Derek Kraus Makes First NASCAR Cup Series Start of 2025
Source: Racing Reference

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Derek Kraus makes his first NASCAR Cup Series start of the season in Sunday's Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte. Since he is driving for the underfunded NY Racing Team, it should come as little surprise that he qualified 37th, nearly two seconds slower than Chase Briscoe. As usual, NYRT is so much slower than all the chartered teams that Kraus will probably be lapped enough times to not be worthy of starting for DFS play, even at the very cheap value of $4,500. Since there are stage breaks after every 100 laps, it will be harder for anyone to be lapped than in other races, but the No. 44 car is probably slow enough that it still will be. Coupling that with Kraus, who is vastly less experienced than the car's usual driver J.J. Yeley, it's hard to imagine this team or driver doing anything.--Sean Wrona - RotoBaller
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