#Road America

The spotlight will be on one of the newest additions to the NASCAR Cup Series schedule on Sunday at the 2022 EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix in Austin, Texas. Last year's NASCAR at Austin race featured 10 different lead drivers. Champion Chase Elliott only led for the final five laps, but he returns as the 9-4 favorite to win again in the latest…

When Alex Palou crossed the line with one of IndyCar's biggest margin of victories in recent memory - over 30 seconds - at the end of the Laguna Seca finale, he still wasn't sure how his racing future would look in 2023. But his rivals only had two days to enjoy the fact that the 2021 champion, who had just delivered such a crushing performance -…

With 19 different winners in 2022, you could say it was never easier to win a race in the NASCAR Cup Series. But actually, the opposite was true. Parity and competition meant every checkered flag was as hotly contested as an early November box of Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cakes. It left playoff stalwarts like Ryan Blaney and Martin Truex winless…

With the start of a new year, the excitement is catching up with NASCAR fans, who are just waiting for the beginning of the NASCAR Cup Series 2023 season. With a new season on its way, NASCAR 2023 top contendersare also ensuring they are ready to compete again for a championship. This new NASCAR season will mark the organization's 75th anniversary.…

NASCAR is back on a road course this weekend in Wisconsin, at Road America in Elkhart Lake. Chase Elliott took the checkered flag last week and is the favorite here - is there any question who we're behind in our Kwik Trip 250 picks? After Chase Elliott stood atop the podium last weekend, NASCAR heads to Wisconsin this weekend for the Kwik Trip…

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…

Perhaps befitting its New England location, there's nothing flashy about New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The 1-mile oval is nearly board-flat and extremely difficult, with sharp corners that feed into long straights. In a history that dates back almost three decades, Joe Nemechek in 1999, Brian Vickers in 2013 and Aric Almirola last season are as…

The NASCAR Cup Series returns to California for the second road race of the season at Sonoma Raceway when the 2022 Toyota/Save Mart 350 gets underway on Sunday at 4 p.m. ET. One driver in search of his first Cup Series victory that could push for the win on Sunday is Tyler Reddick. Now in his fourth season, Reddick finished fifth at the first road…

The NASCAR Cup Series took another turn last weekend when Pocono winner Denny Hamlin and second-place finisher Kyle Busch were disqualified for failing post-race inspections. It was the first time the winner of a Cup Series race had been disqualified since 1960. Chase Elliott never led a lap, but was deemed the official winner after finishing…

The 2021 Hollywood Casino 400 will take place on Sunday at Kansas Speedway and there will be seven drivers fighting for the three remaining spots in the Championship 4 as the NASCAR Playoffs wind down. That's because Kyle Larson punched his ticket with a win last week in Texas and has now opened up a 51-point lead atop the NASCAR standings. He'll…

So far this season, we've seen a+3300 winner at Daytona, a+2000 winner at Las Vegas, a+5000 winner at Phoenix and a+1200 winner at Atlanta. Will that type of balance carry over to a road course? Bettors are about to find out. The series on Sunday competes at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, where the next-generation car introduced for this…

Brad Keselowski has had more success at Las Vegas Motor Speedway than any driver in recent years, finishing in the top 10 five times in his last six races. Keselowski is also a three-time winner at this track, so he will be confident heading into Sunday's 2022 Pennzoil 400, which starts at 3:30 p.m. ET. Caesars Sportsbook has Keselowski priced at…

There is only one more opportunity to bet on NASCAR for the next few months, as the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Championship will take place on Sunday at Phoenix. Chase Elliott, who won the fall race at this track in 2020, is one of four drivers in the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Championship field who is still alive for the title. He is the 12-5 favorite to…

With just six races left in the Cup Series regular season, a number of NASCAR veterans are still searching for their first victories of the year. Entering the 2022 M&M's Fan Appreciation 400 on Sunday, Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr. and Ryan Blaney have yet to claim a checkered flag, though all are still in contention for the NASCAR Playoffs.…

