The Cup Series will have a home race as they race 600-miles at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The One & Done picks got another win in the last race when Shane van Gisbergen was used in all One & Done contests. Now, we need to build on that momentum and get another winner in the Coca-Cola 600. That is easier said than done, because this is the toughest race on the schedule. The Coca-Cola 600 can be seen Sunday at 6 p.m. ET on Prime.
Here are the picks for the race for the race Sunday at Charlotte…
ONE & DONE CONTESTS
This pick is for games where you can only use a driver once throughout the season.
BRAD KESELOWSKI will be my pick in games where you can use a driver once throughout the season. Keselowski is a good pick in Fantasy NASCAR if you know where to play him. Charlotte Motor Speedway is one of his best tracks. Keselowski won the Coca-Cola 600 in 2020, finished 2nd in 2024 and 5th in 2025. He typically qualifies outside the top-15 and it takes the No. 6 car a while to get to the front on the intermediate tracks. He will have plenty of time to work his way to the front in Sunday’s marathon race. Keselowski is just too good in this race to fade this weekend.
* I really thought hard about using AUSTIN DILLON in this race. Dillon won the Coca-Cola 600 in 2017 and the NASCAR Gods have a crazy way of giving the NASCAR some hope after tragedy (Think of Kevin Harvick’s win at Atlanta after the death of Dale Earnhardt). Dillon has been decent on the 1.5-mile tracks this year. It would not shock me if he had his best race of the year, but I would not be surprised if it was just too soon for this team to come together. I think Dillon is worth a chance in your One & Done lineup if you believe in the crazy stuff that happens in NASCAR.
ONE & DONE (REGULAR SEASON/PLAYOFF GAMES)
The picks for the Regular Season / Playoff Games are rest this week. There are some One & Done Contests that reset when the playoffs start. That means you only need to use 26 Drivers for the regular season and then 10 drivers for the playoffs. We can be more aggressive in these types of One & Done Contests.
WILLIAM BYRON will be my pick in games that reset at the end of the regular season. This is a home race for Byron. Charlotte Motor Speedway is by far his best track. He led 283 laps and finished 2nd last year. The no. 24 car led 49 laps and finished 3rd in 2024. Byron led 91 laps and finished 2nd in 2023. He finished all of the 1.5-mile, intermediate track races in the top-10 this year. Byron has a great chance to win his first race in 2026 at his home track Sunday.
ONE & DONE (USE A DRIVER MORE THAN ONCE)
There are some One & Done games that are not really “One & Done.” I play in a league where you can use a driver twice and another league where you can use a driver three times during the season. The picks posted below are for these types of contests (I am going to base these picks on being able to use a driver twice during the 2025 season).
CHASE BRISCOE will be my pick in games where you can use a driver more than once during the 2025 season. Briscoe ended the season last year on a hot streak, started out the 2026 season in a slump and now he is starting to heat up again. Briscoe finished 8th in Las Vegas and 3rd at Kansas earlier this year. He also finished 3rd in his first Coca-Cola 600 in a Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota last year. The Toyota’s have been fast so Briscoe should have the speed and the track position to score well for the One & Done lineup Sunday.
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