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It?s just about that time for one of the biggest and best spectacle for auto racing fans in the year! It?s Memorial Day weekend, and that means that it?s time for our Indianapolis 500 picks! You won?t want to miss out on some of the best action around the track at the famed Brickyard, as some of the best drivers in the world try to beat the Indy 500 odds to become champion of the biggest race of the season on the IRL circuit. This race is made even bigger by the fact that this is the whopping 100th anniversary of the race this year!

2011 Indy 500 Odds, Picks & Info
2011 Indy 500 Date: Sunday, May 29th, 2011
2011 Indy 500 Green Flag Time: 12:00 ET
2011 Indy 500 Location: Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, IN
2011 Indy 500 Favorite: Dario Franchitti (+450)
Defending Indy 500 Champion: Dario Franchitti (Dallara, Honda)
2011 Indy 500 TV Coverage ? Network: ABC

The defending champion of the Indianapolis 500 is sure to be a player in this race, as Dario Franchitti (Current Indy 500 Odds: 4.50 to 1 at SportBet Sportsbook). The Brit already has a pair of Indy 500 wins to his credit, including last year, and once in 2007. He became the second driver from the UK to win this race since 1966 (joining Dan Wheldon) when he pulled it off in ?07, and he ran a fantastic race for Chip Ganassi Racing last year to earn the checkered flag in an incredibly fast 3:05 with an average speed of 161.623 MPH. Franchitti is currently second in the points race this year through four races, but he knows that there is plenty of time to make that gap up.

The co-favorite of this event is a man that has actually only won here one time before, that being, Scott Dixon (Indy 500 Lines: 4.50 to 1 at SportBet Sportsbook). To us, it seems awfully surprising that Dixon is the co-favorite to win this race in spite of the fact that he is starting in the middle of the front row on Sunday. He hasn?t really had but just one great run this year, and he has yet to take a checkered flag. He only has one Top 5 finish, and he has only led one lap for the entire season. Of course, he does have 15 career victories, but that has come over a stretch of 134 starts. The oddsmakers are showing a ton of confidence that he can get the job done against all odds at the Brickyard.

List Of Past Indy 500 Champions (Since 2000)
2010 Indy 500 Champion: Dario Franchitti (Chip Ganassi Racing)
2009 Indy 500 Champion: Helio Castroneves (Marlboro Team Penske)
2008 Indy 500 Champion: Scott Dixon (Chip Ganassi Racing)
2007 Indy 500 Champion: Dario Franchitti (Andretti Green Racing)
2006 Indy 500 Champion: Sam Hornish Jr. (Marlboro Team Penske)
2005 Indy 500 Champion: Dan Wheldon (Andretti Green Racing)
2004 Indy 500 Champion: Buddy Rice (Rahal Letterman Racing)
2003 Indy 500 Champion: Gil de Ferran (Marlboro Team Penske)
2002 Indy 500 Champion: Helio Castroneves (Marlboro Team Penske)
2001 Indy 500 Champion: Helio Castroneves (Marlboro Team Penske)
2000 Indy 500 Champion: Juan Pablo Montoya (Chip Ganassi Racing)

The driver that you are clearly not going to want any part of on Sunday is the suddenly infamous Danica Patrick (Odds to Win the Indy 500: 25 to 1 at SportBet Sportsbook). We know that it?s a ?sexy? pick in more ways than one to bet on Patrick, but the truth of the matter is that she just isn?t that great of a driver. A novelty, sure, but when push comes to shove, she doesn?t have the horses behind her, nor does she really have the team to be able to keep up with the rest of the boys in this field. Don?t be shocked if she is once again nowhere to be found in the top of the charts by the time this race is over. By any other name, Patrick wouldn?t even have odds on the board for the Indy 500, as she would likely just be a part of the field.

And of course, the man that we can?t forget is the one that has already come out of the blocks to a great start this year through four races, Will Power (Current Indy 500 Odds: 7.50 to 1 at SportBet Sportsbook). Power is basically running away with the points race right now in the Indy Racing League, and though we know that a lot can change since we aren?t even through a quarter of the season, Power really has looked fantastic on the track. He?s starting right in the middle of Row 2 on Sunday, and he should be hanging around for the mass majority of this race.

2011 Indy 500 Starting Grid
Row 1: No. 77 Alex Tagliani, No. 9 Scott Dixon, No. 2 Oriol Servia
Row 2: No. 99 Townsend Bell, No. 12 Will Power, No. 98 Dan Wheldon
Row 3: No. 44 Buddy Rice, No. 67 Ed Carpenter, No. 10 Dario Franchitti
Row 4: No. 5 Takuma Sato, No. 14 Vitor Meira, o. 4 JR Hildebrand
Row 5: No. 06 James Hinchcliffe, No. 30 Bertrand Baguette, No. 11 Davey Hamilton
Row 6: No. 3 Helio Castroneves, No. 43 John Andretti, No. 59 EJ Viso
Row 7: No. 22 Justin Wilson, No. 88 Jay Howard, No. 07 Tomas Scheckter
Row 8: No. 82 Tony Kanaan, No. 78 Simona de Silverstro, No. 23 Paul Tracy
Row 9: No. 7 Danica Patrick, No. 6 Ryan Briscoe, No. 26 Marco Andretti
Row 10: No. 83 Charlie Kimball, No. 38 Graham Rahal, No. 19 Alex Lloyd
Row 11: No. 36 Pippa Mann, No. 24 Ana Beatriz, No. 41 Ryan Hunter Reay

Indy 500 Odds @ SportBet Sportsbook (as of 5/25/11):
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Dario Franchitti 4.50 to 1
Scott Dixon 4.50 to 1
Alex Tagliani 6.50 to 1
Will Power 7.50 to 1
Field 7.50 to 1
Helio Castroneves 8 to 1
Oriol Servia 12 to 1
Dan Wheldon 13 to 1
Ryan Briscoe 15 to 1
Danica Patrick 24 to 1
Tony Kanaan 26 to 1
Marco Andretti 29 to 1
Ed Carpenter 40 to 1
Ryan Hunter Reay 45 to 1
Vitor Meira 45 to 1
Paul Tracy 50 to 1
Tomas Scheckter 55 to 1
Graham Rahal 80 to 1
John Andretti 125 to 1

2011 Indy 500 Odds @ Oddsmaker Sportsbook (as of 5/25/11):
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Dario Franchitti 3 to 1
Scott Dixon 3 to 1
Helio Castroneves 10 to 1
Ryan Briscoe 10 to 1
Will Power 6 to 1
Marco Andretti 25 to 1
Danica Patrick 25 to 1
Tony Kanaan 25 to 1
Dan Wheldon 10 to 1
Paul Tracy 40 to 1
Graham Rahal 50 to 1
Tomas Scheckter 50 to 1
Vitor Meira 40 to 1
Ed Carpenter 40 to 1
Alex Tagliana 5 to 1
Townsend Bell 30 to 1
John Andretti 100 to 1
Simona De Silvestro 100 to 1
Takuma Sato 100 to 1
Justin Wilson 100 to 1
Oriol Servia 10 to 1
Bertraud Baguette 100 to 1
Field 8 to 1

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