{"id":8678,"date":"2009-02-21T01:27:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T06:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=8678"},"modified":"2009-02-21T01:27:01","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T06:27:01","slug":"2009-auto-club-500-picks-210209","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/nascar\/2009-auto-club-500-picks-210209\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 Nascar Auto Club 500 &#8211; California Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>NASCAR at Fontana &#8211; We have your Auto Club 500 Picks<\/h2>\n<p>NASCAR takes its Sprint Cup Championship Tour to Fontana, CA for the Auto Club 500 this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Kenseth won the Daytona 500 last weekend and jumped to number one in the NASCAR Power Rankings, but some of the best drivers in the world could leapfrog him after a victory or good showing at Fontana.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Will Kyle Busch improve off of his 40th place finish at Daytona? Can Jeff Gordon bounce back from his 13th place finish?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s analyze the Auto Club 500 to Win.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>NASCAR: Auto Club 500 to Win<\/h3>\n<p><strong>1.\tJeff Gordon +1500 &#8211;<\/strong> &#8211; I\u2019m all about making bets on drivers with nice odds. 15 to 1 are nice odds on Gordo who looked like he would make a run last week at Daytona but failed to do so. He could be very good in this and deserves top billing at those odds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.\tTony Stewart +2000 &#8211;<\/strong> &#8211; Stewart finished in the Top Ten at Daytona last Sunday. So, why is he going off at such nice odds to win at Fontana? I\u2019m not sure. The #14 car didn\u2019t look like it was going to cause Smoke any trouble. He could have a huge season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.\tCarl Edwards +400 &#8211;<\/strong> &#8211; Edwards is the best bet at single digit odds in this race. His Daytona run was awful, but he could bounce back in a big way at a track he\u2019s ultra-comfortable on. Edwards looks mighty tough in this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.\tKyle Busch +400 &#8211;<\/strong> &#8211; The jury is out on Kyle this season, but he could put all of the naysayers to rest if he can win at Fontana. Busch was worse than Edwards at Daytona. He too could bounce back with a very nice run. His pride says that he does.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.\tJimmie Johnson +400 &#8211;<\/strong> &#8211; At 4 to 1, Jimmie\u2019s odds are actually very good in this race. He\u2019s another star who didn\u2019t have a great Daytona. Usually, when guys like Jimmie, Kyle, Carl, Tony and Jeff have a bad race, they bounce right back with a terrific effort the week after. That could be the case with Jimmie.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.betus.com\/ats\/11892\/mid\/1414\/sports-betting\/nascar\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 1px; border: 1px solid #ffffff;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sportsimagestore.com\/showbanner.asp?affid=11892&amp;banid=1414\" border=\"0\" alt=\"sports-betting\/nascar\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>6.\tMatt Kenseth +1000 &#8211;<\/strong> &#8211; The Daytona victor is going off at nice odds again. I\u2019m not sure if he can go back to back, but I do believe he\u2019s one of the top drivers in NASCAR right now. So, it\u2019s not out of the question.<\/p>\n<h3>Best Long Shots<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Juan Pablo Montoya +8500 &#8211;<\/strong> &#8211; His Daytona run really wasn\u2019t all that bad. It\u2019s only a matter of time before Montoya wins one of these \u201ccircular\u201d races. At those tremendous odds I have to keep thinking about backing him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin Harvick +2500 &#8211; <\/strong>&#8211; Harvick finished second at Daytona. A victory at Fontana could be in the cards because he\u2019s obviously driving better this year than he was in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clint Bowyer +3000 &#8211;<\/strong> &#8211; Like Montoya, Bowyer had a better than expected Daytona run when finishing fourth. He\u2019s a viable long shot wager at Fontana because he drives smart and will build on that Daytona run.<\/p>\n<h3>Stay Away From<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Michael Waltrip +8500 &#8211;<\/strong> &#8211; Yes, I know. He finished in the Top Ten at Daytona but that\u2019s probably all he does the entire season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AJ Almendinger +8500 &#8211;<\/strong> &#8211; His third place finish at Daytona was great but does any bettor really believe that Almendinger can keep it going? I know that I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joey Logano +5000 &#8211;<\/strong> &#8211; Joey didn\u2019t get to finish at Daytona. Hey, there\u2019s no doubt that he\u2019ll be a great driver in NASCAR betting, but Joey himself admits that he has a lot to learn. Let\u2019s get him a few races under his belt before throwing money behind him.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betus.com\/ats\/11892\/sportsbook\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>BetUS Nascar Sportsbook<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a>Join the leaders in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betus.com\/ats\/11892\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">online nascar betting<\/a> at BetUS.com sportsbook offering most attractive racing promos for online Nascar betting. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betus.com\/ats\/11892\/join\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Join<\/a> BetUS.com today and start betting on the 2009 Auto Club 500!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2009 Auto Club 500 is coming to you from California Speedway on Sun, Feb. 22, 2009 televised on FOX&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[10874,10485,10875,270,606,619,10876,3239,726,728,729,730,734,10879,10878,1731,1736],"class_list":["post-8678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","tag-2009-nascar-auto-club-500-picks","tag-auto-club-500","tag-california-speedway","tag-carl-edwards","tag-jeff-gordon","tag-kurt-busch","tag-nascar-auto-club-500","tag-nascar-betting-odds","tag-nascar-lines","tag-nascar-odds","tag-nascar-picks","tag-nascar-predictions","tag-nascar-sportsbook","tag-online-nascar-betting","tag-ryan-newman","tag-sprint-cup-series","tag-tony-stewart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678","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=8678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8680,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678\/revisions\/8680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}