Defending Champ Blaney Favored To Win NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race

  • What: NASCAR Championship Race
  • Where: Phoenix Raceway
  • When: Sunday, November 10, 2024
  • Time: 3:00 pm ET
  • Laps: 312
  • Distance: 312 Miles
  • TV: NBC

Last week, it was looking as though defending champion Ryan Blaney wasn’t going to be part of the NASCAR Final Four chasing the NASCAR Cup Series title in Sunday’s season finale, the NASCAR Championship Race.

What a difference a week makes. Following his win last week at Martinsville, oddsmakers are now seeing Blaney as the +350 favorite to win this race. However, like any NASCAR race around a fast-paced oval, the betting field is tightly bunched.

Christopher Bell, not part of the final four, is set as the +450 second betting choice. Next in this betting market are the other three final four contenders. Two-time champion Joey Logano is given a betting line of +500. Both William Byron and Tyler Reddick are set at +550.

Latest NASCAR Championship Race Odds

Check out the latest NASCAR Championship Race betting lines. All our odds are from the best NASCAR betting sites. For more information about the Cup Series, check out our guide on how to bet on NASCAR.

NASCAR Championship Race OddsBovada Sportsbook ReviewBetOnline Sportsbook ReviewBetUS Review
Ryan Blaney+350+350+350
Christopher Bell+450+500+500
Joey Logano+500+700+650
Tyler Reddick+550+800+700
William Byron+550+400+350
Kyle Larson+850+900+1000
Denny Hamlin+1600+1200+1200
Martin Truex Jr+2000+2200+1600
Ross Chastain+2000+1600+1400
Chase Elliott+2500+1400+1600
Brad Keselowski+3300+4000+3000
Chris Buescher+3300+4000+3000
Ty Gibbs+3300+2800+2500
Chase Briscoe+5000+3300+4000
Kyle Busch+5000+4000+5000
Alex Bowman+6600+5000+8000
Bubba Wallace+6600+5000+6000

Kyle Larson (+850) is the other driver given odds shorter than +1000. After him, the betting line jumps all the way to +2000 for Denny Hamlin.

The drivers will cover 312 miles around the one mile Phoenix Raceway oval over the 312 laps of this race, with stages of 75, 115 and 122 laps.

The NASCAR Cup playoff field has been whittled down to four drivers. Each of the four contenders is beginning the day deadlocked with 5000 points apiece.

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NASCAR Cup Series Winner Betting

Blaney is set as the +200 favorite to be retaining his NASCAR Cup Series title. To do so, he’ll need to be the top points collector among the final four in Sunday’s NASCAR Championship Race.

Ryan BlaneyTo Win NASCAR Cup Series title
★★★★★
+200
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Logano is the co-second betting choice at +275 as he seeks his third title. Byron is also given a betting line of +275. Reddick is the longshot in this betting market at odds of +300. Neither Byron nor Reddick have previously won the title.

Top NASCAR Cup Series Prop Bets

Reddick is the only driver among the NASCAR Cup Series final four who will be at the wheel of a Toyota. Reddick was the NASCAR regular season champion.

Both Blaney and Logano drive Fords, while Byron is in a Chevrolet. Yet it’s Toyota that is set as the +150 favorite to be the winning manufacturer in this race in NASCAR Championship Race prop betting.

It’s Ford, though, that is set as the -125 odds-on chalk to be the manufacturer producing the NASCAR Cup Series champion for 2024. With both Blaney and Logano among the final four, Team Penske is being given a -125 betting line to be the winning team in this year’s competition.

NASCAR Championship Race Winner Betting Picks and Predictions

It’s interesting to note that in last year’s NASCAR Championship Race, winner Ross Chastain was not part of the NASCAR Cup Series final four. The highest finisher among the championship contenders was Blaney’s 2nd-place run. That was enough to garner him the title, though.

That makes Bell a very intriguing bet here. He’ll be bitter after a ruling in last week’s race at Martinsville that he committed a safety violation on the last lap of the race dropped him out of the final four. Bell was a top contender to win the NASCAR Cup Series title all season long.

NASCAR Cup Series champion in 2018 and 2022, Logano has that even-numbered year trend working for him. He won this race in 2022.

Reddick has been erratic of late. Reddick was 36th in Las Vegas, won at Homestead and then ran 34th at Martinsville. That win is Reddick’s only top 10 over the past eight races.

Ryan BlaneyTo Win NASCAR Championship Race
★★★★★
+350
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Byron was the benefactor of Bell’s penalty. He also joins Blaney as repeaters in the final four. He hasn’t won since taking the checkered flag in three of the first eight races of the season, including the season-opening Daytona 500. However, Byron is right there every race. He’s finished in the top 10 in six consecutive races. Four of those six runs saw him end up in top five. He’s also been in top 10 of this race each of the last two years.

No one likes Phoenix of late more than Blaney, however. He was second here last year and in 2022. He’s never finished worse than sixth in the last five fall races at Phoenix. He used his win at Martinsville last year to propel him to the NASCAR Cup Series title and will be doing so again this year.

Bob Duff

Veteran journalist Bob Duff has been writing for over 30 years and has written 25 sports books, including authorized biographies of Johnny Bower, Desmond Howard, Ted Lindsay, Nicklas Lidstrom, and Gordie Howe. He is a member of the Hockey News' panel to select the 100 Greatest NHL players and an honorary member of the Elias Sports Bureau. He taught a course ...

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