Kevin Harvick took home the $ 1 million prize at Charlotte and won the Dragon Energy NASCAR All-Star Race last year. Is he the favored this year? Scroll through to find the odds that are opening out, according to.
Kyle Busch is about a great run right now and any odds post must begin with him.
And coming into a week with two successive wins and a race at a track where he has three career victories, Busch is the man to beat once again. He is the favorite heading to the STP 500 at Martinsville Speedway, the shortest track in NASCAR.
This week includes a couple of intriguing storylines as Joey Logano and Martin Truex Jr. butted heads, and cars, at last season’s playoff race at Martinsville while Logano came away with the win.
Logano has seven top-10 finishes in his last 10 races at Martinsville including that triumph last season while Truex is no slouch himself together with six top-seven finishes in his past seven attempts at the half-mile track. These men could fight it out again for the win, but they will probably be fighting Busch for the success.
Now it would be absurd to select anyone but Busch to win and that is what we’re doing. He can be outdriving everyone in NASCAR and has the best car. He has a fantastic chance this week to pass Richard Petty with his 201st career win in NASCAR’s top three series.
The STP 500 could be viewed Sunday at two p.m. ET on FS1.
With one race to determine the champion of NASCAR’s playoffs, this truly is anybody’s game.
NASCAR’s Championship 4 of Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr. and Joey Logano have had success at Homestead-Miami Speedway, but none of them are dominant in victories.
The four drivers have combined for three wins in 52 joint races and none has won over once. But, all of them have been in contention differently as they’ve combined for 33 top-10 finishes.
So who is going to come out on top this weekend? It is hard to say. The good money is on Busch or even Harvick, since the two drivers have combined to win 16 races this year, but Truex is the defending champion and has four wins of his own this season, including one on a 1.5-mile track in Kentucky.
We fully believe someone in the Championship 4 will come out on top and we’re choosing Busch to earn his second win in a row and first NASCAR championship since 2015.
The Ford EcoBoost 400 can be seen Sunday at 3 p.m. ET on NBC.
What are the odds for Homestead-Miami?
Kevin Harvick 11/4
Kyle Busch 11/4
Kyle Larson 3/1
Martin Truex Jr. 6/1
Joey Logano 10/1
Brad Keselowski 15/1
Chase Elliott 20/1
Denny Hamlin 20/1
Clint Bowyer 25/1
Kurt Busch 25/1
Erik Jones 30/1
Aric Almirola 40/1
Ryan Blaney 40/1
Austin Dillon 80/1
Jimmie Johnson 80/1
Daniel Suarez 100/1
Alex Bowman 100/1
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 200/1
Jamie McMurray 300/1
Paul Menard 500/1
William Byron 500/1
Ryan Newman 500/1
Matt Kenseth 500/1
Ty Dillon 1000/1
AJ Allmendinger 1000/1
Chris Buescher 1000/1
Michael McDowell 2000/1
Darrell “Bubba” Wallace Jr. 2000/1
Regan Smith 5000/1
Field (all others) 1000/1
Which NASCAR drivers are best for your fantasy lineup in Homestead-Miami?
Kyle Larson has the third best odds to succeed at Homestead-Miami Speedway and for good reason. In five career NASCAR races at the track he has finished in the top 5 times. In four trips to Miami from the Xfinity series he has finished in the top 10 four times in four attempts. Three of those efforts were in the top . He also has nine top-10 finishes on 1.5-mile tracks this season.
Brad Keselowski was in last year’s Championship 4, but was unable to come away with a win. This year he could be the man to maintain one of the top four out of winning the race. Keselowski has two leading 5s and four top 10s in his career at Miami and has finished in the top 10 seven times at 10 1.5-mile races this season.
Kyle Busch has a chance to win once plus one needs look no farther to describe why.
The motorist is a 2/1 favorite to win the Toyota Owners 400, which are the odds any motorist has had to win a race yet this season.
It is for good reason. He’s not won a Cup-Series high few occasions this year, but he is coming off of a victory and has six career wins at Richmond Raceway and has finished in the top 10 in six of the last seven races there. And oh yeah, he won both races.
That can be Busch’s race to lose, but he’ll have rivalry that is good. As good as Busch has been around, Joey Logano has been solid with a win and several top 10s and Denny Hamlin has two victories to go with a slew of high finishes, also.
Those two drivers have combined to win five races at Richmond and also have a great chance to maintain Busch out of victory lane this week.
We’re going to take Logano to win his next race of this season and career event at Richmond coming from a third-place finish at Bristol.
The Toyota Owners 400 can be seen Saturday at 7:30 p.m. ET on FOX.
After a crash-filled Daytona 500, NASCAR proceeds into Atlanta’s weathered 1.54-mile asphalt trail.
The track is preferred by many NASCAR drivers since the surface allows for side-by-side racing in numerous grooves. Tires wear out setting a higher importance on speed.
Kevin Harvick won the first two phases at Atlanta last year, but a punishment allowed Brad Keselowski to swoop in for the checkered flag. Keselowski passed Kyle Larson for the lead with six laps to go for his first win of 2017.
