NASCAR One & Done Picks for Martinsville

The 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series will be competing at Martinsville Speedway this week in the STP 500. Short track racing tends to be unpredictable. A driver could lead 150 laps and then get dumped at the end of the race and finish outside the top 25. That is what happened with Denny Hamlin last year. I plan to save my top drivers for more predictable tracks.

Here are my picks for Martinsville…

*Pick Driver Once*			*Pick Driver Twice*
Race	Driver	Result	Race	Driver	Result
Daytona	Danica Patrick	35^th	Daytona	Michael McDowell	9^th
Atlanta	Kurt Busch	8^th	Atlanta	Kurt Busch	8^th
Las Vegas	Paul Menard	9^th	Las Vegas	Ryan Blaney	5^th
Phoenix	Alex Bowman	13^th	Phoenix	Denny Hamlin	4^th
Auto Club	Clint Bowyer	11^th	Auto Club	Clint Bowyer	11^th
Martinsville	Ryan Newman	?	Martinsville	Brad Keselowski	?

Ryan Newman is known as the hardest driver in NASCAR to pass. Martinsville is known as the hardest track in NASCAR to make a pass. When you combine the two, Newman becomes a very good pick this week. His average finishing position in the last five races at Martinsville is 11^th. Newman was 5^th fastest in final practice with the 4^th fastest 20-lap average speed. I will gladly take an 11^th-place finish or better from Newman this week and save my top drivers for other tracks.

I am not as worried about saving drivers in the games which allow you to use a driver more than once. For that reason I will use Brad Keselowski. He won this race last year and he has been the 2^nd-most dominant driver at Martinsville of the last four races.

Good luck this week!

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