Chase Elliott will attempt to post back-to-back victories for the second time in his NASCAR Cup Series career when he competes in the 2024 GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday. Elliott, who captured the checkered flag at Texas last weekend to end his 42-race drought, concluded his 2020 series championship season with consecutive wins at Martinsville and Phoenix. Elliott is 12-1 and Joey Logano is the 9-1 favorite in the 2024 GEICO 500 odds. Four-time race winner Brad Keselowski is 10-1 and reigning Cup Series champion Ryan Blaney is 11-1. William Byron, Denny Hamlin, Chase Elliott and Bubba Wallace are all 12-1 in the 2024 NASCAR at Talladega odds. Michael McDowell is on the pole. Sunday's race on the 2.66-mile tri-oval is scheduled to start at 3 p.m. ET. 

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 five winners already, including 16-1 longshot Byron at the Daytona 500 and 14-1 longshot Chase Elliott at Texas last week. Anybody following his NASCAR picks has seen HUGE returns!

For the 2024 GEICO 500, we can tell you Taranto is high on Kyle Busch, even though he's a 15-1 longshot. Another curveball: He's fading reigning Cup Series regular-season champion Martin Truex Jr. "Truex has been coming to Talladega since 2005, but in 38 career starts, he's had just three top-five finishes and nine top-10s without a single victory. And from 2016 on, a fifth-place run in 2022 is his only finish at the track inside the top 10," Taranto told SportsLine.

Taranto also locked in four more GEICO 500 best bets and is high on a major dark horse priced at almost 100-1! You ABSOLUTELY need to see his picks before locking in any NASCAR picks of your own for the 2024 GEICO 500.

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