So here is a new series I'll be doing for 2022! Race picks for the racing weekends in NASCAR, F1 and IndyCar and tonight starts off the NASCAR season. First we begin with the Camping World Truck Series
Trucks:
John Hunter Nemecheck

Oh John Hunter, he was in the Cup series just two years ago but made the decision to step back in the Truck series to have some fun being in competitive equipment and show teams that he could win in the right stuff. He won 5 times in 2021 for Kyle Busch Motorsports and heartbreaking missed out on the championship after having a flat tire at the start of the season finale at Phoenix and couldn't recover, there's nothing more than Nemecheck and KBM would love to do than to start this year off with a win at Daytona.

Tyler Ankrum

The young 21 year old man is gonna be in his 4th Camping World Truck Series season and with a new team for him. Now this will be his 3rd different team that he has driven for and I hope think this is similar to a Cup star today, Joey Logono. Nobody now would dare challenge his ability today but when he first joined the Cup series in 2009 for Joe Gibbs Racing and stayed there till 2012 it was a struggle minus a couple of wins and the occasional strong run, it looked like he was gonna be out of a Cup ride for the following season but Team Penske recruited him and he became a champion with them in 2018 and still races for Penske to this day. JGR is one of the best teams to drive for but Joey even said that perhaps they just weren't the right mix to one another. With that being said Ankrum drove for David Gilliland Racing in 2019 which is kinda like a midfield team and won at Kentucky with them. For the last 2 years Tyler was at Gallagher Motorola which is a powerhouse team in the Trucks but never won a race with them and now this year he shall be at HRE and you know the last time they had a new driver? Austin Hill, and you know what Hill did in his debut race? Win. Plus when you add that HRE has expanded to a 2 Truck operation 2022 looks bright for the 16 Toyotas Tundra.

Xfinity
Daniel Hemric

The reigning champion has as many championships as wins in his career, 1. Last year in his last race with Joe Gibbs Racing Hemric after 8 years of trying finally got his 1st NASCAR national touring series win and it also gave him his 1st Xfinity championship. Now with Kaulig Racing for 2022 who have been dominant at superspeedways like DEI was in Cup back in the day and now that Daniel will never have to hear all the talk of him never winning a race might just plain open the flood gates and make up for lost time starting at Daytona perhaps🤔
Austin Hill

I'll be honest I didn't expect Hill to go to the Xfinity series with Richard Childress Racing but hey he's leveling up in his career. For a while Austin Hill was a Truck series regarding but wasn't in the highest quality equipment so wasn't in the spotlight. Then in 2019 Hattori Racing Enterprises who won the championship in 2018 with Brett Moffit behind the wheel gave Austin his big break and it payed off from the start winning his 1st race with the team. Now in 2022 hoping up to Xfinity can Austin Hill win in his RCR debut?

Sheldon Creed

Former competitors/rivals battling for championships in the Truck series now Hill and Creed are teammates. Creed has shown over the last couple or so years that he has the speed to win races and championships as he won it all in the Trucks in 2020. Now in a new environment with cars instead of trucks it might be a learning curb but with the team who won have had lots of success in Xfinity it's only a matter of time till thus combo wins, it could happen at Daytona with the Xfinity series season opener.

Daytona 500 picks

Denny Hamlin: 9 of the last 14 Daytona 500s Hamlin has lead 16 or more laps including leading the most laps in 3 of the last 5. Plus Denny has been the superspeedway king lately and his gut instincts have rarely ever let him down. If he succeeds he will get his 4th Daytona 500 win something that hasn't been done since 1984 and the icing on the cake would join Cale Yarbrough and Richard Petty as the only drivers to win 4 or more Daytona 500s and Hamlin was 3 at the time to put in perspective of how long it's been since this happened.

Kyle Busch: It's the last crown jewel race that the 2 time champion hasn't won and it'll be the biggest one yet. Busch won the Southern 500 in 2008, the Brickyard 400 back to back in 2015 and 2016 and in 2018 won the Coca Cola 600 in dominating fashion. In his 17th try and you know who else took 17 years to win the Daytona 500? 3 time champion Darrell Waltrip.

Kevin Harvick: After winning 9 races in 2020 Kevin Harvick suffered a fate that hadn't happened since joining Stewart Haas Racing or since 2009, go a whole season without winning a race. Despite that Harvick finished 5th in the points in 2021 in cars that arguably had no right to be that high up in points considering SHR's struggles. Plus after a rivalry started betting himself and Chase Elliott allowed the reawakening in Harvick's passion which was shown on a regular basis in the early parts of Kevin's career. That never quit attitude from that undersized high school wrestler that makes Harvick the warrior that he is today to achieve everything he has would love to start off 2022 showing that he is still a guy you have to beat week in and week out. Plus it would be his 2nd 500 triumph to go with the one he did in his Richard Childress Racing days in 2007.

Dark horse/underdog picks
Ricky Stenhouse Jr:

he and his team JTG Daugherty Racing feel like this could be their best season ever. Plus Stenhouse has always been aggressive at Daytona and Talladega, while he's ruffled some feathers along the way winning the Daytona 500 can be career defining and changing all at once.

Martin Truex Jr:

Now here me out, I know it's shocking to put an established driver like MTJ on here but superspeedways just plain haven't been kind to the champion of 2017. Many times he has been taken out in wrecks that weren't his fault, other times his engine doesn't last to the end or he loses out in the 500 like this in 2016 back in his Furniture Row days.

But hey, it took Truex forever to win consistently and now he has 31 total victories at this point AND it took long for MTJ to close the deal on short tracks and now the flood gates opened at short track wins. Maybe this can be the year he wins the biggest NASCAR race there is and claim that 500 trophy🏆

Brad Keselowski:

As much as in my opinion Brad Keselowski is one of the most underrated drivers on the grid 2022 is a big leap of faith for the 2012 champion. Roush Fenway Racing (or Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing as it's known as now) has struggled for most of the Gen 6 era is looking for anything it can to return to the glory days of the mid 2000s-early 2010s during it's peak. There are multiple reasons one can argue that it'll be a success or failure but another driver who took a leap of faith to join/form a team of his own is Tony Stewart. Stewart nicknamed "smoke" had spent 10 seasons with Joe Gibbs Racing where he won 33 races and 2 Cup championships in 2002 and 2005, but in 2009 Tony joined forces with Gene Haas and a lot saw it as a big mistake. From 2009-2016 Stewart won 16 races and the last of his 3 championships in 2011, to top it all of SHR is now a top team in Cup today. Keselowski is one of the best superspeedway racers on the grid anyway so maybe if he is successful it could begin a beautiful relationship.
Those are my picks but I'm curious to here from you all, who are your race winning picks? :0