{"id":19438,"date":"2023-06-02T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/news\/?p=19438"},"modified":"2023-06-02T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T14:00:10","slug":"enjoy-illinois-300-predictions-picks-and-betting-favorites-june-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/news\/motorsports\/nascar\/enjoy-illinois-300-predictions-picks-and-betting-favorites-june-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy Illinois 300 Predictions, Picks and Betting Favorites June 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Enjoy Illinois 300 Betting Preview<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/profile\/andy-lang\">WagerTalk NASCAR handicapper Andy Lang<\/a> offers his predictions, picks and betting favorites around the Enjoy Illinois 300 with drivers starting their engines at 3:30pm ET from World Wide Technology Raceway in Madison, Illinois. Andy discusses average finish times and betting analysis around his best bet!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Stay on top of the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/free-sports-picks\">NASCAR<\/a> updates direct from Las Vegas!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Enjoy Illinois 300<\/th>\n<th>NASCAR Betting Notes<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>When:<\/td>\n<td>June 4, 2023 3:30pm ET \/ 12:30pm PT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Where:<\/td>\n<td>World Wide Technology Raceway in Madison, Illinois<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Defending Champ:<\/td>\n<td>Joey Logano<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Current Favorite:<\/td>\n<td>Kyle Larson (+500 at <a href=\"https:\/\/wagertalk.go.metabet.io\/bet\/draftkings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DraftKings<\/a>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>TV:<\/td>\n<td>FS1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Enjoy Illinois 300 Betting Analysis<\/h2>\n<p>NASCAR goes to Gateway for their second race at the 1.25 mile track where Joey Logano was victorious last year. Since we don\u2019t have much track history, I took this years average finishes at Richmond, Dover and Darlington\u2026three tracks less than 1.5 mile, but not as small as Martinsville.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Chase Elliott is #1, but will be suspended for Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Brad Keselowski 7.3 <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>2. Christopher Bell 8.0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>3. Alex Bowman 8.0 (only one race) <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>4. Kevin Harvick 8.7 <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>5. William Byron 9.7 <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>6. Ross Chastain 11.3 <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>7. Denny Hamlin 12.3 <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>8. Ty Gibbs 12.7 <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>9. Ryan Blaney 12.7 <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>10. Bubba Wallace 13.0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chevy has been the car winning races, but we might be seeing an adjustment. Only one Chevy finished in the Top 5 last week, and Chevy\u2019s have won one out of the last four races, and last year at this track the top seven was made up of only Ford\u2019s and Chevy\u2019s.<\/p>\n<h3>Enjoy Illinois 300 Betting Notes<\/h3>\n<p>-I lost on Kevin Harvick Top 10 last week after he ran in the top 10 all race only to be bumped causing him to spin. He fights back in the last 50 laps to end up 11th giving me a brutal loss on the play. Doesn\u2019t change the fact his car was really good on the 1.5 mile track, and has been all season making for a nice comeback.<\/p>\n<p>-Blaney\u2019s average finish at the above three tracks isn\u2019t great due to a 26th place finish at Richmond. He was solid at Dover and Darlington<\/p>\n<p>-Including the All-Star Race, Bubba Wallace has four straight finishes inside the Top 5<\/p>\n<h3>Enjoy Illinois 300 Best Bet<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Kevin Harvick Top 10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even though he spun, he fought back to finish 11th when he had a top 7 car all race, and I\u2019ll come back to him this week.<\/p>\n<p>He had a brake rotor failure late in the race last year at Gateway ruining his race, but he finished 2nd at Darlington and 5th at Richmond so I feel confident he\u2019ll be near the front most of the race.<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"font-size: revert; text-align: center; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Interested in placing a bet on the Enjoy Illinois 300? BetMGM is offering a <a href=\"https:\/\/gtly.ink\/4lXjdvjDR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$1,000 Risk-Free Bet<\/a> for first-time bettors in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, Colorado, Tennessee, Iowa, Michigan, Virginia, Washington DC, Wyoming, Mississippi, Arizona and Louisiana.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gtly.ink\/4lXjdvjDR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3037 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/BetMGM-Primary-Horizontal-Black-Background.jpg\" alt=\"BetMGM Logo\" width=\"528\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/BetMGM-Primary-Horizontal-Black-Background.jpg 528w, https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/BetMGM-Primary-Horizontal-Black-Background-300x70.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>**************************************************<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Looking for more free sports picks and sports betting tips?<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Latest Betting Odds and Public Action<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wt.buzz\/odds\" data-schema-attribute=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vegas lines<\/a> updated in real time, including who the public is betting on. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Last Minute Handicapping Advice<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">: Check out our extensive library of <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12pt;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/sports-betting-guide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">handicapping tips<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> and advice from professional Vegas handicappers (we also recommend taking the time to look over our <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12pt;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sports betting tips video library<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Want an expert opinion?<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> Check out the latest <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12pt;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/free-sports-picks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Free Sports Picks<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> and <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12pt;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/picks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Best Bets<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> from our team of expert sports handicappers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Make sure to bookmark all the above!