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Winner | Odds |
Kyle Larson | +600 BET HERE |
Denny Hamlin | +600 BET HERE |
Chase Elliott | +700 BET HERE |
Tyler Reddick | +700 BET HERE |
Ross Chastain | +900 BET HERE |
Kyle Busch | +900 BET HERE |
Joey Logano | +1000 BET HERE |
Martin Truex Jr. | +1300 BET HERE |
Kevin Harvick | +1700 BET HERE |
William Byron | +1800 BET HERE |
Christopher Bell | +2000 BET HERE |
Ryan Blaney | +2000 BET HERE |
Alex Bowman | +3000 BET HERE |
Daniel Suarez | +4000 BET HERE |
Joey Logano to win the race at +1000
Ross Chastain to finish in the top three at +250
Kyle Larson to beat Denny Hamlin head-to-head at -110
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Kyle Larson may be the reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion, but he’s not having the sort of season that carried him to the title last year.
In 2021, Larson dominated the series with 10 victories, including a fortuitous triumph in the Championship 4 season finale at Phoenix Raceway.
This year, Larson has won twice and hasn’t separated himself from the other 15 drivers who will take to the track Sunday at Darlington Raceway in the opening race of the 2022 Playoffs.
Larson has an admirable record at Darlington, where he has posted five top fives in nine starts, including three straight runner-up finishes before bowing out because of an engine failure in May.
We don’t, however, think that Larson will take the checkered flag in the Playoff opener and would not advise betting on him as one of the pre-race favorites at +600 via DraftKings Sportsbook.
Denny Hamlin boasts nine national series wins at Darlington Raceway, four in Cup and five in Xfinity.
Ordinarily, Hamlin might be our choice in the grueling 500-miler at the challenging 1.366-mile race track.
But there are two factors mitigating against him this weekend. First, Hamlin took a hard hit in a 13-car wreck last Sunday’s regular-season finale at Daytona. He withdrew from Saturday’s Xfinity race because of soreness.
Though Hamlin said he was feeling better on Thursday, he may not be 100 percent for the Playoff opener.
Additionally, Hamlin and his team have been mistake-prone this season, and a long race on an abrasive track like Darlington means more pit stops and more chances for blunders.
Hence, we don’t like Hamlin to win. And we do like Kyle Larson to beat Hamlin head-to-head at -110.
Asked if they would consider themselves favorites to win a series championship, most elite-level drivers would demur.
Not Joey Logano. The 2018 NASCAR Cup champion considers himself the top choice to win a second title this year.
You know me—I always feel like I’m the favorite,
Logano said on Thursday during NASCAR Cup Series Playoff Media Day at the Charlotte Convention Center. “I race that way. That confidence is very important, and I think we have reason to feel that way.”
Logano has scored 44 more points than another driver in the last five Cup races, and he won the spring race at Darlington from the pole. He also won at Gateway, which, like Darlington, has two sets of distinctly different corners.
We like Logano to win Sunday’s Cook Out Southern 500 at +1000. He believes he can. Who are we to argue?
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Race | Cook Out Southern 500 NASCAR Cup Series race |
Location | Darlington Raceway |
Time | Sunday, September 4, 6 p.m. ET |
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