Kyle Busch is the big favorite for the 2016 Toyota Owners 400 on Sunday, and with good reason. No active driver has more wins in Richmond International Speedway than Busch’s four. Do the knowledgeable NASCAR experts see him picking up win No. 5 or do they see another contender stealing his thunder?
Check out all of their picks to take the checkered flag below. Meanwhile, don’t forget to check out our complete preview of the race here.
Expert Picks and Predictions for the 2016 Toyota Owners 400
Fox Sports
EXPERT
WINNER
Chad Robb
Kyle Busch
Resident Fox Sports fantasy NASCAR expert Chad Robb is going with Kyle Busch to win his third race of the season. Robb acknowledged that Busch didn’t have the best time in Bristol due to tire problems, but he sees this as motivation for Busch to bounce back in a big way.
Robb also sees the likes of Kevin Harvick, Joey Logano, Brad Keselowski and Matt Kenseth to be contenders in Richmond, but he still picked Busch to come out on top. Of course,picking Busch is much easier considering he leads all active drivers in wins at the track (four) and also finished second in the last race at Richmond.
Fantasy Racing Cheat Sheet
Jeff Gutowski’s Top 5
Kyle Busch
Denny Hamlin
Joey Logano
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Kevin Harvick
Like Robb, Jeff Gutowski of Fantasy Racing Cheat Sheet is also going with Busch, for the similar reasons stated above. He’s also got Hamlin, Logano and Harvick in his top five, but Dale Earnhardt is a new name that Gutowski picked.
Junior has been on some roll lately with back-to-back second-place finishes in Forth Worth and Bristol. His performance last week in Bristol was especially impressive considering he battled through a battery problem. Junior has two career wins on this track, and Gutowski won’t be surprised if he’s contending for a third in Richmond.
Yahoo! Fantasy NASCAR experts
PLACE
Robert Walsh
Marlon Clark
Jed Henson
Chase Lupton
Kyle Wiseman
FRCS Group
1st
Harvick
Hamlin
Harvick
Logano
Ky Busch
Ky Busch
2nd
Logano
Earnardt Jr
Logano
Harvick
Kenseth
Harvick
3rd
Kenseth
Ku Busch
Ky Busch
Kenseth
Harvick
Logano
The panel of Yahoo! Fantasy NASCAR experts is more split than usual this week. The six panelists (which includes the aggregated picks of the Fantasy Racing Cheat Sheet users) came up with four different names to win in Richmond, with Harvick and Kyle Busch the two names that came up more than once. Harvick’s name appeared in the top-3 lists of five of the six experts, so he figures to be right there in the mix.
Marlon Clark was the only one not to pick Harvick. He instead went with Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kurt Busch to crash the top three in Richmond. As stated earlier, Junior has been on a bit of a hot streak after back-to-back finishes. Kurth Busch hasn’t been to bad himself recently, either. He’s been steadily improving his performances over the last month or so, and was just behind Junior last week for a third-place finish in Bristol.