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy Illinois 300 Betting Preview WagerTalk NASCAR handicapper Andy Lang offers his predictions, picks and betting favorites around the Enjoy Illinois 300 with drivers starting their engines at 3:30pm ET from World Wide Technology Raceway in Madison, Illinois. Andy discusses average finish times and betting analysis around his best bet! Stay on top of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":17980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[3269,3272,3273,3270,3271,2648,2714,60,3268,599,600,601],"class_list":["post-19438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nascar","tag-enjoy-illinois-300","tag-enjoy-illinois-300-bets","tag-enjoy-illinois-300-betting","tag-enjoy-illinois-300-picks","tag-enjoy-illinois-300-predictions","tag-joey-logano","tag-kyle-larson","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-bets","tag-nascar-betting","tag-nascar-picks","tag-nascar-predictions"],"basic_html":"<h2>Enjoy Illinois 300 Betting Preview<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/profile\/andy-lang\">WagerTalk NASCAR handicapper Andy Lang<\/a> offers his predictions, picks and betting favorites around the Enjoy Illinois 300 with drivers starting their engines at 3:30pm ET from World Wide Technology Raceway in Madison, Illinois. Andy discusses average finish times and betting analysis around his best bet!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Stay on top of the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/free-sports-picks\">NASCAR<\/a> updates direct from Las Vegas!<\/em><\/p>\n<!--more-->\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Enjoy Illinois 300<\/th>\n<th>NASCAR Betting Notes<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>When:<\/td>\n<td>June 4, 2023 3:30pm ET \/ 12:30pm PT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Where:<\/td>\n<td>World Wide Technology Raceway in Madison, Illinois<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Defending Champ:<\/td>\n<td>Joey Logano<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Current Favorite:<\/td>\n<td>Kyle Larson (+500 at <a href=\"https:\/\/wagertalk.go.metabet.io\/bet\/draftkings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DraftKings<\/a>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>TV:<\/td>\n<td>FS1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Enjoy Illinois 300 Betting Analysis<\/h2>\nNASCAR goes to Gateway for their second race at the 1.25 mile track where Joey Logano was victorious last year. Since we don\u2019t have much track history, I took this years average finishes at Richmond, Dover and Darlington\u2026three tracks less than 1.5 mile, but not as small as Martinsville.\n\n<strong>*Chase Elliott is #1, but will be suspended for Sunday<\/strong>\n\n<strong>1. Brad Keselowski 7.3 <\/strong>\n<strong>2. Christopher Bell 8.0<\/strong>\n<strong>3. Alex Bowman 8.0 (only one race) <\/strong>\n<strong>4. Kevin Harvick 8.7 <\/strong>\n<strong>5. William Byron 9.7 <\/strong>\n<strong>6. Ross Chastain 11.3 <\/strong>\n<strong>7. Denny Hamlin 12.3 <\/strong>\n<strong>8. Ty Gibbs 12.7 <\/strong>\n<strong>9. Ryan Blaney 12.7 <\/strong>\n<strong>10. Bubba Wallace 13.0<\/strong>\n\nChevy has been the car winning races, but we might be seeing an adjustment. Only one Chevy finished in the Top 5 last week, and Chevy\u2019s have won one out of the last four races, and last year at this track the top seven was made up of only Ford\u2019s and Chevy\u2019s.\n<h3>Enjoy Illinois 300 Betting Notes<\/h3>\n-I lost on Kevin Harvick Top 10 last week after he ran in the top 10 all race only to be bumped causing him to spin. He fights back in the last 50 laps to end up 11th giving me a brutal loss on the play. Doesn\u2019t change the fact his car was really good on the 1.5 mile track, and has been all season making for a nice comeback.\n\n-Blaney\u2019s average finish at the above three tracks isn\u2019t great due to a 26th place finish at Richmond. He was solid at Dover and Darlington\n\n-Including the All-Star Race, Bubba Wallace has four straight finishes inside the Top 5\n<h3>Enjoy Illinois 300 Best Bet<\/h3>\n<strong>Kevin Harvick Top 10<\/strong>\n\nEven though he spun, he fought back to finish 11th when he had a top 7 car all race, and I\u2019ll come back to him this week.\n\nHe had a brake rotor failure late in the race last year at Gateway ruining his race, but he finished 2nd at Darlington and 5th at Richmond so I feel confident he\u2019ll be near the front most of the race.\n\n<em style=\"font-size: revert; text-align: center; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Interested in placing a bet on the Enjoy Illinois 300? BetMGM is offering a <a href=\"https:\/\/gtly.ink\/4lXjdvjDR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$1,000 Risk-Free Bet<\/a> for first-time bettors in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, Colorado, Tennessee, Iowa, Michigan, Virginia, Washington DC, Wyoming, Mississippi, Arizona and Louisiana.<\/em>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gtly.ink\/4lXjdvjDR\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3037 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/BetMGM-Primary-Horizontal-Black-Background.jpg\" alt=\"BetMGM Logo\" width=\"528\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>**************************************************<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Looking for more free sports picks and sports betting tips?<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Latest Betting Odds and Public Action<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wt.buzz\/odds\" data-schema-attribute=\"\">Vegas lines<\/a> updated in real time, including who the public is betting on. <\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Last Minute Handicapping Advice<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">: Check out our extensive library of <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12pt;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/sports-betting-guide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">handicapping tips<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> and advice from professional Vegas handicappers (we also recommend taking the time to look over our <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12pt;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sports betting tips video library<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Want an expert opinion?<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> Check out the latest <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12pt;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/free-sports-picks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Free Sports Picks<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> and <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12pt;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/picks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Best Bets<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> from our team of expert sports handicappers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Make sure to bookmark all the above!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wagertalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}