C.J. Radune’s weekly column is back, as are some familiar faces competing in this year’s 2017 Daytona 500, including Dale Earnhardt Jr., who missed much of the 2016 season with a concussion.
For the final race of the season, C.J. Radune chooses Carl Edwards to lead his lower-risk lineup based on the fact that Edwards has the best statistics at Homestead among his championship competitors.
In C.J. Radune’s final higher-risk lineup of the season he’s giving Kurt Busch a chance, as the former Homestead winner Busch has been threatening to win as the season has progressed.
Tony Stewart, who is saying farewell to full-time racing in just two weeks, would love to go out at the top of his game with a win at Phoenix says C.J. Radune.
C.J. Radune says that with six wins out of the last eight races at Phoenix, Kevin Harvick will be the man to beat this weekend.
C.J. Radune adds Kyle Busch to his lower-risk lineup because Busch at Texas earlier this year and remains on a run of top-10 finishes, excluding Talladega, that stretches back to Darlington.
C.J. Radune says that Tony Stewart is still aiming for wins as his full-time career winds down, and Texas is a place where he has seen plenty of success, including two wins.
C.J. Radune says that veteran Jeff Gordon, a nine-time Martinsville victor and the defending champion of this week’s race, has a golden opportunity to cement his legendary status this weekend.
Jimmie Johnson is included in C.J. Radune’s higher-risk lineup for this week’s race in Martinsville for Johnson's success at the track, including two wins in the last 10 races there.
C.J. Radune says that Brad Keselowski earns the right to lead Talladega’s lower-risk lineup by virtue of his four wins at the track and three top-fives in the last four visits there.
C.J. Radune is going with clutch Chase winner Kevin Harvick as his top choice in this week’s lower-risk lineup for Talladega. Harvick hasn’t finished lower than 15th in any of the last six Talladega races.
As the defending winner of this week’s race and a driver who always seems to do well on the Kansas track, Joey Logano is a key component of C.J.’s lower-risk lineup.
Is Kyle Busch’s trouble with Kansas Sprint Cup races well behind him after his win there earlier this spring? That’s what C.J. Radune is banking on with his higher-risk lineup.
C.J. Radune’s higher-risk lineup for Charlotte’s night race puts more emphasis on drivers who haven’t been to Victory Lane in a while but show signs of scoring breakthroughs, with Kyle Busch at the top of this list.
Defending his win in last year’s Bank of America 500 is Joey Logano, who hasn’t finished worse than 11th in any of the last eight races and is a solid choice for C.J. Radune’s lower-risk lineup.
C.J. Radune says that Kevin Harvick, as the defending champion of last year’s race, deservedly leads the lower-risk lineup for Dover.
Although Jimmie Johnson has had a streak of bad luck this season, there’s still hope that he could pull off an upset at Dover, as he has a history of doing well there.
With a fantastic start to his Chase for the Sprint Cup in Chicago and two New Hampshire wins, Joey Logano makes the cut for C.J. Radune’s higher-risk lineup.