All eyes will be on Georgia native Chase Elliott this weekend has he looks to capture his first Cup Series win at his hometown track. Back in the No. 9 car, a number made famous by his Hall of Fame father Bill, Chase does have a fair shot to win according to last season’s figures.
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Elliott recorded two second-place endings, seven top fives, and nine top-10s in 1.5-mile tracks in 2017. The Dawsonville, Ga., native also averaged the third-best average finish of Cup drivers (9.82) on 1.5-mile monitors last year.
Before Keselowski’s win last year, Elliott’s teammate Jimmie Johnson was successful in two Atlanta races that are consecutive. Johnson, who owns a Cup Series record 28 wins on 1.5-mile tracks in his career, has five wins, 14 top fives together with a series-best motorist rating of 105.4 at Atlanta.
While Johnson has been the old king of 1.5-mile tracks, our pick to win Sunday is reigning champion Martin Truex Jr., who has been nearly unbeatable at intermediate ovals.
Truex won seven of those 11 1.5-mile speedway races last season with nine top fives for an average end of 2.5. He’s still searching for his first win in Atlanta but we expect him to have the job done Sunday (if the rain holds off) despite starting from the rear of the field.
Kyle Busch may be getting the best Cup Series season with top-10 finishes in each of his races, but the narrative around NASCAR is beginning to change and it’s all because of Martin Truex Jr..
The 2017 Cup Series winner’s season started with five top 10s in his first six races, including two runner-up finishes, but he just could not get in the winner’s circle.
That’s changed, though, since he’s won back races, including one at Richmond he’d been on the edge of winning but simply could never attain.
He is breaking through at the time as the Cup Series heads this weekend. Truex has just two wins in his last four races at the track and loves intermediate-track racing.
He is not the favorite to win this week – that would be Busch at 7/2 – but he should be viewed as the guy to beat. We are picking him to win his next race in a row and keep Busch from the winner’s circle for the fourth straight week.
The Digital Ally 400 could be viewed Sunday at 7:30 p.m. ET on FOX.
Which will be the odds for your Digital Ally 400?
Kyle Busch 7/2
Martin Truex Jr. 6/1
Brad Keselowski 7/1
Kevin Harvick 7/1
Joey Logano 7/1
Ryan Blaney 10/1
Chase Elliott 10/1
Kyle Larson 10/1
Clint Bowyer 18/1
Denny Hamlin 20/1
Aric Almirola 25/1
Kurt Busch 25/1
Erik Jones 25/1
Jimmie Johnson 25/1
Daniel Suarez 40/1
Alex Bowman 60/1
Austin Dillon 60/1
William Byron 80/1
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 100/1
Ryan Newman 100/1
Paul Menard 100/1
Tyler Reddick 100/1
Matt DiBenedetto 300/1
Chris Buescher 300/1
Daniel Hemric 300/1
Ryan Preece 500/1
Darrell “Bubba” Wallace Jr. 500/1
Michael McDowell 1000/1
Ty Dillon 1000/1
Field (all others) 1000/1
Which NASCAR drivers if you see at the Digital Ally 400?
Kevin Harvick is searching for his first win of the year, but was Truex till two races ago. Harvick has eight top-10 finishes in his last 11 races and three career wins at Kansas. Seven are included by those endings .
Kevin Harvick is off to a slower start than a year ago, but it doesn’t in any manner harm how dangerous he’ll probably be at ISM Raceway at Phoenix on Sunday for the TicketGuardian 500.
Harvick has two career wins in the one-mile track and finishes in the top 10 in 65.6 percent of his races there. He’s undoubtedly the favorite to win.
As good as he’s, Kyle Busch cannot be underestimated with seven 7s in his last seven races and just two career wins in Phoenix. He’s finished in six of his past seven attempts there.
This race will likely be a duel between the two and also whoever gets out in front at the start of the third stage will be the favorite to win. This time we’re likely to choose Busch to come out the victor, as he might have picked up the win last week had it not been for a speeding penalty on pit road.
The TicketGuardian 500 could be viewed Sunday at 3:30 p.m. ET on FOX.
Which are the odds for the TicketGuardian 500?
Kevin Harvick 9/4
Kyle Busch 7/2
Brad Keselowski 7/1
Joey Logano 8/1
Martin Truex Jr. 10/1
Chase Elliott 10/1
Denny Hamlin 15/1
Kyle Larson 20/1
Aric Almirola 20/1
Clint Bowyer 25/1
Erik Jones 25/1
Kurt Busch 30/1
Ryan Blaney 30/1
Austin Dillon 50/1
Alex Bowman 50/1
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 50/1
Jimmie Johnson 50/1
Daniel Suarez 60/1
Ryan Newman 100/1
William Byron 100/1
Daniel Hemric 100/1
Paul Menard 100/1
Ryan Preece 200/1
Chris Buescher 200/1
Matt DiBenedetto 200/1
Darrell “Bubba” Wallace Jr. 500/1
Ty Dillon 1000/1
Michael McDowell 2000/1
David Ragan 2000/1
Field (all others) 500/1
Which drivers should you see at the TicketGuardian 500?
