{"id":4637,"date":"2009-06-18T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/nascar-betting-look-for-ambrose-to-snatch-first-cup-win\/"},"modified":"2009-06-18T15:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T20:37:00","slug":"nascar-betting-look-for-ambrose-to-snatch-first-cup-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/nascar-betting-look-for-ambrose-to-snatch-first-cup-win\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Betting &#8211; Look For Ambrose To Snatch First Cup Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Those going through their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/sports-betting\/US-Open-Odds-1088.aspx\" title=\"US Open betting\">US Open betting<\/a> odds could have some extra time on Sunday due to Thursday&#8217;s round being postponed, so take that extra time and head over to your sportsbook, where you&#8217;ll find NASCAR betting odds for the Toyota Save\/Mart 350 at <span class=SpellE>Infineon<\/span> Raceway. This is one of only two road courses on the Sprint Cup slate, and Kyle Busch is the defending race-winner, as well as the favorite on Sunday.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<h1><st1:City><st1:place><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:   12.0pt'>Sonoma<\/span><\/font><\/b><\/st1:place><\/st1:City><font size=3><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> Odds &#8211; Sunday, June 21, <\/span><\/font><st1:time Hour=\"15\" Minute=\"30\"><font size=3><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>3:30 PM ET<\/span><\/font><\/st1:time><font size=3><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/h1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Busch has been up and down this year, but because he&#8217;s a threat to win anywhere, anytime, he has NASCAR odds of +450. The No.18 driver has two top-10s in four <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Sonoma<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> races, but those making <a href=\"http:\/\/bettorsedge.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"sports betting picks\">sports betting picks<\/a>&nbsp;have to wonder how the travel will affect Busch, who is also the favorite for the <span class=GramE>Nationwide<\/span> race in <st1:City><st1:place>Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> on Saturday night. That&#8217;s quite a flight that he&#8217;ll have to overcome, but if anyone can do it, it&#8217;s the man they call &#8220;Rowdy&#8221;.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Tony Stewart is next at +500, and the <span class=GramE>points<\/span> leader has a pair of victories at <span class=SpellE>Infineon<\/span> (formerly called <\/span><\/font><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Sears<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName>Point<\/st1:PlaceName><\/st1:place>) and a 10.0 average in nine races there. The No.14 <span class=GramE>driver is known as one of the top road racers in NASCAR thanks to his open-wheel and dirt-track beginnings, and win<\/span> No.2 as a driver\/owner could be just at the end of the winding track.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>He&#8217;ll have to deal with Jeff Gordon, who has NASCAR odds of +550 and is looking for his sixth win at <span class=SpellE>Infineon<\/span>. Gordon is a <\/span><\/font><st1:place>Northern California<\/st1:place> boy, so he always like coming back home. Coming off a second-place run at <st1:State><st1:place>Michigan<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, you can&#8217;t count him out.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Juan Pablo Montoya has raced here only twice, but he won his first time, and finished sixth last year. The former F1 champion has NASCAR odds of +650 this week after racking up back-to-back top-10s for the first time in his Cup career at Pocono and <\/span><\/font><st1:State><st1:place>Michigan<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, and he&#8217;s only 43 points out of the 12<sup>th<\/sup> spot, <span class=SpellE>aka<\/span> the cutoff for the Chase. Montoya fully expects to win here and should move up in the standings. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>However, Marcus Ambrose is getting some love from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.payperhead.com\" title=\"betting services\">betting services<\/a>&nbsp;with NASCAR odds of +750, a big jump from starting the week around +1150. Don&#8217;t let last year&#8217;s 42<sup>nd<\/sup>-place NASCAR results fool you: Ambrose was running third before he was spun out by Elliot Sadler. Ambrose got his start in NASCAR as a road-course specialist, and with his background in Australian <span class=SpellE>Supercars<\/span>, he knows how to get around a road course as well as anyone. Look for <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Ambrose<\/span><\/b> to win at the Cup level for the first time and pick up a <font color=black><span style='color:black'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/sports-betting\/auto-racing\" title=\"NASCAR betting\">NASCAR betting<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span><\/font>victory this week. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those going through their US Open betting odds could have some extra time on Sunday due to Thursday&#8217;s round being postponed, so take that extra time and head over to your sportsbook, where you&#8217;ll find NASCAR betting odds for the Toyota Save\/Mart 350 at Infineon Raceway. This is one of only two road courses on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/nascar-betting-look-for-ambrose-to-snatch-first-cup-win\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASCAR Betting &#8211; Look For Ambrose To Snatch First Cup Win<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}