NASCAR in Nash Vegas: Betting advice for the Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway

New England last week. Chicago next week.

In between, it’s Old Home Week for NASCAR’s road warriors, who come back home for a little Southern culture to cleanse the palate.

They’re not exactly in Nashville — just a bit east of downtown, actually — but close enough to Lower Broadway to hear the deafening speakers blaring from yet another rooftop bar attached to the name of some jeans-clad Flavor of the Month.

Not sure if they could drown out the noise of some three dozen rip-roaring stock cars, but they’ll sure as hell try.

Where were we? Ah, the betting window. Time to set out the tip jar, strum through some prime Ernest Tubb, and see if we can collect enough to take advantage of all this quality advice below.

Best Bet for Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway

Ryan: Just for laughs, let’s do one we’ve never done in this space: How about we look at the car number of the race winner and we go with odd. In that scenario, we get Ross Chastain, Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott, Chris Buescher, Denny Hamlin, Tyler Reddick and Martin Truex Jr. among others. With Chevy’s run of success in Nashville, Hamlin’s season-long speed and Truex Jr.’s urgency for a win in his final season, I’ll ride with those guys.

Ken: Josh Berry is +1000 to be the highest finishing Ford driver Sunday at Nashville. Fifteen Ford drivers dot the starting lineup, but it’s not exactly a Murderers Row. Ryan Blaney is +160 and that seems ridiculously low for a guy who steps on a rake way too many weeks. More on Berry down below, by the way.