The Daytona 500 is the start of the NASCAR betting season, and 99.6 percent of the tickets on who would win the race were losers.
The biggest race of the year was great for a few bettors. With an emphasis on few. Michael McDowell started at 100-to-1 odds, and there was no reason to look his way. He had started 357 Cup races and never won one. Nobody bet on him at those odds at BetMGM.
But he won on Sunday in a crazy final lap, taking the Daytona 500.
For just about every bettor that meant two things: Looking up who McDowell was, and ripping up their tickets.