2019 Thailand MotoGP Odds & Betting Preview

After eleven straight races in Europe, MotoGP now heads to Asia for the 2019 Thailand MotoGP, to be held at the Chang International Circuit in Buriram. This is the fifteenth race of the 2019 season and comes before a three-week stretch that will see riders in Japan, Australia and Malaysia, which means that the sport is about to undergo the chaos of constant air travel. The average temperature here gets into the 80s (Fahrenheit), and it is also the rainy season in that part of the world. Let’s take a look at the sports betting odds for each rider, along with thoughts about the course and your picks. Marc Marquez had a huge crash as part of the FP1 session and is currently off the odds board. However, it has not yet been decided at this writing whether he will race on the weekend, so you will want to pay attention to the latest updates and MotoGP odds before you commit to a wager.

2019 Thailand MotoGP Odds & Betting Preview

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Race Info

• When: Sunday, October 6th, 3am ET
• Where: Chang International Circuit, Thailand
• TV: FOX
• Live Stream: BTSport.com

Rider Odds to Win the 2019 Thailand MotoGP

• Andrea Dovizioso                                                                                            5/1
• Fabio Quartararo, Maverick Vinales                                                              11/2
• Valentino Rossi                                                                                               8/1
• Jack Miller                                                                                                       10/1
• Alex Rins                                                                                                         16/1
• Franco Morbidelli                                                                                            22/1
• Danilo Petrucci                                                                                               25/1
• Cal Crutchlow                                                                                                 33/1
• Aleix Espargaro, Joan Mir                                                                              100/1
• Takaaki Nakagami                                                                                          150/1
• Jorge Lorenzo                                                                                                 200/1
• Francesco Bagnaia                                                                                         250/1
• Miguel Oliveira, Andrea Iannone                                                                    500/1
• Mika Kallio                                                                                                       1000/1
• Hafizh Syahrin, Esteve Rabat, Karel Abraham                                              2000/1

The Circuit

This circuit is basically made up of a tight corner, a short straight, a tight corner, a lengthy straight, a long hairpin, a medium-length straight, and a series of twists and turns to go back to the starting point. However, racing here involves a lot of nuance with respect to finding the right tangent on the straights so that the angles come out right. Turn 3 comes right after the long straight at the back, and it is the long hairpin at the far end of that straight. There is some rise under it, and you can either stay on the inside and glue yourself to the curb, making your ground up upon exiting, or you can go out wide and cut back in to bring more speed at the end. Both choices bring you to the exit at the corner at the same place, at the same time. So there is a lot of strategy involved here that one might not see just from looking at the course map. Turn 4 is one of the most hair-raising corners in all of MotoGP. You should ride faster than 200 km/hour here, because you need speed here to make it to Turn 5 without dropping, so that you can get to the twists and turns without giving up the lead. You can pass at the entrance to Turn 5, although that can mean that you lose speed in the twists and turns. There are several similar choices leading up to Turn 12, a corner that offers another chance to pass, but you have to choose between turning to get to the straight or braking into the corner to get your advantage. If you do both, then you suffer, as Andrea Dovizioso found out last year.

Who Should You Bet On?

If Marquez races and finishes in the top four and ahead of Dovizioso, then he clinches the rider title. If Dovizioso finishes ahead of Marquez (or if Marquez does not race), then the title will remain open for at least one more week. If Marquez races, he realizes that he has other chances to clinch, so going with Dovizioso despite his status as the favorite makes sense either way, as he has all of the motivation, and he ran a terrific last year until the last turn, when his attempt to catch and pass Marquez failed.