All eyes in the NASCAR world will be at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway this coming weekend, with the tires burning at the 2020 Big Machine Sanitizer 400 race. Have you locked in your picks? If you’re still on the fence on which driver to lay money on, let the experts below be your guides.
SportsLine, via CBS Sports, is high on Joey Logano, who’s already won two races this season. While he’s been a disappointment in his last two races, finishing 36th at Pocono 325 and 24th at Pocono 350, Logano could be about to turn things around at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Logano has the second-best career average finish there at 10.91. He has fo9ur top 5s and seven top 7s in 11 races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Last year, Logano finished as runner-up at the 2019 Big Machine Vodka 400 at the Brickyard Powered By Florida Georgia Line.
Rocky Atkinson of WagerTalk TV is high on Kevin Harvick for the upcoming race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Harvick is coming off a sensational pair of performances at Pocono Raceway, where he had a win at the Pocono 325 and a runner-up finish at Pocono 350. Moreover, Harvick has three wins on the season and two at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He won last year’s 2019 Big Machine Vodka 400 at the Brickyard Powered By Florida Georgia Line and the 2003 Brickyard 400. Harvick has cracked the top six at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in all of his last six starts there.
Hamlin has yet to win at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but he’s been on a roll that he’s a driver you can just easily ignore. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver has two wins and five top 5s in his last six starts. Plus, he’s been an above-average performer at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where he has five top 5s and eight top 10s with a 12.36 career average finish there. Hamlin currently fifth this season with 506 points and tops with four wins.
TB News editor Ryan Simpson says don’t sleep on Bowyer. Although he’s only priced +2800 to win the Big Machine Hand Sanitizer 400, Bowyer could come out with a strong performance at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, as he’s had two top 5s in his last two appearances at the said track. He’s also posted a pair of top 8s at the races at Pocono Raceway last week.
