Many don’t know who is heading to Ally 400 on Sunday at the Nashville Superspeedway.
For example, how will the Next Gen car perform on a 1.333-mile concrete racetrack?
In addition, how will the new underbody scanner affect how teams set up their vehicles and find speed?
On the other hand, there is a 50 -minute training session for the NASCAR Cup Series on Saturday night, so we should have a decent amount of data to review to help solve those questions above.
With this in mind, I’m taking a very conservative betting approach until the cars hit the track this weekend.
However, because of so much uncertainty, locking in a plus-money featured matchup is also not a terrible strategy.
NASCAR Pick for Nashville
*Odds on Thursday morning
While Ross Chastain should be favored over Trackhouse Racing teammate Daniel Suarez, the -175 price is too big.
Chastain carried the banner for the Trackhouse most of the season, but Suarez finally parlayed a fast car to victory in Sonoma two weeks ago.
Considering they are teammates, they should have similar speeds in their cars again on Sunday in Nashville, which, as I mentioned above, reinforces a concrete surface.
Dover, another concrete track, is arguably Suarez’s best racetrack, so there’s a path for the latest Cup Series winner to get up to speed this weekend and possibly be even faster than his teammate.
Again, we don’t have a lot of data to lean on and nothing until Saturday’s training session, but that’s also why +140 by BetMGM is a very betting number in the featured matchup.
The bet: Suarez +140 to Chastain
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