Tim Watts's Articles

The biggest weekend in worldwide motorsports is upon us! Rain has wreaked havoc on the NASCAR series this weekend. It’s fortunately a holiday weekend because this race may end up going very late. The Xfinity race was postponed until Monday, and there’s real risk of the rain affecting tonight’s race as well. The Cup cars […]

Memorial Day Sunday is a HUGE day for motorsports fans across the globe. Setting the stage for the Indy 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 is the world-renowned Grand Prix de Monaco. The race on the streets of Monte Carlo is always a thrill. Team RedBull Racing continues to dominate the series with three wins by […]

The biggest weekend in worldwide motorsports is upon us. Friday’s opening race did not disappoint as Ben Rhodes broke a long winless streak after holding off the dominant trucks of Corey Heim and Carson Hocevar. The Xfinity Series is coming off of a break in the schedule and ready to take over with Saturday all […]

The biggest weekend in worldwide motorsports is upon us. Friday kicks off the tripleheader for NASCAR with the Craftsman Truck Series. Charlotte is a 1.5-mile intermediate track with 134 laps in regulation. Last year, there were two drivers who led over 50 laps (Carson Hocevar and Zane Smith) and neither one of them walked away […]

NASCAR heads to the North Wilkesboro Speedway Sunday for the NASCAR All-Star Race. Props to Dale Earnhardt Jr. He spearheaded an initiative to clean up the abandoned speedway in North Carolina so that it could be utilized for iRacing and have some semblance of the track preserved in history. Thanks to government funds allocated to […]

The coolest weekend of the NASCAR schedule is upon us. The throwback weekend at Darlington displays some amazing throwback paint schemes. The Xfinity race really felt the wrath of “The Lady in Black,” as nearly every car had some scrapes, if not serious damage. A 15-car wreck in the middle of Stage 2 showed just […]

The coolest weekend of the NASCAR schedule is upon us. The throwback weekend at Darlington displays some amazing throwback paint schemes. Kyle Larson , Ty Dillon,and Ross Chastain are entered in this event and Larson especially draws a high price tag. Despite that, his practice time on the long run was exceptionally quicker than the […]

Team Red Bull has every bit of a dominant gap over the competition as any team in any sport. Don’t look now, but Sergio Perez is factoring into that as much as Max Verstappen this year. This means you still want to play them in your lineups.    Unfortunately, Verstappen has been priced out of […]

Last week, Martin Truex took home the checkered flag to break a winless streak stretching nearly two seasons. Note to self: Truex is money on Mondays. As predicted, the three fastest cars were the top three in my top-tiered drivers. Unfortunately, Kyle Larson was on the wrong end of Ross Chastain and ended up dozens […]

Rain, rain, go away! This weekend has largely been canceled due to Mother Nature. Qualifying was rained out as well as some practice. The practice that did take place is nearly worthless to the race conditions. Not only will the race (likely to happen on Monday due to more rain) be much different than what […]

Team Red Bull has every bit of a dominant gap over the competition as any team in any sport. Unlike last year, Sergio Perez is factoring into that as much as Max Verstappen this year. This means you continue to want to play them in your lineups. Unfortunately, Verstappen has been priced out of captain […]

FTN’s Tim Watts provides his tiered DFS breakdown for Saturday’s A-Game 200 at Dover Motor Speedway.   The Xfinity series takes to the 1 mile track in Dover, Delaware today. There are 200 laps in this race which means there are more dominator points than in a typical Xfinity race. Last year at Dover, JR Motorsports […]

As witnessed in yesterday’s Xfintiy race, carnage is the norm at these restrictor plate tracks. Less than half of the cars that started the race were on the track at the finish. It was reminiscent of a small town Saturday night enduro race.    While you don’t typically expect that much carnage in the top […]

The NASCAR Xfinity Series is in Talladega Saturday for the Ag-Pro 300. Talladega is the third different “plate” track this season, and like I mentioned at Atlanta, Austin Hill is as close to a lock to be in contention for the win as anyone has ever been at plate tracks. The way we need to […]

Christopher Bell got the “dirt guys” in the win column at Bristol last week. This week is back to the paved track of Martinsville. The track fondly known as “the paperclip” is home to some exciting racing, and qualifying has left plenty of opportunities to build some powerhouse lineups.    There will need to be […]

The novelty dirt race in Bristol, Tennessee, returns for the third straight year. Somewhat surprisingly, both races have been won by drivers we don’t necessarily associate as dirt racing “experts”. Joey Logano won the inaugural Cup race and backed up that performance with a win in the Craftsman Truck Series race here last night.   […]

