March 9, 2025 Event: Shriners Children’s 500k (Round 4 of 36) Series: NASCAR Cup Series Location: Phoenix Raceway in Avondale, Arizona (1-mile oval) Format: 312 laps, broken into three stages (60 laps/125 laps/127 laps) Race Winner: Christopher Bell of Joe Gibbs Racing (Toyota) Stage 1 Winner: William Byron with Hendrick Motorsports (Chevrolet) Stage 2 Winner: Christopher Bell of Joe Gibbs Racing (Toyota) ● Cody Ware (Started 35th,

Christopher Bell, who has had success at Circuit of the Americas in the past, will try to make it back-to-back wins when the NASCAR Cup Series moves

Entering Sunday's race, Christopher Bell drew the top odds to earn the NASCAR Cup Series championship, per FanDuel Sportsbook.

Christopher Bell (+500) is favored to win the Shriners Children's 500 at Phoenix Raceway. Get NASCAR odds and predictions from our betting experts.

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Christopher Bell was just ahead of Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin after a late restart, in good position to win his third straight NASCAR Cup Series race. Another restart led to some tense moments — enough to make his team owner feel a bit queasy.

Christopher Bell became the first NASCAR Cup Series driver to win three straight races in the NextGen car, holding off Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin by

When NASCAR Cup Series star Christopher Bell makes a prediction, he makes good on it. After winning at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Feb. 23, Bell had Circuit of the Americas (COTA) marked as a prime opportunity for another victory.

This weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Bell is in position to win fourth straight Cup Series race, a modern record for the sport. Since 1972, NASCAR has only seen that feat accomplished eight times, with five of those instances resulting in that driver becoming Cup champion that year.

With the two leaders side-by-side coming off Turn 4, Bell prevailed in the drag race back to the finish line to win by .049 seconds, the second-closest margin of victory in Phoenix history and the closest since the frontstretch was moved from what is now the back straightaway to the dogleg in 2018.

Bell, who led six times for a race-high 105 of 312 laps, became the first driver to win three consecutive races during the Next Gen era, which began with the 2022 season. Kyle Larson, who finished third at Phoenix, was the most recent driver to win three consecutive in NASCAR’s premier series in 2021.