Logano, Keselowski Share Best Odds to Win Coke Zero Sugar 400
Following a high-speed, rain-delayed race at Chicagoland Speedway, the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series continues its pedal to the metal Strategy at Daytona International Speedway this Saturday night at the Coke Zero Sugar 400.
Alex Bowman earned his first Cup series victory a week and he has +1800 chances to replicate, however, it is Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski with chances of +700 who top the oddsboard.
Intertops includes Logano and Keselowski as the favorites at +700 followed closely by Denny Hamlin in +1000, Kyle Busch, Chase Elliott and Kevin Harvick at +1100 and Kurt Busch, Ryan Blaney and Clint Bowyer at +1400 to round out the top 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 2 races at 2013. Denny Hamlin appears to become the most recent driver to do it won the Daytona 500 in February.
Only once over the last 17 races at Daytona has got the winner started on the pole and that was Dale Earnhardt Jr. at 2015. The average starting place for the driver who transported the checkered flag over the interval was 12.53.
Alex Bowman (+1800) picked up the first checkered flag of his Cup series career a week at Chicagoland and has had good qualifying rate at Daytona recently. He’s begun first or second in each of the last three runnings at this course, but has finished 10th or worse, therefore until he can find exactly the exact same rate from the race, I will stay away.
Logano (+700) has had greater success during the Daytona 500 than he’s at the midseason race at this course. From the 500, he has an average finish position of 13.28, including winning in 2015, but he’s an average finish position of 21.2 from the July race and has dropped in each of the past two runnings.
Keselowski (+700) has experienced a series of terrible luck at Daytona recently, having crashed in four of the last five races there, but six races back in this course, he drove to victory lane. He’s five wins at Talladega, yet another restrictor-plate track, so he knows the way to compete in these races. Start looking for him to be at the hunt Saturday night.
Kyle Busch (+1100) not as a favorite sounds to be an automated bet, but Daytona has gotten the better of him most of his career. Busch won the July race in 2008, marking the only time he’s driven to victory lane at Daytona, and he has just three top-five endings there over the last 14 races, however he had been the runner-up in this season’s Daytona 500.
I’ve been fading Kevin Harvick (+1100) all season long as he had not shown signs of his former leading self until last week. He seemed powerful at Chicagoland, leading 132 of the 267 laps, but ultimately finished 14th. Harvick has dropped in four of those five races at Daytona since switching to Ford at 2017 however he led multiple laps at three of these runnings. Assuming he keeps his nose clean, this may be a fantastic place for Harvick.
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