{"id":10788,"date":"2009-05-23T03:45:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T08:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=10788"},"modified":"2023-02-07T07:40:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:40:38","slug":"betting-2009-indy-500-230509","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/sports\/betting-2009-indy-500-230509\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated: Indy 500 Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Indy 500 Odds &#8211; A Six-Pack Preview For the Greatest Spectacle in Racing<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Scott Dixon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indy 500 odds: +425\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The defending champ isn&#8217;t even favored this year but he is pretty close at just over 4-to-1. Dixon has been in six Indy 500s and he&#8217;s placed in the Top 10 four times, including last year&#8217;s outright win. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He is in a Ganassi car but in practice, they have been just as quick as the Penske cars, which is a good sign. Expect a top-five finish from The Iceman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Helio Castroneves<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indy 500 odds:\u00a0 +375\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been an interesting couple of years for Castroneves, who has evaded tax evasion charges and also won\u00a0<em>Dancing With the Stars<\/em>. He&#8217;s also won a couple of times at Indy so he knows what it takes to get it done. Hence he&#8217;s the biggest favorite.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s Penske material, which means he&#8217;s got a good car. He&#8217;s the public favorite to win on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dario Franchitti<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indy 500 odds: +700\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dario Franchitti (Ashley Judd&#8217;s husband) does have an Indy 500 under his belt but keep in mind that he was leading a rain-shortened event that earned him that win. He&#8217;s a solid yet unspectacular driver and he would need to overachieve to get a win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In five starts at Indy, he has three Top 10&#8217;s. Look for another Top 10 on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ryan Briscoe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indy 500 odds: +625\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Briscoe is a wild card for Sunday&#8217;s race. Many people feel he has the potential to win it as he&#8217;s been steering a very fast car this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has started the Indy 500 three times with three separate teams. His best finish is a fifth but Penske cars do very well at this track. Don&#8217;t be surprised if Briscoe wins it but a better bet is him to improve on his best finish, which was fifth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Danica Patrick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indy 500 odds: +925\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Danica Patrick will be in the race this weekend but a lot of people wonder if she can win it. She seems to avoid any sense of trouble but sometimes she needs to be a little more assertive. If the drivers in front of her fade, she&#8217;ll win but it&#8217;s unlikely she&#8217;ll take it from them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s a better bet for a Top 10 rather than the win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tony Kanaan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indy 500 odds: +925\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tony Kanaan has been in seven Indy 500&#8217;s and has been in the Top Five three times and in the Top 10 four times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Overall, he&#8217;s a pretty good bet to be among the leaders as the race is winding down and considering he&#8217;s starting sixth, he&#8217;s\u00a0 doesn&#8217;t have a long way to go. Kanaan is good value and at +925, he&#8217;s my pick to win the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for updated Indy 500 betting odds? The defending champ isn&#8217;t even favored this year but he is pretty close at just over 4-to-1, Scott Dixon folks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1141],"tags":[13963,13966,13965,13964,173,504,13967,1143],"class_list":["post-10788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-2009-indy-500","tag-2009-indy-500-betting","tag-2009-indy-500-lines","tag-2009-indy-500-odds","tag-betting-online","tag-gambling-odds","tag-indy-500-gambling","tag-sports-betting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10788","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10788"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108542,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10788\/revisions\/108542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}