{"id":1426,"date":"2008-06-18T14:56:02","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T19:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/nascar-odds\/"},"modified":"2008-06-18T14:56:02","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T19:56:02","slug":"nascar-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/nascar-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dale Earnhardt<\/span> Jr. will be looking to continue to
\nrace up the driver standings on Sunday when he takes to the track at Infineon<\/span> Raceway for this season’s Toyota\/Save Mart 350.
\nCheck out the NASCAR
\nbetting line<\/a>. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Earnhardt<\/span> Jr. took the checkered flag last week in
\nthe LifeLock<\/span> 400 at Michigan International Speedway,
\nholding off Kasey<\/span> Kahne<\/span> and
\nMatt Kenseth<\/span> for the win. Dale Junior last won a Cup
\nevent back in 2006, and he ended a drought spanning 76 races.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Brian Vickers and Tony Stewart rounded out the Top 5 at Michigan<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>,
\nwhile Jimmie Johnson, Carl Edwards, David Ragan, Elliott Sadler, and Jamie
\nMcMurray made up the rest of the day’s Top 10. Kevin Harvick<\/span>
\nwas 12th on the day, points<\/span> leader Kyle Busch was
\n13th, Denny Hamlin was 14th, and Jeff Burton ended up in 15th place at the
\nfinish.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Martin Truex<\/span> Jr. (17th), Jeff Gordon (18th), and
\nGreg Biffle<\/span> (20th) also cracked the Top 20 at Michigan<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>,
\nwhile Clint Bowyer ended up in 26th place, and Juan Montoya was 38th.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Earnhardt<\/span> Jr. still<\/span> sits
\nin third place in the driver standings, but he’s now just 84 points behind
\nfirst-place Busch. Burton<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 32
\npoints back of the leader in second place after 15 events. Edwards, Johnson,
\nHamlin, Kahne<\/span>, Biffle<\/span>,
\nGordon, Harvick<\/span>, Stewart, and Bowyer also sit in
\nTop-12 positions in the standings and above the Chase’s cutoff line.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Ragan is only 10 points behind Bowyer for 12th place, while Kenseth<\/span> moved up one spot into 14th with his result at Michigan<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>
\n(14 points behind Bowyer). Truex<\/span> Jr. and Vickers sit
\njust behind Kenseth<\/span>, while Ryan Newman dropped three
\nspots into 17th place after running into engine troubles on the weekend and
\nfinishing well back in 42nd.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Former Formula One driver Montoya picked up the victory at the Infineon<\/span> road course last year, after starting way back
\nfrom the No. 32 spot on the grid. Montoya sits back in 22nd place in the
\ncurrent standings, and he will be hoping for a solid result this weekend.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Gordon has five career<\/span> Cup wins on the Sonoma<\/st1:City>,
\nCalifornia<\/st1:State><\/st1:place> track; he visited victory lane
\nthere in 2006, 2004, 2000, 1999, and 1998. The only other active driver with
\nmultiple Infineon<\/span> wins is Stewart, who took the
\ncheckered flag there in both 2005 and 2001. Robby Gordon won this event in the
\n2003 season, and Mark Martin got the win in 1997.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

And the Vegas oddsmakers have Jeff Gordon and Stewart pegged as the 5\/1
\nco-favorites to win at Infineon<\/span> this weekend. Robby
\nGordon, Montoya, and Scott Pruett are next at 7\/1, with Kyle Busch and Harvick<\/span> at 8\/1, and Boris Said and Ron Fellows at 10\/1.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Biffle<\/span> begins the next tier of contenders at 12\/1
\nodds, with Hamlin at 15\/1, Bowyer and McMurray both at 18\/1, and each of Earnhardt<\/span> Jr., Truex<\/span> Jr., and
\nKurt Busch at 20\/1. Burton<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Newman,
\nand Patrick Carpentier<\/span> are all at 22\/1 odds, with
\nJohnson, Edwards, Kahne<\/span>, and Dario Franchitti<\/span> sitting just back of that group on the current
\nlist at 25\/1 odds.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Points<\/span> leader Kyle Busch is still the oddsmakers’
\nchoice to win the Sprint Cup this year – he’s pegged as the 5\/2 favorite. Earnhardt<\/span> Jr. is next at 3\/1, with Edwards at 7\/2, Johnson
\nat 5\/1, and Hamlin at 7\/1. Jeff Gordon is currently listed at 10\/1 odds to win
\nthe championship this season, with each of Stewart, Burton<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>,
\nand Biffle<\/span> sitting at 12\/1 odds.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

After racing at Infineon<\/span> the drivers of the Sprint
\nCup Series will move on to New Hampshire Motor Speedway for the LENOX
\nIndustrial Tools 301 on June 29. July’s schedule then features the Coke Zero
\n400 at Daytona International Speedway, the LifeLock.com 400 at Chicagoland<\/span>, and the Allstate 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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