2014 Toyota Owners 400 Odds, Free Picks and Predictions: Favorites, Sleepers and Drivers to Avoid: After a one-week hiatus, the Cup Series gets back to business at Richmond International Raceway this weekend with Saturday night’s Toyota Owners 400. The race will be the third short track event of the 2014 season, but unlike the half-mile short tracks of Bristol and Martinsville, Richmond’s 0.75-mile layout allows for some higher speeds while keeping all the old-fashioned bumping and banging that fans love about short track racing. As a result, Richmond is often referred to as the “action track” by drivers because something always seems to be waiting to erupt. Last year, the excitement came in the final two laps when Kevin Harvick drove from seventh to first, completing a three-wide, racing-winning pass shortly after the final restart to steal the victory from the dominant cars of Clint Bowyer, Matt Kenseth and Juan Pablo Montoya.

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Since joining the Cup Series in 2005, Kyle Busch has been the most-consistent driver at Richmond. In addition to his series-leading 7.2 average finish at the short track, he has four wins and four second-place finishes in his 18 starts. Busch has also led the second-most laps of any driver during the stretch and has only finished outside the top five in five of his starts. Busch is a safe bet to be in the mix for the win this weekend.

Not only is Kevin Harvick the only driver with multiple wins in 2014, but he also happens to be the defending winner of this weekend’s race In fact, Harvick is a three-time winner at Richmond overall, and he is the only driver to win multiple races at the short track in the last five races. Since 2005, Harvick’s 8.7 average finish at Richmond ranks third in the series, and no driver has spent more laps in the top 15 during the stretch. The bottom line is that Harvick will be near the front this weekend, and he has proven he can steal the deal.

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Virginia native Denny Hamlin has enjoyed a ton of success at his home-state track throughout his career. He is a two-time winner at Richmond, and his 8.9 average finish at the track is the second best in the series. Perhaps more impressively, Hamlin has led more laps than any other driver at Richmond since the start of the 2005 season despite running only 15 of the 18 races during the stretch.

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His success at Richmond has been more of a recent development, but Carl Edwards has sure been on a roll at the track recently. In the last six races at RIR, he leads all drivers with five top-10s, three top-five finishes and 376 laps led. Edwards’ recent run of success at the short track culminated with his first victory last fall, and don’t be surprised if he makes it two wins in a row at Richmond this weekend.

Richmond has always been kind to Clint Bowyer, and he has been even better at the track since joining Michael Waltrip Racing in 2012. For his career, he owns a 10.1 average finish at the track and has 13 top-12s in 16 starts, including a pair of wins. Meanwhile, Bowyer has three finishes of seventh or better in four starts at Richmond with MWR, including a victory and a second-place finish.

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He has been picking up steam in recent weeks, and this weekend, A.J. Allmendinger will get a chance to make some noise at a track that has been one of his best. He is riding a streak of seven straight finishes of 17th or better at Richmond, and in his last six starts, he has five top-15s. Allmendinger managed a pair of top-15s at RIR last year while driving for his current JTG Daugherty Racing team so he could be within striking distance of an upset Saturday night.

Big Name to Avoid

While he hasn’t been terrible at Richmond, Brad Keselowski has never really been a serious contender for a win at the short track either. In nine starts, he has a mediocre 20.1 average finish. Granted, he has several top-15 runs, but he only has two top-10s at RIR and has never cracked the top five. Keselowski would have to make a sizeable leap to end up in victory lane this weekend.

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By his own admission, Pitbull believes in the laws of attraction.

The international superstar musician — whose real name is Armando Christian Pérez — said he believes those laws led to him first hearing about driver Daniel Suárez 10 years ago and ultimately united them on a new NASCAR Cup Series team, Trackhouse Racing.

Pitbull and former race car driver Justin Marks are the co-owners of the team, which will make its NASCAR debut in the 2021 season-opening Daytona 500 with Suárez as the team’s first driver behind the wheel of the No. 99 Chevrolet. The news of Pitbull’s ownership stake in the premier series team was announced in January on his 40th birthday, and the Miami native said he’s committed to utilizing NASCAR to continue bringing people together — the same way his music and philanthropy do.

“In the same way that music is a universal language, I also see NASCAR as a universal language,” Pitbull — who will be the Grand Marshal for the Daytona 500 on February 14 — said Tuesday. “Everybody loves a fast car and a great story.”

Pitbull said he always wanted to be the owner of a team; the sport didn’t matter. But after watching the 1990 Tom Cruise flick, Days of Thunder, he was hooked on NASCAR, calling it “the ultimate underdog story” and describing himself as the ultimate underdog.

He pointed to his humble Miami upbringing as the son of Cuban immigrants before becoming a superstar entertainer with millions of fans around the globe. It’s like Suárez’s story, Pitbull said, with the now-29-year-old driver leaving Mexico to race in the U.S. and becoming the first foreign-born NASCAR champion when he won the second-tier 2016 Xfinity Series title.

Together with Marks and Trackhouse Racing, they’re again underdogs with a new team attempting to compete against the powerhouses and attract new fans to the sport.

“NASCAR has no limits,” said Suárez, who’s entering his fifth Cup Series season with his fourth team and still looking for his first win. “Already we want to make this sport as wide as possible. We are not just talking about Mexico. We’re not just talking about Latin America. We’re talking about worldwide. Actually, that’s Pitbull’s nickname, Mr. Worldwide. So why not?”

“Seven, eight years ago,” Suárez added, “I was thinking to myself: ‘OK, I’m the only Mexican, the only Latino in NASCAR, the only guy that can speak Spanish. If I don’t try to do something to bring Latinos to the race track, who is going to do it?’”

Both Pitbull and Suárez said they were specifically interested in Trackhouse Racing because of Marks’ commitment to promoting education in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, for Latinx communities and people of color.

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But pushing education is not new to Pitbull. In 2013, he opened a public charter school in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood where he grew up. It’s called the Sports Leadership And Management, or SLAM, and according to the SLAM Foundation, there are 10 schools in Florida, plus one in Atlanta and another near Las Vegas.

Of course, both Pitbull and Suárez want to be competitive on the track and contend for wins and maybe eventually championships.

But that, combined with the greater initiative of advancing STEM education, is why they’re all on the same team going into the 2021 season. They said without Trackhouse’s bigger-picture initiative, they wouldn’t be involved.

“This is deeper than sponsorships; this is a movement,” Pitbull said.

“This is a revolution/taking a sport and creating a culture because when we first opened SLAM, we had brought a NASCAR car to SLAM the first day eight years ago,” he continued. “If you would have seen the look on those kids’ faces when they saw that car, they just had no clue that it was actually something that was tangible.”

With Pitbull’s help and international platform — including more than 52 million Facebook followers and 25.5 million Twitter followers — Suárez said they’ll be able to “make this team something different, something young, something cool, something modern.”

And that’s just what Marks hopes for too.

In trying to build a foundation for Trackhouse Racing to have a successful, long-term future, Marks said any philanthropic work has to be a priority rather than an afterthought. So, even though it’s still in the early planning stages, the organization has a responsibility to assemble a legacy that empowers future generations, he said.

“The definition of success, at least early on, will be a STEM discipline experience set up at each and every one of Armando’s schools,” Marks said.

“Having thousands and thousands of kids be able to be exposed to this and use NASCAR to say, there is so much opportunity in this world. You can be engineers, mathematicians, scientists, you can build things. And not just STEM, but design, finance, entrepreneurism, all that.”