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Chase Elliott has lost his advantage on NASCAR Cup Series road courses. Sunday at Circuit of The Americas could prove especially challenging.

Former NASCAR Cup Series champions Chase Elliott and Brad Keselowski were caught up in a multi-car crash during Sunday's NASCAR Atlanta race.

SportsLine's Mike McClure, a DFS pro with over $2 million in winnings, gives his top daily Fantasy NASCAR picks for the EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix 2025 at Circuit of the Americas in Austin

The No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports driver and NASCAR’s reigning Most Popular Driver will be starting the Daytona 500 from the 17th position in row nine. The 2025 Daytona 500 is set for Sunday, February 16 at 1:30 p.m. ET on Fox. The race was originally scheduled for 2:30 p.m. ET but was moved up because of weather.

Then, he was asked what he thought NASCAR could add to it.

Shane van Gisbergen emerged as NASCAR's new road-course beast, and now Connor Zilisch is favored to enter the scene dramatically this week at COTA.

Despite Chase Elliott's road course mastery, fans do not believe that he is good enough to be compared with Tony Stewart or Jeff Gordon.

Daniel Suárez (98.482 sec.) was fastest in Group 1 and will start fifth over Trackhouse Racing teammate Shane Van Gisbergen (98.519 sec.). Kyle Larson, Kyle Busch, Ross Chastain, and Todd Gilliland round out the top 10 starting spots.