DraftKings NASCAR DFS Picks for San Diego: Fantasy NASCAR Strategy and Picks for the Anduril 250

A new track hits the NASCAR circuit as the Cup Series heads to Naval Base Coronado in San Diego for the Anduril 250.

This track is a 3.4-mile road course on a naval base, where it’s both wide and narrow, and it has been chewing up tires so much that teams are getting an extra set of tires for the weekend.

The Truck and O’Reilly Auto Parts races were pure chaos, and with a track that’s going to chew up tires and introduce a ton of uncertainty, it’s a great weekend to reduce your overall volume.

The other option is to go full bore here and play into the uncertainty and be quite contrarian in tournaments.

I’m not sure how much practice FLAGS will come into play thanks to the quick learning of teams and drivers at a new track, but it probably helps more than it hurts!

Along with FLAGS, be sure to check out my NASCAR projections in the NASCAR Models on FantasyLabs, complete with floor, ceiling, median, and ownership projections.

My projections, along with Stephen Young’s from RotoGrinders, are available in our NASCAR DFS package. You can read more about what the package entails here.

Let’s not skip the best part, my Perfect% metric, a metric that tells you how often certain racers appear in the optimal lineup when running 250,000 race simulations.

And don’t forget about the tools that FantasyLabs has to offer, like our Lineup Optimizer to effortlessly create up to 300 lineups or our Lineup Builder if you like to hand-build your lineups.

So, without further ado, here’s my strategy guide and NASCAR DFS picks for the Anduril 250 at Naval Base Coronado in San Diego.

Anduril 250 Cash Game Picks

Shane van Gisbergen ($13,000): SVG is $13k at a road course with 75 laps. It doesn’t sound fun, but he’s miles ahead of everyone else this weekend.

He botched his qualifying lap and still got the pole. He’s the ultimate tire manager at these types of tracks.

You kind of just have to start him.

Riley Herbst ($5700): If we’re playing SVG, we’ll need salary relief, and Herbst gives that to us.

He qualified just 24th, but he practiced ninth and 10th in speed and rank-based FLAGS, respectively.

Herbst has been improving in his second full-time Cup Series season, and at a track where nobody has competed before, he probably doesn’t have as much of a disadvantage as he would at tracks where veterans have been running for several years.

Anduril 250 Tournament Picks

Dominators: Here are my top dominators by likelihood of dominating:

1. Shane van Gisbergen

Kyle Larson ($8900): The driver who ranked second in practice FLAGS will start 14th, giving a ton of place-differential potential should he match his practice speed.

Larson is several time road-course winner, albeit not in the last few years, and he is at a discount price, so he’s worth a strong look this weekend in all formats.

Root for Chaos?: Both the Truck Series and O’Reilly Auto Parts Series had chaotic races here, so it’s assumed the Cup race will be chaotic as well.

If that’s the case, you should probably look at fast drivers that might be under-owned.

Specifically I’m talking about a guy like Joey Logano who ranked well in practice but starts 19th and isn’t known as a road-course racer these days.

Pictured: Shane van Gisbergen
Photo credit: Andrew Nelles, Imagn