Buckle Up 200 Race Picks
NASCAR Nationwide Series Betting Preview
Date and Time: Saturday May 31st, 2014. 3:01PM Eastern
Where: Dover International Speedway
TV: ESPN
By: NASCAR Wagers, NASCAR Handicapping Service
Earlier today Kyle Busch scored his 4th straight victory in the Camping World Truck Series by taming the Monster Mile in the Lucas Oil 200. Tomorrow Busch will get the opportunity to go for the 2nd leg of the weekend sweep when the Nationwide Series has their opportunity to go against ‘Miles the Monster’ and Dover International Speedway in the Buckle Up 200 presented by Click It or Ticket. Take a look as we preview tomorrow’s Nationwide Series race at Dover and present our Buckle Up 200 race picks!
Busch is the overall favorite for tomorrow’s race which is the case every week as a technicality due to his sheer dominance in the Nationwide Series. However, Joey Logano has actually ruled Dover International Speedway in recent years. Logano has won a record 4 straight Nationwide Series events at the Monster Mile over the past two seasons. The driver of the #22 car showed speed in both practices on Friday finishing inside the top 5 in each session and appears ready to go after an unprecedented 5th straight victory.
While Busch and Logano are the heavy favorites, there are several of talented drivers in tomorrow’s field capable of winning like Matt Kenseth, Chase Elliot, and Kyle Larson. Last week’s winner at Charlotte, Kyle Larson has had some strong finishes at every level of competition on the Monster Mile throughout his young career. In his rookie season in the Nationwide last year, Larson finished 2nd to Logano in the most recent trip to Dover back in September and we think he could make some noise yet again tomorrow.
Kenseth has been strong in nearly every Nationwide Series outing this year but has yet to win in either the Nationwide or Sprint Cup Series. Kenseth dominated the early stages of last week’s Nationwide race at Charlotte but could only manage a 6th place finish. Kenseth is starting to hear some of the chatter that Jimmie Johnson was hearing before last week’s win surrounding the fact the he is still winless in 2014. Kenseth has visited victory lane in both Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series at Dover, but sports a rather poor 15.4 average finish through his 15 starts in the Nationwide Series.
NASCAR’s young rising superstar Chase Elliot topped both practices on Friday. In the first practice session, Elliot posted some extremely fast lap times and backed that up with the fastest 10 lap consecutive average of either session. If you are looking for an even bigger longshot, Brian Scott was also really fast in practice on Friday. Scott was 2nd fastest in final practice and produced the best 10 lap average of the late session as well. If Scott and the #2 team can sustain that speed in race trim, they could find their selves amongst the leaders throughout the afternoon.
Buckle Up 200 Race Picks
Chase Elliot +725 (1 unit): Fastest in both practices, best consecutive 10 lap average.
Joey Logano +300 (2 units): Won 4 straight at Dover, fast in both practices, 2nd best consecutive 10 lap average in final practice.
H2H Bets
Kyle Larson -110 over Matt Kenseth (2 unit)
