2020 Daytona 500 Odds
The NASCAR Cup Series kicks off the 2021 season at Daytona International Speedway Sunday at 2:30 p.m. ET for the Daytona 500. Below we analyze the Daytona 500 NASCAR odds and lines, with NASCAR picks and tips with odds from BetMGM sportsbook.
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Odds are out for the next edition of The Great American Race from BetMGM. See which drivers are among the favorites for the 2021 Daytona 500, scheduled Sunday, Feb.
- Feb 13, 2021 2021 Daytona 500 Odds Joey Logano (+1200) - 2015 Kevin Harvick (+1400) - 2007 Kurt Busch (+2500) - 2017 Austin Dillon (+2500) - 2018 Ryan Newman (+3300) -2008 Jamie McMurray (+6600) - 2010.
- There has been some movement in the odds for the 2020 Daytona 500, according to DraftKings. See where 2019 winner Denny Hamlin and other top drivers - plus some new ones who are moving up the.
- Feb 13, 2021 The model began the 2020 season paying out big by picking Denny Hamlin to win his second consecutive Daytona 500 at 10-1. The model also called Kevin Harvick's win at Atlanta and nailed a whopping.
Odds courtesy of BetMGM; access USA TODAY Sports’ betting odds for a full list. Lines last updated Saturday at 4:18 p.m. ET.
The Cup Series is scheduled to kick off its 2021 season Sunday for the Great American Race, the Daytona 500. However, we’ll have to keep a close eye on the sky. There is greater than a 60 percent chance of showers from mid-afternoon through the early evening in Daytona Beach, Fla., so a delay and/or postponement seems likely given the ominous forecast.
Monday’s forecast calls for mostly clear in the morning with a 40 percent chance of scattered thunderstorms moving in around 1 p.m. ET. But there is an open window in the event the race is postponed Sunday.
Kyle Busch won the Busch Clash at Daytona on Tuesday night on the road course. While that certainly doesn’t mean sure success on the tri-oval, it gives Busch a springboard into the new season after a disastrous 2020.Busch’s Joe Gibbs Racing teammate
Denny Hamlin has won each of the past two Daytona 500 races. In last year’s win, he was originally slotted in the 21st starting position but was moved to the back of the pack due to multiple failed inspections. In 30 career starts at the track he has three wins, 10 top-5 finishes and a 16.33 Average-Finish Position (AFP).Richard Childress Racing’s2020 Daytona 500 Winner
Austin Dillon picked up the checkered flag at the 500 in 2018. Good finishes on the restrictor-plate track are nothing new for Dillon. In 15 career starts at DIS, he has the 2018 win, two top-5 finishes, seven top-10 runs and a pole in 2014. He also has a stellar 15.53 AFP on the Florida superspeedway.Bubba Wallace will make his debut for owner Michael Jordan’s 23XI Racing, running in the No. 23 car. He was the runner-up to Dillon in 2018, posting the highest finish by an African-American driver in the 500. Bubba was fastest in Wednesday’s practice.Special Daytona 500 Betting Promotion!
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Who is going to win the Daytona 500?
HAMLIN (+500) is the chalk, but you have to figure it’s time for someone else. The No. 11 has been to Victory Lane in each of the past two seasons in the Super Bowl of Stock Car Racing. Hamlin’s two wins, and three victories in the past five seasons, gives manufacturer Toyota checkered flags in three of the past five Daytona 500 races.
Hamlin joined Sterling Marlin (1994-95), Cale Yarborough (1983-84) and Richard Petty (1973-74) as the only drivers to win the Daytona 500 in consecutive seasons. No one has ever won the Daytona 500 in three straight years.
Stewart-Haas Racing’s KEVIN HARVICK (+1200) has some rather long odds given his previous success at the track. He has made 39 career starts on the Daytona tri-oval, posting two wins, 10 top-5 finishes, 262 laps led and a sharp 17.6 AFP. He also has eight DNFs at the track, second-most among active drivers behind KYLE BUSCH (+1400), so there is some risk.
Penske Racing’s JOEY LOGANO (+900) is looking to get back to Victory Lane at the 500 for the first time since 2015. He owns an impressive 18.17 AFP in 24 career DIS starts, including nine finishes of 10th or better with 156 laps led.
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Daytona 500 long-shot bet
RICKY STENHOUSE JR. (+2500) of JTG Daugherty Racing was on the pole last season and was fifth fastest in qualifying at 189.565 mph. He is always a driver to watch on the superspeedways, especially Daytona. He has a win in 17 career starts, 121 laps led and 10 finishes of 20th or better while going for a solid 19.59 AFP.
ARIC ALMIROLA (+1800) doesn’t have quite as long of odds, but he is worth a look. He appeared to be on his way to a win at the 500 in 2018, but he was bumped by Dillon and sent careening into the wall. He does have a career win in Daytona in the summer race, and he has 10 finishes of 20th or better in 18 career starts with a 20.56 AFP.
