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John Hunter Nemechek Probably Won't Contend in Vegas This Year
John Hunter Nemechek starts 26th for Sunday's Las Vegas race, just as he did in last year's event when he finished a career-best ninth. However, that finish masked a mediocre overall performance, as his average running position of 18th was only barely better than in his other Las Vegas starts (even in his ill-fated 2020 rookie season), and it was clearly only a result of benefiting from strategy. Las Vegas does have a history of cautions interrupting runs of green-flag pit sequences and shaking up the field, and Nemechek may need that to contend. He's certainly been a little faster than he was last year, and he earned top-10 finishes at the Texas and Kansas intermediates back-to-back earlier this year, but he probably won't gain enough positions to be seriously viable for DFS contention.
Source: Racing Reference
Source: Racing Reference
