 Hey everybody, what's going on? I am Greg Salisman, joined today by Jim Saenzofandl, who's helping us take an early look at the Daytona 500 and going over some of his favorite bets for that big race coming up in just a couple of weeks. What's going on, Jim? Yeah, Greg, the Super Bowl, that matters. Just two weeks away. I could not be more excited. We could talk some NASCAR here again in the hurry up. We'll be talking DFS. Once the starting order is set in mid-February. So I'm pumped. This one matters. What about the other one? You know who cares. It's on Daytona for now. This one matters in Daytona, Florida, just a couple of weeks away. The week after the Super Bowl on Fox, some call it a tradition unlike any other. So let's get into some of your favorite bets right now at the Fandals Sportsbook. And we begin with William Byron, who is plus 2,000 in the number 24 car. And that's Jeff Gordon's all-car, I believe. Yeah, and William Byron's actually carving out a legacy for himself because he is the most recent winner at Daytona. He won here back in the final race of the regular season, earned himself a playoff berth. So seeing him at 20-1 may lead you to believe that win for William Byron was a fluke, but I don't really think that it was. He had finished second in the July Daytona race the year before that. He had 44 laps in the 2019 Daytona 500. And this is not that shocking. The Hendrick Motorsports cars have always had a lot of speed in Daytona. Although speed does not matter as much in Daytona as it does elsewhere, it still matters a lot. You can navigate your way through traffic, link up with your teammates. You can make some pretty serious ground and William Byron showed the upsides of that when he won here again last year. So he's 21, his implied odds of winning are 4.8%. If you look at my win simulations, which I'm cooking up for this year, because why not? He's at 7% there. So a pretty decent edge on William Byron here, and I think that he is one of the best values in the field. I will also say it's worthwhile to look around because right now Chase Elliott is 10 to 1 at Fandall Sportsbook. That's a little short, but I think you could find him potentially a bit longer elsewhere. If his odds lengthen at some point before the green flag drops, I could talk myself into that. My model really likes him as well. Alex Bowman is 18 to 1, driving for Hendrick Motorsports too. So in general, I was off of Hendrick last year. I was worried about how their bumpers would link up, thought it might make it tough for the Chevrolet as to bump draft. They proved me wrong. In the second Daytona race with William Byron getting that win. So I'm going back to the well here once again, changing course here on the Hendrick cars. I think they're all pretty intriguing outside of Kyle Larson, but my favorite is William Byron. He is the longest of the Hendrick cars, 20 to 1. And I wouldn't be too shocked if he goes back to back in Daytona. That's just kind of interesting, right? You're getting a guy at 21 who won in Daytona just last year. And this is in reasons he bias, but someone that has proven to do it in this car with Hendrick Motorsports, William Byron, all of his teammates, all kind of make sense. And at the Bando Sportsbook, you're getting him at 21 at the moment. So Byron makes sense for a bet at Daytona. If you want to double up on William Byron's number, you get to plus 4,000. And that's when you arrive at Chris Busher. He's driving the number 17 car here at Daytona. Why is Busher someone that we should target his number? He's really good at Daytona. It's pretty simple. Like that's the main reasoning here. And I think he's just an underappreciated driver. The number makes sense because again, like I said, equipment does matter and Busher's equipment is not very good, but he has been good at Daytona in the past, even with worse equipment than what he has right now. In the past three years, the past six Daytona races, Busher has three top five finishes. One of those was in the Daytona 500 last year. He was actually passing Denny Hamlin for the lead on the outside. Right after he got past Hamlin, the caution came out. He reverted back to the previous loop. So he went behind Hamlin, finished third. So a bit disappointing because I had him as a bet there as well. Didn't win, but he was close. And I think that that does matter. He's been close in the past. He had a couple of top five finishes in 2018 as well. So the equipment is not good. He doesn't have like outside of Ryan Newman, strict teammates to help him at the front of the pack. But we've seen the Fords in general work really well together here in the past, outside of just the Roush family racing cars. Ryan Newman tends to run to their front as well. We'll have at least one teammate there. So we've all seen him do well at this track in bad equipment. In the past, his equipment now better than it was back in 2019 and 2018. And again, 2018 is here. We had two top five finishes. So I'm on board with Busher once again. He is 40 to one. I think that's a really encouraging number. He was the same number last year. He was 40 to one at close. We're getting at the exact same number even though he finished third in that race and had a chance to win once again. So I'm gonna run it back with Chris Busher, kind of see what happens. I have a lot of faith in the Fords in general on tracks like this. So why not bet on Busher, long shot once again, a guy the proven history of Daytona and see if he can actually solidify that win this time around. Chris Busher here at 41 after finishing third last year. Again, much like William Byron, like he won in Daytona last year and you're gonna give it 20 to one. Here, a driver that came in third in the tough race in the course of Daytona 500 before that caution comes out, passing Danny Hamlin. Now you're getting here at the same number, 40 to one. The odds just say it's worth taking a shot on here again. One last driver to get you also across 4,000, also named Chris. It's Christopher Bell in that number 20 car, Jim. Why is this number ring true to you? Yeah, this comes down to the teammate, Aaron. And we talked in passing about teammates with Byron and Busher, but I think it's especially pertinent here because at Daytona and at Talladega, you often see teammates work together. And what that means is a lot of times you wanna target good teams and target big teams. And here, Christopher Bell moving now to Joe Gibbs Racing. It's his first year with Joe Gibbs Racing. Now a teammate to Danny Hamlin, Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr. All three of those drivers are 18 to one or shorter. Hamlin is a favorite, but Christopher Bell is all the way down at 40 to one. Joe Gibbs Racing has won three of the past five races at Daytona, Hamlin has won two of those. Eric Jones won the other. Eric Jones, the previous guy to occupy the seat with the number 20 car. We also saw Joe Gibbs Racing flex some muscle last year in Daytona during the Bush clash because Eric Jones had this car that had just been beat up. It was terrible, but Danny Hamlin was laughed down and basically just said, eh, whatever, I'll push my teammate to the win. And Eric Jones got the win there. Now it's Christopher Bell in that car with this really good team. And yeah, you can look at Christopher Bell's track record at Daytona and Talladega. It's not great. He didn't finish better than 13th year last year, was never better than third in the truck series or the Xfiddy series, but I am getting access to arguably the best team at Daytona for 40 to one. I'm gonna take that every time. So Christopher Bell may not have the track record like Byron or like Bush or at Daytona, but he has the team, he has the equipment, he has the speed, and that does matter a lot. So I think that Christopher Bell 40 to one in his first races with Joe Gibbs Racing, I'm expecting to come out with a bang. And I think that 40 to one, a really encouraging number for someone going to such a strong team. It's all about Joe Gibbs Racing here. We're going after Christopher Bell at 40 to one. His teammate, it's obviously sort of the best in the business that you need with Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. there, but you're getting in on the team at a really good number here. At plus 4,000, the Fandal Sportsbook right now. So take a shot with Christopher Bell. That's it for us here on the Fandal Hurryup. Jim, we appreciate the time and we'll talk to you in a couple of weeks as the Daytona 500, the major event of February. Exactly. I guess I'll begrudgingly talk about that other game next week if I have to, but like, you know, I can, in my head, you know, the Daytona 500 will be living there rent-free. Only thing that could have made the other event better is that Jared Goff was in it. From Jim Sanis, I am Greg Salisman. Jump in tomorrow. It's Tom Becquio, wrap up the week with me talking about DFS for the NBA. Have a great night everybody. I'll see you back here tomorrow for another edition of the Fandal Hurryup.