Atlanta Motor Speedway is the site for this week’s NASCAR Cup Series race, as the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 is set for Sunday afternoon at 3:00 pm Eastern time. The broadcast is on FOX. Last week, Chase Briscoe became the 200th different driver to win a NASCAR Cup Series race, beating Ross Chastain by 0.771 seconds at the Ruoff Mortgage 500 in Phoenix. The key was fast pit stops, as Briscoe led 101 laps, second only to Ryan Blaney, who led 144 after winning the pole. Chastain and Tyler Reddick made Briscoe go three-wide on the last restart, but Briscoe was able to pull away for the win. Reddick took third, with Blaney and Kurt Busch rounding out the top five. Let’s look at the NASCAR betting odds for the race as well as wager card suggestions.
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| Driver | Odds |
| Kyle Larson, Ryan Baney | +1000 |
| Chase Elliott, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano | +1200 |
| Kyle Busch, William Byron | +1300 |
| Alex Bowman | +1400 |
| Kevin Harvick, Tyler Reddick, Martin Truex Jr | +1600 |
| Chase Briscoe | +1800 |
| Kurt Busch, Ross Chastain | +2000 |
| Aric Almirola, Austin Cindric, Brad Keselowski, Bubba Wallace | +2500 |
| Austin Dillon, Christopher Bell | +3000 |
| Ricky Stenhouse Jr | +4000 |
| Erik Jones, Daniel Suarez | +5000 |
| Chris Buescher | +6000 |
| Cole Custer, Michael McDowell | +8000 |
| Harrison Burton, Ty Dillon, Noah Gragson, Justin Haley | +10000 |
| Todd Gilliland | +12500 |
| Corey LaJoie, Greg Biffle, David Ragan | +25000 |
| B.J. McLeod, Josh Bilicki, Cody Ware | +100000 |
David Ragan is an interesting sleeper pick. Atlanta could turn out to be a plate track, and we’ll know more after practice runs. Ragan went to Daytona at +10000 and came in eighth, and at 2020 at Daytona, he came in fourth. If Atlanta turns out to be a plate track as well, then Ragan could challenge again, making that value worth a small bet.
Denny Hamlin and Chase Elliott are two of the top plate races in the Cup Series. Hamlin is slightly better, but Elliott is also elite and is racing at his “home” track. Atlanta has undergone a redesign, with high banking and a smooth surface. However, the corners are also tighter, with the track shrinking from 55 feet to 40 feet in width. This should make things go more like Daytona, which would favor Hamlin, with two wins and four top-five finishes in his last seven Daytona starts. Elliott has a pair of top-five finishes without a win over that same time frame.
Kyle Larson is waiting for his luck to change on a plate track; while he has figured out the nuances, he just has not had things come out the way he would like at the end. Ryan Blaney was headed to a win at Daytona earlier this year before his teammate sent him into the wall near the end. He won the summer race at Daytona last year, and he also won at TAlladega in 2019 and 2020. In the last ten plate races, he has cracked the top ten seven times.
Bubba Wallace and Ricky Stenhouse Jr have both won at plate tracks in the past, but both tend to get too aggressive. One or both of these racers could end up in a crash, but the risk also brings rewards. Bubba almost won at Daytona, and Stenhouse was contending before Brad Keselowski took out so much of the field. Stenhouse is better on the wider surfaces, but Wallace finishes races more often (as opposed to wrecking out).
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