All pre-race track activities have been rained out, so the information from this track in both races last year will be our starting point for data. Last year, Denny Hamlin and Kevin Harvick won, but the story was Christopher Bell. He ran well and led laps, and I expect him to do that again.    […]

Team Red Bull is dominant. After opening the season with consecutive 1-2 finishes, the closest competition on the racetrack may be nothing more than between the two teammates of Team Red Bull. While Max Verstappen comfortably won the opener, Sergio Perez held off Verstappen to claim the trophy two weeks ago in Saudi Arabia. The […]

The series’ first road course race of the season is this weekend. NASCAR has changed the stage racing rules for road courses, and there won’t be predetermined caution flags for the road course races. There could potentially be green flag racing throughout, which opens up some strategy.    Because COTA is the longest track on […]

The back end of the Saturday doubleheader at Circuit of the Americas puts the Xfinity Series in the motorsports spotlight with the Pit Boss 250. Any time we think of road-course races, you have to consider AJ Allmendinger. Any time you think Xfinity road course races, you almost instinctively want to lock him into your […]

Zane Smith looks to keep the 38 truck perfect in Circuit of the Americas visits this weekend. That ride has won both times at this track, and Smith piloted the truck to the win last season, topping Kyle Busch. Both previous races here had the winners come from within the top five starting spots, and […]

If you have watched the Craftsman Truck Series or the Xfinity Series this weekend at Atlanta, you have seen an absolutely ridiculous amount of cautions. Justin Allgaier echoed many sentiments yesterday when he said, “this is embarrassing for the sport.” The idea of a superspeedway style, pack-drafting track may excite many fans, but add in […]

As predicted here one week ago, Max Verstappen picked up where he left off and thoroughly shellacked the competition in Bahrain en route to a 1-2 sweep for Team Red Bull. He is still the class of the field, as is Team Red Bull.    If you are new to F1 DFS, there is a […]

Speedway racing in the Xfinity Series — like Saturday’s Raptor 250 at Atlanta Motor Speedway — means Austin Hill is the biggest threat to win. Think “Dale Earnhardt Jr. at Talladega” type of prowess. The hesitation for rostering him beyond just a handful of lineups is that he starts in third and has the highest […]

Atlanta has become the de facto third superspeedway style track on the NASCAR schedule, and it’s the scene for Saturday’s Fr8 208 on the Truck Series. Last year was the first year post-redesign, and it led to pack racing throughout. To be optimal in this Truck Series race last season you needed to roster the […]

The Cup series takes the stage today in Phoenix. Last week, William Byron dominated large sections of the race at Las Vegas, and with the help of a late-race Almirola caution managed to pull away from Martin Truex Jr. and Kyle Larson to claim his first win of the season.   It should be noted […]

The NASCAR Xfinity Series is in Arizona Saturday for the United Rentals 200. Has the Kyle Busch aura worn off? After cruising to a victory in the Craftsman Truck Series race last week, he struggled in the Xfinity and Cup Series races at his hometown track. Here he is back in the Xfinity Series this […]

After two straight weeks of this article placing the race winner in the core, Tim Watts looks to continue the trend Sunday at Las Vegas. It appears three cars have really run away from the pack to start the year. Ironically, those same three were the three to beat here last year. Ross Chastain, Kyle […]

Congratulations to Max Verstappen on the most dominant F1 season there may have ever been. Based on track activity this weekend, I don’t expect much to change. He is still the class of the field as is Team Red Bull.    If you are new to F1 DFS, there is a strategy to construct winning […]

The Xfinity Series is back Saturday for the Alsco Uniforms 300, at a track that saw JR Motorsports dominate last fall. Josh Berry came home victorious, with teammates Justin Allgaier and Noah Gragson finishing top three.   Kyle Busch is back in the Xfinity Series at his hometown track and is always a threat to […]

Fresh off a Dayton 500 win by my No. 1 punt pick (Ricky Stenhouse Jr.), the NASCAR Cup heads west for a three-week stretch. Fontana has a large makeover planned for after this race to convert this sweeping track into a short track. Sunday’s Pala Casino 500 will be the last race here where data […]

The season is officially underway as soon as the green flag drops Sunday for the start of the Daytona 500. Alex Bowman set a NASCAR record for the most front-row starts for the “Great American Race” with his sixth straight. Teammate Kyle Larson will join Bowman in the front row in a race where starting […]