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 in Daytona International Speedway this Saturday night at the Coke Zero Sugar 400.

Alex Bowman earned his first Cup series victory last week and he has +1800 odds to replicate, however, it’s 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 in +1400 to round out the top drivers on the oddsboard.

Standout Stats
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 only two victories.
There hasn’t been a repeat winner at this track since Jimmie Johnson did thus from the two races in 2013. Denny Hamlin looks to become the latest driver to perform it won the Daytona 500 in February.
Only once over the past 17 races at Daytona has got the winner started on the pole which was Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 2015. The average starting position for the motorist who transported the checkered flag during that interval was 12.53.
Alex Bowman (+1800) picked up the first checkered flag of his Cup series career last week in Chicagoland and has had good qualifying speed at Daytona recently. He has begun first or second in each of the last three runnings at this track, but has completed 10th or worse, therefore until he will find the exact same rate in 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 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 in the July race, and it has crashed in each of the last two runnings.
Keselowski (+700) has experienced a series of terrible luck at Daytona lately, with dropped in four of the last five races there, but six races ago at this track, he drove to victory lane. He’s five wins at Talladega, yet another restrictor-plate track, so he knows the way to compete in those races. Start looking for him to be at the hunt Saturday night.
Kyle Busch (+1100) not as a favorite seems like 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’s driven to victory lane at Daytona, and he’s only three top-five endings there over the last 14 races, but he was the most runner-up in this season’s Daytona 500.
I have been evaporating Kevin Harvick (+1100) all season long as he hadn’t shown evidence of his former dominant self until last week. He looked powerful at Chicagoland, leading 132 of the 267 laps, but finally finished 14th. Harvick has crashed in four of those five races in Daytona since switching to Ford at 2017 but he led multiple laps in three of those runnings. Assuming that he keeps his nose clean, this could be a good spot for Harvick.

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