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The Cup Series wraps up its regular season at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday with the 2026 Coke Zero Sugar 400. The green flag drops at 7:30 p.m. ET for the Daytona Night Race 2026, with Ryan Blaney the defending winner and coming off a victory last week. Tyler Reddick began the year with a NASCAR Daytona triumph at The Great American Race, while Denny Hamlin sits atop the Cup Series standings entering the Coke Zero Sugar 400 2026. Visit our DraftKings promo code review and get $200 in bonus bets as a new user after $5+ in wagers here :
Joey Logano is the +900 favorite in the 2026 NASCAR at Daytona odds via FanDuel Sportsbook, followed by Blaney (+1000) and William Byron (+1100). Surprise pole winner Ross Chastain is a longer shot at +2500. Before locking in any NASCAR at Daytona predictions or NASCAR DFS lineups, you need to see the projected leaderboard from Mike McClure's proven model .
McClure is a legendary professional DFS player with more than $2 million in career winnings. He uses a powerful prediction model that simulates every lap of NASCAR action 10,000 times. All told, the model has nailed a whopping 30 winners since 2021 and nailed Denny Hamlin's back-to-back wins at Michigan and Pocono in June. Anyone following his NASCAR betting picks at their favorite betting apps could have seen huge returns.
Now, McClure has turned his attention to the NASCAR Daytona Night Race. He's only sharing his best bets at SportsLine .
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For NASCAR Daytona Night Race 2026, McClure is fading Chase Elliott at +1800, saying he finishes outside the top 10 despite just three drivers having shorter odds. Elliott has checkered flags at 14 different NASCAR tracks, but Daytona is not one of them. That's despite having 21 starts at the track, which is his second most of any circuit. He hasn't led for a single lap at either of the last two Daytona Night Races, and Elliott's limping towards the end of the 2026 Cup Series season as he has one top 10 over his last 11 starts.
Another surprise: The model is high on Alex Bowman at +3500. He has an average finish of 17.1 across 20 career Daytona races, which is third-best among all active drivers. That includes four top-6 finishes over his last seven trips to the track, with a runner-up at the 2024 Daytona 500. Bowman, who placed third at a comparable drafting track in Talladega earlier this year, also has the backing of Hendrick Motorsports, whose seven wins at this Daytona race are the most of any team over the last 50 years. See which other drivers the model is backing at SportsLine .
McClure is also high on another pair of longshots at around +3000 who make runs for the top of the leaderboard, potentially netting any backer a huge payday. You can only see who they are here .
So who wins the 2026 Coke Zero Sugar 400, and which longshots could stun NASCAR at Daytona? Visit SportsLine now to see the 2026 NASCAR Daytona Night Race picks and best bets from a NASCAR model that nailed back-to-back Denny Hamlin wins , and find out.
See full NASCAR Coke Zero Sugar 400 picks at SportsLine . (Odds from FanDuel, subject to change)
Joey Logano +900 Ryan Blaney +1000 William Byron +1100 Austin Cindric +1300 Tyler Reddick +1600 Chris Buescher +1700 Chase Elliott +1800 Chase Briscoe +1800 Carson Hocevar +1900 Kyle Larson +2000 Bubba Wallace +2000 Denny Hamlin +2200 Brad Keselowski +2200 Christopher Bell +2200 Ryan Preece +2200 Ross Chastain +2500 Ty Gibbs +3000 Corey Heim +3300 Erik Jones +3500 Alex Bowman +3500 Shane van Gisbergen +3500 Todd Gilliland +3500 Austin Hill +4000 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. +4000 Josh Berry +4000 Zane Smith +4000 Austin Dillon +4500 Michael McDowell +4500 Connor Zilisch +5000 Daniel Suarez +5000 Riley Herbst +5000 John Hunter Nemechek +6000 Noah Gragson +7500 Ty Dillon +8000 AJ Allmendinger +8000 Cole Custer +8000 Cody Ware +10000 Casey Mears +12500 Joey Gase +40000 Daniel Dye +50000
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