Top Odds & Picks for NASCAR at the Brickyard Verizon 200: Longshot Winner (2022)
The NASCAR Cup Series heads to Indianapolis for one of the best new traditions in racing. Since 2021, NASCAR has shared the weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course with the IndyCar series. Here are our top picks for Sunday’s Cup race, the Verizon 200 at the Brickyard.
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Odds to Win the Verizon 200 at the Brickyard
Best Picks for the Verizon 200 at the Brickyard
Ever since the debut of the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval, the NASCAR Cup Series has started to frequent more road courses, or tracks with both left and right turns. Although NASCAR catches flak for its drivers only knowing how to make left turns, some of the best road-course racers compete in the series.
First-time winners have earned the checkered flag in each of the first three road-course races this season. But seven-time road course winner Chase Elliott is the favorite to wind up in victory lane at Indy, and as much as I hate buying high, I'm making an exception this weekend.
Longshot: Michael McDowell | +3400 (.05u) at FanDuel
Two drivers could continue the trend of surprising road-course winners this year: McDowell and Chris Buescher. I prefer Buescher this weekend, but the news that McDowell and Front Row Racing will appeal his penalty from Pocono is encouraging. It means that even if McDowell's team does end up penalized, the consequences won't begin until after Sunday's race.
McDowell has routinely run well at road courses this season. He finished 13th at the Circuit of the Americas, third at Sonoma, and eighth at Road America. He didn't lead laps in any of those events, but with Front Row Racing running out of chances to win a race, I expect him to approach Sunday's event quite aggressively.
McDowell is yet to a road course race in his Cup Series career. However, he has impressed at these tracks in the Xfinity Series. He owns one win and one runner-up finish at Road America, a runner-up at Mid-Ohio, and a third-place result at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
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