Logano, Keselowski Share Best Odds to Win Coke Zero Sugar 400
Adhering to a high-speed, rain-delayed race at Chicagoland Speedway, the Dragon Energy NASCAR Cup Series continues its pedal to the metal Strategy in Daytona International Speedway this Saturday night in the Coke Zero Sugar 400.
Alex Bowman made his first Cup series victory a week and he’s +1800 chances to repeat, however, it’s Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski with odds of +700 who top the oddsboard.
Intertops includes Logano and Keselowski as the favorites at +700 followed closely by Denny Hamlin at +1000, Kyle Busch, Chase Elliott and Kevin Harvick in +1100 and Kurt Busch, Ryan Blaney and Clint Bowyer at +1400 to round out the leading drivers on the oddsboard.
Standout Stats
Ford has won five of the last 10 races at Daytona and Toyota has won three runnings over that span, including the last two in a row, while Chevrolet has just two victories.
There hasn’t been a repeat winner in this course since Jimmie Johnson did thus from the two races in 2013. Denny Hamlin looks to become the most recent driver to do it won the Daytona 500 in February.
Just once over the past 17 races at Daytona has the winner started on the pole which was Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 2015. The average starting place for the driver who transported the checkered flag during the span was 12.53.
Alex Bowman (+1800) picked up the first checkered flag of his Cup series career last week at Chicagoland and has had good qualifying speed at Daytona recently. He’s begun first or second in each of the last three runnings in this track, but has finished 10th or worse, therefore until he can come across the exact same rate from the race, I’ll stay away.
Logano (+700) has had greater success during the Daytona 500 than he has at the midseason race in this course. In the 500, he has an average finish position of 13.28, for example winning in 2015, but he has an average finish position of 21.2 from the July race and has crashed in each of the last two runnings.
Keselowski (+700) has had a string of bad luck at Daytona lately, having dropped in four of the last five races there, but six races ago at this track, he drove to victory lane. He has five wins at Talladega, another restrictor-plate monitor, so that he knows how to compete in those races. Look for him to be in the hunt Saturday night.
Kyle Busch (+1100) not as a favorite sounds to be an automatic bet, but Daytona has become the better of him for most of his career. Busch won the July race in 2008, marking the only time he has forced to victory lane at Daytona, and he’s only three top-five endings there over the past 14 races, but he had been the most runner-up in this season’s Daytona 500.
I’ve been evaporating Kevin Harvick (+1100) all season long since he had not shown signs of his former dominant self before last week. He seemed strong at Chicagoland, leading 132 of the 267 laps, but ultimately finished 14th. Harvick has crashed in four of the five races in Daytona since switching to Ford in 2017 however he led multiple laps in three of those runnings. Assuming he keeps his nose clean, this may be a fantastic place for Harvick.
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