J.J. Yeley Qualifies Last For Third Time In 2025
1 week agoJ.J. Yeley qualified 38th and last at Darlington, marking the third time he has posted the slowest qualifying speed this season with the only exception being the Daytona 500, where he outqualified Cody Ware but failed to qualify because his NY Racing Team is a non-chartered team. Although Yeley gained two positions in both his starts at Atlanta and Homestead, he never had any speed so his only hope for having any chance at Place Differential points is if a lot of drivers fail to finish the race while he does. In the six Next Gen races at Darlington, 42 entries have failed to finish, marking an average of seven per race. That's not nearly enough for a driver like Yeley to become valuable, even though he has the cheapest DraftKings DFS salary at $5,000.
Source: Racing Reference
Source: Racing Reference
J.J. Yeley Needs Attrition To Gain Positions At Homestead
3 weeks agoJ.J. Yeley makes his second start of the 2025 season for the NY Racing Team on Sunday at Homestead, but don't expect him to be any sort of contender. Not only did Yeley qualify in 37th and last place for the race, he was so slow that pole-sitter Alex Bowman and 35th-place qualifier Shane van Gisbergen were closer in speed than SVG was to Yeley. Yeley's only hope of gaining positions is if a lot of drivers having DNFs and he does not, but that's not particularly likely at a track like Homestead, where there don't tend to be many crashes. Since he is unlikely to gain more than a handful of places, Yeley has very little value for DFS lineups for this race despite qualifying last.
Source: Racing Reference
Source: Racing Reference
Too Few Cars Will Crash For J.J. Yeley To Get A Good Finish At Atlanta
2 months agoJ.J. Yeley qualified last for Sunday's race at Atlanta with a qualifying time over 1.1 seconds behind pole-sitter Ryan Blaney and 0.3 seconds behind the next-slowest driver B.J. McLeod. Although some people might see value in adding Yeley to DFS lineups because he could theoretically gain positions in the field, that would only likely happen if there were a lot of wrecks, and all four races at Atlanta in 2023 and 2024 had relatively few cars crash out, especially when compared to Daytona. If a lot of the faster drivers do crash out like in the Daytona 500, he could become very valuable and would likely be too slow to stay in the draft, but recent history suggests that too few cars will crash out to make him a good option for DFS lineups, even at the low price of $5,000.
Source: Racing Reference
Source: Racing Reference
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