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This week, the NASCAR Xfinity Series heads to Dover, Delaware for the Drydene 200.
Daniel Hemric will start up front in a race that has an interesting starting lineup. Austin Cindric way back in 16th? John Hunter Nemechek is in the 26 car? There are two Siegs racing? What's going on, Dover???
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Austin Cindric #22 ($11,000) - Starting 16th
Austin Cindric has run six Xfinity races at Dover. He has six top 10s, including three top-three finishes in a row. In the first race here last year, he led 49 laps.
And unlike most weeks, Cindric starts a little bit back in the pack, rolling off the grid 16th. That gives him something he pretty much never has: place differential upside.
I think Cindric is almost always a good play, but I rarely feel that he's a slam dunk play. But this week? He's not even the most expensive driver on this slate, as Ty Gibbs costs more. I can't say enough how much I want Cindric on most of my rosters this week.
Daniel Hemric #18 ($9,400) - Starting 1st
Dover is a track where a driver can just run off from the field and lead 100-plus laps, which is what's happened the last two times the Xfinity Series has run here. With that in mind, I like targeting someone who starts near the front in this race, because that gives me a good chance to get the dominant car. For me, it was between Justin Allgaier and Daniel Hemric to be the main guy I targeted as an early dominator, but Hemric being $1,000 cheaper helped make my decision.
In five Xfinity starts here, Hemric has three top fives. He ran one of the two races here last year, finishing fifth for JRM. He's only led once here, when he started on the pole in 2018 and led 23 laps. Still, he's arguably in the best ride of his career and this could finally be the time that Hemric wins an Xfinity race after going 0-for-96 to start his career.
JJ Yeley #23 ($8,100) - Starting 31st
Yeley jumps into the Our Motorsports 23 this weekend, marking the first time this season he's run in an Xfinity car that wasn't the 17. (Speaking of the 17, I don't talk about Cody Ware in this article, but he's someone who vaguely interests me this week.)
Yeley is a solid driver when he's in a good car, and this week he has that good car. I mean, Tanner Berryhill was running top 20 for most of last week's race in this ride, and Yeley is a better driver than Berryhill. I think Yeley can squeeze a top 15 out of this ride.
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Riley Herbst #98 ($7,900) - Starting 20th
Chase Briscoe led 107 laps to win here in August. Riley Herbst led zero, but finished ninth in the 18 car. One day earlier, Briscoe finished 10th while Herbst finished sixth.
Look, 2021 hasn't been kind to Riley Herbst. In nine races, he has just three top 10s. His numbers are bad enough that I think we need to discount some of his past success and attribute it to the fact he was running a Joe Gibbs car.
But still, this is such a low price for someone with this much PD upside at a track where he's run well. His average finish here is 10th, and last year he had a pair of strong runs. There's always risk with Herbst because he's not the best driver in the series, but this feels like the week to take that risk.
Landon Cassill #6 ($7,700) - Starting 37th
I'm not entirely sure why Cassill and Ryan Vargas have switched cars this weekend, but it leads to Cassill starting way back in 37th. Considering his average finish this is 20th, the upside here is big, especially when that average finish includes a 37th-place finish at Martinsville after a blown engine.
Assuming Cassill gets the same level of equipment this week even with the number swap, this is someone who can easily have a top-15 run. I do think his salary is just a tad higher than I'd ideally want it to be, but the place differential upside is just impossible to ignore.
Kyle Sieg #90 ($5,700) - Starting 35th
Here's the cheap punt guy for this race.
Sieg has never made a start above the ARCA level, but he has an average finish of 6.3 in that series this season. He's also had some experience running at Dover in the ARCA Menards East Series, though he finished 11th out of the 18 cars in that race last year.
Still, there's a big difference in bad equipment in ARCA and bad equipment in Xfinity. Bad Xfinity cars -- and I'm not even saying the 90 is that bad -- can keep up with the rest of the field.
And look, the 90 car really isn't that bad! There have been three top 20 finishes this season by the driver of it, and the car has finished on the lead lap four times. Among all the cheap plays, Sieg has my favorite combo of positive PD upside and decent equipment. Yes, he's an inexperienced driver, but I still think there's intriguing upside this week.
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