver)

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Aric Almirola – Aric Almirola hasn’t been a bad dark horse / sleeper pick on 1.5 mile tracks this season. At 1.5 mile tracks in 2014 minus his Kentucky crash he has an 11.4 average starting position, 13.0 average finish and a 16.2 average running position. In those 5 events he has 2 top tens and 4 top fifteens. Atlanta is the last 1.5 mile track visited and he finished 9th there. At Chicagoland Aric Almirola has two starts under his belt. Last season he performed well through the duration of the event. He started 15th, finished 13th, had an 11th place average running position and earned the 10th best driver rating. In 2012 Aric Almirola made his first Chicagoland start. In the race he started in 2nd, led the first 3 laps but was wrongfully penalized by NASCAR during the first round of pit stops. That dropped him deep in the field and he was never able to recover from it. Before he was penalized he never ran lower than 5th. When the checkered flag waved he crossed the finish line in 17th. (Yahoo B Driver)

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Martin Truex Jr. – From a competitive standpoint Martin Truex Jr. has typically performed like a teen’s driver on 1.5 mile tracks this season. In the six combined races on 1.5 mile tracks he has a 16.3 average running position, 20.0 average finish and a best result of 14th. In none of these races has he shown reason for optimism in why people should believe in him. In every race on tracks of this length he’s finished between 14th and 25th. At Chicagoland minus a 2007 engine failure Truex Jr. has a 13.8 average finish. In all of these events minus his engine failure he’s had a result between 9th and 18th. Last season I think his team had a shell shocked performance because mid-week he got booted out of the Chase. In the race he performed very well in the second half of the event but his car fell off at the end and got very tight. Here’s a quote from him about the race, “I really don’t know what happened to our car at the end. We went from a top-five Toyota to a really tough car to drive. It was a handful especially in traffic.” When the checkered flag waved in that event he finished 18th. In 2012 he tied his previous best result of 9th and earned the 14th best driver rating. (Yahoo B Driver)

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