{"id":54414,"date":"2025-08-08T11:55:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T11:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54414\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T11:55:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T11:55:05","slug":"who-is-sundays-cup-series-race-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54414\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Sunday&#8217;s Cup Series race favorite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/sports\/nascar\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/sports\/nascar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR Cup Series<\/a> is back at a road course this weekend, which means Shane van Gisbergen is the betting favorite.<\/p>\n<p>SVG is the +125 favorite to win the Go Bowling at The Glen on Aug. 8 at Watkins Glen International.<\/p>\n<p>Connor Zilisch is the surprise driver with the second-best odds at +550 despite three career Cup Series races and no top-10 finishes. Zilisch&#8217;s presence near the top is due to his sterling road-course record this year in the Xfinity Series.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the betting odds for Sunday&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/sports\/nascar\/2025\/08\/03\/nascar-iowa-reaction-winners-losers-william-byron-victory\/85424860007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/sports\/nascar\/2025\/08\/03\/nascar-iowa-reaction-winners-losers-william-byron-victory\/85424860007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR Cup Series<\/a>\u00a0race:<\/p>\n<p>Odds via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tn.betmgm.com\/en\/sports\/events\/go-bowling-at-the-glen-17960331\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.tn.betmgm.com\/en\/sports\/events\/go-bowling-at-the-glen-17960331\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BetMGM<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday night<\/p>\n<p>Shane van Gisbergen +125Connor Zilisch +550Christopher Bell +1000Kyle Larson +1000Chase Elliott +1600William Byron +1600Tyler Reddick +1800Michael McDowell +1800Ty Gibbs +2000Chris Buescher +2000AJ Allmendinger +2500Chase Briscoe +2500Ross Chastain +3000Alex Bowman +4000Kyle Busch +4000Carson Hocevar +5000Denny Hamlin +6000Ryan Preece +6000Austin Cindric +8000Joey Logano +8000Daniel Suarez +8000Ryan Blaney +8000Brad Keselowski +12500Todd Gilliland +20000Bubba Wallace +20000John Hunter Nemechek +35000Cole Custer +35000Zane Smith +35000Noah Gragson +35000Justin Haley +35000Erik Jones +35000Riley Herbst +50000Josh Berry +50000Ty Dillon +50000Ricky Stenhouse Jr. +50000Austin Dillon +50000Josh Bilicki +100000Cody Ware +200000Katherine Legge +200000JJ Yeley +200000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NASCAR Cup Series is back at a road course this weekend, which means Shane van Gisbergen is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[1338,9680,2571,49,48,5316,5315,5319,1329,6410,7087,3011,7081,1327,1342,634,44,5317,1333,1345,7080,1334,582,82,865,1320,7082],"class_list":{"0":"post-54414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-auto","10":"tag-auto-racing","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-commerce","14":"tag-contains","15":"tag-contains-commerce-or-affiliate-content","16":"tag-content","17":"tag-exclude","18":"tag-exclude-from-paywall-logic-testing","19":"tag-from","20":"tag-logic","21":"tag-modular","22":"tag-modular-story","23":"tag-nascar","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-or","26":"tag-overall","27":"tag-overall-positive","28":"tag-paywall","29":"tag-positive","30":"tag-racing","31":"tag-sports","32":"tag-sports-news","33":"tag-story","34":"tag-testing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54414","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=54414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}