\nDate: Saturday, May 9, 2009
\nTime: 7:35 PM EST (scheduled Green Flag)
\nTV: 7:00 PM EST on FOX<\/strong><\/p>\n
Preview<\/strong>:\u00a0 Darlington Raceway is a venerable NASCAR venue in the heart of stock car racing’s traditional southeastern home base.<\/p>\n The Southern 500<\/strong><\/a> used to be a Labor Day mainstay on the Cup schedule, but the date was moved to November in 2004 and was then discontinued when NASCAR cut the track to one race a year.\u00a0 The name is the same this year, but it is Mother’s Day rather than Labor Day weekend. There are 45 cars on the entry list and the weather forecast calls for high temperatures in the 90s.\u00a0 The two scheduled practice sessions will take place on Friday, as will qualifying and the Nationwide Series<\/strong><\/a> race, with the Cup race Saturday night under the lights.\u00a0<\/p>\n 1. Kyle Busch (+550):\u00a0<\/strong> Busch is coming off an impressive win at Richmond last weekend and has already won three of the first ten races this year.\u00a0 In addition, Busch is the reigning winner of this race – he found Victory Lane in dominant fashion last year, leading a race-high 169 laps.\u00a0<\/p>\n 2. Jeff Gordon (+650):<\/strong>\u00a0 Having won seven races at Darlington already, it’s hard not to consider Gordon one of the favorites here.\u00a0 Though five of those wins were before the year 2000, he has won twice since then – in 2002 and 2007.\u00a0 He also leads all drivers in points accumulated at Darlington over the last five races and in overall laps led.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n 1. Jeff Burton (+3000):<\/strong>\u00a0 Burton’s average finish of 11.5 is third-best among active drivers behind Denny Hamlin and Jimmie Johnson.\u00a0 He’s won twice here and, although both wins came in 1999, there’s no question he can get around this racetrack – from 1997 to 2000, he had a string of eight straight top-5 finishes.\u00a0<\/p>\n Summary:<\/strong>\u00a0 Darlington was repaved in 2007 and the fundamental character of the track was changed.\u00a0 Last year’s race was the first since the repaving and was won by Kyle Busch.\u00a0 Greg Biffle had a strong car last year and led 95 laps before suffering an engine failure – he won here in 2005 and 2006.\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 Southern 500 betting preview and racing picks from motorsports gambling experts at capperspicks.com nascar betting site for the upcoming Nascar race at Darlington 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":[13742,10364,152,260,10361,13749,10358,10359,3436,13743,13748,13744,13745,13746,13747,1188],"class_list":["post-10658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","tag-2009-southern-500","tag-becca-gladden-articles","tag-bet-on-nascar","tag-cappers-picks","tag-car-race-gambling","tag-darlington-raceway","tag-free-nascar-picks","tag-gamble-on-nascar","tag-nascar-wagering","tag-southern-500","tag-southern-500-gambling","tag-southern-500-lines","tag-southern-500-odds","tag-southern-500-picks","tag-southern-500-predictions","tag-sprint-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10658","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=10658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10661,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10658\/revisions\/10661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n
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