NASCAR One & Done Picks for Texas – Fantasy Racing Tips

The NASCAR Cup Series will travel to No Limits Texas this week to compete at Texas Motor Speedway. This will make it back-to-back races on a 1.5-mile track, but Texas is different from Kentucky. The track this week is a quad-oval with more banking. It is similar to Charlotte Motor Speedway. It should be another exciting finish in the Cup Series. The O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 can be seen Sunday at 3 p.m. ET on NBCSN.

Last Race: I am done with Kyle Busch. He started on the pole at one of his best tracks and he cannot even finish in the top 20? I know he said he needs practice to dial in his car but is Adam Stevens that bad of a crew chief that he cannot give Busch a half-way decent car to start the race? I am done using Busch in Fantasy NASCAR games until he can consistently finish in the top 10.

Here are my picks for the O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 …

*Pick Driver Once*			*Pick Driver Twice*
Race	Driver	Result	Race	Driver	Result
Daytona	David Ragan	4^th	Daytona	Ricky Stenhouse	20^th
Las Vegas	Ross Chastain	27^th	Las Vegas	Joey Logano	1^st
Auto Club	Ryan Blaney	19^th	Auto Club	Ryan Blaney	19^th
Phoenix	Kevin Harvick	2^nd	Phoenix	Kevin Harvick	2^nd
Darlington	Brad Keselowski	13^th	Darlington	Brad Keselowski	13^th
Darlington	Erik Jones	5^th	Darlington	Erik Jones	5^th
Charlotte	Martin Truex Jr.	6^th	Charlotte	Martin Truex Jr.	6^th
Charlotte	Alex Bowman	31^st	Charlotte	Alex Bowman	31^st
Bristol	M. DiBenedetto	31^st	Bristol	Kurt Busch	7^th
Atlanta	Clint Bowyer	20^th	Atlanta	Chase Elliott	8^th
Martinsville	Aric Almirola	33^rd	Martinsville	Brad Keselowski	3^rd
Homestead	Tyler Reddick	4^th	Homestead	Jimmie Johnson	16^th
Talladega	Corey LaJoie	16^th	Talladega	Aric Almirola	3^rd
Pocono 1	William Byron	14^th	Pocono 1	Erik Jones	38^th
Pocono 2	Cole Custer	17^th	Pocono 2	Denny Hamlin	1^st
Indianapolis	Justin Allgaier	37^th	Indianapolis	Aric Almirola	3^rd
Kentucky	Kyle Busch	21^st	Kentucky	Kyle Busch	21^st
Texas	Jimmie Johnson	?	Texas	Ryan Blaney	?
Kansas			Kansas
Loudon			Loudon
Michigan			Michigan
Michigan			Michigan
Daytona Road			Daytona Road
Dover			Dover
Dover			Dover
Daytona			Daytona

My One & Done Pick for Texas: Jimmie Johnson

I was part of a teleconference during Speedweeks before the 2020 Daytona 500 I was able to ask many of the drivers’ questions and the one question I made sure I asked was… “If you played Fantasy NASCAR and you could only use yourself at what track, which track would it be?” Jimmie Johnson responded, “Probably Texas. We had our best races at that track last year and I think we could have won both races.” Johnson led 60 laps in the spring race at Texas and 40 laps in the fall. He did have a fast car in both races. I will take him at his word and use Johnson in my One & Done games this week.

I need a bounce back race after the disaster with Kyle Busch at Kentucky. The safest pick in the game is Ryan Blaney. He has been awesome on the 1.5-mile tracks this season. Blaney finished 3^rd, 3^rd, 4^th, 3^rd and 6^th in the last five races on the 1.5-mile tracks. I will use Blaney in the games where I am allowed to use a driver more than once.

Good luck this week!

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