This weekend, the NASCAR Cup and O’Reilly Auto Parts Series head to the .526-mile Martinsville Speedway in Virginia.
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NASCAR Cup Series’ Cook Out 400
Sunday, March 29
3:30 p.m. (All times Eastern)
400 laps
Stages end on laps 80, 180, 400
FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90
Last year’s winner: Denny Hamlin
No driver will miss the field with 37 entries slated for the race.
Austin Hill is the lone open entry, piloting the No. 33 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing
Justin Allgaier will continue his fill-in duties for Alex Bowman this weekend in the Hendrick Motorsports No. 48 Chevrolet.
Odds for NASCAR Cup Series at Darlington March 26
Two-time Martinsville winner Ryan Blaney is the opening odds-on favorite to win Sunday.
Below are the opening odds for all drivers as of Monday, March 16, per the Caesar’s Sportsbook.
Ryan Blaney +500
Denny Hamlin, Kyle Larson +600
William Byron, Chase Elliott +700
Joey Logano +900
Christopher Bell +1000
Chase Briscoe, Tyler Reddick +1200
Ryan Preece +1800
Ty Gibbs, Bubba Wallace +2000
Ross Chastain +3000
Brad Keselowski +3500
Josh Berry, Chris Buescher +4000
Kyle Busch, Carson Hocevar +5000
Austin Cindric +6500
Justin Allgaier, Connor Zilisch +7500
Todd Gilliland +10000
Erik Jones, Michael McDowell, Daniel Suarez +12500
A.J. Allmendinger, Austin Dillon, Austin Hill +20000
Cole Custer, Noah Gragson, John Hunter Nemechek, Shane Van Gisbergen +25000
Zane Smith +30000
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. +35000
Riley Herbst +50000
Ty Dillon, Cody Ware +75000
NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series’ NFPA 250
Saturday, March 28
250 laps
Stages end on laps 60, 120, 250
CW, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90
Last year’s winner: Austin Hill
Photo: Ryan Kemna/TRE
With 40 entries, two drivers will miss the field.
Notable entries include Garrett Smithley (No. 0), Luke Baldwin (No. 5), Lee Pulliam (No. 9), Brent Crews (No. 19), Myatt Snider (No. 30), Andrew Patterson (No. 32), Brad Perez (No. 42), Joey Gase (No. 55), Dawson Cram (No. 74), and Ross Chastain (No. 91).
Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book “All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story” with racer Geoff Bodine.
Aragon, his wife Feliz, and son Christopher currently reside in Grants, New Mexico, USA.
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