Golden Ticket Sims · DK Fantasy Racing World Championship 2026

FRWC Round 1

Who holds the 100 seats this year and who is new, gaining or gone since 2025. Then how last year's Round 1 field at Darlington owned drivers and built lineups.

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Seats10060 players

AdvanceTop 40each entry on its own

Round 2Sun 4 Oct40 entries · top 12 to Phoenix

Subscribers in the fieldCoolEditPros, acs204 and kingappraiser hold 7 seats

The fieldHalf the seats belong to players who weren't here last year

36new players holding 51 seats

24returning players holding 49 seats

37of last year's 61 players are gone, taking 49 seats with them

5 of 122025 final spots (the Round 2 top 12) belonged to players who are gone

Biggest gains in seats

Biggest drops in seats

2025 finalists who are back

Finalists are the top 12 of the 2025 Round 2, the entries that advanced to the final.

2025 standouts not back this year

Players who reached the 2025 final, or sent multiple entries to Round 2, and didn't requalify.

All 100 seatsField list, 2026 against 2025

2025 columns: seats in Round 1, entries that advanced to Round 2 (top 40), and entries that advanced to the final 12. ★ marks a 2025 finalist. Gold rows are the three subscribers.

2025 Round 1 ownership · DarlingtonThe field agreed with the sheet on order, then piled onto the top

DKOP is the ownership column in the GTS Darlington sheet, projected for the big public GPPs. Against it is what the 100-seat FRWC field actually did. This describes that one race only.

0.81rank correlation, sheet against FRWC

156%Hamlin + Keselowski combined in FRWC (sheet: 93%)

6drivers at 40%+ in FRWC (sheet: 2)

5drivers nobody rostered (sheet had all 38 at 2.5%+)

Sheet DKOP Actual FRWC Round 1 Label: FRWC % · DK points scored

Rose above projection

Fell below projection

At the top, both $11k Hamlin (pole) and $7.6k Keselowski (P32) went from the mid-40s to 75%+. The six drivers at 40%+ included $5.6k Gilliland at 40%, three times his projection. The front-row and mid-priced names went the other way: Briscoe started P2 and won with 153 points at 3%, and Erik Jones scored 61 at 3%.

2025 Round 1 lineupsHow the 100 lineups were built

259%median lineup ownership (sum of the six drivers)

67lineups played Hamlin and Keselowski together

31lineups were duplicates, including one build entered 10 times

93lineups left $500 or less of the $50k cap

Advanced (top 40) Out Subscriber lineup Cut line 194.1