Last week at the Pocono Raceway, it was Denny Hamlin who took the checkered flag at the NASCAR Cup Series’ HighPoint.com 400. He zipped by Kyle Larson using a bump-and-go pass with seven laps to go to get his seventh win on this track – and his 50th Cup Series trophy in his career, as well as his second title in 2023. The race actually ended under caution thanks to an incident in the last lap somewhere else on the track, so Hamlin celebrated under a chorus of boos from the crowd at Pocono. This week, NASCAR races at Richmond Raceway, and the Cup Series event is the Cook Out 400, set for Sunday at 3:00 pm Eastern time. The USA network will have the telecast, and you can listen on the Motor Racing Network or SiriusXM. Let’s look at the sports betting odds for the field as well as our NASCAR wager card suggestions.
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DriverOddsMartin Truex Jr +450Kyle Larson +500Denny Hamlin +650Kevin Harvick, Christopher Bell +750Kyle Busch +850William Byron +900Joey Logano +1200Ross Chastain, Chase Elliott +1600Ryan Blaney +2200Tyler Reddick, Ty Gibbs +2800Brad Keselowski +3000Aric Almirola, Alex Bowman +4500Chris Buescher, Bubba Wallace +5500Daniel Suarez +6500Chase Briscoe +7000Ryan Preece, Ryan Newman +10000Austin Dillon +15000Ricky Stenhouse Jr +20000Justin Haley, Erik Jones, AJ Allmendinger +25000Michael McDowell, Harrison Burton, Austin Cindric +30000Todd Gilliland, Corey LaJoie +50000Ty Dillon, Noah Gragson, JJ Yeley, BJ McLeod +100000
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Kyle Larson
has reason to be angry after the way things ended at Pocono. He felt that Denny Hamlin took some liberties with the way that he finished the race, so I expect Larson and his crew to put together a car that can beat Hamlin on his home track. Larson won the spring race at Richmond, and he also won at North Wilkesboro and Martinsville. Phoenix should have been a win for him. He has the top average lap time in the short-track package in the Cup Series. Hamlin may have won last week, but Larson is going to combine motivation and elite speed to punish Hamlin, and he is the smartest pick this week.
William Byron
led 117 laps in the spring race at Richmond, tops in the Cup Series. He ended up finishing 24th, thanks to a late-race caution in the 372nd lap. Byron had the lead when he entered pit road and left in fourth place; he got knocked off the table in the next restart. Turnabout is fair play, of course, as Byron took a win at Phoenix thanks to a late caution in an event that Larson had in the bag. Byron is second in average lap time in the short-track package.
Alex Bowman
had the third-best average running position in the spring Richmond race, and he has a win here in 2021. He also won at Richmond two years ago and took the win at Martinsville, another short, flat track. When Bowman wins, he is almost always a dark horse on the odds list. If you look at his record here – and his odds – he makes a smart long shot.
Kevin Harvick
is winding down his last season in the Cup Series and wanted to get into the NASCAR playoffs. He looks secure to get in, but winning at Richmond would make it more of a lock. He won the second race at Richmond in 2022 after a run of a couple of seasons when the Stewart-Haas Racing Fords had been doing well at short tracks. He has one of the top five average lap times in this year’s short-track package.
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Driver Standings
PosDriverPointsTeam1Martin Truex Jr711Toyota2William Byron681Chevrolet3Denny Hamlin656Toyota4Christopher Bell636Toyota5Ross Chastain613Chevrolet
Manufacturer Standings
PosTeamPoints1Chevrolet7862Toyota7293Ford704
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