New Hampshire Post Practice Fantasy NASCAR Predictions

The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series trucks on with this weekend’s race at “The Magic Mile,” New Hampshire Motor Speedway. This is a 1-mile flat track that compares the most to Phoenix and Richmond, which we were at in March and April (respectively). Kyle Busch went to victory lane at Phoenix while Martin Truex, Jr. took the checkered flag at Richmond.

Brad Keselowski is on the pole this weekend, and if you remember back to Martinsville, it was incredibly difficult to pass there (and the race was also dominated by Keselowski even though he didn’t have the best car). Will that happen again? You can view the entire starting lineup by clicking here. There were two practice sessions here on Saturday after qualifying on Friday and you can find the speeds here: Practice #2 — Happy Hour. You should also read our in-depth notes for those sessions: Practice #2 — Happy Hour.

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Final Top 25 Fantasy NASCAR Rankings for New Hampshire

1. Kyle Busch – Starts 2nd – DraftKings Price: $11,900 – FanDuel Price: $14,500 – Slingshot Price: $13,000

Over the last three races here at Loudon, there’s basically been two main contenders for most of the races: Martin Truex, Jr. and Kyle Busch. Collectively, they have led 650 total laps (332 and 318, respectively) over those last three races, which equates to over 70% of the total laps led. And what do they have to show for it? Well, Kyle won here in September of 2017, but it was Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin who ended up in victory lane in those other two events. Still, you can’t count out the Joe Gibbs Racing teammates this weekend, especially Rowdy, who had the dominant car last week and is starting on the front row for Sunday’s Foxwoods Resort Casino 301. Kyle is a three time winner here in New Hampshire and has finished 3rd or better in seven of his last eleven starts here. He was 4th-fastest in Practice #2 here on Saturday and then ranked 3rd-fastest in Happy Hour, putting up the 3rd- and 2nd-best ten-lap averages (respectively) as well. Looking at similar tracks this year, Busch finished 8th at Richmond earlier this year after leading 101 laps, ended up 3rd at Martinsville, and absolutely dominated at Phoenix, leading 177 and ending up in victory lane. The #18 Toyota will be a contender again here on Sunday, not that that should surprise you.

2. Martin Truex, Jr. – Starts 6th – DraftKings Price: $11,500 – FanDuel Price: $14,000 – Slingshot Price: $12,800

Yes, as mentioned before, Martin Truex, Jr. has been really, really good at New Hampshire Motor Speedway recently. In fact, he has three straight top 5 finishes here, and has led 112 or more laps in four of the last five races at this track. The only exception? Last year’s race, where he lead a ‘measly’ 83 laps. Yeah, he’s good here. Unfortunately for Truex fans, though, he’s never visited victory lane at “The Magic Mile.” Will this be the weekend? Truex was 12th-fastest in Practice #2 on Saturday morning with the 4th-best ten-lap average, and then in Happy Hour that afternoon he was 5th-fastest on the speed chart with the 4th-best ten-lap average. Truex has won Stage 1 at New Hampshire every time possible since the start of that racing format, but he seems to just fade in the second half of the race. With that being said, this #19 team won at Richmond earlier this year and also finished 2nd at Phoenix. I think Truex has a car that can definitely get to victory lane on Sunday, but I’m not sure he has the dominant car going into the Foxwoods Resort Casino 301.

3. Brad Keselowski – Starts 1st – DraftKings Price: $10,700 – FanDuel Price: $12,000 – Slingshot Price: $11,900

Brad Keselowski is going to be a popular Fantasy NASCAR pick this weekend, and for good reason: he’s on the pole and looked solid during the practice sessions on Saturday, ranking 2nd-fastest with the 5th-best ten-lap average in the morning session and 6th-fastest with the 3rd-best ten-lap average in Happy Hour. Also, who can forget Keselowski’s dominating performance at Martinsville earlier this year, where he led 446 of the 500 laps? Of course, Martinsville and Loudon are two different tracks, but I like to think of them as pretty similar, since they’re both under a mile and really flat. And what we saw at Martinsville was simple: you couldn’t pass the leader. So if that’s the case this weekend at New Hampshire, Keselowski is obviously in the best position heading into Sunday’s race. As far as track record, Bad Brad has one win here (2014) and has ended up 9th or better in six of his last nine starts here. That should be seven of the last ten after Sunday.