Following a high-speed, rain-delayed race at Chicagoland Speedway, the Dragon Energy NASCAR Cup Series continues its pedal to the metal approach 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 odds to repeat, but it is Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski with odds of +700 who top the oddsboard.

Intertops has Logano and Keselowski since the favorites at +700 followed closely by Denny Hamlin in +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.

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Ford has won five of the last ten races in Daytona and Toyota has won three runnings during that interval, including the last two in a row, while Chevrolet has just two victories.
There has not been a repeat winner at this course since Jimmie Johnson did thus in the 2 races at 2013. Denny Hamlin looks to become the latest driver to perform it as he won the Daytona 500 in February.
Just once over the last 17 races at Daytona has got the winner started on the pole which was Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 2015. The typical starting place for the driver who transported the checkered flag over the span was 12.53.
Alex Bowman (+1800) picked up the first checkered flag of his Cup series career last week in Chicagoland and has had great qualifying speed at Daytona recently. He’s started first or second in each of the past three runnings at this course, but has completed 10th or worse, so until he will find exactly the exact same speed in the race, I’ll stay away.
Logano (+700) has had greater success throughout the Daytona 500 than he has at the midseason race in this track. In the 500, he’s an average finish position of 13.28, including winning in 2015, but he has an average finish position of 21.2 from the July race, and it has dropped in each of the last two runnings.
Keselowski (+700) has experienced a string of terrible luck at Daytona lately, with crashed in four of the past five races there, but six races back in this track, he drove to victory lane. He has five wins at Talladega, another restrictor-plate monitor, so that he knows the way to compete in these races. Start looking for him to be in the hunt Saturday night.
Kyle Busch (+1100) not as a favorite seems to be an automatic wager, 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 finishes there over the last 14 races, however he was the runner-up in this season’s Daytona 500.
I’ve been fading Kevin Harvick (+1100) all season long as he hadn’t shown signs of his former dominant self before last week. He looked strong at Chicagoland, leading 132 of the 267 laps, but finally finished 14th. Harvick has crashed in four of those five races at 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 good spot for Harvick.

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