Denny Hamlin will aim for his third win in four weeks when the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series schedule continues with the 2024 Cook Out 400 at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday. Hamlin captured his first checkered flag of the year on March 17 at Bristol and returned to Victory Lane last weekend at Richmond. Hamlin, who has won this race three times, is the 9-2 favorite in the 2024 Cook Out 400 odds, while two-time race winner Martin Truex Jr. is 13-2. They are followed by Ryan Blaney (7-1), Kyle Larson (15-2) and Christopher Bell (8-1) in the 2024 NASCAR at Martinsville odds. Sunday's race on the 0.526-mile, paperclip-shaped track is scheduled to start at 3 p.m. ET. Kyle Larson won the Martinsville spring race last year.

Before making any NASCAR picks, be sure to see what CBS Sports NASCAR writer Steven Taranto has to say.

Taranto, who moonlights as a sim racer and has 20 career wins in iRacing, is the lead NASCAR writer for CBSSports.com, and he chronicles stock car racing with the same thoroughness and passion that he's had since becoming a full-time race fan in 2001. He has an annual NASCAR media credential and also publishes a popular weekly NASCAR predictions column, famously calling Ross Chastain and Daniel Suarez's breakthrough wins in 2022. Taranto is off to a red-hot start for SportsLine in 2024, nailing four winners in his best bets already, including 16-1 longshot William Byron at the Daytona 500! Anybody following his NASCAR picks has seen some HUGE returns!

For the 2024 Cook Out 400, we can tell you Taranto is high on Joey Logano, even though he's an 11-1 longshot. Another curveball: He's fading reigning Cup Series champion Ryan Blaney (7-1), who won at Martinsville in October. "Bold of me to fade the most recent winner at Martinsville, isn't it? I know that Blaney's win at Martinsville in the fall of last year, combined with his overall record at this track, suggests I should feel good about betting on him this weekend, but I'm going to put a little more emphasis on the past few weeks than I am his Martinsville record overall in handicapping this weekend," Taranto told SportsLine.

Taranto also locked in four more Cook Out 400 best bets and is also high on a major dark horse priced higher than 30-1! You ABSOLUTELY need to see his picks before locking in any NASCAR picks of your own for the 2024 Cook Out 400.

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