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With 40 drivers entered for Saturday, two will miss the field. <\/p>\n
Highlighted on the entry list includes Alex Labbe (No. 0), Connor Zilisch (No. 1), Tyler Gonzalez (No. 5), Shane Van Gisbergen (No. 9), Brent Crews (No. 19), Batazar Leguizamon (No. 30), Ross Chastain (No. 32), Austin J. Hill (No. 35), J.J. Yeley (No. 42), Preston Pardys (No. 50), Sage Karam (No. 55), and Carson Kvapil (No. 91).<\/p>\n
Odds for NASCAR Cup Series at Circuit of the Americas<\/p>\n
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Shane van Gisbergen, who won five of six road course races last year in Cup, is the odds-on favorite to win the race, according to the Caesar\u2019s Sportsbook as of Monday, Feb. 23.<\/p>\n
COTA was the only road course event he did not win in 2025.<\/p>\n
Shane van Gisbergen +100<\/p>\n
Connor Zilisch +400<\/p>\n
Christopher Bell +1000<\/p>\n
Tyler Reddick +1400<\/p>\n
Chase Elliott +1800<\/p>\n
Kyle Larson +2000<\/p>\n
Chase Briscoe +2200<\/p>\n
A.J. Allmendinger, Chris Buescher, Michael McDowell +2500<\/p>\n
Ross Chastain, Ty Gibbs +2800<\/p>\n
Alex Bowman +3000<\/p>\n
Kyle Busch +3500<\/p>\n
Ryan Blaney, Daniel Suarez, Chase Briscoe +4500<\/p>\n
Austin Cindric, Ryan Precce +5000<\/p>\n
Bubba Wallace +6000<\/p>\n
Denny Hamlin, Carson Hocevar, Joey Logano +8000<\/p>\n
Zane Smith, Brad Keselowski, Bubba Wallace, Todd Gilliland +35000<\/p>\n
Cole Custer, Austin Dillon, Noah Gragson, Erik Jokes, Jesse Love, John Hunter Nemechek +50000<\/p>\n
Josh Berry, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. +100000<\/p>\n
Ty Dillon, Riley Herbst +150000<\/p>\n
Cody Ware +250000<\/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":"The NASCAR Cup and O\u2019Reilly Auto Part Series Series head to Circuit of the Americas in Austin for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-495851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495851","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=495851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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