NASCAR heads north this week to Loudon New Hampshire. Just the race to the Chase is warming up since the cutoff looms closer. That’s only one reason this week’s end at New Hampshire is significant; the other explanation is that the 1 mile flat oval New Hampshire Motor Speedway is one of the tracks that will host one of the final ten races at Chase in the autumn.
The speeds are not high here provided the flatness of the turns. But most drivers like racing at New Hampshire.
“There’s nothing fancy about it,” Tony Stewart said this week. “It’s just a fun track. It seems like it has always been an enjoyable driver’s track. Your car has to work well there but, when you get to racing men, you are attempting to out-brake them, trying to get your car to turn and you struggle for forward bite. It has just got a little bit of what the motorists look to have a good race.”
Here are my favorites for Sunday’s nineteenth race of the year for your betting or fantasy leagues. Driver Ratings are accumulated from 2005-2016 races (22 total) among active drivers in New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The Driver Rating is a number based on a formula developed by NASCAR which combines”loop info” components such as average running posture, average rate under green, number of fastest laps, and other stats. There’s a maximum of 150 points a driver can earn for every race. The chances are present as of Wednesday.
Tony Stewart (60-1) is not the odds makers favorite, but he is mine this week. No Stewart has not won since 2011, but in 2011 he was not facing his final year in Cup racing. He is tied with three drivers for its most wins among active drivers in this track with three complete. He has the maximum driver rating in the field 103.4, a win this season , along with the motivation to finish his long Cup career on top. We forecast Stewart will be the catalyst to beat Sunday and can give someone a big payday.
Kyle Busch (5-1) is the defending winner of the race. That win last July was during his unbelievable run to his initial Sprint Cup title. He has the seventh greatest driver rating within the specialty, 95.6 and is searching for a rebound after a few off weeks, He may just get that Sunday.
Jimmie Johnson (8-1) can be looking for a rebound. The six-time winner is among these drivers tied with the most wins here, three. His last one came in 2010, but he asserts the third highest driver evaluation from the field 101.1. His last two visits weren’t all that spectacular, ” he finished 22nd in the this race last year, and came home fifth in the autumn. If Johnson and his team can find a number of the older magic they had here, he could turn his season around Sunday.
Brad Keselowski (6-1) has been on a tear in the last two weeks becoming the first driver to score successive wins. He’s won , has the fourth greatest driver evaluation in the field 99.5, also was second in this race this past year. It’d not be any surprise to visit Keselowski make it three wins in a row after Sunday.

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