2024 NASCAR Daytona 500 Betting Odds - Motor Racing Lines

2024 NASCAR Daytona 500 Betting

The 66th running of the Daytona 500 is the first official race of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season. The Great American Race is the most anticipated and chaotic event in American motorsports. As we typically see when racing on a superspeedway odds are relatively long even for the favorites. Considered a speedway specialist and a winner on the Daytona track in 2021, defending Cuper Series champion Ryan Blaney emerged as the betting favorite at most books with a slew of drivers close behind. A three-time Daytona 500 winner in the last eight races, Denny Hamlin is listed as the second favorite along with Kyle Busch.

Nine drivers make up the next tier of favorites with odds between 12/1 and 18/1. That list includes notable names like Joey Logano, Brad Keselowski, Kyle Larson and Martin Truex Jr. This is the Daytona 500 after all and as we’ve seen in past races anything can and typically does happen. The longshots on the odds board don’t have what you might consider longshot odds with their price confined and what we don’t usually find on a typical race track.

That likely has something to do with the past three winners. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (2023), Austin Cindric (2022) and Michael McDowell (2021) all came out of nowhere to win the Daytona 500 proving the old adage that you can expect the unexpected at this race.

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2024 NASCAR Daytona 500 At a Glance

Date: Sunday, February 18, 2024

Racetrack: Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, FL

Track Length: 2.5 miles

Total Laps: 200

TV: FOX

With the Daytona 500 the most important and prestigious race on the NASCAR schedule we typically see drivers go all out to get the win. And since the race is also known as the “Super Bowl of Stock Car Racing” I guess it’s only fitting that it comes less than a week after the NFL’s Super Bowl, but I digress.

With three Daytona 500 wins in the last eight years Denny Hamlin as a chance to become just the third driver to win the race four times. Unfortunately Hamlin has been plagued by slow starts the last two seasons and has been a non-factor since going back-to-back in 2019-2020. Once again odds suggest a tight race with half the field listed with odds of +2800 or shorter. Defending champion Ricky Stenhouse Jr. falls in the bottom half of that first category with odds of +2200.

NASCAR Daytona 500 Betting Odds

*Odds as of Wednesday, February 14, 1:00 PM ET

NASCAR Daytona 500 Winners (2000)

You're not going to find a more unpredictable race than the Daytona 500, and that's why you see big odds posted to win this race every single year on virtually every driver.

Normally, we see a few teams or a few drivers dominate on certain tracks, but that certainly isn't the case here at Daytona International Speedway. The only two teams that have gone back-to-back at the Daytona 500 in the last decade are Joe Gibbs Racing and Hendrick Motorsports.

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