Posted on 5/29/2007 4:11:46 PM

NASCAR Betting - Autism Speaks 400, June 3, 2007

By Brock Murphy

At the risk of running out of fuel, Casey Mears refused to pit and pulled out of Lowe’s Motor Speedway as the Coca Cola 600 Champion – his first career NASCAR victory. He promptly ran out of gas on the cool-down lap. And so it was that Hendricks Motorsports won its fifth race in a row. One wonders whether such a risky call would have been made for one of their flagship drivers (Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson).

J.J. Yeley, who had three career top-ten finishes (but none in the top-five), came in second. Kyle Petty, Reed Sorenson and Brian Vickers rounded out Charlotte’s top-five this go-around. Race-favorites Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon finished Charlotte in tenth and 41st-place, respectively. Gordon’s team was doing fine until his car took a nose dive into the wall late in the race.

Johnson was one of the cars which lost position when the race leaders decided to pit and Mears decided to stay on the track. However, Johnson’s finish took another tumble when a lug nut was not properly tightened during that stop which required the car to instantly stop after its initial start out of the box.

 

The NASCAR Nextel Cup takes its Car of Tomorrow (“COT”) sleds North from Charlotte to Delaware this weekend to tackle the one-mile oval track of the Dover International Speedway (“DIS”). Matt Kenseth won last year’s June race in Dover while Jeff Burton claimed the checkered flag there last September.

Jamie McMurray and Kevin Harvick finished second and third in last June’s race. Jeff Burton, Kyle Busch Jimmie Johnson, Kasey Kahne, Greg Biffle, Mark Martin and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. rounded out the top-ten.

Carl Edwards and Jeff Gordon finished right behind Burton in the September race at DIS, followed by Kurt Busch, Greg Biffle and Martin Truex, Jr.

Hendricks Motorsports puts two streaks on the line in Delaware: 1) five wins in a row; and, 2) a perfect sweep of all five COT races which have been run this season. As a result, it is no surprise that Jeff Gordon is the race favorite at 4/1 odds, followed by teammate Jimmie Johnson (6/1). Last year’s winner, Matt Kenseth, carries 10/1 odds into the weekend, but those odds are bested by the 8/1 odds assigned to Denny Hamlin and Tony Stewart.

Kyle Busch carries the next best odds (12/1) while six different drivers share 15/1 odds of winning in Dover (Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Kurt Busch, Kevin Harvick, Carl Edwards, Ryan Newman and Jeff Burton).

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