2012 Budweiser Shootout Odds, Predictions, Betting Tips and Free Picks – Favorites and Lines to Win Budweiser Shootout at Daytona International Speedway: NASCAR betting odds to win the 2012 Budweiser Shootout this Saturday night, February 18th at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona, Florida have been posted at all the major Las Vegas and best online sportsbooks with Kevin Harvick and Dale Earnhardt Jr having been installed as the 10/1 favorites to win the 2012 Budweiser Shootout.
The 2012 Sprint Cup season has its unofficial start this weekend with the running of the Budweiser Shootout. The non-points event is divided into two segments, with the first segment lasting 25 laps and the final segment consisting of 50 laps. In order to qualify for the event, drivers must have finished in the top 25 in points last season or be a former winner of the Budweiser Shootout, Daytona 500 or the July event at Daytona. Based on the criteria, 31 drivers are eligible for this year’s race.
Last year, the two dominant cars belonged to Jeff Burton and Ryan Newman. Burton led a race-high 32 laps, and Newman led 18. However, neither driver was out front when it mattered. Instead, Kurt Busch surged to the front in the closing laps, picking up his first-career win at a restrictor-plate track. In typical fashion, Earnhardt-Childress engines had a strong showing, placing four cars in the top nine spots.
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No driver has dominated the Shootout in recent years like Tony Stewart. Since the start of the 2001 season, he has a 5.2 average finish in the event. He has three wins and seven top-five finishes during the stretch, and he has never finished outside the top 15. The Daytona 500 may continue to elude Stewart, but he has had no trouble winning every other race at the famed track.
Two of the last three Budweiser Shootouts have been won by Kevin Harvick. He has finished in the top 10 in six of his seven starts in the event, and his 6.6 average finish is the second best in the series. Harvick has been the top plate track racer in the series the last two seasons, and his dominance has more than carried over into the Shootout.
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Although he has never won the Shootout, Jamie McMurray has been close three years in a row. He has finished second, third and second in the event the last three years, and he is a two-time winner at Daytona during the regular season. In addition to being an above average plate racer, McMurray has the added advantage of using Earnhardt-Childress engines. He has the talent and equipment to get to Victory Lane Saturday night.
He has just one win in the Budweiser Shootout, but Jimmie Johnson has been a consistent face near the front of the field. He has seven top-10 finishes in nine career starts in the event and has never finished outside the top 15. Johnson’s 6.7 average finish is the third-best in the series, and with all three of his Hendrick Motorsports teammates also in the field, he should have plenty of help in the draft.
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His move to Richard Childress Racing last season led to a career year for Paul Menard. Some of his best showings came at Daytona, where he finished in the top 10 in both events in 2011. Menard has made just one career start in the Shootout, but he has never raced in the event with the equipment he will have this weekend. He is one driver that could come seemingly out of nowhere and steal the show.
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Carl Edwards has nearly won four of the last five regular season races at Daytona, but he has never run well in the Shootout. In five career starts, he doesn’t have a single top-five finish and has never finished in the top 10 only once. For whatever reason, Edwards doesn’t seem to have the same feel for the 75-lap race as he does for the 400 and 500-mile races.
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2012 Budweiser Shootout Odds – Februaruy 18th at Daytona International Speedway.
Driver Odds to Win the 2012 Budweiser Shootout
501 Kevin Harvick +1000
502 Dale Earnhardt Jr +1000
503 Jeff Gordon +1200
504 Kyle Busch +1200
505 Tony Stewart +1200
506 Jimmie Johnson +1400
507 Kasey Kahne +1400
508 Carl Edwards +1400
509 Brad Keselowski +1400
510 Jeff Burton +2000
511 Clint Bowyer +1800
512 Matt Kenseth +1600
513 Denny Hamlin +1300
514 Jamie McMurray +1600
515 Kurt Busch +1800
516 Greg Biffle +2200
517 Ryan Newman +2500
518 Martin Truex Jr +2500
519 Mark Martin
520 Joey Logano +1800
521 Juan Montoya +2500
522 AJ Allmendinger +2500
523 Paul Menard +3500
524 Marcos Ambrose +3500
525 Field +1800
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