Kyle Busch Narrowly Misses Pole At Richmond. What's His Cook Out 400 Starting Position? NASCAR Update and Outlook

One of NASCAR's most polarizing drivers, Kyle Busch is always exciting. The veteran NASCAR driver recently brought some thrills to Richmond Raceway during Cook Out 400 qualifying. Busch has been electric throughout the 2023 season and has guided the Richard Childress Racing No. 8 Chevrolet to three wins this season. He headed to Richmond with […]

Noah Gragson Shows Good Effort Qualifying At Richmond

Noah Gragson did not get into the final round of qualifying at Richmond. However, his Chevy wound up in 12th place to start the Cook Out 400 on Sunday afternoon. It was a rare good Saturday for the Legacy Motor Club. Gragson's previous best start this year was tenth for the Circuit Of The Americas. […]

Ryan Preece Qualifies 11th For Race At Richmond

Ryan Preece managed to just miss out on the final group of qualifying for the Cook Out 400. Preece and his Stewart-Haas Racing Ford nabbed some nice laps including a 23.641 second time in practice. Overall, Preece qualified 11th and has been good on some short tracks. See at Martinsville where the No. 41 took […]

Martin Truex Jr. Only Okay In Final Round Of Qualifying

Martin Truex Jr. looked okay in the final round of qualifying on Saturday at Richmond Raceway. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver was performing well but ended up tenth with a lap 0.225 seconds behind Tyler Reddick. He wound up only the fifth fastest Toyota overall. Truex Jr. leads the point standings and has three wins […]

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Starts Inside Top Ten At Richmond

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. surprised more than a few experts by being in the final group of qualifying on Saturday afternoon. Though Stenhouse Jr. only finished ninth, he was a respectable 0.178 seconds behind Tyler Reddick. The JTG Daugherty Racing driver has shown the ability to finish solidly in races. His win aside at the Daytona […]

William Byron Is A Threat At Richmond

William Byron seems to always be fast at Richmond. The Hendrick Motorsports Racing driver qualified sixth on Saturday afternoon. Byron turned in a lap of 23.816 seconds which was 0.067 seconds behind Tyler Reddick. Byron and his No. 24 Chevy lead all drivers with four wins. He has been better in the Spring leading 239 […]

Bubba Wallace Starts Fifth For Richmond Race

Bubba Wallace is on the good side of the bubble in the NASCAR playoff race. For that to last, Wallace and his 23XI Racing car were fast again at Richmond. His lap time of 23.815 seconds was 0.066 second slower than teammate Tyler Reddick (pole sitter). The last two trips at Richmond have seen an […]

Chase Elliott Needed Good Qualifying Run At Richmond

Chase Elliott knows it is getting late fast for his playoff chances. Elliott likely needs a win and Richmond has been kind the second time around for the Hendrick Motorsports Racing driver. Also, Elliott has three straight top-five results on the 0.75-mile short track. Richmond Raceway has the No. 9 car starting fourth on Sunday […]

Kyle Busch Narrowly Misses Out On Pole For Cook Out 400

Kyle Busch won the SRX race on Thursday night then followed that up with a strong qualifying effort on Saturday. The Richard Childress Racing driver drove around the 0.75-mile track in 23.76 seconds. That was a mere 0.011 seconds shy of Tyler Reddick. Busch fell back in his first effort at Richmond in 2023 (14th). […]

Tyler Reddick Cooks Up Pole Position For Sunday's Race

Tyler Reddick was the fastest car in the final round of qualifying on Saturday afternoon. Reddick and his 23XI Racing car was a mere 0.011 seconds faster than Kyle Busch in qualifying. Reddick's time of 23.749 seconds was fast enough to win the pole position for the Cook Out 400 at Richmond Raceway. Reddick was […]

Carson Young Playing Better As 3M Open Looms

Carson Young started out disastrous in 2023, missing cuts left and right. The American golfer missed five tournaments in a row (really six before withdrawing). That rock-bottom moment in February at Pebble Beach forced Young to take a few weeks off. After that, Young began to show glimpses of playing better. There was a T3 […]

Sepp Straka Hot Heading Into 3M Open

Some were surprised that Sepp Straka is playing at the 3M Open. However, the Austrian golfer is eager to get going this week. Straka won at the John Deere Classic with a final round 62. Then, he parlayed that into a runner up finish at The Open Championship. Straka did not falter in that fourth […]

Aaron Rai Can Make Some Birdies This Week

Before his rough outing at the Scottish Open, Aaron Rai was excelling at approaches and making putts. He had four top 25 results in five events after missing the cut in three straight tournaments. With the long course set at 7,431 yards, that figures to help the English golfer. Again, his other major metrics are […]

Keith Mitchell Struggling Heading To Minnesota

Keith Mitchell never could get going last week at the Barracuda Championship. He missed the cut in a tournament where the American should have fared well. Mitchell's approaches the past two events have been rough. His strokes gained approach to green is 121st at -0.069. Strangely enough, off the tee Mitchell is a top five […]

Sungjae Im One To Watch At 3M Open

Sungjae Im has won in this calendar year at the Woori Financial Group Championship. Yes, it is a far cry from the PGA Tour but Im has seven top ten results as well. The South Korean golfer has been alright making the cut in three of his past four tournaments (missed at the Scottish Open). […]

