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Justin's DraftKings DFS lineup picks for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Ecosave 200 at Las Vegas. Read his 2025 daily fantasy NASCAR advice and Truck sleepers.
The worst thing about the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series is that the series schedule has too many breaks in it. This weekend, the trucks hit Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the Ecosave 200, the first time the series has raced since Feb. 22. (Note: some sources are still using last year's name, the Victoria's Voice Foundation 200, to refer to this race, but NASCAR.com and DraftKings both have it under Ecosave 200.)
In that race last month at Atlanta, Cup Series driver Kyle Busch dipped down into the Truck Series and took the victory. This weekend, Busch isn't racing, but Cup Series regular Justin Haley joins the field in the No. 07 truck.
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Post-Qualifying Updates
Check back here after qualifying for some updates on top contenders and top place differential plays.
Top Contenders
You could definitely get weird here and play Tyler Ankrum as he starts second, but there's obviously risk there. Justin Haley, who starts fourth, is the top option to lead laps early on, but Rajah Caruth starting sixth has a great shot as well.
Top Place Differential Plays
Here are some drivers to consider from a place differential perspective. First, here are four expensive drivers who starts between 11th and 20th who have a chance to earn decent PD points and also get a top 10 finish.
- Daniel Hemric (Starts 12th)
- Ben Rhodes (Starts 15th)
- Corey Heim (Starts 16th)
- Chandler Smith (17th)
Looking deeper in the field, here are some really good drivers who can get you strong place differential numbers:
- Kaden Honeycutt (22nd)
- Layne Riggs (23rd)
- William Sawalich (25th)
Finally, there's really only one true value driver who I'll go heavy on in the search for place differential:
- Luke Fenhaus (26th)
You could get weird and play Toni Breidinger who starts 27th, but her track record suggests she probably won't end up with a strong result.
Top Drivers
Corey Heim - $10.1K
Corey Heim shouldn't be in the Truck Series still. He's more than proven that he's capable of moving up to Xfinity or Cup, but with a rumored feud keeping him from getting Joe Gibbs Racing starts, he's languishing in a division where he's by far the best driver.
That means that each and every week, Heim should be viewed as a contender to win. In two Las Vegas starts, Heim has finished fourth and third, leading 18 laps in last year's race here after starting back in 25th.
Chandler Smith - $9.8K
Two races into the season, Chandler Smith looks like one of Heim's biggest threats. He's third in points with a pair of top-10s.
Smith has a really great track record here. Since the start of the 2022 season, he's raced Vegas once in the Truck Series and four times in the Xfinity Series. His worst finish in that span was a pair of fourth-place results in Xfinity. He won the 2022 Truck Series race here, and he's led at least 23 laps in four of those five races.
Justin Haley - $9.7K
Any time a Cup Series driver drops down to one of the two lower series, you have to take notice. The talent gap between NASCAR's top division and its third division is massive, so while Haley's not a weekly contender in Cup, he should be in contention in Friday's Truck Series race.
🎨: @Justin_Haley_ will run Friday's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series event at Las Vegas with @GainbridgeSport as the primary sponsor of the No. 07 Chevrolet Silverado.#NASCAR pic.twitter.com/4SRh6hj1ue
— Joseph Srigley (@joe_srigley) March 11, 2025
Haley has run 17 races at this track across various NASCAR series, posting six top-10s, including an eighth-place finish in a 2023 Cup Series race. He hasn't run a Truck Series race here since 2018 but finished third in that one.
Ty Majeski - $9.5K
Ty Majeski had a shot to win here in 2024, leading 40 laps over the course of the race, though just four of those came after Lap 76 as the No. 98 truck faded a bit. Expect Majeski to be in contention on Friday night.
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Layne Riggs - $9.0K
Layne Riggs struggled in his first Truck Series race here, starting 21st and finishing 22nd last year. However, that was before Riggs started to figure out this series.