Last year, Austin Dillon led one lap at the Toyota Owners 400, but he still salvaged a top-10 finish. Since the start of this season, he has been up-and-down, but he climbed from 21st to a top-10 finish last weekend in Austin. Can Dillon put it together for a second consecutive week for NASCAR at Richmond and the 2022 Toyota Owners 400? Dillon's…

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…

We're 13 races into the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season and with 11 different winners already, everybody who doesn't have a victory is feeling the pressure with the 2022 NASCAR playoffs quickly approaching. The 2022 Coca-Cola 600 will take place on Sunday at Charlotte Motor Speedway and the 600-mile endurance race will be tightly contested from start…

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…

The 2022 NASCAR playoffs will continue on Sunday with the 2022 YellaWood 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. The green flag drops at 2 p.m. ET. With only two races remaining until the number of championship-eligible drivers is slashed from 12 to eight, every point becomes more and more critical. Chase Briscoe is currently eighth in the 2022 NASCAR…

The 2022 NASCAR Cup Series continues on Sunday at Road America for the 2022 Kwik Trip 250. Chase Elliott leads the NASCAR standings and is the defending champion at Road America after NASCAR made its return to the 14-turn, 4.048-mile road course for the first time since 1958. Elliott is already a seven-time winner on road courses in his career and…

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…

The 2022 NASCAR playoffs are starting to wind down, as this weekend's race at Martinsville will set the table for the season finale. As has been the case numerous times this season, Chase Elliott is favored to win the 2022 Xfinity 500. Elliott is priced at 13-2 in the latest 2022 Xfinity 500 odds at Caesars Sportsbook, while Denny Hamlin is 7-1.…

The Cup Series heads to the longest concrete oval in all of NASCAR when Nashville Superspeedway hosts the 2022 Ally 400 on Sunday. The 1.333-mile track was built in 2001, but the Cup Series didn't make its debut there until last year, when Kyle Larson was the inaugural race's victor. Larson sits in seventh place in this year's NASCAR standings,…

Chase Elliott is returning to the road-course drawing board this week as he drags a five-race winless drought on the track type into the Kwik Trip 250. And the NASCAR betting public is predicting Elliott and his Hendrick Motorsports crew will assemble a Next Gen masterpiece at Road America. Elliott is the defending champion at the 4.048-mile track…

After he won four races in 2020, Brad Keselowski ended last season with a single NASCAR Cup Series victory. Besides his ninth-place finish at Daytona to start this season, he has been off to a slow start in 2022, without another top-10 since then. Over the past few seasons, he has qualified well in NASCAR at Kansas races, but can he can capture the…

Welcome back to our weekly "NASCAR predictions!" column, where our resident experts, Jordan Bianchi and Jeff Gluck, help us narrow down what to expect, who might pull off a long shot victory, what it means when crew members are shuffled - and more. They even tell us what, exactly, a "road course" is, for the NASCAR beginners out there. Something…

The World Wide Technology Raceway has been hosting NASCAR sanctioned events since 1997, but the 2022 Enjoy Illinois 300 will mark the first time that the NASCAR Cup Series has visited the track. The 1.25 mile track in Madison, Ill., became a permanent fixture on the NASCAR Camping World Truck series schedule in 2014, and it will now pose a new…

The 2022 NASCAR All-Star Race will consist of four stages on Sunday, the first three featuring 25 laps and the final stage being a 50-lap shootout for the $1 million prize. There will also be a pit stop competition during the break between the second and third stages. The team with the shortest time on pit road wins the pit crew award, allowing…

Leave it to Talladega Superspeedway, of all places, to inject a dose of normalcy into these NASCAR Playoffs. The track known for unpredictability gave us the first race winner still eligible for the championship, and at+1200 Chase Elliott also carried the shortest odds of any playoff race winner so far. Hardly the craziness we expected, given the…

For the second time in three NASCAR race weekends, the sport's premier series visits a road course. And for the second time in three race weekends, Chase Elliott is the NASCAR odds favorite on sports betting apps. The best road course racer of his era, Elliott surely received a boost of confidence by winning last week's rain-plagued event at…

