NASCAR odds for the Coca Cola 600 are taking bets ahead of a crazy four-race, 10-day stretch for the Cup Series. The race at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday, May 24 serves as the third event in NASCAR’s restart to the 2020 season after the COVID-19 shutdown.
Covers Experts’ Auto Racing Advisor sizes up the NASCAR odds for the Coca Cola 600 and gives his NASCAR predictions and betting picks for the first of two events at Charlotte this month.
NASCAR betting odds for the Coca Cola 600
| Driver | Odds To Win |
|---|---|
| Kyle Busch | +350 |
| Martin Truex Jr. | +470 |
| Joey Logano | +700 |
| Kevin Harvick | +800 |
| Chase Elliott | +950 |
| Denny Hamlin | +1,100 |
| Alex Bowman | +1,300 |
| Brad Keselowski | +1,300 |
| Jimmie Johnson | +1,600 |
| Clint Bowyer | +2,500 |
| Kurt Busch | +2,800 |
| Ricky Stenhouse Jr. | +2,800 |
| Ryan Blaney | +2,800 |
| Aric Almirola | +3,200 |
| Austin Dillon | +3,200 |
| Erik Jones | +3,600 |
| William Byron | +4,200 |
| Matt Kenseth | +4,500 |
| Chis Buescher | +5,000 |
Who will win today’s NASCAR Coca Cola 600 race?
Betting favorites
Kyle Busch (+350)
Busch has two Top-3 finishes in his last two starts of the season before the COVID-19 break. Also, in his last five Coca Cola 600 starts, he's scored four Top-6 finishes including three of his last four being a Top-3 result. He won this race in 2018 and has led one lap, 63 laps, 22 laps, 377 laps and 79 laps respectively in his last five Charlotte oval starts.
Martin Truex Jr. (+470)
Truex hasn't finished better than 14th all year, but Charlotte is his best track. He's won two of the three Coke 600's and was second in the other. In fact, he has four straight Top-3 finishes in this race and four in the last five years. He led 116 laps in his win a year ago and has dominated Charlotte's oval with laps led of 131, 0, 392, 0, 233, 91, 0 and 116 in his last eight starts there.
Joey Logano (+700)
Logano has never won the Coca Cola 600 but finished second in this race in 2019. He boasts an average finish of 10th place at Charlotte for his career and was one of the hottest drivers to start the season, winning two races and sitting second in the Cup Series points before the shutdown.
Betting long shots
Jimmie Johnson (+1,600)
At one point, Charlotte was Johnson's playground. Since 2016, he's struggled at virtually every other racetrack besides this 1.5-mile oval. He’s placed third, first, 17th, seventh, fifth and eighth over his last six Charlotte starts.
William Byron (+4,200)
Can win No. 1 come in his hometown track? Byron was ninth in this race a year ago and should have the speed to compete. Another NASCAR Hall of Famer earned his first career Cup Series victory in the famed No. 24 Chevrolet in the Coca-Cola 600 too.
Driver Head-to-Head odds pick
William Byron (-115) vs Kurt Busch (-115)
Busch has one Top-5 finish in his last 11 Charlotte oval starts. Byron was ninth last year after starting up front, leading 31 laps last May. On top of that, he's got arguably more speed than Busch’s No. 1 Chevrolet this season. As mentioned above, this is Byron's native track and we like him to have the home-field edge for this Coca Cola 600 driver matchup prop.
Pick: Byron (-115)
Betting Charlotte Motor Speedway
Starting position hasn't mattered much lately in the Coca Cola 600. Four of the last five race winners have come from a starting spot outside of the Top 10, including three of the last four winners coming from Row 7 or worst.
So, while drivers will get to qualify just prior to this race on May 24, don't look for starting position to hold a lot of merit when it comes to who will win the Coca Cola 600.
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