About Chris Wassel
Beau Hossler Seeking To Improve On Weekends This Season
Beau Hossler closed the 2022-23 season well but the American golfer missed some opportunities because of poor weekend showings. Hossler had a stretch where he shot 71 or worse in six of eight tournaments. That does not sound so bad, but consider the Mexico Open where his final round 66 vaulted him into the top... Read More
Mark Hubbard Wants To Finish Well At Silverado North
Mark Hubbard was on the edge of contention last year at the Fortinet Championship. His final round 73 knocked him out of the top 20. Two weeks later, the American golfer had a chance to win Sanderson Farms Championship but a 74 derailed his hopes for a first PGA win. Hubbard had a bit of... Read More
Stephan Jagger Looks To Pick Up Where He Left Off
Stephan Jagger finished off last season with some solid results. The German golfer netted five straight top-30 finishes including a tied for ninth at Rocket Mortgage Classic. Even at the FedEx St. Jude Championship, Jagger fired all four rounds under 70. With scores expected to be in the -15 to -20 range to win, he... Read More
Ryan Moore Trying To Make Cut At Fortinet Championship
Ryan Moore took some time away to not think about golf. After missing the cut in four of the final five tournaments of last season, the American golfer is ready to begin anew. The first thing he has to do is erase the bad memory of last year's opening round 77. That caused Moore to... Read More
Chez Reavie Tries To Start Better Than Last Season
Chez Reavie wants to get off to a better start for the 2023-24 PGA season. Last year, he missed three straight cuts and nine of his first 14 tournaments (plus one W/D). Once the Spring started, Reavie did improve but it was a rough season. On the bright side, the American golfer did finish third... Read More
NASCAR PrizePicks Predictions - Hollywood Casino 400 DFS Prop Picks
September 10, 2023, on a Sunday afternoon, features the Hollywood Casino 400 from the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas. This is the 28th 2023 edition of NASCAR DFS on PrizePicks. Our friends over at PrizePicks have a TON of great props we can look to take advantage of. PrizePicks is a great DFS props... Read More
Austin Cindric Continues Rough Stretch In Kansas
Austin Cindric has been kind of like a cinder block when it comes to racing at Kansas. He carries a negative place differential in three of his past four appearances. The Team Penske car struggled in 2023 and finished 31st at the Kansas Speedway in May. The No. 2 Ford has never had a top... Read More
Chase Briscoe A Little Slow Qualifying On Saturday
Chase Briscoe and his Stewart-Haas Racing team have their work cut out for them yet again on Sunday. Briscoe was a little slow qualifying on Saturday (0.757 seconds behind Christopher Bell). On the brighter side, the Ford driver has a 19th and a 13th in his last two "Fall" races at Kansas Speedway. Briscoe has... Read More
Alex Bowman Could Be One To Watch Sunday
Alex Bowman had one of the most if not, the most dominant car at Kansas last September. He led 107 laps in all and yet had to settle for fourth place last Fall. Bowman starts 23rd this year from the Hollywood Casino 400. Every time he starts beyond the top ten, Bowman finishes better than... Read More
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Falls In The Fall At Kansas
The last two Spring races have gone pretty well for Ricky Stenhouse Jr. His JTG Daugherty Racing Chevy has finished 8th and 12th respectively. The No. 47 car finds the going much rougher as September approaches. He has had a host of problems from tires to electrical to an accident. Stenhouse Jr. finds himself four... Read More
Joey Logano Barely Misses Top Ten In Qualifying
Joey Logano came so close to the top ten in qualifying but came up just short. The Team Penske Ford settled for 11th. Logano won the Fall race three years ago after leading 47 laps. In 2021, he managed to end up ninth but fell to 17th last September. He looked several tenths faster in... Read More
Brad Keselowski Begins 12th At Kansas On Sunday
Brad Keselowski could use a good result at Kansas Speedway. Unfortunately, the results have not been that kind over the past two seasons for the RFK Racing driver. The No. 6 Ford has not finished better than 14th over that span. He has only led two laps since the Fall of 2021 on the intermediate... Read More
Christopher Bell Qualifies Number One At Kansas
Christopher Bell nabs the pole position at Kansas for the Hollywood Casino 400. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver edged Kyle Larson by 0.075 seconds. Bell has not finished inside the top ten four times despite starting first in 2023. Last week was another rough race as the No. 20 Toyota ended up 23rd at Darlington.... Read More
Kyle Larson Almost Wins Pole At Kansas
Kyle Larson was the fastest car in practice on Saturday with a 15-lap average that was almost a tenth of a second quicker than Martin Truex Jr. However, he came up a hair short of winning the pole for Sunday's Hollywood Casino 400. Now, second is not bad for the Hendrick Motorsports Racing driver. A... Read More
Chris Buescher Right Behind Brad Keselowski To Start Sunday
Chris Buescher starts 13th from Kansas on Sunday afternoon. The RFK Racing driver has been hot lately and netted another top five last week at Darlington. Kansas has been a different story for the Ford, however. The last top ten finish from Buescher in the "Fall" was back in 2017. Buescher was in the top... Read More
