After opening at 3-1, Kyle Busch is the 3-2 preferred for NASCAR at Watkins Glen 2018, which conducts Sunday at 3 p.m. ET. It is the second road course race of the season and Denny Hamlin, recorded at 10-1 NASCAR at Watkins Glen odds, won the pole Saturday. Busch leads all active drivers with four road wins, including two in Watkins Glen, but his final win at The Glen has been back in 2013. Martin Truex Jr. won GoBowling in The Glen this past year and can be listed at 4-1 odds. Before you make any 2018 NASCAR at Watkins Glen choices, you need to find out exactly what SportsLine’s innovative computer version has to say.
The model, built by DFS expert Mike McClure, has an established history in a number of sports. In addition, it forces McClure’s DFS projections, which have led him to more than $1 million in career winnings.
McClure, who has a mechanical engineering degree, grew up around race tracks. Big racing events like this have been in his blood, and his version was crushing its 2018 NASCAR picks.
The model has made several huge calls this season, nailing the 1-2 finish for Busch and Harvick in the O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 as well as Harvick’s win at the KC Masterpiece 400. In addition, it nailed five of the top 10 at Bristol and two of the top five at Daytona, just to mention a few. Anyone following its selections this year is way, way up.
Now that the 2018 NASCAR at Watkins Glen field is locked, SportsLine simulated the occasion 10,000 times and the results were so surprising.
1 sudden pick from the model for GoBowling at The Glen 2018: Chase Elliott, getting the third-best NASCAR in Watkins Glen chances to triumph at 6-1, doesn’t sniff the best 10. He is a driver to prevent on Sunday despite his stellar starting position of third.
Elliott is still in search of his first career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series win. He’s cracked the top 10 in four of his past seven starts, but was just 19th in Chicago and 34th in Daytona last month. Last year at Watkins Glen, Elliott again started close to the top in fourth, but finished a disappointing 13th. He clocked the fastest rate (124.520 mph) in the last practices for GoBowling in The Glen 2018, but the model says he is a favorite to fade.
Another shocker: Truex Jr., obtaining the second-best chances at 4-1, does not even finish in the top five.
He has had plenty of success on street tracks, including winning final year. But he is a risky pick at these odds because he’s got an average finish position of 12th at Watkins Glen in his career, and it has finished 10th or worse in three of the last six races here. There are better values out there within this Go Bowling at The Glen field.
Rather, the version is targeting two huge underdogs with odds longer than 30-1 who are poised to make a serious run at the checkered flag, including a monster long haul. Anyone who bets on these underdogs could hit it rich.
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