If you're betting Preakness, warm up with a different type of horsepower with the Showtime Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway on Saturday night. Darlington's odd layout makes it just as hard on the crew chief as it is on the driver, and experience counts for a lot on the "Lady In Black".
Darlington Betting - Saturday, May 8, 7:30 PM ET
Jeff Gordon (+600): Gordon has seven wins in 29 Darlington races, most recently in 2007. The No.24 driver has finished in the top three in three of his last five races, and he's getting ever so close to breaking a winless streak that has gone on since last year's spring race at Texas. If the team can ever figure out how to work late restarts, the Sprint Cup series could be in trouble.
Jimmie Johnson (+600): If you bet Celtics Cavaliers, it's similar to Johnson vs Gordon: the new dominant force in the sport against the old, although Johnson has more championships than LeBron James, and looking at Boston's Game 2 rout of Cleveland, Gordon isn't rolling over for his protégé. Johnson's 6.9 average in 11 Darlington races is tops in the series, and he finished second in last year's race. Outside of the two restrictor-plate races, Johnson hasn't finished lower than 12th this year.
Mark Martin (+900): The defending champion had a good stretch ended by a 25th-place finish at Richmond last week, and as far as experience goes, Martin has it in spades here with 43 starts, which he has turned into 26 top-10s. Martin is having another inconsistent run up to the Chase, but the No.5 team will hit it right sooner than later.
Greg Biffle (+2000): "The Biffle" offers great NASCAR betting value for players, and he went back-to-back at Darlington in 2005 and 2006. He also led 117 laps en route to an eighth-place run last year, and he's led laps in four of the last five Darlington races.
Juan Pablo Montoya (+2500): Montoya hasn't had nice words for the "Track Too Tough To Tame", and he has yet to break the top 10 in three trips to Darlington. But he's on a bit of a roll with three top-six finishes in his last four starts, and Montoya is too talented of a racecar driver to struggle for much longer. The No.42 team got off to a rough start, but it's turning around.
Pick: How much longer can Jeff Gordon keep coming up short at the end of races? He's led the most laps in the series, more than 300 more than Johnson, who has three wins. But Gordon has too much experience to keep letting these chances slip through his fingers, and if he keeps putting himself in these positions, he'll grab one, and it'll come this week. Go with Jeff Gordon this weekend when betting on sports.
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