{"id":170703,"date":"2025-09-26T13:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/170703\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T13:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:42:07","slug":"3-longshots-other-than-bubba-wallace-to-win-the-nascar-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/170703\/","title":{"rendered":"3 longshots (other than Bubba Wallace) to win the NASCAR championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney has emerged as the outright favorite<\/a> to win the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series championship, with FanDuel Sportsbook now listing him at +370<\/a> ahead of Hendrick Motorsports’ Kyle Larson, who had been a co-favorite, at +470 and Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin, who had been the outright favorite earlier in the playoffs, at +500.<\/p>\n

Five other drivers are listed between +500 and +1500, but four others are now considered longshots at +3000.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, those four drivers are the drivers who now find themselves below the round of 8 cut line<\/a> following the round of 12 opener at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n

4 longshots to win the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series championship<\/p>\n

Three of those four drivers started the round of 12 below the cut line: Trackhouse Racing’s Ross Chastain, Team Penske’s Austin Cindric, and 23XI Racing’s Tyler Reddick. They are now 12, 19, and 23 points below the cutoff, respectively.<\/p>\n

The other one, 23XI Racing’s Bubba Wallace, actually began the round of 12 above the cut line, but he has plummeted to last place<\/a> and is 27 points behind.<\/p>\n

Team Penske’s Joey Logano (+1500), who opened the round of 12 below the cutoff, took advantage of Wallace’s drop to vault himself above it and is now sixth in the standings<\/a>, 24 points to the good. <\/p>\n

Reddick and Wallace are both former winners at Kansas Speedway, which is scheduled to host this weekend’s race, but Kansas has not been a strong track for 23XI Racing lately<\/a>, meaning they could both very well end up in must-win situations heading into what is generally a chaotic round of 12 finale at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval next weekend.<\/p>\n

Chastain is the reigning winner of the Hollywood Casino 400 presented by ESPN BET, winning at Kansas in September 2024 despite not being a playoff driver at the time. Can he turn it around and make his first deep playoff run since his 2022 runner-up championship finish?<\/p>\n

Full NASCAR Cup Series championship odds can be found here<\/a>. Odds and availability are always subject to change.<\/p>\n

Tune in to USA Network at 3:00 p.m. ET this Sunday, September 28 for the live broadcast of the Hollywood Casino 400 presented by ESPN BET from Kansas Speedway. Begin a free trial of FuboTV now<\/a> and don’t miss any of the playoff action!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney has emerged as the outright favorite to win the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series championship,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-170703","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\/170703","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=170703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}