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| Martin Truex Jr. led 87 laps Sunday in the Coca-Cola 600. |
Venue: Charlotte Motor Speedway
Television-Time: FS1, 8:00 p.m. ET
I’m going to get addicted to these Wednesday specials NASCAR is running due to the pandemic and I don’t think I want to go back to the old and tired format spread across a weekend and I’m sure the drivers would love an extra break of two in what amounts to the longest season or any pro sports league.
Racing February to late November, running almost every weekend, is for the birds.
The cool thing about Wednesday’s Alsco Uniforms 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway that is far different from Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 -- NASCAR’s longest race -- is that drivers can’t wait around for six hours for their cars to come around.
It’s a marathon, and I love it, but the urgency of a short race creates so much more intensity throughout.
The Alsco Uniforms 500 is essentially 208 laps around the 1.5-mile high-banked track, almost half the distance they ran in Sunday’s long-distance event.
“It’s definitely going to be more of a sprint race with our M&M’S Fudge Brownie Camry,” said Kyle Busch of the shorter format. “Thankfully, my guys are really, really, really good on pit road and they probably passed the most cars Sunday night on pit road – more than I did. It’s definitely beneficial when you can come down pit road 15th, 10th, eighth, seventh, whatever it is, and those guys are going to get you five or six spots. I’m not too upset about where we have to start. We certainly saw that track position was a big deal on Sunday night, so we want to work our way to the front and stay there if we can. I know I’m up for it and the guys on pit road are up for the task, too, with how well they performed on Sunday night.”
Busch ended up fourth Sunday, a far better position than the car probably deserved, but it’s part of the reason that makes Busch a two-time Cup Champion. It was his second consecutive race using the 550 horsepower race package where he finished in the top-five but didn’t lead a lap. He’s still looking for a win in 2020 after seven races and his aggressive driving style makes him one of the top candidates to win which is why he’s a co-favorite at 6/1 odds.
NASCAR Betting Analysis - Charlotte
Busch will start from the 17th position Wednesday night. The top-20 finishers from Sunday will be inverted to create the starting lineup. No practices or qualifying, either so we’ll have to rely on what we saw Sunday as the main source of information after crew chiefs surely gained some valuable race notes. They want to be fast right off the hauler and recreate when they were fastest on Sunday as a set-up. It’s all at night -- no changing conditions like Sunday -- and the race goes by super fast.
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