CampingWorld.com 500 Betting Odds 2015
Gambling911.com has your CampingWorld.com 500 betting odds 2015.
Phoenix International Raceway – Avondale, AZ
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The fourth race of the 2015 Sprint Cup Series will be the Campingworld.com 500 in Phoenix. Despite the 500 in the name, this race is just 312 laps on the one-mile course as it is one of four races on the schedule that is measured in kilometers. This event has been held in the desert since 2005 and opened as the Subway Fresh 500. The track has progressive banking with 10-11 degree bankings in turns one and two and 8-9 degree bankings in turns three and four.
There have been two multiple-time winners at this event, with Jeff Gordon taking the checkered flag in both 2007 and 2011 as Kevin Harvick did so in 2006 and 2014. In last year’s win he nearly broke the course record with a time of 2:51:23, less than a minute slower than Denny Hamlin’s record (2:50:35) from 2012.
Let’s see who can put up an impressive performance this week and dominate the field at PIR.
Jimmie Johnson (+800) - Johnson has dominated this track in his career and has by far the best rating here at 114.0 behind an average finish of 7.7. He’s only won this specific event once (2008), but owns four checkered flags when circling PIR and has a total of 14 top-fives in 23 races. The six-time Sprint Cup Series Champion is always a solid bet with a victory in 71 of his 474 career races (15%) and he already has a win this year when he took the Fold of Honor QuikTrip 500 just a few weeks ago. He is the safest bet of the top racers this week.
Denny Hamlin (+1200) - Hamlin owns the course record here when he won back in 2012 and ranks sixth among his peers with an average finish of 11.2 at this event. Overall in his time at Phoenix, he has raced 19 times, getting nine top-fives in that time and owns an impressive driver rating of 96.6. Already on the year he has a fourth and a fifth-place finish in the past three weeks and despite an average start of 21.7, is getting in at an average of 15.7. The 34-year-old last won at Talladega last year and has a good chance at adding to his 24 career victories this week.
Martin Truex Jr. (+2500) -Truex Jr. hasn’t had the most success at this track with just one top-five finish in his 18 attempts, but still possesses a decent average finish of 17.7. What really makes him a solid pick this week is his performances so far in the 2015 season as he’s finished eighth, sixth and second in his last three races. He had an average start of 10.7 during that time and looks poised to make this a career season with his best finish in the Sprint Cup Series being 11th in both 2007 and 2012. Truex Jr. has led only 101-of-5,063 laps (2%) when racing at this track, but should build on this number come Sunday evening.
Tony Stewart (+4000) - Stewart is one of the more well-known racers in the Sprint Cup Series as he has tallied 48 career victories and three Sprint Cup Championships. He hasn’t done well at all this year, with his best showing being a 30th finish when in Atlanta, but has shown affection for this track with 11 career top-10’s in his 25 visits, yet has failed to grab a win despite his average finish of 12.2. Stewart’s average green flag speed of 126.052 MPH ranks him as fifth among the field and should allow him to compete throughout the entirety of the 312 laps.
A.J. Allmendinger (+20000) - For his odds, Allmendinger has a very respectable average finish of 16.6 at this racetrack over 11 career attempts. He has two top-10’s as well while owning a driving rating of 80.2 and earned his first career pole back in 2011. He owns just one career victory when he took the Cheez-It 355 at Watkins Glen last year, but has been breaking out so far in 2015 as he comes off back-to-back top-seven performances at Atlanta and Vegas. It may be worth it to drop a unit on this 33-year-old veteran as he looks to continue a great campaign.
- Carrie Stroup, Gambling911.com
