Circuit of the Americas – Echo Park Grand Prix Betting Preview

I am attending the race today and will need to spend a few hours in the car, so my card will be limited. Hopefully I get to the race in time to fire off a few more bets. I will make sure to post them here as well as my twitter page. Let’s go road course racing!!

Best Bets:

Over 29.5 lead lap finishers (-110 4 units) – I’m honestly baffled at this one. There are 40 cars starting this race and lap times have been over 2 minutes. So even the worst cars won’t get lapped here unless they have severe trouble. In order for this bet to lose, there would have to be 11 cars crash out or have severe trouble. I really can’t see that happening today.

Chase Elliott (+250 to win, 3 units) – Lets not overthink this one today. Chase won five straight road races coming into the Daytona Road Course this spring. He dominated that race and was poised to win before a phantom rain caution with less than 15 laps to go. The #9 team then had a poor pit stop, got caught in traffic, and collected some damage before finishing 21st. He is far and away the best road racer on the Cup circuit, so let’s bet on him winning his sixth race in seven tries on this track type.