Gibbs Slight Fave For NASCAR’s 2024 Tennessee Lottery 250 Odds
Former Xfinity Champion Returns to The Series This week in Nashville
Be it the Cup or Xfinity Series, there was no slowing Christopher Bell down in Loudon last weekend. He swept both NASCAR races and earned his first Xfinity win of the year. More Cup Series regulars are competing in the Xfinity race this weekend in Nashville and they lead the 2024 Tennessee Lottery 250 Odds.
2024 Tennessee Lottery 250 Odds: Favorites
Ty Gibbs (+350)
This marks Gibbs’ fourth Xfinity race this season and his first since a rough finish in Sonoma. His hot start to the Cup Series season has cooled off and his NASCAR results have dropped him outside of the top 10 in the standings. He hasn’t finished in the top 10 in the last five Cup Series races, his worst stretch of the year.
He’s been solid in Nashville in limited running there. He finished 37th in last year’s Xfinity Series race but 14th in the Cup Series. In 2022, he finished fourth in the Xfinity event. He could use this event to get his Cup Series season back on track.
Justin Allgaier (+400)
Allgaier rebounded from a rough outing in Iowa to take fourth in New Hampshire. He’s looking good in the NASCAR playoff standings in third place and just 42 points behind series leader Cole Custer.
He’s one of few drivers on the grid who raced at this track prior to its 10-year hiatus. In 2010, he took pole position in the season’s second race there and finished fourth.
More recently, he won this race and led the most laps in 2022. A year earlier, he finished second. Allgaier’s track record on this oval is promising, and he has a great chance of winning his second race of the season.
John Hunter Nemechek (+450)
Nemechek is back in the Xfinity Series again this week as well. He managed 27th in his last race in the series this season in Iowa. He earned a win earlier this year in Las Vegas for his only win of 2024 in either the Cup or Xfinity series.
Nemechek’s experience at this oval is very limited. He finished sixth at this event last year and had top-10 finishes in 2022 (ninth) and 2021 (10th) in the Craftsman Truck Series.
He’s fresh off his best Cup Series result – eighth in New Hampshire – since March. He has momentum from that but a win would be a surprise.
Cole Custer (+550)
Custer earned another top-five finish last week in New Hampshire and finished third after leading the most laps of the race. He’s now tallied an incredible 13 top-10 finishes in the last 14 races on the Xfinity NASCAR schedule 2024.
Custer’s experience in Nashville is also limited. He finished ninth from pole position last year in this event. His two Cup Series races there saw him finish 30th (2021) and 26th (2022).
Custer is still yet to win a race this year but sits atop the Xfinity standings. He should be in for at least another top-five finish here.
Chandler Smith (+600)
Smith had a solid but unspectacular race in New Hampshire last weekend and finished 15th. He’s been inconsistent lately with just two top-10 results in the last six races.
Last year, Smith led the most laps in this event but finished 12th by the checkered flag. He finished 15th in the Craftsman Truck Series race there a year earlier.
That’s a good track record but his recent form makes it hard to predict how he’ll do.
Sam Mayer (+700)
Mayer followed his win in Iowa with 19th and a Stage 1 win in New Hampshire. That continues his inconsistent trend in recent races. He’s finished fifth or better in five of the last seven races but with a 28th-place result in Portland and 19th last weekend.
He does have a good chance to bounce back this weekend. His track record in Nashville is promising because he finished third in 2023 and fifth in 2022. He should be considered a serious threat for victory based on that alone.
Sleepers
Riley Herbst (+2500)
Herbst is in the best form of the season after his eighth-place finish in New Hampshire. His consistency’s brought him up to sixth in the standings ahead of this weekend.
He could be in for a surprise in Nashville. He finished 10th here in 2021, third from pole position in 2022, and second last year. That’s one of the best track records in the series at this track. Between that and his recent form, he’s an ideal sleeper pick.
AJ Allmendinger (+2500)
Allmendinger bounced back from a rough race in Iowa to finish 11th in New Hampshire. It’s not his best form of the season but he’s in the top 10 of the standings more than halfway through the regular season.
He won this race last year and finished fifth here in 2021. At these odds, his track record is good enough to warrant consideration with a great payout.
Ross Chastain (+4500)
It’s unusual to find a Cup Series driver with odds this long, especially a former winner at the track. Chastain’s yet to win in 2024 but he’s enjoying a solid run lately in the Cup Series with six straight top-12 finishes.
He won the Cup Series race in Nashville last year after finishing fifth in 2022 and second in 2021. That’s a track record worth betting on.
2024 Tennessee Lottery 250 Odds: Predictions
Nashville’s one of the newer events on the schedule and its unique design makes it an exciting challenge for drivers.
Of the favorites, we like Mayer (+700) to get a second win of the season. Of the sleepers, Chastain (+4500) is an absolute bargain at those NASCAR odds. Our top five picks are:
- Mayer (even)
- Chastain (+600)
- Custer (-125)
- Herbst (+350)
- Allmendinger (+350)
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