mike1
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2010/02/24 11:06
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Manne wrote:
There’s no question that the Daytona 500 is the Super Bowl of NASCAR, but it’s also not really representative of the full Sprint Cup schedule, as any driver will tell you. Daytona is a superspeedway where cars are limited in speed with restrictor plates and are usually bunched together. That won’t be the case at the two-mile Fontana (Calif.) oval Sunday for the Auto Club 500 – bet on it on Bodog’s NASCAR odds. Fontana’s Auto Club Speedway is wide and mostly flat, which is the sort of track that the majority of Sprint Cup series races are run on.
Four-time points champion Jimmie Johnson had a rough go of it at Daytona, finishing 35th while dealing with mechanical issues. But he has the highest driver rating of anyone at Fontana and has an average finish of 4.8 here. However, he usually fares much better in the fall race – having won that the past three years. He hasn’t won the early California race since his rookie year of 2002. But he is among the Bodog favorites this week.
Greg Biffle also is among the favorites. He won at Fontana in 2005 and was fourth in this race last year. Overall he has that one win and four top-five finishes in 14 starts. What about Dale Earnhardt Jr.? Still the most popular driver on the circuit, Junior has been in a massive slump for a few years. But he jumped from 10th in the final few laps last week at Daytona to finish second behind Jamie McMurray. However, Junior’s average driver rating at this track is just 20th and he has an average finish of around 24th. He finished 39th and 25th in the two races last year.
Jeff Gordon has won at Fontana three times in his career and has the fifth-best driver rating. He was second in both races last year at Auto Club Speedway. McMurray goes for a rare win the week after Daytona much like Matt Kenseth last year. But McMurray hasn’t finished higher than 16th at this track since 2006. Maybe Fontana will be a good tonic for Kenseth, who hasn’t won since reaching Victory Lane last February at the track.
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