Denny Hamlin Tries To Shed Bad Luck In Kansas
Denny Hamlin has had some bad luck the past few weeks. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver has an average finish of 5.7 at Kansas Speedway. This goes along with two wins. The No. 11 car has had two top five finishes during the second Kansas race. Hamlin did not lead a lap in either of... Read More
Carson Hocevar Should Overachieve at Kansas
Carson Hocevar has had one of the most remarkable NASCAR ascents in recent years. At Gateway, he outran Corey LaJoie in his regular car on his debut while LaJoie was driving the Hendrick #9 car. Last week, the 20-year-old wunderkind outqualified veteran teammate and Darlington master Erik Jones in his first start for Legacy Motor... Read More
Ross Chastain Winds Up In Top Five At Darlington
Ross Chastain began the Cook Out Southern 500 in 27th place. Toss in some attrition and a little bit of late-run speed and the Trackhouse Racing driver ended fifth after 367 laps. Now, the No. 1 car did not lead a single lap but the fifth-place result was important. It boosts the confidence of Chastain... Read More
William Byron Ends Up Fourth Sunday At Darlington
For William Byron, the race did not go quite as planned but it was not all bad. The Hendrick Motorsports Racing driver finished fourth after starting 23rd. Although, the No. 24 car never led a single lap, the +19 place differential combined with other results helped Byron. Now, he is 45 points above the cutoff... Read More
Chris Buescher Stays Hot With Third At Darlington
Chris Buescher seemed to lose some speed late and then he found enough to finish third at Darlington on Sunday night. Buescher and his RFK Racing car even managed to lead 36 laps which is encouraging heading to Kansas. Surprisingly both RFK Racing cars fared pretty well during the final long run of 55 laps.... Read More
Tyler Reddick Finishes Second At Darlington On Sunday
Tyler Reddick led 90 laps in his 23XI Racing Toyota but lost the lead on a pit stop. That stop with 55 laps to go was the difference between first and second place. He came up less than a half second short of Kyle Larson in the end at Darlington. The good news for the... Read More
Kyle Larson Wins Cook Out Southern 500
Kyle Larson started from the middle of the pack on Sunday evening. After 367 laps, the Hendrick Motorsports Racing driver ended up at the top. Larson's No. 5 Chevy was able to hold off Tyler Reddick and Chris Buescher to win at Darlington. With the victory, Larson automatically advances to the Round of 12. He... Read More
Austin Cindric Stuck In The Middle At Darlington
Austin Cindric ends at Darlington consistently. Cindric starts his fourth race on the track from the 14th position for Team Penske. Sunday figures to see the No. 2 Ford right around 15th to 20th. Why? Cindric has finished 19th, 16th, and 18th on the 1.366-mile track. It does not seem to matter what happens around... Read More
Chase Briscoe Likely To Struggle At Darlington
Chase Briscoe has now tried to qualify six times at Darlington on the NASCAR Cup level. He still has not cracked into the top-ten. Briscoe will start 12th on Sunday which is his best ever start. However, the Stewart-Haas Racing Ford loses so much speed in long runs. That is the big concern. The No.... Read More
Ryan Preece Great To Be Back At Darlington
After what happened to Ryan Preece at Daytona last week, few expected him back this week at Darlington. Preece and his Stewart-Haas Ford did not qualify well and will start 34th. That is not the real story. After his car flipped more than 11 times last week, the real win was seeing Preece at Darlington... Read More
Chase Elliott Hoping For Better Fall Darlington Result
Septembers have not been kind to Chase Elliott at Darlington. The last three races have seen the Hendrick Motorsports Racing driver start well and then a variety of issues cropped up. He was a DVP victim last year. An accident ended a promising late run in 2021 where he looked heading into the top five... Read More
Erik Jones Starts 20th At Darlington On Sunday
Erik Jones and the Legacy Motor Club have had a season to forget. However, the No. 42 Chevy did come out on top at Darlington last September. He started 15th and roared his way to the win late. Jones also has a win and five other top-ten results on the 1.366-mile track. Questions from the... Read More
Bubba Wallace Has Some Work To Do At Darlington
Bubba Wallace has raced well at Darlington lately. His two previous trips saw him finish fifth and ninth respectively. There is one nagging concern for the 23XI Racing driver. That is negative place differential. Wallace has been in the red there four straight times. One consistent lately is that Wallace and his No. 23 car... Read More
Tyler Reddick Completes Podium In Qualifying For Toyota Saturday
Tyler Reddick will begin third from Darlington on Sunday evening. Now comes the hard part. Can Reddick stay near the front? The No. 45 from 23XI Racing ran well early in the Spring but slipped from ninth down to 22nd late. Last Fall, Reddick in the Richard Childress Racing Chevy ended up third (was 2nd... Read More
Ross Chastain Feels The Heat At Darlington
Ross Chastain has struggled for awhile this 2023 season. The win at Nashville only masked those problems a bit for the Trackhouse Racing driver. Since then, he has the one top-ten result at Michigan. Other than that, the car has mostly qualified in the 20's. Naturally, Chastain starts the Cook Out Southern 500 from the... Read More