Kyle Larson was the big winner in last week’s NASCAR Cup Series Pennzoil 400, from Las Vegas Motor Speedway. That made four different winners in each of the first four races of the 2021 campaign, as he led in 103 of the 267 laps of the race. This was his first win in Vegas and his seventh Cup Series win overall. Brad Keselowski came in second, 3.156 seconds back of Larson. Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin and Ryan Blaney rounded out the top five. This week, the series moves to Phoenix Raceway for the Instacart 500.
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| Driver | Odds |
| Chase Elliott | +550 |
| Brad Keselowski | +600 |
| Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick | +650 |
| Kyle Busch, Joey Logano | +800 |
| Kyle Larson | +900 |
| Martin Truex Jr | +1100 |
| Ryan Blaney | +1600 |
| William Byron | +2000 |
| Kurt Busch | +2800 |
| Alex Bowman | +3000 |
| Christopher Bell | +3300 |
| Aric Almirola, Matt DiBenedetto | +5000 |
| Tyler Reddick | +6600 |
| Cole Custer, Austin Dillon | +8000 |
| Bubba Wallace | +10000 |
| Chase Briscoe | +12500 |
Kyle Busch is off to another frustrating start to a season. He won the Cup Series championship in 2019, and his first four results were second, sixth, third and then first place in Phoenix. In 2020, though, he came in 34th, 15th, second and third in Phoenix. In 2021, he finished 14th at the Daytona 500, 35th at the Road Course at Daytona, tenth in Miami and then third in Vegas last week. He is trending in the right direction, and he offers slight value. Since 2018, Busch’s average finish at Phoenix Raceway is 3.33, tops in the NASCAR Cup Series. As far as career numbers go, Kevin Harvick is the only active driver with a better average finish here. In the fall race at Phoenix in 2020, he came in 11th, but before that he had posted five straight top-three finishes and nine top-four finishes in the last ten races.
Kyle Larson earned and faced consequences for the racial slur he uttered a year ago, but his racing seems to have returned to form. He came in tenth at the Daytona 500, finished fourth in Miami and then picked up the win a week ago. In his career, he has just 13 starts at the Phoenix Raceway, but he has cracked the top six in four straight starts here, along with six races in his last eight. Repeating from one week to the next makes this a less likely proposition, but if you are picking top ten finishers as a prop, he’s one to consider — and he offers some value if you want to add him to your list of winners.
Brad Keselowski has been feast or famine so far this year, as he has two top-five finishes, and two finishes outside the top 12. Given that inconsistency, he is not offering a lot in terms of value. At Phoenix Raceway, also, he has never won a race. He has finished as the runner-up twice (with those coming in his last five races here) — but the other three in his last five have been outside the top nine. He has seven finishes outside the top nine in his last ten races at Phoenix, so I’d look somewhere else for your winner.
Kevin Harvick has won seven times, part of 10 top-two finishes in 18 races here since 2012. In those 18 races, he only finished outside the top seven two times. However, none of those wins have come since the track configuration was changed. Joey Logano is the defending champion here, and he has finished in the top ten in four straight races on this track, including a third-place finish last fall.
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