{"id":556382,"date":"2026-03-24T00:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/556382\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T00:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:44:11","slug":"nascar-at-martinsville-march-2026-odds-and-more-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/556382\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR at Martinsville March 2026: Odds and more info"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend, the NASCAR Cup and O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series head to the .526-mile Martinsville Speedway in Virginia.<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo: Ryan BIlle\/TRE<\/p>\n

NASCAR Cup Series\u2019 Cook Out 400<\/p>\n

Sunday, March 29<\/p>\n

3:30 p.m. (All times Eastern)<\/p>\n

400 laps<\/p>\n

Stages end on laps 80, 180, 400<\/p>\n

FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s winner: Denny Hamlin<\/a><\/p>\n

No driver will miss the field with 37 entries slated for the race.<\/p>\n

Austin Hill is the lone open entry, piloting the No. 33 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing<\/p>\n

Justin Allgaier will continue his fill-in duties for Alex Bowman this weekend in the Hendrick Motorsports No. 48 Chevrolet.<\/p>\n

Odds for NASCAR Cup Series at Darlington March 26<\/p>\n

Two-time Martinsville winner<\/a> Ryan Blaney is the opening odds-on favorite to win Sunday.<\/p>\n

Below are the opening odds for all drivers as of Monday, March 16, per the Caesar\u2019s Sportsbook.<\/p>\n

Ryan Blaney +500<\/p>\n

Denny Hamlin, Kyle Larson +600<\/p>\n

William Byron, Chase Elliott +700<\/p>\n

Joey Logano +900<\/p>\n

Christopher Bell +1000<\/p>\n

Chase Briscoe, Tyler Reddick +1200<\/p>\n

Ryan Preece +1800<\/p>\n

Ty Gibbs, Bubba Wallace +2000<\/p>\n

Ross Chastain +3000<\/p>\n

Brad Keselowski +3500<\/p>\n

Josh Berry, Chris Buescher +4000<\/p>\n

Kyle Busch, Carson Hocevar +5000<\/p>\n

Austin Cindric +6500<\/p>\n

Justin Allgaier, Connor Zilisch +7500<\/p>\n

Todd Gilliland +10000<\/p>\n

Erik Jones, Michael McDowell, Daniel Suarez +12500<\/p>\n

A.J. Allmendinger, Austin Dillon, Austin Hill +20000<\/p>\n

Cole Custer, Noah Gragson, John Hunter Nemechek, Shane Van Gisbergen +25000<\/p>\n

Zane Smith +30000<\/p>\n

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. +35000<\/p>\n

Riley Herbst +50000<\/p>\n

Ty Dillon, Cody Ware +75000<\/p>\n

NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series\u2019 NFPA 250<\/p>\n

Saturday, March 28<\/p>\n

250 laps<\/p>\n

Stages end on laps 60, 120, 250<\/p>\n

CW, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s winner: Austin Hill<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Photo: Ryan Kemna\/TRE<\/p>\n

With 40 entries, two drivers will miss the field.<\/p>\n

Notable entries include Garrett Smithley (No. 0), Luke Baldwin (No. 5), Lee Pulliam (No. 9), Brent Crews (No. 19), Myatt Snider (No. 30), Andrew Patterson (No. 32), Brad Perez (No. 42), Joey Gase (No. 55), Dawson Cram (No. 74), and Ross Chastain (No. 91).<\/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 O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series head to the .526-mile Martinsville Speedway in Virginia.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-556382","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\/556382","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=556382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}