Early Week Driver Rankings for Pocono

The MENCS heads back to Pocono Raceway this week for the Gander Outdoors 400. This will be the second race at Pocono in the last 7 weeks. Martin Truex Jr. won the last race at the track and there is a great chance he will be racing Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick for the lead this week. The race can be seen Sunday at 2:30 PM ET on NBC Sports Network.

The MENCS will have their condensed schedule this week. The jammed all of the MENCS practices and qualifying into one day (Saturday). They also will have Xfinity Series qualifying and the race Saturday. Since the schedule is so condensed, I will not have time to post DraftKings Xfinity Series picks this week.

Each week I use different stats in my model to create the best rankings possible to give you an edge on the completion. This week I used the results from the last race at Pocono, average finishing position on flat tracks, average running position on flat tracks, Green Flag Pass % at Pocono (We want drivers who can pass other cars) and average finishing position in the last 6 races (We want drivers who have momentum).

My early week pick for the pole is Martin Truex Jr. The No. 78 team has won a series-high 4 poles this season (Kentucky, Richmond, Auto Club and Phoenix). He qualified 4^th for the last race at Pocono and this team has found a lot of speed since that race. Truex has qualified on the front row in 3 of the last 4 races at Pocono and he is my pick to start from the pole Sunday.

Here are the early week driver rankings for Pocono…

* I will post my final driver rankings after qualifying Saturday evening.

*Stats from Driveraverages.com and career stats from Racing-Reference.Info…

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