Garrick Higgo Keeps Gradually Improving On Course

Garrick Higgo still does not have a top-10 result since last October. However, the South African golfer keeps improving bit by bit. The 24-year old even cracked the top 20 with a T19 at the Genesis Scottish Open. Since the American Express, Higgo had not shown the same consistency, but it appears that is back. […]

Will Gordon A Bit Up And Down Heading To 3M Open

Will Gordon has been up and down in his performances lately. The American golfer either misses the cut or has a pretty solid result. At the Scottish Open, Gordon sprang forth to a tied for 25th. In his last 12 events, Gordon has missed the cut six times but finished in the top 25 in […]

Joel Dahmen Tries To Build Off Success At Barracuda

Joel Dahmen found a tournament he could excel at last week at the Barracuda Championship. Dahmen accumulated 34 points en route to a tenth-place result. It was his first top-ten since November of last year. Dahmen will try to build off that success at the 3M Open. The TPC Twin Cities course in Blaine, Minnesota. […]

NASCAR PrizePicks Predictions - HighPoint.com Pocono 400 DFS Prop Picks

July 23, 2023, on a Sunday afternoon, features the HighPoint.com 400 from the Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. This is the 21st 2023 edition of NASCAR DFS on PrizePicks. Our friends over at PrizePicks have a TON of great props we can look to take advantage of. However, this time, these props will be […]

Noah Gragson Looking For Something Positive At Pocono

Noah Gragson and Legacy Motor Club have suffered through an ugly 2023 season. Gragson is 33rd in the points race and has zero top ten results this season. The No. 42 Chevy qualified 32nd for Pocono a full 1.612 seconds behind the time of William Byron. Gragson started 22nd last year on the "Tricky Triangle" […]

The Struggle Continues For Chase Briscoe At Pocono

Chase Briscoe keeps seeing things going from bad to worse in 2023. The Stewart-Haas Racing driver begins the Sunday race at Pocono from the 29th position. Briscoe resides in 31st in the points a full 183 behind Michael McDowell. The driver in the No. 14 Ford has shown minimal place differential in his three appearances […]

Austin Dillon Needs Win Not Consistency At Pocono

Austin Dillon finds himself in quite a bind heading into Pocono. Right now, the Richard Childress Racing driver stands 29th in the standings. Worse, he qualified 23rd for Pocono. It is a track where Dillon has four top 20 and a top ten in his last five races in Pennsylvania. Dillon stands 140 points out […]

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Consistent At Pocono

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has finished right in the middle of the pack at Pocono in four of his past five appearances. Throw out the 38th from an accident and the JTG Daugherty Racing driver has an average finishing position of 16.25. That 38th place finish saw Stenhouse Jr. running in the top ten at the […]

Alex Bowman Cannot Be Overlooked At Pocono

Alex Bowman begins Sunday's race 20th at Pocono Raceway. However, the Hendrick Motorsports Racing driver has won before. The 2021 win was in the middle of four consecutive top 11 results. The No. 48 Chevy did not start better than 13th in any of those races. Bowman has an average finishing position of 11.0 and […]

Justin Haley Shows Positive Place Differential At Pocono

Justin Haley has not had a finished better than 21st in his two appearances at Pocono. However, the Kaulig Racing driver has shown positive place differential both times (+9 and +7 respectively). He starts 19th for this edition of the race. Haley has two top ten results in his last three races and a 17th […]

Kyle Busch Looks To Still Win At Pocono Against All Odds

Denny Hamlin held off Kyle Busch last year at Pocono. That is what we all thought. Then, it turned out there was a piece of tape which disqualified both Hamlin and Busch. Little doubt existed who were two of the fastest cars that afternoon. Fast forward a year and Busch is now riding for Richard […]

Chris Buescher Begins In The Middle Sunday At Pocono

Chris Buescher starts off the HighPoint400.com race Sunday from the 18th position. The RFK Racing driver won the pole in 2021 and began fifth last year. Overall, Buescher has never finished better than tenth aside from that win in 2016. He finished his lap 0.945 seconds behind the time of William Byron on Saturday afternoon. […]

A.J. Allmendinger Takes On Pocono For First Time Since 2018

A.J. Allmendinger has not raced at Pocono on the NASCAR level since 2018. That last race saw him finish 14th. Pocono is a technical course with three different types of left-handed turns at various banked angles. Allmendinger starts this edition of the race in 16th. The top driver at Kaulig Racing has a faster Chevy […]

Michael McDowell Looks For Another Top Ten At Pocono

Michael McDowell has two top ten results in his past five races on the 2.5-mile Pocono course. He was eighth last year but that position got boosted to sixth when Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch were disqualified due to a piece of tape. The Front Row Motorsports driver started 25th in 2022 and 15th this […]

Ryan Blaney Starts 14th On Sunday At Pocono

Ryan Blaney and his Team Penske Ford car were a little off track qualifying on Saturday afternoon. He finished 0.679 seconds off the pole lap set by William Byron. Blaney has had some success the past three races at Pocono. He finished fifth and sixth in 2021 and was running in the top-five before the […]