NASCAR will be under the lights at Charlotte Motor Speedway Sunday day when the green flag drops in the 2019 Coca-Cola 600 in 6 pm ET. Joey Logano enters the 2019 NASCAR in Charlotte race as the leader in the Dragon Energy Cup standings with 478 points. He’s looking for his second checkered flag of the calendar year, and the 2019 Coca-Cola 600 chances give him an 8-1 chance to receive it. Meanwhile, Kyle Busch (3-1), Kevin Harvick (9-2) and Martin Truex Jr. (6-1) are all going off at 6-1 NASCAR in Charlotte odds or shorter. This year’s race at Charlotte Motor Speedway boasts a very talented field of motorists that have had success at this track, so before you create any 2019 Coca-Cola 600 selections or input a daily Fantasy NASCAR tournament on sites like FanDuel and DraftKings, check out the NASCAR at Charlotte predictions from SportsLine’s proven computer model.
Developed by DFS pro and SportsLine predictive data scientist Mike McClure, this proprietary NASCAR prediction model simulates every race 10,000 times, taking factors like track history and current results into consideration.
The version is off to a solid start this year, calling Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin a top-four competition from the beginning. It nailed eight of the top 10 drivers at the Pennzoil 400, which included placing winner Joey Logano in its projected top . It also known as Kyle Busch’s huge win in Bristol last month.
It made some huge calls this past year, such as properly projecting wins for Kyle Busch in Chicago and Martin Truex Jr. at Sonoma. It also nailed three of the top four finishers in Michigan and a couple of the top four in the Daytona 500. Anybody who has followed its picks is way up.
McClure, with a mechanical engineering degree, grew up around race tracks. Big events in iconic places like Charlotte Motor Speedway are in his blood. Now, his version simulated the 2019 Coca-Cola 600 10,000 times and the results were surprising.
For NASCAR in Charlotte 2019we could tell you that the version is high on Kyle Larson, who makes a strong run in the checkered flag despite heading off at 16-1 Coca-Cola 600 chances. Larson is fresh off an impressive victory in the 2019 All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway and he’ll look to become only the eighth driver in history to win the All-Star Race and Coca-Cola 600 in precisely the exact same calendar year.
The 26-year-old enters Sunday’s race with assembled back-to-back top 10 finishes at Dover and Kansas. Those powerful performances have helped Larson take up the Dragon Energy Cup standings, and he’ll be looking to make up more floor by sinking into the front of the pack at Charlotte, where he has had success. Before last week’s All-Star Race victory, Larson had finished inside the top 10 in three of his last four starts in Charlotte. At 16-1 odds, Larson presents great value in the 2019 Coca-Cola 600.
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