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May 2 , 2007

Saturday Night is Made for COT Fighting
Fantasy Insight-Richmond Spring Race
By Dennis Michelsen
The pressure is on to pick another winner this week! I am in the zone. The handicapping is just too easy lately. But now the rubber meets the road. Now it is time for the big dog to hunt. Beware because another lousy cliché can't be far away! The new and improved Power Ratings have been hot, hot, hot and even better I am listening to the numbers more than ever. The result is a run of Fantasy Racing handicapping seldom seen my mere mortals. But of course here comes another COT race at another different kind of track to challenge my expertise. Do I have what it takes to meet the challenge? Well I am NOT picking Mike Bliss to win so at least I have a decent shot at continuing this hot streak. Saturday night is made for COT fighting under the lights at Richmond!

Fast Facts of the Week
Better qualify good…20% of winners from pole and 80% from top ten

Impound race so play those crew chiefs

Success runs in the family…Lee Petty the first winner here (2 wins in career) and Richard Petty (13 wins in career) was the first to win on pavement

Track has gone from a half-mile dirt track to a three-quarter mile pavement track with two other lengths in between

More family affairs…Davey Allison (2 career wins) was the first to win on the current three-quarter mile version while his Father Bobby has seven wins here

Petty last name was first 15 times
Allison finished first 9 times
Earnhardt was winner 8 times

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Prize Note: Tom from Connecticut wins a Diamond Membership playing Fantasy Insight's FLIP FLOPS. Listen this week on www.racetalkradio.com Wednesday night at 10pm ET to see how you can play and win this week's prize!

Fantasy Racing by the Numbers
My unique Power Ratings are back and better than ever for 2007! Combining the three most important factors the numbers never lie. Separate the pretenders from the contenders each week with track type, horses for courses, and consistency factored into one easy to use Power Rating. The key numbers to remember are 80 and 250. A rating of 80 is an acceptable risk for any of the individual ratings and 320 is the cut off for the complete Power Rating. Drivers topping these minimums have a much higher percentage of top ten finishes over the past three seasons! (Only drivers meeting the minimum will be shown in the individual ratings with the top 25 for Power Ratings shown)

Picking a Winner
Each week I will attempt to handicap the winners showing the three drivers I think are most likely to come home a winner! Also the TOP ROOKIE and BEST OUTSIDE TOP 20 will be forecast so you get a complete handicapping picture for the upcoming race.

Winner- Denny Hamlin
Last Week 1st
Who said he would have a sophomore slump…not me!

Place-Kyle Busch
Last Week 28th
This week's Hendrick pick

Show-Jeff Burton
Last Week 2nd
Has done AOK in the COT

Top Rookie-David Ragan
Last Week 31st
This kid is good on short tracks

Outside Top 20 in Points-Jeff Green
Last Week 8th
Haas has done well in COT races

Wednesday on Race Talk Radio
8pm Eastern-Fantasy Insight-Need help with your Fantasy Racing lineup? Each week we go beyond the stats to pick winners! Join Dennis Michelsen and Mike Harper every week as they play head to head in Flip Flops. You can win great prizes by picking the winning fantasy handicapper each week.

8:30pm Eastern-Racing Rock Star with Gannon Hollywood-Gannon is the jackman on the No. 47 NASCAR Busch team, and yes that is his real name! His videos will be featured on SPEED CHANNEL and his exclusive radio show will be heard on www.racetalkradio.com every week!

9pm Eastern-Quick Change- Dennis Michelsen, Mike Harper and Lori Munro bring you cutting edge commentary and their own personal unique spins on the world of all things racing. Our weekly guests will try to keep up! Tune in and just try to hang on every Wednesday night.