Welcome back FANation!! Oh how good it is to be back writing NASCAR pieces again. It started with a trickle last week with a Best Bets piece for Wager Alarm and now we’re up to a podcast and a playbook because DraftKings FINALLY decided to get their act together and added DFS for iRacing this week at Bristol. There is real money on the table here in these contests as well and not just free cash or bonus points other contests have been offering in the last few weeks.

This will be a different playbook than you’re used to seeing from me as there just isn’t all of the data available for iRacing as there is for a normal race weekend even if these guys have all raced Bristol several times before in a real race car and in a virtual sense as well. I will reference all of the stats I can including any practice info I gather from iRacing, that’s right your boy joined iRacing specifically to do deep intel on these drivers and how much work they’re putting in before the races.

If you haven’t watched a race before, or listened to this week’s podcast with Dan Malin and myself, which you should, iRacing is a virtual racing simulator but it’s the most accurate one out there in terms of racing physics, cars, track, actual conditions, tire wear, everything that would happen in a race. The drivers are sitting in front of a computer or a race rig with curved or multiple monitors and controlling the cars with steering wheels, shifters, and pedals while connected over the internet to the race. While the bumps and racing surface translate, there is still a difference in the visual aspect that has taken some drivers a bit to get used to over the last few weeks.

The race at Bristol is 150 laps on Sunday and the lineup will be set with two 50-lap heat races in which everyone in the heat races moves to the main event and the starting lineup goes off of that finish position which will make figuring out position differential tough especially if they happen after lineup lock, so keep that in mind. Scoring is the same on DK is it usually is but the official scoring likely won’t be set until an hour after the conclusion of the race. Without further ado let’s break down the drivers.

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