Odds to win the Sprint Cup Championship 2012: Through five races of the 2012 season, Tony Stewart is the only 2-time winner on NASCAR’s grandest stage, the Sprint Cup Series, so now wonder odds makers at online sports book Bovada.lv list the owner/driver of the No. 14 Office Depot Racing Chevrolet as NASCAR Odds favorite to win the 2012 Sprint Cup points championship for the second straight year. Stewart took the title on the last race of 2011 after a heated battle with Carl Edwards. The two went into the final Sprint Cup event at Homestead, Fl., virtually tied. Fans can expect the same type of battle in 2012 too. No doubt Stewart, lined 4/1 favorite, will be challenged by the likes of Kyle Busch, listed with second best odds at 4/1, five- time champion Jimmie Johnson (6-1) or last years challenger Edwards, coming off at 13/2.
In current points standings, 42 year old Vancouver, Wash., native Greg Biffle of Roush Fenway Racing, is leading the pack with 195 points. Richard Childress Racing’s Kevin Harvick is second in the standings seven points off the pace of Stewart with 188 and followed by Dale Earnhardt Jr., of the Hendrick Team in third. Stewart, odds makers favorite is -18 points back of Biffle in the fourth position with 177. Martin Truex Jr., rounds out the top-five points earners with 175.
Daytona 500 winner Matt Kenseth, also of Rousch Fenway Racing, is currently sixth in the standings, -22 points back with 173. Denny Hamlin, driver of the Joe Gibbs racing Toyota is in seventh with 171 followed by Clint Boyer with 157 and Johnson in ninth with 156. Ryan Newman is 10th with 155, Paul Menard is 11th with 148 and Edwards is 12th in the standings with 146.
If I were to make a NASCAR Odds futures wager on the 2012 Sprint Cup at this point, my pick would come from these top five of Stewart, Busch, Johnson, Edwards and Harvick. For Matt Kenseth to win he must be more consistent with top finishes. Last years battle between Stewart and Edwards was a classic and I look for much of the same in 2012 between Stewart and any of the top drivers.
Odds to win the 2012 Sprint Cup Championship (provided by sports book (Bovada.lv)
Tony Stewart 4/1
Kyle Busch 5/1
Jimmie Johnson 6/1
Carl Edwards 13/2
Kevin Harvick 7/1
Eale Earnhardt Jr. 9/1
Matt Kenseth 10/1
Brad Keselowski 12/1
Denny Hamlin 12/1
Jeff Gordon 12/1
Greg Biggle 14/1
Kasey Kahne 20/1
Clint Bowyer 40/1
Ryan Newman 40/1
Jeff Burton 60/1
Juan Pablo Montoya 80/1
