2009 Indianapolis 500 Betting Odds: Racing gamblers tired of horse betting get a major shift in genre Sunday as Horse-Power takes over with the 2009 Indianapolis 500. Gamblers need to get their bets in before the Green Flag drops at 1 p.m. ET Sunday. Online sportsbook BetUS.com has all the 2009 Indianapolis 500 Betting Odds.
As of Saturday morning, online super-sportsbook BetUS.com was listing two-time winner Helio Castroneves as a +300 favorite to win this year's Indianapolis 500.
Defending champion Scott Dixon is listed as the second choice on the BetUS Indy 500 betting board at +350 while Ryan Briscoe, who won the IRL's St. Petersburg Grand Prix last month is listed third at +550. Dario Franchitti, the 2007 winner, is listed fourth at +650. Tony Kanaan is the fifth pick on the BetUS board at +850, and Danica Patrick is the sixth choice at +900.
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Those drivers are followed on the BetUS Indy 500 betting board by Marco Andretti at +1,200; Graham Rahal and 2005 winner Dan Wheldon at +1,800; Paul Tracy at +2000; Vitor Meira at +2500 Will Power at +3000; Hideki Mutoh at +4,000; Robert Doornbos, Alex Tagliani at +5,000; and Ed Carpenter, Justin Wilson and Scott Sharp at +5000; Ryan Hunter Reay at +6000; John Andretti and Ed Carpenter at +8000.
Dixon also won the most recent race on the IRL circuit, the Roadrunner Turbo Indy 300 at Kansas last month. Castroneves finished second there, Kanaan third, Briscoe fourth, and Patrick fifth.
Castroneves won the pole for Sunday's race during qualifying last week. Briscoe will start alongside his racing teammate in the two spot, and Franchitti will join them in the front row, starting in the third position.
Meira took second place behind Dixon in last year's Indy 500. Marco Andretti finished third, Castroneves fourth, and Ed Carpenter fifth. And Hunter-Reay and Mutoh, as Indy rookies, finished sixth and seventh, respectively.
Patrick has finished fourth twice and eighth once in four Indy 500 starts. But last year she got clipped in a pit-road incident and was knocked out of the race.
The last driver to win back-to-back Indy 500s was Castroneves in 2001/02. Before that, the last driver to win consecutive 500s was Al Unser back in 1970-71.
Castroneves will also be gunning to add his name to a list that includes names like Mears, Unser, Foyt, and Rutherford as those who have won this race more than twice.
Drivers running Hondas have won the last five Indy 500s.
