Texas All-Star Race Mid-Pack Predictions/ Low Tier
Joey Logano – Joey Logano is an aggressive driver who won’t be afraid to go all out in the All-Star Race, but is that enough? Teams also have to have speed, and this year at high-speed intermediate tracks he has results of 14th (Las Vegas) and 17th (Kansas) and is tied for having the 12th best Total Speed Ranking. At Texas, Logano has run well. Last fall, Logano had engine problems late and finished 30th, but in 9 of the 10 races prior to that he finished in the top ten. Last year in the All-Star Race, Logano finished 4th.
Kevin Harvick – The #4 team isn’t where they need to be competitively right now, so I think you can probably write them off in the All-Star Race, despite Harvick being a super-elite performer at Texas. “Performance Wise”, they’re generally about a 10th place team right now with him finishing between 9th to 15th in 5 of the last 8 races. This year at the two high-speed 1.5-mile tracks visited, Harvick has results of 12th (Las Vegas) and 15th (Kansas) with him having the 14th best Total Speed Ranking between the combined events. At Texas, Harvick has historically been strong. He finished 5th last fall and in 13 of the 14 races prior to that he finished in the top ten. In last year’s All-Star Race, Harvick finished 15th.
Bubba Wallace – The #23 is running better, and Wallace has run well at 1.5-mile high-speed intermediate tracks this year, but I think he’s a bottom half of the field driver in the All-Star Race. This year at the high-speed 1.5-mile tracks visited, Wallace finished 10th at Kansas despite tons of adversity and then at Las Vegas he was running just outside the top ten until he crashed in the closing laps leading to his asterisk mark 25th. Between those two events. Wallace has the 12th best Total Speed Ranking.
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