This week NASCAR head back out west to Fort Worth, Texas for the Samsung Mobile 500 at Texas Motor Speedway, which is the first Saturday night race of the season.
The NASCAR Sprint Cup series was in Martinsville, Virginia last
week for the Goody’s Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway. Denny Hamlin was
the favorite to win at 7/2 after winning four of his last five races at this
track but Kevin Harvick made it two victories in a row after taking the
checkered flag in Sunday’s race a week after winning at Fontana. Harvick closed
as the fourth favorite at 9/1.
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The following is a look at a few drivers to watch along with their
current NASCAR betting odds to win on Saturday night as provided by Bodog.com
Denny
Hamlin is currently 19th in the Sprint Cup standings and has only
finished in top 10 once this season, but for the second week in a row he is the
odds-on-favorite to win based on past performances at these tracks. This week
he has been opened as a 6/1 favorite to win at Texas after winning this race
last year. He went on to win the second race of the season at this track in
2010 and has eight top 10 finishes in 12 career races here. Harvick’s average
finishing position at this track is 8.8.
Carl
Edwards is another driver that has enjoyed a high level of success at Texas.
Last year he finished 33rd in this race after starting 20th,
but he won here in 2008 after starting second. He only has four top 10 finishes
in 12 starts here, but three of them landed him in victory lane. This season he
is currently second in the point standings with 214 points and has three top
five finishes including one win. He comes into this race as one of the next
three favorites to win at 13/2.
Jimmie
Johnson is still searching for his first win this year and he is also listed at
13/2 to get one this week. He has been close so far with three top five
finishes and finds himself in third-place in the standings with 207 points.
Last year in this race, Johnson started fourth and finished second. It was his
third straight second-place finish in a race he has yet to win. He has 11 top
10 finishes this track with seven of them coming in this race. His average
finishing position at Texas is 10.1.
The
third driver that is listed at 13/2 to win this week is Kyle Busch. He is the
current Sprint Cup point leader with 219 total points after a third-place
finish last week at Martinsville. Last year in this race he finished third
after starting seventh. He also took third-place in this race in 2007, but he
has yet to take the checkered flag here. Busch has five top 10 finishes at this
track including two in the race.
The
value pick for this week is Matt Kenseth at 13/1. His sixth-place in last week’s
race moved him to ninth in the standings with 195 points. He also has two top
five finishes this season in the first six races. Last year in this race,
Kenseth started 28
th and finished 20
th. He won this race
in 2002 and finished second in 2006 and 2007.
He has an average finishing position of 9.5 at this track and six of his
11 top 10 finishes at Texas have come in this race