Nascar Betting News

On Sunday, July 25 the Sprint Cup Series will return for the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

David Reutimann won the series' last event, the LifeLock.com 400 at Chicagoland Speedway on July 10. Carl Edwards and Jeff Gordon followed Reutimann across the finish line at that event, while Clint Bowyer and Jamie McMurray rounded out the Top 5.

Kasey Kahne, Jeff Burton, Denny Hamlin, Tony Stewart, and Paul Menard also picked up Top-10 results at Chicagoland. Kyle Busch was 17th, Jimmie Johnson was 25th, Kurt Busch was 26th, and Kevin Harvick was 34th.

Harvick holds a 103-point lead on Gordon in the driver standings after 19 races, with Johnson 188 points back in third place, and Hamlin 203 points behind in fourth spot. Johnson and Hamlin are tied with a series-high five victories on the season.

Anyone doing Belmont Stakes betting will be looking for a darkhorse, and the same thing is going on for the Indy 500 at the end of the month, as there is a solid crew of longshots that can challenge the top tier of the Indy 500 betting favorites.  

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Will Power (+1000): Power (the best name in sports, by the way) is leading in the points, and he’s the only driver to win multiple races this year, in Sao Paulo and St. Petersburg.  He’s made just two appearances at the Brickyard, coming in 13th  after starting 23rd in 2008, followed by a fifth-place result in 2009.  Only a lack of experience is keeping him from being a favorite.  

Danica Patrick (+1200): Snicker if you must, as Patrick is off to a terrible start in the IndyCar season, which has many questioning her decision to drive in NASCAR part-time.  But she loves the Brickyard with four top-10s in her five starts at Indy, and she came in third last year.  Patrick has the equipment to get the job done, and last week’s 11th-place finish at Kansas was at least encouraging.

Richard Childress Racing has been a sports betting bystander to the domination of Hendrick Motorsports over the past four years, but with the break out of one of its own, RCR is believing they have a chance to end the domination of the 48-car in the Sprint Cup Series standings. Of the five drivers currently atop the standings, two belong to Hendrick, while the other three include representatives from RCR, Joe Gibbs Racing, and Roush Fenway Racing. The name atop the leader board however is Kevin Harvick, who holds a 110 point-lead over Jimmie Johnson for first place after four straight top-ten finishes. What may be even more impressive than Harvick’s ability to finish, is the way in which the number-29 car has gotten to the front, including this past weekend at Darlington.