2024 NASCAR Cup Series Odds

How to Bet on NASCAR Odds?

Known as one of America’s favorite pastimes, NASCAR Odds can be an exciting, adrenaline-boosting day if you make your way down to the racetracks. With over 1,500 races at over 100 tracks throughout 48 American states, you will find that there are plenty of NASCAR betting opportunities available throughout the season.

NASCAR has many different racing series, featuring various skill levels for drivers from around the world. The three main NASCAR Odds series that are tested on a national level are:

1. Sprint Cup Series, which showcases some of the top talent in the world like Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr. These cars are exceptionally fast, reaching high speeds of 180 miles per hour, depending on the track.
2. Xfinity Series is the next step down from the Sprint Cup, where drivers can qualify to earn spots into the Sprint Cup. The cars are not as fast, only pushing 750 horsepower to the Sprint Cup’s 850. While it’s a bit slower, it’s still highly entertaining as you will see many familiar names in this race.
3. Camping World Truck Series takes souped-up pick-up trucks and adds engines that can handle 750 horsepower. They can travel the speeds of the Xfinity but are obviously pick-up trucks that are less stable and difficult to control at those speeds.

To gamble on any of these races, you first will need to learn the ins and outs of NASCAR betting, and how the NASCAR odds work. It’s important to learn as much as you can before creating your betting strategy.

Betting on NASCAR Options

While it can be as cut and dry as predicting who will win the race, there are some other NASCAR Odds options you should familiarize yourself with. You can bet on plenty of different outcomes that occur during the race, much like horse racing betting, which allows you some alternative options if you aren’t really sure who will win outright.

Outright Win

We can start with the easiest and most popular option since we’ve already talked about it above. Betting on who will win the race is as simple as it gets, you choose a driver, if he wins, you win and if he doesn’t, neither do you. There will be several different drivers listed with all different Nascar odds based on their likelihood of winning the race.

For instance, if you like Dale Earnhardt Jr. to win the race, and he has -400 odds since he’s a mega favorite in this particular race, you will need to bet $400 to win $100. Essentially to bet on a favored driver, you will need to bet the odds amount to win $100.

Let’s say his odds are +250, he could still be a favored driver, but just not so much of a longshot. When you see the positive number, you will know that is how much you will win if you bet $100.

You can bet any amount, obviously, it’s just a quick and easy way to figure out how much you’d win. You can bet on multiple drivers as well – which can cover your bases if you aren’t totally sure which will win.

Pole Position (Fastest Qualifier)

Where a driver starts in a race is important in the grand scheme of things. Drivers prefer certain pole positions and will compete in qualifiers before the race to determine where they will start the race. They are judged on their lap times and the fastest lap is awarded the first pole position.

Before you dig into your main event NASCAR Odds, you can bet on these qualifiers as a warm-up, just like the drivers are doing. This could be an easy bet to place as you could potentially pick a sure winner based on past performances.

Podium Finish

Much like horse racing, which would be the closest sport to car racing, we see similarities in NASCAR Odds as well. If you’re new to racing and the podium, there are the top three spots and those three drivers will step onto the podium at the end of the race. Obviously the first place driver will have the top spot and the second and third place drivers will be on the lower blocks.

You are able to bet on a driver to have a podium finish, which means you are betting on a driver to be standing on that podium at the end of the race. It doesn’t matter which block they stand on, just as long as they finish in the top three. The odds will be shorter in this sense as you are taking more risk out of the wager, but it’s handy if you think your driver might choke on the final lap.

Driver Matchups

It’s common in individual sports betting online where there are plenty of players on the field (or racetrack in this case) to be paired up and compete against each other by sportsbooks. When you don’t have direct competition between two people, it lacks the ability to be predictable, so NASCAR Odds introduced driver matchups. If you’re familiar with golf, they do this in major events in the form of moneyline wagers.

Again, you don’t have to pick the winner of the race, you just have to pick a driver to do better than another driver. All he has to do is place above the other.

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