NASCAR By the Numbers - Enjoy Illinois 300

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This weekend, we head to World Wide Technology Raceway for the Enjoy Illinois 300. The race on Sunday September 7th at 3:00pm ET on USA. This will be the fourth time at Gateway for the Cup Series. This is the first time the Cup Series has run here in September, and Goodyear brought a different tire than last season. Erik Jones, Brad Keselowski, and Kyle Larson did the tire test here in June. The teams ran this tire at Iowa this season. Gateway is a unique 1.25-mile egg-shaped track that is considered more of a flat-track. There is no perfect comp for Gateway- it’s a unique track. I’ll look at Gateway data, Iowa/Nashville/Richmond/Phoenix data, 2025 speed data, practice, and a few other things when building lineups this weekend.

NASCAR DFS Picks: Enjoy Illinois 300

The stages are 45, 95, and 100, which is a total of 240 laps. We have a unique first stage this week and won’t have a green flag pit stop in that stage. With 240 laps, we’re looking at 108 fastest lap points and 60 laps led points on DraftKings. On FanDuel, we’re looking at 24 laps led points and 24 laps completed points.

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