Micah Roberts’ NASCAR Ratings Toyota/Save Mart 350 Sonoma Raceway Sunday, June 26, 2016 - 3:18 pm (ET) Rating Driver Odds Practice 1 Practice 2 Qualified Sonoma ‘15* 1. Kurt Busch (5/1) 11th 12th 4th 2nd 2011 winner, active leader with seven top-fives and 197 laps led; using 2015 road chassis. 2. Carl Edwards (10/1) 5th 4th 1st 40th 2014 winner, third-place in 2013 and 2011. Pole sitter won five of 27 Sonoma races (18.5%). 3. A.J. Allmendinger (7/1) 19th 15th 2nd 37th Captured only career win in 2014 on the other road course at the faster Watkins Glen Int’l. 4. Jimmie Johnson (7/1) 15th 13th 15th 6th 2010 winner, ninth or better in past seven starts. Led race-high 45 laps in last seasons race. 5. Kyle Busch (10/1) 14th 5th 8th 1st Two-time winner, including last season — his only top-fives in 11 career starts (19.09 avg). 6. Martin Truex Jr. (10/1) 3rd 10th 3rd 42nd 2013 with 21st-place average finish in 10 starts. Best 10-consecutive lap average in practice 2. 7. Kasey Kahne (30/1) 24th 9th 19th 8th 2009 winner after not cracking top-20 in first five attempts; eighth or better past three starts. 8. Kevin Harvick (7/1) 17th 18th 25th 4th 2007 runner-up and using chassis this week that had top-fives in both 2015 road course races. 9. Joey Logano (10/1) 10th 16th 7th 5th Career-best fifth last year continuing trend of him getting better on road courses every year. 10. Dale Earnhardt Jr. (18/1) 4th 1st 13th 7th Didn’t have a top-10 in first 14 starts, but was third in 2014 and then seventh last year.
- Results from June 28, 2015 Sonoma race
Odds courtesy of the Westgate SuperBook.
Micah Roberts, a former Las Vegas sports book director, has been setting NASCAR odds since 1994. Follow him on twitter @MicahRoberts7
