Odds taken from DraftKings Sportsbook.
Winner | Odds |
Martin Truex Jr. | +550 BET HERE |
Kyle Busch | +550 BET HERE |
Denny Hamlin | +550 BET HERE |
Kyle Larson | +750 BET HERE |
Willian Byron | +900 BET HERE |
Ryan Blaney | +1100 BET HERE |
Ross Chastain | +1100 BET HERE |
Chase Elliott | +1200 BET HERE |
Tyler Reddick | +1400 BET HERE |
Christopher Bell | +1400 BET HERE |
Kevin Harvick | +1600 BET HERE |
When the NASCAR Cup Series comes to Pocono, chances are you’ll find Kevin Harvick near the front of the field.
In 43 starts at the 2.5-mile triangular track, Harvick has 15 top fives and 22 top 10s to his credit. He also boasts the second-best average driver rating among Cup competitors at 98.7.
Since Harvick is retiring at the end of the season, he’s the sentimental favorite everywhere he goes, but there are two factors that mitigate against him.
First, Harvick has only one victory at the track. Second, he’s driving a Ford, and Ford drivers have won just one of the last 10 races at the Tricky Triangle. That was Harvick in 2020, when he won just about everywhere.
We’d like to back Harvick at +1600 via DraftKings Sportsbook, but we’ll go with our head and not our heart this time.
Our best bet among the Ford drivers is for Brad Keselowski, whose equipment is vastly improved this year, to finish in the top three (+900 DraftKings) and top five (+450).
Hendrick Motorsports driver William Byron is just 25 years old, and that makes it difficult to believe he’s already in his sixth full season of NASCAR Cup Series racing.
In fact, Byron leads the series with four victories this year, and he has the best average finish at the track in Sunday’s field at 9.44.
Chevrolet drivers have won two of the last three Pocono races but none of the previous seven. And Byron’s consecutive 12th-place finishes in the last two events there give us pause.
That’s why we’re looking elsewhere for the winner. Byron isn’t a bad bet at +900 via DraftKings, but we think our choice is a bit more obvious.
As a NASCAR Cup rookie in 2006, Denny Hamlin came to Pocono Raceway and won from the pole. He repeated the feat later that same year to establish himself as a master of the 2.5-mile triangular track.
All told, Hamlin has accumulated six victories at the track, tying him with NASCAR Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon for most all-time. A disqualification last year, because his team had added tape to the front fascia of his No. 11 Toyota, cost him a seventh win.
In 33 Pocono starts, Hamlin has 14 top fives, 21 top 10s, and an average finish of 11.8. He has a series-best average driver rating at the track of 107.7, significantly ahead of second-place Kevin Harvick’s 98.7.
Toyota drivers have won seven of the last 10 races at the Tricky Triangle, and we think that dominance will continue on Sunday with Hamlin (+550 DraftKings) in the winner’s circle.
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