Later in the year, Riggs began to find speed at intermediate tracks, posting top-5s at Gateway and Kansas. He should have really solid speed this weekend.
Rajah Caruth - $8.6K
Rajah Caruth is the defending winner of this race, leading 38 of 134 laps last year to earn the first win of his Truck Series career. He was also fourth at Nashville, another intermediate track.
Rajah Caruth won the 2024 Victoria's Voice Foundation 200 at Las Vegas one year ago today. 🏁
It was his first @NASCAR_Trucks win. #FirstTimeWinner 🏁 pic.twitter.com/pcfD0xfbaa
— NASCAR Legends (@LegendsNascar) March 2, 2025
In fact, intermediates have been Caruth's strong suit, as he has a top 10 in his past three intermediate races, with the aforementioned fourth at Nashville and top-10s at Kansas and Homestead.
Kaden Honeycutt - $8.4K
Every year it seems like there's one good Niece truck and this year that good Niece truck is the No. 45 of Kaden Honeycutt. An early crash at Daytona marred his season opener, but Honeycutt was sixth in Atlanta.
Last year, he showed really good intermediate speed. Honeycutt finished fourth in both Kansas races and also had a top 10 at Charlotte.
Tyler Ankrum - $8.3K
Last year, Tyler Ankrum was one of the biggest surprises of this race as he qualified fifth and went on to finish second, coming up just shy of his second Craftsman Truck Series victory after never finishing better than 10th before at Vegas.
Ankrum struggles with consistency, but he seems to have found something on intermediate tracks. Last year, he also posted top-5s at Homestead and Nashville.
Ben Rhodes - $8.0K
This price feels low on Ben Rhodes, who sits fifth in points right now. Yes, he's coming off a disappointing 2024 campaign where he recorded just nine top-10s, his lowest mark since his 2016 rookie campaign, but Vegas has always been a good track for him.
Rhodes, who won here in 2017, has eight top 10s in 13 Truck Series starts at this mile-and-a-half track. He was 13th here last year but finished third in the 2023 race.
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Value Picks
Stewart Friesen - $7.5K
Vegas has always been one of Stewart Friesen's best tracks, even though his reputation is for being best on short tracks. In 13 starts here, Friesen has five top fives plus an additional two top 10s.
Back-to-back finishes outside the top 10 worry me a little bit, but his overall track record at this track suggests he should contend for a strong finish on Friday night.
Tanner Gray - $7.1K
Is this the year Tanner Gray shines? It's been a middling start for Gray, but Vegas offers him a chance to turn things around as he has three top 10s in seven starts here, including a third-place run in 2020 and a fifth in 2022.
Jake Garcia - $6.7K
In 2023, I was all aboard the Jake Garcia hype train when he raced for Bill McAnally's team and posted nine top 10s, but his move to ThorSport last year was a nightmare as he posted just two top 10s and finished 17th in points.
However, Vegas is one of his better tracks, with finishes of 10th and 11th in two career starts. The 10.5 average finish here is tied for his second-best mark at tracks where he's run multiple races.
Qualifying will be a big factor in how good this play is though. Garcia has shown speed so far this season in qualifying and if he has another top 10 start, the negative place differential downside will be too strong. Target Garcia if he starts outside the top 15.
Luke Fenhaus - $6.6K
There's a lot of hype around Luke Fenhaus, who made four Truck Series starts in his career with two top 10s and another top 15. While a lot of people think of Fenhaus as a short-track guy because of how he came up, he's shown speed on longer tracks before as well.
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— Luke Fenhaus Racing (@luke_fenhaus) March 14, 2025
He's also lacked qualifying speed in all four of his starts, which is why 75 percent of Fenhaus's Truck Series races have ended with a positive place differential.
Dawson Sutton - $6.0K
Dawson Sutton is still pretty new to NASCAR, as Friday will mark just his 10th Truck Series start. However, he's flashed some potential, including a top-5 finish last year at Kansas, another intermediate track.
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