Four more drivers will be eliminated from the 2018 NASCAR Playoffs after Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway. The green flag drops at 2:30 p.m. ET. Six racers have 2018 NASCAR at Kansas odds of 10-1 or better, led by co-favorites Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick, each at 7-2. Martin Truex Jr. is at 9-2, while Chase Elliott, Brad Keselowski and Kyle Larson are each at 10-1.
With so much on the line and so many legitimate contenders in the field, you’ll want to check out what former Vegas bookmaker and NASCAR handicapper Micah Roberts has to say before making your own 2018 NASCAR at Kansas picks.
Roberts has nailed two races of the NASCAR Playoffs 2018 so far. He called for Keselowski to win at Vegas at 12-1 odds, then the following week at Richmond said Busch was due for his seventh win of the season, and Busch did just that, taking the checkered flag after starting from the 11th spot. Roberts also picked Truex Jr. two weeks ago at Charlotte, who was in line to win before Jimmie Johnson wiped him out on the final lap.
In the 2017 playoffs, Roberts picked nine of 10 winners. That was no fluke: In 2016, he told readers to back Denny Hamlin at 15-1 in the Daytona 500. The result: Hamlin edged Truex for the checkered flag. Roberts also nailed Hamlin at 40-1 to win at Watkins Glen later that year.
Now, he has analyzed the 2018 NASCAR at Kansas field from every possible angle and locked in his Hollywood Casino 400 picks. You can see his entire projected leaderboard only at SportsLine.
We can tell you he’s not picking Busch, whose success at the 1.5-mile track has been sporadic.
“From the fall of 2014 to the spring of 2017, Busch had five straight top-fives at Kansas. However, he has finished 10th in his last two starts there,” Roberts told SportsLine. “In his first 14 Kansas Cup races, he didn’t have a single top-five.”
Instead, one of the 2018 Hollywood Casino 400 picks he likes to finish close to the front: Joey Logano, a 12-1 dark-horse who has two career Cup wins at Kansas.
“He’s a two-time Kansas winner and finished third in the May race,” Roberts said. “He’s much better now and should have a car that’s good enough to win.”
For the win, Roberts is backing a driver with double-digit odds in the thick of the playoff race to get back on track by winning the Hollywood Casino 400. He also has two drivers with odds of 20-1 or higher making strong runs at the checkered flag. Anyone who backs them could hit it big.
So who wins NASCAR at Kansas? And which longshots stun NASCAR? Visit SportsLine now to see the full projected leaderboard from the nation’s premier NASCAR handicapper, and find out.
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