Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Harvick and Hamlin the favorites to win 2020 Brickyard 400

The Westgate Superbook has Hamlin 9/2 this week at Indy.
Sunday’s Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway will be the 16th race of the modified 2020 NASCAR Cup Series season and 27th NASCAR race held on the most famous track in the world. There won’t be any practices or qualifying before the race, but we should have more than enough data to go off of to make some educated selections at the sportsbooks.

To begin the handicapping process, we have 10 races to reference that used the race package with 550 horsepower that will be employed Sunday and the most important results came last weekend in the two races at Pocono Raceway where Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin traded 1-2 finishes. Both of those guys have each won three times using this week’s race package. Any betting conversation regarding who is going to win starts with Hamlin and Harvick.

I’ve created driver ratings and odds for every NASCAR race at Indianapolis since Jeff Gordon won the inaugural race there in 1994 and the main theme always has been “What happened at Pocono.” I always heard crew chiefs and drivers use the two tracks as a reference, so I used it myself and the trends always correlate.

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