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Photo: Dominic Aragon\/TRE<\/p>\nThis weekend, NASCAR returns to the 1-mile Phoenix Raceway for NASCAR Cup and O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series action in Arizona.<\/p>\n
Photo: Dominic Aragon\/TRE<\/p>\n
The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series\u2019 next race is March 20 at Darlington.<\/p>\n
NASCAR Cup Series\u2019 Straight Talk Wireless 500 race<\/p>\n
Sunday, March 8<\/p>\n
3:30 p.m. (all times Eastern)<\/p>\n
312 laps<\/p>\n
Stages end on laps 60, 185, 312<\/p>\n
FOX Sports 1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90<\/p>\n
Last year\u2019s winner: Christopher Bell<\/a><\/p>\n With 37 teams entered, all drivers are guaranteed to start the race.<\/p>\n Austin Hill is the lone open entry in the Richard Childress Racing No. 33 Chevrolet.<\/p>\n Odds for the NASCAR Cup Series Phoenix Race<\/p>\n Ryan Blaney, who won the Phoenix race in November, is the odds-on favorite to win Sunday, per the Caesar\u2019s Sportsbook, as of Tuesday, March 3. Below are the sportbook\u2019s opening odds for the race weekend.<\/p>\n Ryan Blaney +475<\/p>\n Denny Hamlin +550<\/p>\n Christopher Bell +600<\/p>\n Kyle Larson +750<\/p>\n William Byron +800<\/p>\n Chase Briscoe, Chase Elliott +1000<\/p>\n Joey Logano, Tyler Reddick +1300<\/p>\n Ross Chastain +1800<\/p>\n Josh Berry, Chris Buescher +2500<\/p>\n Brad Keselowski, Carson Hocevar +3000<\/p>\n Kyle Busch, Bubba Wallace +3500<\/p>\n Ty Gibbs +4000<\/p>\n Alex Bowman +5000<\/p>\n Ryan Preece +5500<\/p>\n Connor Zilisch +6000<\/p>\n Austin Cindric +7000<\/p>\n Austin DIllon +7500<\/p>\n Austin Hill, Michael McDowell +15000<\/p>\n Daniel Suarez +20000<\/p>\n Todd Gilliland, Noah Gragson, Erik Jones, Zane Smith, Shane Van Gisbergen +25000<\/p>\n A.J. Allmendinger, John Hunter Nemechek, Ricky Stenhouse Jr.+35000<\/p>\n Cole Custer +75000<\/p>\n Ty Dillon, Riley Herbst +100000<\/p>\n Cody Ware +250000<\/p>\n NASCAR Xfinity Series\u2019 GOVX 200 race<\/p>\n Saturday, March 7<\/p>\n 200 laps<\/p>\n Stages end on laps 45, 90, 200<\/p>\n CW, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90<\/p>\n Last year\u2019s winner: Aric Almi<\/a>r<\/a>ola<\/a><\/p>\n Two drivers will miss the race with 40 total entries.<\/p>\n Notable drivers on the entry list include Garrett Smithley (No. 0), Chandler Smith (No. 5), Austin J. Hill (No. 30), Rajah Caruth (No. 32), Blake Lothian (No. 35), Nathan Byrd (No. 42), Daniel Dye (No. 52), Joey Gase (No. 55), Dawson Cram (No. 74), Willaim Byron (No. 88), and Mason Maggio (No. 91).<\/p>\n \t\t 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, NASCAR returns to the 1-mile Phoenix Raceway for NASCAR Cup and O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series action…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-511095","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\/511095","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=511095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Christopher-Bell-Victory-Lane-Phoenix-2025-Dominic-Aragon.jpg\")
Photo: Dominic Aragon\/TRE<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/28043954238_1d371f320a_o-edited-5.jpg\")
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