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The NFL season is in the books, but sports bettors can rev their engines for the start of the 2021 NASCAR season with the annual Daytona 500.

1. 2021 Daytona 500 Odds
2. Daytona 500 Odds 2020
3. Daytona 500 Odds Field

The NASCAR Cup Series race, where speed and drafting reign, takes place Sunday (2:30 p.m., Fox). However, a week full of activities leads into Sunday’s running of the Great American Race.

Now, with Virginia sports betting well underway, race fans have more opportunities than ever to wager on the motorsports juggernaut. (And the options could be even more plentiful with sportsbooks potentially coming to Richmond Raceway and Martinsville Speedway.)

And as the 2021 NASCAR season gets underway, all eyes are on young phenom Chase Elliott, who’s also the reigning champion.

.@chaseelliott is bringing the same championship mindset heading into 2021 – always striving to be better! 👊 pic.twitter.com/5Dr1Avre0X

— Hendrick Motorsports (@TeamHendrick) February 5, 2021

DraftKings Odds for Daytona 500. The odds could change between the time of this article and the time you place your bet. The first number is the amount of money based on the second number (the amount of the wager). So if you bet $1 on Denny Hamlin, you will win $7. Here are my “Best Bets” for the Daytona 500. The Daytona 500 is just days away (Feb. ET on FOX), and as we get closer to that date, anticipation is building for the start of the 2021 season. The odds for the race have posted. Per OddsShark, Brad Keselowski as of Thursday was the favorite to win the 2018 Daytona 500, followed by Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano. So that's where we started in setting up our list. With the first race of the 2018 NASCAR Monster Energy Cup season going down this past weekend and one of the prestigious events slated to take place on Sunday, the expert analysis on the latest Daytona 500 odds and accompanying free picks that you’re about to get on the most coveted NASCAR race there is, could help you cash in big before the spring even arrives.Along with my pick to win this. 2018 Daytona 500 Odds, Picks and Predictions: Daytona 500 Favorites.

The 25-year-old, who’s the son of 1988 NASCAR champion Bill Elliott, is one of the favorites to win this year’s title. He’s also one of the NASCAR betting favorites to win this year’s Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway.

2021 Daytona 500 odds to win

As you can see below, Elliott (+900 to +1,000) is one of the favorites for Sunday’s race.

So, too, is three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin (+700 to +800), who won the 200-lap, 500-mile race in both 2019 and 2020. The 40-year-old finished fourth in the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series standings and second in wins (seven).

Other notables include 2020 Talladega winner Ryan Blaney (+1,000 to +1,200), 2012 champion Brad Keselowski (+1,000 to +1,400), and 2018 champ Joey Logano (+1,000 to +1,200).

Here are the 15 drivers most likely to win the 2021 Daytona 500, according to odds on Monday:

A futures bet is the most straightforward way to wager on Sunday’s big race. However, there are other options, depending on the sportsbook.

For example, DraftKings and William Hill are both offering odds for Tuesday’s Busch Clash (7 p.m., FS1). The invitation-only exhibition race marks the start of the NASCAR portion of “Speedweeks” at Daytona International Speedway.

However, in addition to those “pick a winner” wagers, other types of NASCAR bets include:

• Head-to-head: Predict which of two drivers will finish in a better position in a race.
• Top 3, Top 10: Predict if a certain driver will finish in third (or 10th) place or better.
• Prop betting: Predict the car number of the winning driver (odd/even or higher/lower than 10.5).

NASCAR season championship

Elliott won his first season championship in 2020. He won five races, including the final two of the year.

That’s a big reason the Hendrick Motorsports driver is the odds-on favorite to win a season title this year.

Here are the 2021 NASCAR season championship odds for the top drivers:

As you can see, 2014 season champ Kevin Harvick (+550 to +600), Hamlin, and two-time Cup Series champ Kyle Busch (+700 to +900) also have short odds.

Harvick, the 2014 Cup Series champ, finished first in top 5s (20) and top 10s (27) in the 2020 season. However, he’s looking for his first win at Daytona, the Super Bowl of Stock Car Racing, since 2007.

Oddsmakers are also big on Kyle Larson. The 28-year-old lost his ride with Chip Ganassi Racing in 2020 after using a racial slur during an iRacing event. Now reinstated with NASCAR, Larson will be driving for Hendrick Motorsports in 2021. He’s one of the favorites to win a season championship, with odds between +900 and +1,200.

2021 NASCAR in Virginia

Race fans won’t need to wait long to see the NASCAR in Virginia.

In fact, April will be a showcase month for the region’s tracks.

The Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500 takes place at Martinsville Speedway on April 10. The following week, the Toyota Owners 400 takes place at Richmond Raceway on April 18.

And before the Virginia swing, the first-ever Food City Dirt Race will take place at Bristol Motor Speedway. NASCAR will covert the famed short track, which is on the Tennessee-Virginia border, into a dirt oval for the first time in Cup Series history.

We will hear this sound soon enough!#ItsDirtBaby#ItsBristolBaby#NASCARpic.twitter.com/3umFrUmkil

— BristolMotorSpeedway (@BMSupdates) February 3, 2021

The Cup Series will then return to Richmond on Sept. 11 for the Federated Auto Parts 400. It’s the second of 10 NASCAR Cup Championship Playoffs races to close out the year.

Martinsville, meanwhile, will host the penultimate race of the season with the Xfinity 500 on Oct. 31.

Truex Jr. and Elliott were winners in Martinsville during the reshuffled 2020 pandemic season. Keselowski, meanwhile, won the lone 2020 race at Richmond.

The 2021 NASCAR Cup Series drops the green flag on their 2021 season with the 63^rd running of The Great American Race. That also means the NASCAR wagering season also begins. Each week I will post my “Best Bets” for each race. It all begins this week at the Daytona 500.

Races on the Superspeedway are the toughest to predict but it is getting easier. There are a handful of drivers who have consistently finished upfront at Daytona. These are the drivers we need to be targeting Sunday and there are a few long shots who make a lot of sense to put some money on.

DraftKings Odds for Daytona 500

* The odds could change between the time of this article and the time you place your bet

** The first number is the amount of money based on the second number (the amount of the wager). So if you bet $1 on Denny Hamlin, you will win $7.

Here are my “Best Bets” for the Daytona 500…

Danny Hamlin (7-1): It is no fun to bet the favorite but it is hard to overlook what Hamlin has done at Daytona. He has finished 1^st, 1^st, 3^rd, 17^th and 1^st in his last five Daytona 500’s. He has also finished 1^st, 3^rd, 4^th, 1^st and 3^rd in his last Superspeedway races. That is a lot of trips to Victory Lane. 7-1 odds are not too bad for a driver who is clearly the class of the field Sunday.

Ryan Blaney (11-1): Blaney has become the second-best driver on the Superspeedways behind Denny Hamlin. He won races at Talladega in 2020 and in 2019. Blaney has also been knocking on Victory Lane’s door at Daytona. Blaney finished second in the Daytona 500 last year and he finished sixth in the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona in 2020. Blaney is the 2021 version of Chase Elliott. I expect a big season from Blaney and it could start with a trip to Victory Lane in the Great American Race.

2021 Daytona 500 Odds

William Byron (14-1): We want to put our money on drivers who know how to get to Victory Lane at Daytona. Byron is one of those drivers. He won the last race at Daytona (Coke Zero 400 last August) and he won his Duel race at Daytona last year. Byron also finished second at Daytona in 2019. Hendrick Motorsports is a team on the rise. They are no stranger to finishing #1, #2 and #3 in the Daytona 500. I am hoping they can do it again with Byron leading the pack across the start/finish line.

Kyle Larson (18-1): This pick is more of a gut feeling than anything else. So what has Larson done since he left NASCAR last year? He won almost every race he entered. I am hoping his win streak continues in the Daytona 500. Larson has an 11^th-place average finishing position in his last five Daytona 500’s. He had a good chance to win a couple of those races. Larson will have the best handling car and the best teammates he has ever had at Daytona. I would not be surprised to see Larson win the Daytona 500.

Ryan Newman (40-1): Wow, 40-1 odds for the driver who nearly won the last Daytona 500. Newman finished 9^th, 14^th and 8^th in the current aero package in the Daytona 500. He usually stays in the back-third of the pack until the end of the race. Newman is smart enough to know that the big wrecks tend to occur up front between the drivers battling for the lead. In order to win the race, a driver must finish the race. Newman is very good at finishing the race. A trip to Victory Lane for Newman would be a perfect final chapter to his career at Daytona. * Newman’s teammate Chris Buescher is also a great bet at 50-1 odds.

Daytona 500 Odds 2020

Long-Shot Special: My Long-Shot Special this week is Michael McDowell (66-1). Which driver has the best average finishing position at Daytona of the last 10 races? It is not Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano or Ryan Blaney… It is McDowell and his 12.5 average finishing position. McDowell finished 5^th in the 2019 Daytona 500 and 9^th in 2018. I will bet a few bucks on McDowell Sunday and hope he sneaks into Victory Lane.

Good luck this week!

Daytona 500 Odds Field

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