The similarly-configured, 1.5-mile tracks have developed a tendency to reward dark horses for top-10s in what has become standard fare – enough so that several units of one’s budget should go to this wager.
Austin Dillon’s 12th-place finish, Bubba Wallace’s 14th, and Chase Briscoe’s 15th put them on the cusp of being great values as well. One of them, Kurt Busch won at +3300 and that offset a consistent weekly bet through this stage of the season.īusch led Tyler Reddick in sixth, Christopher Bell in eighth, and Matt DiBenedetto in ninth as dark horse success stories. Last week four drivers with outright-to-win odds to win the Quaker State 400 that were long enough to drag their top-10 odds into the plus range earned top-10 finishes, proving there are multiple ways to make money on a NASCAR race.
