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Photo: Dominic Aragon\/TRE<\/p>\n
The Gateway race is the second race of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. The winner, if in the playoffs, is guaranteed to advance into the Round of 12.<\/p>\n
No part-time open cars are entered for the race, with 36 drivers on the entry list.<\/p>\n
Odds for NASCAR Cup Series at Gateway August 2025<\/p>\n
Christopher Bell is the opening odds-on favorite to win Sunday. Below are the opening odds for all drivers as of Tuesday, Sept. 2, per the Caesar\u2019s Sportsbook.<\/p>\n
Christopher Bell +450<\/p>\n
Ryan Blaney +500<\/p>\n
Denny Hamlin +650<\/p>\n
Kyle Larson +850<\/p>\n
Chase Briscoe +950<\/p>\n
Joey Logano +1000<\/p>\n
William Byron, Tyler Reddick +1200<\/p>\n
Austin Cindric +1600<\/p>\n
Bubba Wallace +1800<\/p>\n
Josh Berry, Chase Elliott, Brad Keselowski +2000<\/p>\n
Kyle Busch +2200<\/p>\n
Ross Chastain +3000<\/p>\n
Chris Buescher, Austin Dillon, Carson Hocevar +3500<\/p>\n
Alex Bowman, Ty Gibbs, Ryan Preece +5000<\/p>\n
Erik Jones +7500<\/p>\n
John Hunter Nemechek +10000<\/p>\n
A.J. Allmendinger +12500<\/p>\n
Daniel Suarez +15000<\/p>\n
Michael McDowell +20000<\/p>\n
Justin Haley, Zane Smith, Shane Van Gisbergen +25000<\/p>\n
Noah Gragson +30000<\/p>\n
Todd Gilliland, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. +35000<\/p>\n
Cole Custer, Riley Herbst +50000<\/p>\n
Ty Dillon +75000<\/p>\n
Cody Ware +250000<\/p>\n
NASCAR Xfinity Series\u2019 Nu Way 200<\/p>\n
Saturday, September 6<\/p>\n
160 laps<\/p>\n
Stages end on laps 35, 70, 160<\/p>\n
CW, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90<\/p>\n
Last winner (2010): Brad Keselowski<\/p>\n
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Photo: Dante Ricci\/The Racing Experts<\/p>\n
With 38 entries for the Gateway race, all drivers will make the field for the first NXS race at the track in 15 years.<\/p>\n
Odds coming soon.<\/p>\n
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Aragon, his wife Feliz, and son Christopher currently reside in Grants, New Mexico, USA.<\/p>\n
You can reach Dominic at daragon@theracingexperts.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This weekend, the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series head to Illinois to take on World Wide Technology Raceway…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-115983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Photo by Jeff Curry\/Getty Images<\/p>\n