Drydene 400
2 p.m. ET (Fox Sports activities 1)
The favorites at Dover are all current winners on the monitor.
The 5 drivers with the very best odds to win Sunday’s Cup Collection race are the 5 most up-to-date winners on the one-mile concrete oval. Chase Elliott received the 2018 fall race. He’s at +700. Martin Truex Jr. received the 2019 spring race. He’s at a +350. Kyle Larson received the 2019 fall race. He’s at +450.
The 2020 race weekend was a doubleheader due to the coronavirus pandemic. These races had been received by Denny Hamlin (+500) and Kevin Harvick (+700).
Three of these drivers talked about above haven’t but received in 2021, although it’s solely a matter of time earlier than they do. Hamlin has been dominating within the factors standings regardless of not visiting Victory Lane, and Harvick has been extraordinarily constant as soon as once more. Elliott, in the meantime, is the one member of Hendrick Motorsports who hasn’t received a race up to now this season. He’s eighth within the standings. He’s been no slouch.
Sunday’s race on the monitor can be the one race at Dover this season. Dover hasn’t been one of the vital entertaining tracks on the Cup Collection circuit in fairly a while, so followers in all probability aren’t going to overlook a second race at Dover all that a lot. The monitor’s second date is now at Nashville Superspeedway, a monitor that hasn’t hosted a Cup Collection race.
And given Dover’s distinctive traits — it’s twice the scale of Bristol and Nashville is the one different monitor on the schedule with a concrete floor — Sunday’s race isn’t prone to inform us a lot about the remainder of the Cup Collection season. However some frequent sense and the betting odds make it clear {that a} shock winner in all probability isn’t going to occur. The fellows who’ve been good at Dover are going to be good at Dover once more in 2021. Which one are you going to wager on?
As all the time, the chances listed beneath are offered by BetMGM.
The favorites
Martin Truex Jr., +350
Kyle Larson, +450
Denny Hamlin, +500
Chase Elliott, +700
Kevin Harvick, +700
Elliott has completed thirty eighth and thirty ninth in two of the 4 Dover races since his win on the monitor. His different two finishes are a pair of fifths. Truex hasn’t completed exterior the highest 15 at Dover since he was thirty eighth in 2013. Larson hasn’t raced at Dover since his 2019 win and has completed decrease than twelfth simply as soon as in 12 begins. Hamlin has simply 13 prime 10s in 30 begins at Dover, however seven of these have come since 2016. Harvick has completed first, sixth, fourth, fourth, fourth and first in his final six Dover begins.
Good mid-tier worth
Joey Logano, +1400
William Byron, +1600
Logano has by no means received at Dover, although he’s been fairly strong on the monitor. He has 4 top-19 finishes in his final 5 races and has 14 prime 10s in 24 begins. Byron was fourth within the second race at Dover in 2020 and was eighth within the spring race in 2019. He has 10 top-10 finishes in 12 races up to now this season and all these have are available a row. Byron hasn’t completed decrease than ninth after he began the season with Twenty sixth- and Thirty third-place finishes at Daytona.
Do not wager this driver
Austin Dillon, +5000
Dillon has three top-10 finishes in 15 Dover begins and has by no means completed higher than seventh on the monitor. Dillon has been strong in 2021 and is posting the very best common end (13.6) of his profession. That’s why he’s twelfth within the standings. However he additionally has led simply eight laps up to now this 12 months and has one prime 5. He’s nonetheless a methods away from a win.
In search of an extended shot?
Bubba Wallace, +20000
Don’t wager drivers with extraordinarily lengthy odds at tracks exterior of Daytona and Talladega. Wallace will get a point out right here as a result of … properly, he’s the best choice of the blokes with the lengthy odds. He posted his first lead-lap end at Dover within the second race of 2020.
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