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Michael McDowell th Most Mediocre on Intermediate Tracks
Michael McDowell does not typically run well at Kansas. He has only scored a single top ten here in his entire career, although that was recent in the 2024 spring race where he started eighth, finished tenth, and actually had decent speed throughout. He's certainly had some intermediate speed for Spire Motorsports this year, particularly his surprise run at Texas, but normally intermediates are his worst track type and his 21st-place qualifying run is far off his teammate Carson Hocevar's 6th. McDowell is in that dead zone where he qualified too well to score many Place Differential points and too slowly to give him much of a chance at earning either lap leader or fastest lap points. When you further onsider that he matched his worst qualifying run in his last five starts, it's hard to envision him having much speed.
Source: Racing Reference
Source: Racing Reference
