Indianapolis Motor Speedway will forever be one of the hallowed grounds of the auto racing world. Sure, it doesn't mean quite as much for the boys of NASCAR as it does in the Indy Racing League, but the Brickyard 400 is still one of those events little boys dream of winning when they get behind the wheel of a racer for the very first time.
Catch all of the high-speed thrills and chills of the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday, July 23, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. ET live on NBC.
NASCAR Odds at BookMaker.eu
Martin Truex Jr. +300
Kyle Busch +350
Kyle Larson +550
Jimmie Johnson +750
Kevin Harvick +750
Brad Keselowski +1200
Chase Elliott +1200
Denny Hamlin +1200
Matt Kenseth +1200
Joey Logano +1800
Ryan Blaney +1800
Clint Bowyer +3000
Jamie McMurray +3000
Dale Earnhardt Jr. +4000
Erik Jones +5000
Kurt Busch +5000
Daniel Suarez +8000
Kasey Kahne +8000
Austin Dillon +10000
Ryan Newman +10000
Odds Analysis
The Coke Zero 400 was a weird race in which most of the top contenders either crashed or had incredibly bad days at the office. Since then, though, the drivers have mostly returned to form. It shouldn't be shocking that a fairly standard track like Indy will likely end up producing fairly standard results.
The overwhelming favorites are Martin Truex Jr. ( +300 ) and Kyle Busch ( +350 ). There are a total of five drivers who are lined at less than 12 to 1 on the odds to win the Brickyard 400, and it's very likely that either Truex, Busch, Kyle Larson ( +550 ), Jimmie Johnson ( +750 ) or Kevin Harvick ( +750 ) will end up in Victory Lane by the end of the night on Sunday.
Key Stat
168 – The total number of laps Kyle Busch has led at the Brickyard 400 over the course of the last two seasons.
It's really hard to disregard Busch at the Brickyard. He's won the last two editions of the event, and last year, he led a whopping 149 of the 170 total laps on the day. That degree of dominance isn't shown all that often on any given Sunday in the summer, but Busch has far and away been the best driver at Indy over the course of the last two seasons.
Drivers To Watch
Kyle Larson ( +550 ) – Larson has been the best driver on the Monster Energy circuit this year. He only has two wins, but he has seven second place finishes, including in each of the last two races. The unfortunate part for Larson is that he just flat out can't seem to ultimately get the job done when it matters most in the dying laps of races. Still, if you guarantee us that Larson is going to have a shot at the top five, we'll play him at +550 every single time out.
Jimmie Johnson ( +750 ) – Johnson isn't having his best year, and he hasn't finished better than 10th in a race since winning the AAA 400 Drive for Autism at Dover two months back. That said, he has three wins on the season and has largely been boom or bust. You have to go back to 2012 to find the last time J.J. won the Brickyard 400, but he has four trips to Victory Lane here in Indy. Hendrick Motorsports has a record nine wins at the Brickyard as well. There's too much here to ignore.
Denny Hamlin ( +1200 ) – The price on Hamlin is too good to pass on at 12 to 1. He won last week at the Overton's 301 in New Hampshire, and he has finished fourth or better in four of his last five races overall. The exception came at Daytona when just about everyone who was at the top of the 2017 NASCAR standings turned up with an ugly finish. The knock on Hamlin is that he's never raced all that well at Indy, picking up just one pole in his career without a single victory.
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