NASCAR odds for COTA present SVG and Connor Zilisch as faves. Chase Elliott an afterthought?

Take a second and skip right down to the chances posted under. Significantly these first two names.

Yep, it is a model new world on street programs, together with this week’s go to to Austin’s Circuit of the Americas.

Cannot say I used to be shocked to see SVG atop the Arduous Rock Bets board. However ain’t it slightly early to recommend is able to mild issues up?

Perhaps, however perhaps not. Connor Z has skedaddled up the ranks, and eventually turning 18 final yr solely fueled the run. He is the official property of Trackhouse Racing, however below an settlement with JR Motorsports, he has a full-time Xfinity Collection experience with Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s group this yr.

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This comes courtesy of Pink Bull, which is sponsoring SVG, one other Trackhouse racer, for 5 races this yr, together with this week at COTA. Some extra funding led to a one-off (perhaps only one) Cup experience this weekend for Zilisch, who can even be wheeling Junior’s Xfinity experience, after all.

Simply as SVG received his Cup debut two seasons in the past in Chicago, Zilisch made his first Xfinity begin final summer time at Watkins Glen, and sure, he received. He grew up on street programs and is clearly succesful. And after crashing out of the yr’s first two races, at , he is certain to be excited to see this 20-turn playground in Austin.

Connor Zilisch at 18

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NASCAR Cup Collection odds for COTA: The favorites

+450: Shane van Gisbergen

+650: Connor Zilisch

+700: Tyler Reddick

+750: William Byron

+800: Christopher Bell

+900: Kyle Larson

Discover a evident absence among the many above 6-pack? That is proper, Chase Elliott is not the go-to man when choosing road-course favorites.

Chase’s seven road-course wins got here in a flurry. All of them posted over an 11-race road-course stretch from August of 2018 to July of 2021. He is 0-for-19 since, if we embody the 2 Chicago avenue races. 9 top-fives, although, so it isn’t like he is an precise longshot this week.

In reality …

We discovered Chase Elliott, NASCAR’s former King of the Street

+1000: Chase Elliott

+1200: Ross Chastain

+1300: AJ Allmendinger

+1600: Ty Gibbs, Alex Bowman

+2000: Chris Buescher

By the way in which, it is also odd to see AJ Allmendinger behind so many on the board. You can also make the argument that he is the second-best pure NASCAR roadie, behind solely SVG.

NASCAR at COTA potential: We have discovered potential gems at an excellent payoff

+2500: Kyle Busch, Austin Cindric

+3000: Michael McDowell, Daniel Suarez, Chase Briscoe

Most street course podiums all-time (High 3 sequence mixed)

1. Terry Labonte – 222. Kyle Busch – 213. AJ Allmendinger – 204. Jeff Gordon – 185. Kevin Harvick – 166. Bobby Allison – 167. Mark Martin – 168. Marcos Ambrose – 159. Ricky Rudd – 1510. Austin Cindric – 14

+4000: Joey Logano, Denny Hamlin, Ryan Blaney

+7500: Carson Hocevar

Relying on the place the chances go after Saturday’s qualifying, you would be fairly negligent to disregard McDowell and Cindric at these numbers. Each are road-course aces.

Memo to Carson Hocevar: There are 20 turns at COTA, subsequently 20 alternatives for a number of the grumpy previous(er) males to ship some payback for perceived misdeeds final week at Atlanta.

Bubba Wallace and two Daytona 500 champions among the many longest of longshots

+10000: Cole Custer

+15000: Brad Keselowski, Zane Smith, Bubba Wallace, Todd Gilliland

+20000: Josh Berry, Austin Dillon, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., John Hunter Nemechek, Ryan Preece, Justin Haley

+25000: Riley Herbst, Ty Dillon, Erik Jones, Cody Ware, Noah Gragson

Of the above, Cole Custer has one of the best profession ending common on street programs, and it is an unimpressive 18.7 in seven street begins. Nevertheless it’s higher than Kez and Bubba, who each common within the Twentieth-place vary.

And our two Daytona 500 winners are even worse: Stenhouse at 21.6 and Dillon at 22.9.

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