Despite Top Ten at Las Vegas Last Year, John Hunter Nemechek Probably Won't Contend This Time
Source: Racing Reference

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October 12, 2025
John Hunter Nemechek starts 26th for today'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 today. He's certainly been a little faster than he was last year and he earned top tens 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.--Sean Wrona - RotoBaller
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