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The NASCAR Cup Series moves to Talladega Superspeedway Sunday for the 2022 GEICO 500. The green flag is set to drop a little after 3 p.m. ET (FOX). Below we analyze the 2022 GEICO 500 odds and lines, with NASCAR picks and predictions. It's time for the second superspeedway race of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season, and it's always a free-for-all at…

After a massive pileup with 23 laps to go eliminated virtually the entire lead pack in last Sunday's Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona, multiple drivers who do not usually run at the front capitalized and scored finishes that were monumental for both them and their small race teams. Those finishes also ended up making one bettor very, very rich. With…

The Daytona 500 takes place Sunday, Feb. 20 (2:30 p.m. ET on Fox), ushering in a new era of Next Gen cars. The Athletic Motorsports' resident experts, Jordan Bianchi and Jeff Gluck, are here to help pick the winners, long shots, winning manufacturer, and more. Denny Hamlin at 8-to-1 is technically "the favorite," but there are several drivers…

Kyle Larson will begin the defense of his NASCAR Cup Series championship when the new season begins with the 2022 Daytona 500 on Sunday. Larson won 10 races last year, including four of the final five, after recording a total of six over his first eight Cup Series seasons. The 29-year-old has yet to finish in the top five in 15 series starts at…

The new NASCAR Cup Series season officially commences at Daytona International Speedway on Sunday, when the 2022 Daytona 500 takes place at 2:30 p.m. ET. Three-time winner Denny Hamlin hopes to make it three victories in four years and pull even with Cale Yarborough for second-most wins in "The Great American Race." Richard Petty took the checkered…

Saturday's 2022 Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona will mark the final regular season race of the year, as several drivers are still trying to punch their ticket to the playoffs. Kyle Larson was another repeat winner in the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series last week, so Ryan Blaney and Martin Truex Jr. are still fighting for a playoff spot. Blaney has a 25-point…

It took until the eighth NASCAR Cup Series race before a repeat winner was crowned last year. The 2022 season has begun with similar parity, as four drivers have won the first four races, with Austin Cindric, reigning series champion Kyle Larson, Alex Bowman and Chase Briscoe capturing checkered flags. Each member of the quartet will be in action…

Last weekend's polarizing Bristol dirt race gave us one of the best finishes of this NASCAR season-well, unless you had+1600 Tyler Reddick or+1400 Chase Briscoe to win. There were scoring mix-ups, rain delays, front grilles so caked with Tennessee clay that a caution was needed to clean them off, and of course those last-lap spin-outs by Reddick…

When the weekly NASCAR race started, putting a few bucks down on Austin Dillon to win at Daytona looked like a donation to the sportsbook. However, Dillon earned the improbable victory with the help of an epic "The Big One" and made some folks happy. We congratulate them for taking the 30-to-1 odds and cashing in but suggest they don't go to that…

Austin Dillon spent lap 125 of the NASCAR Cup Series Coke Zero Sugar 400 driving in reverse. The victim of a multi-car wreck, he fell a lap off the pace as the crew serviced the car rolling backwards down pit road. 15 minutes later, a raging downpour left Dillon the leader of the race. The No. 3 car drove away from catastrophe, a lone survivor as…