Tough Time at Talladega

Team Nationwide for Harry heads to Talladega Superspeedway this weekend as it looks to continue a good run of high finishes. These races are always a crapshoot as you must beware of 'the big one.' This week will be no different but at the end of the day, as Harry would say, let's 'get after it'.

Here is who I went with this week and why:

2 -- Brad Keselowski ($30K) -- Very affordable, solid on superspeedways and has won here before. Like him a lot as a sleeper pick.
11 -- Denny Hamlin ($36K) -- This bastard usually screws me every time I take him. That said, I'm rolling the dice again and he's kinda cheap.
22 -- Kurt Busch ($41K) -- Another driver who has not been good to me, but has owned this track lately. Expect a Top 5 from him.
29 -- Kevin Harvick ($40K) -- The consensus pick to win this week. I think he bounces back after an average finish last week.
46 -- Bill Elliott ($12K) -- 3 cars will go home this week, Awesome Bill won't be one of them. He'll get in on speed but can use the past champion's provisional if he needs to.

Thus I left $1K on the table out of the $160K salary cap. I would have strongly considered Dale Earnhardt Jr. had I another $1K and would have swapped him for Hamlin. But the above is who we're rolling with.

Team Nationwide for Harry currently sits 13th overall in Green Flag racing and can easily climb into the Top 10 with a solid week.

UPDATE: Qualifying
It wasn't the best day of qualifying for Team Nationwide for Harry but we did hit our goal of rolling five drivers in the field.

Unfortunately and quite surprisingly, we had to rely on the past champion's provisional to get our 5th car in the field but I'll take it.

Keeping things in perspective, this is a superspeedway so I'm not worried all that much about the qualifying results.

Here's where Team Nationwide for Harry will start:

6th -- Kurt Busch -- car no. 22
19th -- Brad Keselowski -- car no. 2
29th -- Denny Hamlin -- car no. 11
38th -- Kevin Harvick -- car no. 29
43rd -- Bill Elliott -- car no. 46

Post-Race Update
Past history definitely reared it's ugly head today leading to a disappointing 22nd place finish for Team Nationwide for Harry. The off week dropped us back two spots to 15th overall.

This will be the last time we take shitstain Denny Hamlin. Moreover, our dear friend Kurt Busch, who usually screws us, took care of our sleeper, Brad Keselowski, wrecking him early in the race. The 26th place finish by the no. 46 car of Bill Elliott/JJ Yeley was a nice surprise but meant little on an otherwise lousy day at the track.

Here is the final breakdown:

5th -- Kevin Harvick
18th -- Kurth Busch
23rd -- Denny Hamlin
26th -- Bill Elliott/JJ Yeley
33rd -- Brad Keselowski

The boys are off next week for the Easter holiday so we'll be racing again in two weeks on Saturday night at Richmond (April 30).