With the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series down in Texas with the NTT IndyCar Series, no Cup Series regulars are planning to dip down into the event. Three of them, including Kyle Busch, did last week, so their absence dramatically alters the oddsboard. Action will get underway on Saturday, April 1 at 4:30 p.m. ET — and our expert is here to make his SpeedyCash.com 250 predictions to help you find the best NASCAR Truck Series bets for this weekend’s event at Texas Motor Speedway.
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Does Kyle Busch Motorsports Own Fort Worth?
When Kyle Busch left Joe Gibbs Racing for Richard Childress Racing, he brought his team with him to Chevrolet. The changeover from Toyota hasn’t slowed down the Kyle Busch Motorsports trucks — Busch won the first high-speed intermediate race at Las Vegas. His teammate, Chase Purdy, started third and finished eighth. His quasi-teammate, Rev Racing’s Nick Sanchez, started second and led eight laps before crashing out and finishing 30th.
Kyle Busch Motorsports has run the show at high-speed intermediates lately. The team won two of the five events at these tracks last year. The team has also won four of the last six races at Texas Motor Speedway with three different drivers, Busch, John Hunter Nemechek and Greg Biffle, behind the wheel. Yet aside from Sanchez (9-1), every other KBM-affiliated driver sits well below most of the field on the oddsboard. Wood and Purdy own odds of 33-1 at Bet365.
Busch isn’t entered in this event, so Jack Wood will pilot his No. 51 Chevrolet this weekend. Sanchez and Purdy are both entered as well. Sanchez’s strong run at Las Vegas has led the books to make him the favorite of the bunch, but both Purdy and Wood have looked solid in the KBM trucks this year. Wood led laps at Atlanta before finishing 10th. Purdy scored top-10s at both Las Vegas and Atlanta.
KBM dominated qualifying at last year’s Texas race. Nemechek won the pole, one spot ahead of his then-teammate, Corey Heim, but had to start from the rear. Nemechek still managed to lead 12 laps. Chandler Smith qualified seventh. The three drivers then finished sixth through eighth. With a new cast of characters behind the wheel of the Kyle Busch Motorsports trucks this year, the books are treating them all too disrespectfully.
However, because the hold percentage at Caesars Sportsbook has gotten so high, it just isn’t profitable to target every KBM driver to score a top-5 result. So instead of laying the field of three drivers, let’s just use a half-unit to back Nick Sanchez on both the top-5 and outright markets. Sanchez has the highest ceiling of the bunch and showed race-winning speed back at Las Vegas.
Best NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Bets: Nick Sanchez 9-1 for 0.1 Unit at Caesars
Best NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Bets: Nick Sanchez Top 5 +120 for 0.4 Unit at Caesars
