\nDate: Saturday, May 2, 2009
\nTime: 7:43 PM EST (scheduled Green Flag)
\nTV: 7:00 PM EST on FOX<\/strong><\/p>\n
Preview<\/strong>:\u00a0 Richmond International Raceway is a historic NASCAR<\/strong><\/a> venue with over 100 Cup races run here dating back to 1953.Most drivers enjoy the action at Richmond because it reminds them of the Saturday night short-track style racing they grew up on.\u00a0 After the tumultuous turn of events in Talladega last weekend, a little short-track racing under the lights should be welcome relief for all.<\/p>\n 1. Jimmie Johnson (+480):<\/strong>\u00a0 Some people don’t think of Johnson as a short-track specialist – probably because he’s effective just about everywhere he runs.\u00a0 But Johnson has won three of the last four Richmond races and was caught up in a multi-car pileup in the other one.\u00a0 His three wins here tie him with Tony Stewart and Dale Earnhardt Jr. for the most wins at Richmond among active drivers.<\/p>\n 2. Tony Stewart (+600):\u00a0<\/strong> Like Jimmie Johnson, Stewart has three wins at Richmond and also leads all drivers in points accumulated at the track over the last four races.\u00a0 Richmond is often compared to Phoenix, where Stewart had a stout machine two weeks ago and finished second.\u00a0 Stewart has three straight top-5 finishes at Richmond and has finished in the top 10 in eight of his last 10 races here.\u00a0<\/p>\n 1. Clint Bowyer (+2800):<\/strong>\u00a0 Bowyer’s average finish of 9.3 is third-best among active drivers, behind Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin.\u00a0 Not only is he the defending winner of this race, but in six Richmond starts, he’s never finished lower than 12th.<\/p>\n Summary:\u00a0<\/strong> Weather is likely to be an issue with a 40-50 percent chance of rain in the forecast throughout the weekend and into Monday.\u00a0 Drivers I’ve spoken with have said the weather in Richmond today does not bode well for a full weekend of scheduled on-track activities.\u00a0 If qualifying is rained out, drivers will line up according to Cup owner points, putting Kurt Busch and Jeff Gordon on the front row.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Becca Gladden is a freelance writer and race handicapper specializing in NASCAR.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2009 Crown Royal Russell Friedman 400 betting preview and racing picks from motorsports gambling experts at capperspicks.com nascar betting site for the upcoming Nascar race at Richmond International Raceway\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13386,10364,152,260,10361,13387,13391,13392,13389,13390,13388,10358,10359,3436,13393,1188],"class_list":["post-10464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","tag-2009-crown-royal-presents-the-russ-friedman-400","tag-becca-gladden-articles","tag-bet-on-nascar","tag-cappers-picks","tag-car-race-gambling","tag-crown-royal-400","tag-crown-royal-400-lines","tag-crown-royal-400-odds","tag-crown-royal-400-picks","tag-crown-royal-400-predictions","tag-crown-royal-gambling","tag-free-nascar-picks","tag-gamble-on-nascar","tag-nascar-wagering","tag-richmond-international-raceway","tag-sprint-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10466,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10464\/revisions\/10466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n
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