NASCAR Fantasy Racing Beginner's Guide

Setting up your first NASCAR fantasy racing team is easy.To start you must first name your team. After you choose a name you pick your first set of NASCAR fantasy drivers. In most NASCAR fantasy racing you are allowed 9 starts per driver. You choose your fantasy NASCAR driver by classes. For you NASCAR fantasy starters, you choose 1 driver from class A, 2 drivers from class B and 1 driver from class C. You can also choose 1 bench driver for every starter you have. Before the race you can switch a bench driver to a starter if you happen to think he will do better. If your NASCAR fantasy racing starter did horrible in qualifying or switch to a back up car, it may be a good idea to use your bench driver. With most websites, you can switch to your bench driver up until 5 minutes before the race starts.

NASCAR fantasy racing websites allow you the ability to see expert picks before you choose. You can also view the drivers that are most popular with other NASCAR fantasy racing teams. With a little research you can choose a winning fantasy racing team.

Jimmie Johnson, Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle are good draft choices. They finished 1,2 and 3 in the 2008 NASCAR Sprint cup championship.

For every NASCAR race you choose all of your drivers before the qualifying race starts. One thing to keep in mind is the overall performance of a driver at each NASCAR Speedway. Some NASCAR drivers are great at short track racing but do not fair as well in restrictor plate racing. You get judged each week on how well every member of your team performs. If your top driver did wonderful and won the race congratulations but all of your team also has to perform well to score the most points.

Bonus points can be earned in several ways: The top 4 drivers that have the best starting positions get bonus points, most laps led in the NASCAR race get bonus points and any driver who successfully leads a lap also gets bonus points. Points are totaled up each week. You can check how you are doing on the NASCAR fantasy racing scoreboard

You can join fan group to communicate with during the NASCAR fantasy racing season. The fan groups are a great way to gain information and ask questions. You can choose your fan group based on your favorite driver or choose the largest if you prefer.

Yahoo NASCAR fantasy racing is free to play. You can visit the Yahoo NASCAR fantasy racing website here
Yahoo NASCAR fantasy racing allows you to sign up at anytime throughout the NASCAR Sprint cup season. Registration here only takes a few minutes. You need a free Yahoo account to register.

NASCAR.com offers free fantasy racing. The rules are slightly different here. You can only choose your fantasy rooster with a 100 million dollar salary cap. This pus a interesting spin on how you choose the six you race with. The NASCAR.com fantasy racing is completed in segments. You have to sign up by a certain date or you are out that segment. You can visit the official NASCAR.com fantasy racing website here

FOX Sports also has a free NASCAR fantasy racing website.
The rules on the FOX NASCAR fantasy racing only allow you to choose 4 drivers per 18 week segment. You can only have each driver start no more tan 4 times each. This can make narrowing down your choices a little more difficult. You can visit the free FOX NASCAR fantasy racing website here

I hope you enjoy you NASCAR fantasy racing season, I know I will.

Sources

http://racing.fantasysports.yahoo.com/auto
http://fantasy.nascar.com/racing/fantasycap/
http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/cup/standings?year=2008&gameId=20081116042
http://msn.foxsports.com/fantasy/auto/index.asp