The 2019 Folds of Honor Quiktrip 500 runs Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway and Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin will look to follow up his historic win with another strong performance. He’s recorded at 15-1 in the latest 2019 Folds of Honor Quiktrip 500 chances, with the event’s defending champion, Kevin Harvick, set up as the Vegas favorite at 4-1. Harvick will begin in 18th, but ended second from that position back in 2009 at Atlanta. Then there is Aric Almirola, who won the pole and is going off at 20-1 NASCAR at Atlanta odds. The restrictor plates will come off with this race, so before you make your 2019 Folds of Honor Quiktrip 500 picks, make sure you have a look at the projected leaderboard and newest NASCAR predictions from the proven computer model at SportsLine.

Developed by DFS expert and SportsLine predictive data engineer Mike McClure, this proprietary NASCAR prediction computer model simulates every race 10,000 times, taking factors like track history and current results into consideration.

It made some enormous calls in NASCAR last year, such as nailing wins for Kyle Busch in Chicago and Martin Truex Jr. in Sonoma. And it is off to a strong start in NASCAR this season, calling Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin a leading contender from the beginning. Anyone who has followed its picks is way, way up.

McClure, who has a mechanical engineering degree, grew up around race tracks. Events in places like Atlanta Motor Speedway are in his bloodstream. His model mimicked the 2019 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 a total of 10,000 times and the results were surprising.

For your 2019 QuikTrip 500 in Atlanta, we can tell you that the model is high on Jimmie Johnson, that surges towards the top of this 2019 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 leaderboard despite going off as a 25-1 long haul.

The seven-time cup champion had a solid run at the Daytona 500, finishing ninth as a 43-year-old in his 19th season on NASCAR’s top circuit. He heads into a track where he’s won five times in his career.

Johnson won the first two races at Atlanta Motor Speedway when the event was shifted from the latter portion of the year to correct after Daytona. He also won the late race in Atlanta in 2004 and won both events there in 2007.

Johnson will begin in 11th on Sunday, and also the version anticipates NASCAR’s elder statesman to keep close to the front of the package and provide the potential for a huge payout.

Another shocker from the model: Kyle Busch, among the best Vegas favorites at 6-1, does not even crack the top five.

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