Hey race fans, welcome back to Driving on Marbles! It’s finally intermediate oval week and honestly after back-to-back short tracks at Martinsville and Bristol over the past few weeks I couldn’t be more ready for the change of scenery.

The Cup Series heads to Kansas Speedway this Sunday for the AdventHealth 400 and the whole vibe of race week shifts completely. We’re trading door-to-door contact and six-inch walls for clean air, tire conservation, and lap after lap of high-speed flowing oval racing at 1.5 miles. Kansas is one of my favourite race weekends of the season because the strategy plays out so clearly and the data tells you so much about who’s going to be fast before the green flag even drops.

Let’s get into this week’s picks post for the the AdventHealth 400 at Kansas Speedway.