Aric Almirola has been quietly good this season with two top 10s in his last two races and just a pole to his title. He’ll probably have a fantastic week again as he has finishes of ninth, seventh and fourth at Phoenix in his past few runs at the monitor.
NASCAR heads back to another intermediate course this week since the Pennzoil Oil 400 will feature a 1.5-mile race, which favors the Cup Series’ top motorists. But it presents a challenge than Atlanta Motor Speedway, last week, in which Brad Keselowski won.
This course is considerably more affordable than that of tire wear and Atlanta will probably be less of a problem. So, this week motorists like Kyle Larson, who had the fastest car on the track a week, could have to worry about on this front.
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However, the truth is, he has a fantastic opportunity to win this season from the start while weekly Keselowski came from nowhere to win. Keselowski has three career wins at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and has finished no worse than seventh over his past seven races there.
As he has a great opportunity, he has to be the man you look at when performing evaluations with this race.
But while we’d love to select him, we will go with Martin Truex Jr., who is coming off of a second-place end in Atlanta and has finished third, first and fourth in his past few races in Nevada, respectively.
5:30 p.m.
Justin Haley has won the rain-shortened Cup Series race at Daytona International Speedway, his first in NASCAR’s top level.
Haley took the lead under caution – Kurt Busch surrendered the top spot when he pitted for tires and was announced the winner following heavy rain followed two lightning delays. You will find 33 laps left when the 160-lap race has been halted.
Haley was 27th when chief Austin Dillon triggered a 17-car crash which took out almost half the area and the majority of the best contenders. He passed a number of wrecked automobiles and then a few more that made pit stops.
The 20-year-old Haley won’t lock in a spot in the playoffs, though. He’s a full-time motorist in the second-tier Xfinity Series and was making his third Cup Series beginning – all for newcomer Spire Motorsports. The team’s No. 77 Chevrolet can secure a postseason bid, but only as long as it winds up in the top 30 in points.
However, it was a fitting ending for the closing July race at NASCAR’s most famous track.
The event, which was postponed a day because of rain, was plagued by inclement weather and filled with unpredictable winners in recent decades. It’s moving to late August in 2020 – the regular-season finale – included in NASCAR’s significant schedule shake-up.
William Byron finished second, followed closely by seven-time Cup champion Jimmie Johnson and Ty Dillon. Manufacturer Chevrolet won for the second consecutive week and took the top four spots.
Ryan Newman was fifth in a Ford.
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4:30 p.m.
Drivers Bubba Wallace and Daniel Hemric entertained fans during two lightning delays by throwing a soccer across the track and in the stands.
Wallace and Hemric every had a couple of throws and even got booed a bit.
However, it surely gave fans a reason to stay around for at least an hour without any racing.
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3:18 p.m.
Lighting has stopped the NASCAR race at Daytona International Speedway with Justin Haley at the lead.
The 20-year-old Haley is a part time motorist for newcomer Spire Motorsports. He finished second in Friday night’s second-tier Xfinity Series race while driving for Kaulig Racing. This is his third Cup Series start.
Kurt Busch was leading the 400-mile race following a 17-car mess. But Busch ducked onto pit road for fuel under caution. That left Haley out front, and as soon as the red flag was pulled due to a nearby lightning strike, it left Busch in 18th. As cars were parked and coated on pit road.
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3 p.m.
With dark clouds looming and also the close of the race in sight, leader Austin Dillon wrecked almost half the area at Daytona International Speedway.
“The Big One” happened on Lap 119 in Turn 1 and included 17 cars – most of these at the front of the field.
Clint Bowyer was pushing Dillon to the front on the outside and made a hard move left to attempt and pass the pioneer. Dillon turned left in No. 3 Chevrolet, tagged Bowyer and then started spinning and carrying out competitors.
“I guess he didn’t want me to pass him,” Bowyer said.
All four Joe Gibbs Racing automobiles – Deny Hamlin, Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr. and defending race winner Erik Jones – were included. So were Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney and Chase Elliott.
“I was being aggressive and trying to maintain the guide,” Dillon said.” That’s exactly what you get.”
Kurt Busch managed to make it through this melee unscathed.
The Way to Bet Auto Racing Futures
The”Odds to Win” wager in auto racing is quite straightforward to understand. Put simply, you have to pick the driver that will catch the checkered flag of the race You pick any of your payout to the bet and the drivers in the race will depend on the odds given in the time of their bet. This wager can be placed until the race starts.
Take the odds, to figure out your Win Amount and multiply by the amount wagered. Ex. Jimmie Johnson (5/2) – Jimmie Johnson is recorded as a 5/2 gambling choice. If you bet $100 on Johnson to win the event and he comes in first, then you would win $250 (5 ?? 2 x 100). You’d amass $350, which includes your win and stake ($100).
What does the FIELD mean? Races will incorporate a betting selection known as the area. This wager contains all drivers not recorded in the”Opportunities to Win.” It’s rare to observe oddsmakers set a cost although most races have a fixed variety of drivers. Drivers that are given the least chance to acquire the race will be grouped into the”Field” odds and paid out so if they win.