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The 63rd running of the Daytona 500 will kick off the NASCAR Cup Series season. The 2020 Cup season was wild, especially in the face of the continuing global COVID-19 pandemic. This caused a break in action from March 8th to May 17th. But the season ended on a shock note as Kevin Harvick had been at or near the top of the standings all campaign long, only to fail to make it to the championship round. There, Chase Elliott won the season finale at Phoenix, outlasting Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski. It was Elliott’s first Cup title, and he won three of the last five races (including the final two at Martinsville and Phoenix) to do so. Of course, that also means it is time for Daytona 500 odds.
You can watch the Daytona 500 from Daytona Beach, Florida, on Sunday, February 14th at 2:30 PM ET on Fox. It will be held at venerable Daytona International Speedway, which is 2.5 miles long and is one of the restrictor-plate tracks that NASCAR visits, along with Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama.
| 2021 Daytona 500 |
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| Date: Sunday, February 14, 2021 at 2:30 PM ET |
| Location: Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Florida |
| Where To Watch: FOX |
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You should know that “The Great American Race” is the first race of the season at Daytona. There is one usually later in the summer. However, that means the track is much different for the Daytona 500 as it is usually cooler in the day. This makes a difference in tire wear and other factors. Also, the summer race is 400 miles, as opposed to 500 for this race.
Drivers tend to team up with others at Daytona, usually their teammates, to draft safely in a single-file line around the massive track for the majority of the race. However, things tend to get frisky during the last 30-40 laps, and that is when “The Big One” can happen. For example:
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Hamlin leads the group in the Daytona 500 odds at +650. He has won three of the last five editions of this race, including the last two. In his last nine Daytona 500s, Hamlin has three wins and seven top-four finishes overall. Therefore, he knows how to survive in this race, which gives him a chance to win at the end. Hamlin’s main focus in 2021 is to finally break his title drought as he has come close a few times. But he is definitely a threat in this race.
Elliott is next at +900. He has already had a wild Speedweeks as he wrecked Ryan Blaney on the final lap of the Busch Clash, which was eventually won by Kyle Busch on the Daytona road course. The defending Cup champion has never finished higher than 14th in five Daytona 500s, and has finished 17th in each of the last two years. However, Hamlin finished 17th in worse in each of his first six starts in this race. That shows it takes some time to get used to the wild style of racing you see at Daytona and Talladega.
The Contenders
The next group of contenders are stellar as Blaney leads the way at +1000, while Brad Keselowski, Joey Logano and Kyle Busch are all in at +1100. In this group, only Logano (2015) has won the Daytona 500, although Keselowski won the Daytona summer race in 2016. Keselowski, Logano and Busch are all very aggressive, which means they can put themselves in trouble in restrictor-plate races. It should be noted that Blaney (who finished second to Hamlin in last year’s Daytona 500), Logano and Keselowski are all teammates at Team Penske, which means they’ll probably team up throughout the race. However, all bets are off with 10 laps to go or less.
Kevin Harvick is right behind them at +1200. He won the 2007 Daytona 500 in a wreck-filled finish (aren’t they all at Daytona?) over Mark Martin. He finished fifth in last year’s race, but Harvick will be eager to get back on the track after what happened last season. Harvick had nine wins going into Martinsville, but was eliminated from competing in the championship race thanks to a late-race crash with Kyle Busch (caused by Harvick’s aggressiveness). He would settle for a 17th-place finish.
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The Longshots
Here is where you can make some sports betting money on the Daytona 500 odds. The fun aspect of restrictor-plate racing is that anyone can win, thanks to a style that causes big wrecks which can knock favorites out of the way. For example, William Byron has odds of +1600, coming off a win in the 2020 Daytona summer race. Martin Truex Jr. is used to being a favorite at most races, but he sits at +2200 because he struggles at restrictor-plate tracks, although he did finish fourth here in the summer.
If you want to go for a real long shot, look at Chris Buescher at +4000. Buescher has finished fifth in two of the last three Daytona 500s. He also finished at the summer race here in 2020. Buescher is a great draft racer and he gives himself a chance by hanging around at the end. One of these days, he’ll win one. Will it come on Sunday in the biggest stock-car race in the USA?
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No driver has ever won the Daytona 500 three times in a row, so a three-peat for Hamlin would put him in exclusive territory. It would also put him at four wins, along with Cale Yarborough and behind only Richard Petty’s seven wins. However, there is a reason that no one has ever three-peated in “The Great American Race”; it’s really, really hard. I’m going to go with Kevin Harvick to win his second Daytona 500. He probably didn’t sleep much over the offseason, thinking about what happened at Martinsville. He’ll want to correct that, starting on Sunday with a win here.