The Action Network specializes in providing sports betting insights/analytics and is a content partner with NASCAR. With practice and qualifying wrapped up for Sunday's Bank of America ROVAL 400 (2 p.m. ET, NBC, NBC Sports App, PRN, Sirius XM NASCAR) bettors can now turn their attention to analyzing the on-track data from those sessions. In…

The 2022 Kwik Trip 250 marks the 18th NASCAR Cup Series race of the season. The green flag is set to drop on Sunday, July 3, at 3:00 pm ET at Road America. The 1.33-mile-long track features 14 turns with a total distance of about 250 miles done in 62 laps for the race. The first 17 NASCAR Cup races of the 2022 season have seen 12 different winners:…

The NASCAR Xfinity Series heads to the Roval at Charlotte Motor Speedway this weekend for the final race of the Round of 12. Noah Gragson and A.J. Allmendinger have raced their way into the Round of 8. Which six drivers will join them? Last year at the Roval, Allmendinger drove to victory lane in a race that saw the top six finishers all be playoff…

One respected bettor in Las Vegas may have seen NASCAR's decision to rescind the points penalty assessed to William Bryon coming. With Chase Briscoe opening at 40-1 odds at the Westgate SuperBook on Monday, the gambler bet the No. 14 Ford all the way down to 20-to-1 to win Sunday's Bank of America Roval 400, the final race of the Round of 12 in the…

Road courses are always tricky to bet. Not every team is gunning for the win, opting instead to get stage points early on. Then you add in extra chaos with teams turning left and right for 2.5 hours. This week is extra tough. The Bank of America Roval 400 in Charlotte is the final race of the second round of the playoffs. This means you've got some…

If you are looking for an action-packed way to consume sports on the weekend, NASCAR may be a great avenue to explore. Far from just driving in circles, some of the world's best compete nearly every weekend from February to November on tracks across America. NASCAR drivers are scored ultimately based on how they finish in the race, how many spots…

With the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs halfway over, the Round of 12 comes to a close at the Charlotte Motor Speedway road course. Four drivers will be eliminated following the Bank of America ROVAL 400 on Sunday afternoon (2 p.m. ET, NBC, NBC Sports App, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) while eight drivers will continue chasing their championship…

Four more playoff drivers will end their championship run after this race. Find out who we like to win with our Bank of America Roval 400 picks. With his win at Talladega last week, Chase Elliott has locked himself into the next round of the NASCAR playoffs. This makes him even more dangerous on a track - and track style - he's known to dominate.…

Just two NASCAR Cup Series regular-season races remain for drivers to punch their ticket to the playoffs. With 15 winners, that leaves only one spot available for drivers who haven't yet reached victory lane. Can any of them break through at Watkins Glen International? Whoever wins will likely be in your optimal daily fantasy NASCAR DraftKings…

The 2nd round of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs are upon us. 12 drivers, 3 races, 8 spots available to advance onto next round. So who takes them? Ryan Blaney - He's winless in 29 points paying races this season but won the All-Star race at Texas back in May and hoping to do what Kyle Larson did last season - sweep both events.

The 2022 NASCAR Playoffs will continue on Saturday night when Bristol Motor Speedway hosts the Bass Pro Shops Night Race with the green flag scheduled to drop at 7:30 p.m. ET. The field of 16 postseason drivers will be cut to 12 following the race and two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch is currently right on the bubble. Busch is 13th in…

NASCAR rolls into Circuit of the Americas in Austin for Sunday's EchoPark Automotive Texas Grand Prix - the season's first road course. Find out why we might see the favorites re-establish themselves with our NASCAR betting picks. NASCAR's season of parity continues with a great divider: the season's first road course. As the favorites look to…

The NASCAR Cup Series' fifth road course race of the year will get underway this weekend. Our experts recommend backing one favorite and two underdogs in our Go Bowling at the Glen picks and preview. Chase Elliott is always the favorite at whatever road course the Cup Series heads to, but he has yet to win at one of these tracks in 2022. However,…