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The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series heads to Mid-Ohio on Saturday for a standalone race while the Cup and Xfinity Series are in Atlanta.
Currently, Zane Smith leads the Truck Series in both wins and points, with three victories through 14 races. He's 21 points up on John Hunter Nemechek, who got some extra practice in by running Friday's ARCA race. He finished fourth in it, while Taylor Gray won.
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Zane Smith - $10,700 - Starting 13th
Smith is the points leader and has three wins this year. Starting in 13th provides Smith with a little bit of place differential upside. He's already got one road course win this season, as he led 11 laps at COTA earlier this season.
And overall, Smith has proven to be a good road course racer. In six starts on road courses, he has four top 10s and an average finish of 11.7. And his two road races that weren't top 10s both were on the Daytona road course, with one of those being a 13th.
Chandler Smith - $9,800 - Starting 31st
Ooh, we've got a KBM truck starting near the back? Sign me up.
I'm sure Smith winds up being super chalky because of the place differential upside, but playing chalk can be fine when it's this obvious.
Smith has two top fives at road courses in his Truck Series career, with both coming this season: a fifth at both COTA and Sonoma. I don't expect Smith to contend for the win on Saturday, but his recent experience on tracks like this suggest that he should make up a lot of ground through this field.
Kaz Grala - $8,000 - Starting 17th
Grala is such a good road racer. I think people might be scared off of him this weekend because he starts a little higher than you'd ideally like considering this 02 truck isn't great, but I'm ignoring that negative and going with talent.
Grala has made five starts in this truck this year. He has two top 15 runs, both at road courses. Last year, he took this truck to a ninth-place finish at COTA and while the 02 isn't as good as it was last year, the fact that we've seen Grala with multiple top 10 runs at road courses over the last couple years is a good sign for me.
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Derek Kraus - $7,700 - Starting 23rd
Kraus isn't an exciting play, but he's been running solid this season and was 12th at COTA, He was only 27th at Sonoma, but showed some speed during that race, qualifying 15th.
He was 11th in practice for Saturday's race and should be able to deliver a top 15 run from the 23rd starting position. There's not a ton of margin for error with Kraus, but there's enough upside for me to play him in some lineups.
Hailee Deegan - $6,700 - Starting 28th
Yeah, yeah, I know...every time I decide that I'm in on Deegan in fantasy, something goes wrong and we're all left disappointed.
But let's try this again, okay?
Deegan was 15th in practice before turning in a slow qualifying lap. While she's never had a top 10 on a road course and has crashed out in both road course races this season, she's had better results before, like a 14th at COTA last year and a 19th at Watkins Glen.
But really, this is about place differential more than it's about the person driving the car. The 1 truck has some speed and starts 28th. If Deegan can stay out of trouble, there's a lot of room for movement here.
Colby Howard - $6,500 - Starting 30th
Howard was able to get some extra laps in here on Friday as he ran the ARCA race. He qualified sixth, but crashed out on lap 32 and finished 17th.
But despite the bad result, I think those laps that Howard turned will come in useful on Saturday. There weren't many drivers who ran both races, so Howard has some fresh experience here that most of this field won't have. And while his qualifying effort was poor, he was 17th in practice. His average finish in two road course starts is 21.5, and he's kept his car/truck clean in Xfinity and the Truck Series on this track type. He also has an Xfinity start at Mid-Ohio, finishing 22nd last year. That's some more experience that should be useful.
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