Ultimate Race Day

Top dog honors this week go to Love Me Some Hawkeyes (+6 @328) who logs his second 328 point finish of the season.

His checkered flag lineup at the Atlanta Motor Speedway consisted of Jeff Gordon, Kasey Kahne, Matt Kennseth and AJ Almendinger.

Another hot dog this week was Jack Cracker!!!! He finished (+8 @310) and yes that is a set of back-to-back +8 in the standings performances from Jack Cracker.

Jack is fired up about being the only fantasy team to pick the Kobalt 500 Race Winner Kurt Busch. Combine that with his predictions on the message boards coming true and you can understand why he’s comparing himself to Jimmie Johnson on the message boards. We’ll have to wait and see how well he performs against the folks in the top 10 of our Fantasy League before we don him with that title.

Our points leader Drop the Jack ( – @280) is still 100+ points ahead of  Jack Cracker but Jack is closing the gap and was only bested by one other fantasy team this week, that being The Drifters (+5 @327). The Drifters actually could have finished 44 points higher with a raging score of 371 if they gave their provisional driver in the C category the start – AJ Allmendinger had a phenomenal day in the Kobalt 500 with a 6^th place finish.

Disappointingly enough we do appear to have a few start and park drivers in the league with one of them being WhiskyRiver88 (-6 @173). WhiskyRiver88 won the Daytona 500 this year but has not changed their lineup since week one and is now destined to disappear into oblivion with the same lineup soon to burn through its 9 starts or allocations.

Our two falling knives this week were Jesus Is My Spotter (-7 @213) and Shaw Tek Motorsports (-7@229). They were not the worst point performers of the week just a few of our fantasy teams that are racing in the packs.

You’ll notice as the season goes on that clusters and packs form and each week there will be rising stars and falling knives amongst them. The real excitement comes when you move through a few of these packs in back to back weeks as Jack Cracker can attest.

The Fantasy Nascar experience is a season full of ups and downs so remember to stay focused and make sure you get your picks for the next race at Bristol in now. Doing this will ensure that you are not put in a position like WhiskyRiver88 who has had a driver in his starting line up for 3 weeks who is not even racing.

We’re off next weekend and the Bristol Race is two weeks away but there is plenty to talk about after this race at the Atlanta Motor Speedway.

How do you all feel about the move Carl Edwards put on Brad Keselowski at the end of the race?

You can check it out here in case you missed it. Its likely Nascar will rule this to be a retaliation and therefore it shall be interesting to see how they handle such a blatant attempt to wreck another driver at 195mph, such action puts a lot of lives at risk.

More on that is still to come..

CJFinch