Roush racers riding recent red-hot results, rhythm

If you are looking for a change of pace from the regular Hendrick lineup, Dover spells relief with a capital "R."

"R" stands for both relief and Roushketeer this week as three of our favorites come from the stable of the "Cat in the Hat." It also stands for Ryan and Roger in respect to our dark horses.

Dover

This week's fantasy studs, duds and sleepers.

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Dover is a rhythm track, which happens to carry our "R" theme forward. To run fast on this high-banked, concrete oval, drivers have to hit precise marks lap after lap, and proof of this can be found in the fact that seven drivers finished in the top 10 twice last year.

For that matter, two of the drivers who earned top-10s in the spring but failed to finish as well in the fall still support the theory because they were riding at least a six-race top-10 streak when the checkers waved over the spring Autism Speaks 400 and then barely failed to keep it alive in the fall: Carl Edwards finished 11th and Greg Biffle finished 13th.

Streaks like that should make this race fairly easy to handicap, unless that same old bugaboo of multiple green-white-checkered attempts to finish the race reaches up and bites your roster in the rear end.

The Favorites

Greg Biffle started the season as one of the hottest drivers on the circuit by scoring six consecutive top-10s and seven such finishes in his first eight attempts. His past three races have not been as kind, with three results outside the top 15, but that will play into your favor if it keeps him off your competition's radar screen. He should bounce back nicely this week since he enters the weekend with an 11-race top-15 streak at Dover during which only three efforts ended outside of eighth. He also has the capacity to earn maximum points for you since he's won twice since 2005.

To find victory lane, however, he's going to have to battle his teammate Matt Kenseth. The driver of the No. 17 enters the weekend with four consecutive top-fives on this track and has finished outside the top five there only twice since the beginning of 2006. One of those races was a 10th and it is more than counterbalanced by a victory in spring 2006. Like Biffle, he's hit a rough patch lately with four results outside the top 10 since the Samsung Mobile 500 at Texas Motor Speedway, but he's come close with back-to-back 13ths as Richmond International Raceway and Darlington Raceway.

Carl Edwards was riding high when the series came to this track last year. His previous five efforts at Dover produced one victory, two more runner-ups, and two third-place finishes. During his entire career on this high-banked track, he'd never finished worse than 18th and failed to crack the top 15 in only his first two attempts. By his personal standards, a seventh in the 2009 Autism Speaks 400 might not have seemed all that great, and he may also have also been disappointed by an 11th in this past fall's AAA 400, but with the struggles he's had this season, he won't take Dover for granted this week. (Continued)