| Saturday night racing is just more fun. | | | | laps. So this week we'll be looking at three things: (1) |
| Something about the paint schemes under the lights, | | | | Richmond success; (2) Car of Tomorrow success; (3) |
| the fact that drinking alcohol on a Saturday night | | | | patience patience patience. Let's look at our favorite |
| simply feels less taboo than getting bombed at noon | | | | wagers of the week. |
| on a Sunday (call me old-fashioned), and that you can | | | | Last Week: It's pretty tough winning money at |
| skip dinner and eat nachos for about four hours. | | | | plate-track races, simply because of the randomness |
| Heck, a good Saturday-night race can be a terrific | | | | involved with cars driving 190 mph |
| precursor to a long night of fun. Finish the race | | | | bumper-to-bumper, but win money we did. While |
| around 10 (in the east), gather up any remaining pork | | | | none of our straight-up selections won the race (Jeff |
| rinds, and hit the town. And hopefully hit it flush with | | | | Gordon did), Kurt Busch managed to finish third and |
| some extra cash from well-placed wagers. | | | | hold off Dale Earnhardt Jr., who finished seventh. |
| Richmond International Raceway is a funny little place: | | | | That head-to-head victory gave us a net positive |
| it's three-quarters of a mile long, but they call it the | | | | week of 0.45 units on 1.5 units wagered, a return of |
| short track that drives like a superspeedway, | | | | 30%. For the season, we're up 1.94 units on 13.5 units |
| because its front stretch is a lot longer than you | | | | wagered, a return of 14.4%. (As always, note that if |
| expect, so the cars get some unexpectedly high | | | | you eschew the conservative betting scheme we |
| speeds before having to brake hard in Turn 1. The | | | | outline below and simply bet one unit for ever wager |
| guy who's best at the beginning of this race is almost | | | | we recommend, you'd have lost 2.05 units on four |
| never the race winner, simply because being good | | | | units wagered last week, but you'd be up 15.47 units |
| late requires you to be easy on your brakes early, | | | | on 36 units wagered for the season, a return of |
| and zooming out to an early lead almost always | | | | 43%. Of course, on a week-to-week basis, this |
| means you use up all your brakes on the first 200 | | | | betting strategy is riskier. |