NASCAR Betting - Swapping paint at Bristol Motor Speedway
by BetUS Staff
If you look at the Sharpie 500 you’ll see a couple of familiar faces at the top.
Michigan International Speedway. Stewart, meanwhile, is charging fast with three wins in his last five races.
Gordon and Stewart are tops on the Bristol Motor Speedway. This half-mile course features eye-popping banks as high as 27 degrees in the turns (their true angle remains in dispute) and 16 degrees in the straightaways. It’s a cauldron of cars, and you can rest assured there will be paint swapped this Saturday.
The traditional bettor focus at these odd tracks is to place extra value on those drivers who have enjoyed recent success there. Following that logic, you would expect Food City 500 (the spring race at BMS) four of the past five seasons heading into 2007.
Not so. Chevrolet has been utterly dominant this year, leaving Kenseth (Ford) at +950 for Saturday and Busch (Dodge) at +800. That said, Gordon does have a strong history at Bristol, winning the spring race four times in a row between 1995 and 1998 and taking this week’s event in 2002. More importantly, Gordon started from the pole at this year’s Food City 500 before finishing third. Race winner Kyle Busch is available at +850.
Stewart’s experiences at Bristol haven’t been as encouraging. Although he won this event in 2001, Stewart finished in 35th place at the 2007 Food City 500, dropping his average result at BMS to 17.7 in 17 appearances. Teammate Denny Hamlin may be the sharper bet at +850; his results in the Car of Tomorrow have been better than Stewart’s, but still not nearly as good as Gordon (average COT finish after nine events: 4.2).
This is the first year for ESPN at the Sharpie 500. Race time is 8:00 p.m. Eastern.
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