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Everything’s bigger and better in Texas right? Isn’t that what they say? In this case that’s not quite right. Texas Motor Speedway has a long history of being a debated track for exactly how good it is. It’s also not the biggest track on the schedule. Not even close. It’s a relatively standard intermediate track but where it does shine is the speed. It’s one of the fastest intermediates on the schedule. Oh yeah, and Big Hoss is the biggest screen at a NASCAR track, so there’s that.

Texas Motor Speedway DFS Strategy

The 1.5-mile layout of Texas matches a few other tracks on the schedule but its design of it is slightly different than those others. It has different banking in Turns 1&2 and Turns 3&4 as of a few years ago following a redesign. That redesign hasn’t produced the best racing historically. Now they’ve put resin on the track in the higher grooves to try and get multiple grooves during the race. Will that work? It’s yet to be known but expect a lot of follow the leader in the beginning of runs. The other thing they’re hoping will help the track this weekend is using the tires from Kansas a few weeks ago. It’s hard to tell if that’ll help either. Typically at Texas, it’s a track position track with drivers starting in the top-10 being able to hold those spots, unless equipment failures or wrecks happen. We’ve seen equipment failures at 500-mile intermediates this year so that could be a possibility again. Laps led dominators typically come in pairs here. So for DFS builds, we’ll want two guys in the lineups who we expect to lead a bunch of laps and anything else is gravy. Keep in mind that this is also the only “standard” track in the Round of 12 as Talladega and the Charlotte Roval follow this race which means this is the least wild card chance to punch a ticket to the Round of 8. Playoff drivers will be focusing their strategies on winning which may mean we see them drop back in positions at the end of stages.

Practice To Qualifying

The following table shows the practice speeds over the single-lap and lap averages from practice compared to where they qualified. It is designed to show the chances for drivers to move up or who may drop backward during the race.

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