Adhering to a high-speed, rain-delayed race at Chicagoland Speedway, the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series continues its pedal to the metal Strategy in 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 odds to replicate, but it’s Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski with odds of +700 who top the oddsboard.

Intertops has Logano and Keselowski as the favorites at +700 followed closely by Denny Hamlin at +1000, Kyle Busch, Chase Elliott and Kevin Harvick at +1100 and Kurt Busch, Ryan Blaney and Clint Bowyer in +1400 to round out the leading drivers on the oddsboard.

Standout Stats
Ford has won five of the last ten races at Daytona and Toyota has won three runnings over that span, including the last two in a row, while Chevrolet has only two victories.
There hasn’t been a repeat winner at this course since Jimmie Johnson did thus in the 2 races in 2013. Denny Hamlin looks to become the most recent driver to perform it won the Daytona 500 in February.
Just once over the past 17 races in Daytona has the winner started on the pole which was Dale Earnhardt Jr. at 2015. The typical starting place for the driver who transported the checkered flag during that span was 12.53.
Alex Bowman (+1800) picked up the first checkered flag of his Cup series livelihood a week in Chicagoland and has had good qualifying rate at Daytona recently. He has started first or second in each of the last three runnings in this track, but has completed 10th or worse, so until he will come across exactly the exact same speed from the race, I will stay away.
Logano (+700) has had better success throughout the Daytona 500 than he’s at the midseason race in this course. In the 500, he’s an average finish position of 13.28, for example winning in 2015, but he has an average finish position of 21.2 in the July race and has crashed in each of the last two runnings.
Keselowski (+700) has experienced a string of terrible luck at Daytona lately, having crashed in four of the past five races there, but six races back in this track, he drove to victory lane. He’s five wins at Talladega, another restrictor-plate monitor, so he knows how to compete in these races. Look 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 for 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’s only three top-five finishes there on the last 14 races, but he was the runner-up in this season’s Daytona 500.
I’ve been fading Kevin Harvick (+1100) all season long as he had not shown evidence of his former leading self before last week. He seemed powerful at Chicagoland, leading 132 of the 267 laps, but finally finished 14th. Harvick has dropped in four of the five races in Daytona since switching to Ford in 2017 but he led multiple laps in three of those runnings. Assuming he keeps his nose clean, this may be a fantastic spot for Harvick.

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