#GEICO 500

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…

Kyle Larson registered 10 victories en route to the NASCAR Cup Series championship last season but has struggled this year, recording just one win in 18 starts. However, the 29-year-old has posted the second-most top-five finishes with eight and has performed well of late, as he was fourth at Nashville and third at Road America in his last two…

This week, Chase Elliott will try to pull off a feat that has not been accomplished since the legendary Jimmie Johnson was in his prime. Elliott, one of four remaining contenders for the NASCAR Cup Series title, will attempt to become the first driver to win consecutive since Johnson's run of five from 2006 to 2010. Elliott is one of two Hendrick…

Chase Elliott must have begun thinking his 2020 NASCAR Cup Series championship was a curse, as he failed to capture a checkered flag over the first 13 races of the 2021 season. The drought finally ended last weekend, as the 25-year-old won the rain-shortened EchoPark Texas Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas road course in Austin. After…

Kevin Harvick won his fourth career NASCAR Cup Series regular-season championship a year ago after notching seven victories, including one at Darlington Raceway. The 45-year-old opened the playoffs with another triumph on the track and finished the year with a personal-best nine wins. Harvick will attempt to start the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series…

Kyle Larson did not record the second of his career-high 10 victories last year until the 15th race of the season. The reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion has four chances to notch win No. 2 of this year quicker, beginning with the 2022 DuraMAX Drydene 400 at Dover Motor Speedway on Sunday. Larson finished second to Alex Bowman in this NASCAR Dover…

Word Wide Technology Raceway may be new to the NASCAR Cup Series, but numerous active drivers have enjoyed previous success on the track during their careers. Four former Cup Series champions have combined to win five of the 15 Xfinity Series races that took place at WWTR from 1997-2010. Additionally, one joined five other current Cup drivers in…

Ross Chastain has posted the first two NASCAR Cup Series victories of his career this season, making him one of only four drivers with multiple wins this year. The 29-year-old almost captured his first checkered flag last season at Nashville, where he was runner-up to Kyle Larson in the first Cup Series race in the area since 1984. Chastain looks…

Kurt Busch entered last weekend in a slump, as he had gone 27 starts without winning a NASCAR Cup Series race and finished 16th or worse in six of seven outings. The former series champion ended the drought at Kansas, making it nine consecutive seasons with at least one victory on the circuit. Even though points are not at stake, Busch will try to…

Chase Elliott received a gift last weekend when he finished third but was awarded his NASCAR Cup Series-leading fourth victory of the season after Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch were disqualified for failing a post-race inspection. It was the series-leading 15th top-10 finish of the year for Elliott and left him one win shy of the career-high he set…

Since Kansas Speedway was awarded a second date on the annual NASCAR Cup Series schedule in 2011, three drivers have combined to win six of the 11 spring races. Brad Keselowski, Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch have each recorded a pair of victories, with the latter joining the club last year. Hamlin is tied for most Cup Series wins at Kansas with three…

Kyle Busch has had plenty of success at New Hampshire Motor Speedway during his career, posting three wins, 11 top-five finishes and 16 top-10s in 30 NASCAR Cup Series starts. The two-time series champion also recorded six victories and nine top-fives in 12 Xfinity Series races on the track and registered three wins and six top-10s in eight Truck…

Kyle Larson had a strong season in 2021, when he posted 10 victories en route to the NASCAR Cup Series championship. That success has many feeling negatively about his performance this year since he has captured the checkered flag just once in his first 11 starts, with that win coming at Fontana in the second race of the campaign. Larson still has…

Kevin Harvick is mired in the second-longest winless drought of his NASCAR Cup Series career as he has gone 65 starts without a victory since capturing the checkered flag at Bristol on Sept. 19, 2020. The former series champion is hoping that competing on one of his favorite tracks helps him end the dry spell. Harvick attempts to break out of his…

Martin Truex Jr. has recorded 31 victories since joining the NASCAR Cup Series in 2004, posting a career-high three at five different tracks. One of them is Sonoma Raceway, where he registered back-to-back wins before finishing third last year. Truex aims to capture his fourth checkered flag at the venue when he takes part in the 2022 Toyota/Save…

Joey Logano and Ryan Blaney have posted top-five finishes in the last two races of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series schedule. However, neither driver has been able to register a victory over the first nine events this year. Logano and Blaney will try to break through when they take part in the 2022 GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday. Both…

Christopher Bell has come up huge when necessary thus far in the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs, and he'll look to do so one last time as he is one of the four drivers competing for the title in the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Championship at Phoenix Raceway on Sunday. Bell needed a victory in the final race of both the Round of 12 and Round of 8 to…

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…