The 2019 Folds of Honor Quiktrip 500 runs Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway and Daytona 500 champion Denny Hamlin will look to follow up his historic win with another strong performance. He’s listed at 15-1 at the most current 2019 Folds of Honor Quiktrip 500 odds, together with the event’s defending champion, Kevin Harvick, installed as the Vegas favorite at 4-1. Harvick will start in 18th, but ended second from that place back in 2009 at Atlanta. Then there is Aric Almirola, who won the pole and is going off at 20-1 NASCAR in Atlanta odds. The restrictor plates will come off with this race, so before making your own 2019 Folds of Honor Quiktrip 500 picks, make sure you check out the projected leaderboard and latest NASCAR predictions from the proven computer model at SportsLine.
Produced by DFS pro and SportsLine predictive information engineer Mike McClure, this proprietary NASCAR prediction computer model simulates every race 10,000 times, taking factors like track record and recent results into consideration.
It made some enormous calls in NASCAR last year, including nailing wins for Kyle Busch at Chicago and Martin Truex Jr. at Sonoma. And it’s off to a strong start in NASCAR this season, calling Daytona 500 champion Denny Hamlin a top contender from the start. Is way, way up.
Grew up around race tracks. Big events in iconic venues like Atlanta Motor Speedway are in his bloodstream. Now his version simulated the 2019 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 a total of 10,000 times and the results were surprising.
For your 2019 QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta, we can inform you that the version is high on Jimmie Johnson, who yells towards the very top of this 2019 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 leaderboard despite going off as a 25-1 long haul.
The seven-time cup winner had a solid run last week at the Daytona 500, finishing ninth as a 43-year-old in his 19th season on NASCAR’s top circuit. He heads to a track where he’s won five times in his career.
Johnson won the first two races at Atlanta Motor Speedway when the event was shifted from the latter part of this year to right after Daytona. He also won the late race in Atlanta in 2004 and won both events there in 2007.
Johnson will start in 11th on Sunday, and the model expects NASCAR’s elder statesman to stay close to the front of the package and supply the potential for a massive payout.
Another shocker from this model: Kyle Busch, one of the best Vegas favorites in 6-1, does not even crack the top five.
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