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Homestead hosts Sprint Cup Championship Sunday
By: Zach Cohen - StatFox
Published: 11/20/2015  at  6:49:00 AM
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NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Ford EcoBoost 400

Sunday, November 22nd – 3:00 p.m. EDT
Homestead-Miami Speedway, Homestead, FL

Odds to Win Race

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The Sprint Cup drivers head to Homestead, Florida for the championship race on Sunday. This season has been extremely exciting and four drivers have a chance to win the 2015 Sprint Cup Series driver championship at this event. The first driver to cross the finish line amongst Kevin Harvick, Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. will be this year’s champion and it will make for some seriously exciting stuff this weekend. Harvick was last year’s winner at this race, but Gordon won back in 2012. Three drivers in this year’s field have won multiple times at this event, with Greg Biffle and Tony Stewart both winning three times and Carl Edwards winning twice. The oval track runs 1.5 miles long and has progressive turns of 18-20 degrees with three-degree straights. With all of that information out of the way, let’s now take a look at who could be entering victory lane in the final race of the year:

Kevin Harvick (7-to-2) - Kevin Harvick has a chance to be crowned the champion on Sunday and fortunately for him, he’s racing at a track that he has been very good at in his career. Harvick won this race and championship a year ago and is the favorite to win it again this weekend. He comes into this race after having finished in third two events ago at Texas and second in Phoenix last weekend. He has, however, been winless since racing in Dover seven weekends ago. Harvick is a good pick to snap that streak on Sunday and win his second straight championship.

Jimmie Johnson (7-to-1) - Jimmie Johnson claimed the pole for this event and while he waited way too long to turn it on this season, he does enter this race on a hot streak. Johnson won the race in Texas two weeks ago and followed it up with a fifth place finish last weekend. He does not have a championship to win, but he is embracing the role of spoiler and is a great pick to win at 7-to-1. He would love to enter next season on a high note and is happy to make people look foolish for talking about his retirement too early.

Jeff Gordon (10-to-1) - Like Harvick, Gordon is also in the running for a championship and just needs to finish before Harvick and two others in order to be crowned the champion. Gordon has won at Homestead in his career and has finished in the top 10 at six straight races entering this one. This is Gordon’s last race in his final season as a full-time driver in the Sprint Cup and he will have all of the motivation in the world to come away with a victory. Backing him at 10-to-1 could end up paying off huge.

Greg Biffle (300-to-1) - Biffle has had a season to forget in 2015, but he is receiving 300-to-1 odds and his history at this racetrack speaks for itself. Biffle is a three-time winner at Homestead and will be looking to earn his fourth victory on Sunday. With the odds he’s receiving, one unit may make you a very happy person come Sunday evening.


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