The 2019 NASCAR schedule kicks into high gear Sunday with All the 2019 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
The green flag falls at two p.m. ET for your 325-lap race and defending champion Kevin Harvick is the 4-1 favorite from the most current 2019 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 chances. Falling in just behind him with 6-1 NASCAR in Atlanta chances are Joey Logano and Kyle Busch, who finished in the top four last week at the Daytona 500. Prior to making your own 2019 QuikTrip 500 picks and NASCAR at Atlanta predictions, be sure to check out the projected leaderboard from the proven computer version at SportsLine.
Produced by DFS expert and SportsLine predictive data scientist Mike McClure, this proprietary NASCAR prediction computer model simulates every race 10,000 occasions, taking factors like track record and recent results into consideration.
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It made some enormous calls in NASCAR this past year, including nailing wins for Kyle Busch in Chicago and Martin Truex Jr. in Sonoma. And it is off to a solid start in NASCAR this year, calling Daytona 500 champion Denny Hamlin a leading competition from the beginning. Anybody who has followed its selections is way, way up.
McClure, who has a mechanical engineering degree, grew up around race tracks. Big events in iconic venues like Atlanta Motor Speedway are in his blood. Now his model mimicked 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 tell you the model is high on Chase Elliott, making a strong run in the checkered flag despite heading off at 10-1 odds. Elliott does not have a lengthy history at Atlanta, but he’s had success there at all three of his starts in the track since linking the Dragon Energy NASCAR Cup Series. He’s finished within the top 10 in every one of these races and even earned a top-five end in 2017.
Before joining NASCAR’s top circuit, Elliott had two top-five endings at Atlanta in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. Elliott is a Georgia native and his dad, Bill Elliott, won at NASCAR’s highest level at Atlanta Motor Speedway five occasions in his career, so it is something of a home track for its 23-year-old. The version expects him to ride that edge towards the top of the leaderboard on Sunday.
Another shocker in the model: Kyle Busch, among the top Vegas favorites at 6-1, doesn’t even crack the top five.
The 2019 Daytona 500 runner-up started on the rod in this race a season ago, but ended up finishing in seventh place. The year prior, he had yet another fast ride in qualifying and began the race , but ended up in 16th.
Since his win at Atlanta in 2013, Busch has just run 56.7 percent of his laps within the top 15. For his career, he has finished outside the top 10 in 13 of his 20 career starts at Atlanta Motor Speedway. There are far better worth in this loaded 2019 QuikTrip 500 lineup compared to the 6-1 premium you will need to cover him.
The model can be targeting three other motorists using 2019 NASCAR at Atlanta chances of 10-1 or more time to make a serious run at winning everything. Anyone who backs these shots could hit it big.
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