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Photo: Ryan Kemna\/TRE<\/p>\n
Daytona provides the last opportunity for drivers to make the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. In total, 22 drivers could win their first race of the season at Daytona and lock into NASCAR\u2019s version of the post-season.<\/p>\n
Entry list coming soon.<\/p>\n
Odds for NASCAR Cup Series at Daytona August 2025<\/p>\n
The Team Penske trio of Ryan Blaney, Austin Cindric, and Joey Logano lead the way as early favorites to win Saturday. Below are the opening odds for all drivers as of Monday, August 18, per the Caesar\u2019s Sportsbook.<\/p>\n
Ryan Blaney, Austin Cindric, Joey Logano +1000<\/p>\n
Brad Keselowski +1200<\/p>\n
Chase Elliott +1400<\/p>\n
Alex Bowman, Kyle Busch, William Byron, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. +1500<\/p>\n
Christopher Bell, Kyle Larson +1600<\/p>\n
Denny Hamlin, Bubba Wallace +1800<\/p>\n
Chris Buescher, Tyler Reddick+2000<\/p>\n
Chase Briscoe +2500<\/p>\n
Ross Chastain, Carson Hocevar +3000<\/p>\n
Daniel Suarez+3300<\/p>\n
Todd Gilliland, Michael McDowell, Ryan Preece +3500<\/p>\n
Ty Gibbs +4000<\/p>\n
Josh Berry, Austin Dillon, Erik Jones +4500<\/p>\n
John Hunter Nemechek +5000<\/p>\n
Cole Custer +5500<\/p>\n
A.J. Allmendinger, Noah Gragson, Zane Smith +6000<\/p>\n
Ty Dillon, Justin Haley, Riley Herbst +7500<\/p>\n
Shane Van Gisbergen, Austin Hill +10000<\/p>\n
Cody Ware +25000<\/p>\n
NASCAR Xfinity Series\u2019 Wawa 250<\/p>\n
Friday, August 22<\/p>\n
100 laps<\/p>\n
Stages end on laps 30, 60, 100<\/p>\n
CW, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90<\/p>\n
Last year\u2019s winner: Ryan Truex<\/p>\n
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Photo: Dominic Aragon\/TRE<\/p>\n
Three races remain before the start of the NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoffs. After Daytona, Portland (Oct. 30), and Gateway (Sept. 6) remain.<\/p>\n
Entry list coming soon.<\/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 Xfinity Series head to the 2.5-mile Daytona International Speedway in Florida.\u00a0 The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-79319","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\/79319","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=79319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}