After a win last week at Watkins Glen, Shane van Gisbergen joins Denny Hamlin as the only two drivers this season with four wins in the NASCAR Cup Series. However, van Gisbergen won't see another road course (where he's collected all his wins) until the Round of 12 in the 2025 NASCAR Playoffs and Hamlin will enter the 2025 Cook Out 400 on Saturday as a five-time winner at Richmond Raceway. Hamlin is the +230 favorite in the 2025 Cook Out 400 odds while van Gisbergen is a +3000 longshot.

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The green flag will drop at 7:30 p.m. ET on Saturday night, and the race is scheduled for 400 laps around the D-shaped oval that measures three-quarters of a mile that first appeared on the NASCAR schedule in 1953. Before making any NASCAR at Richmond predictions, you NEED to see the latest 2025 Cook Out 400 picks from SportsLine's proven projection model.

Our proven projection model has simulated Sunday's 2025 Cook Out 400 10,000 times and come up with a surprising leaderboard. Developed by daily Fantasy pro and SportsLine predictive data engineer Mike McClure, this proprietary NASCAR prediction model takes into account a slew of factors, including track history and recent results.

McClure's model began the 2025 season by calling Chase Elliott's win in the Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray for a +300 payout. Then it went on to predict Kyle Larson in Miami (+350), Christopher Bell's NASCAR All-Star Race win (+600), Denny Hamlin's win in Michigan (+650), Shane van Gisbergen's win in Mexico City (+330), Elliott's win in Atlanta (+1500) and van Gisbergen again in Chicago (+150), Sonoma (+125) and Watkins Glen (+135).

All told, the model has nailed a whopping 27 winners since 2021 and has hit nine winners already in 2025! Anyone who followed its lead on those NASCAR picks could have seen HUGE returns.

Now, the model has dialed in on NASCAR at Richmond 2025 and released its projections.

For Saturday's 2025 Cook Out 400, we can tell you the model is high on Chase Briscoe, even though he's a longshot at +2500 in the latest 2025 NASCAR at Richmond odds. He's a target for anyone looking for a HUGE payday. It's also revealed a shocking NASCAR prop for this weekend: Kyle Busch finishes top 10 for a +135 payout. He's a potentially a strong value pick for your Richmond NASCAR prop bets.

The model is also targeting THREE OTHER drivers with odds of 16-1 or longer to make a serious run at the checkered flag! Anyone who backs these drivers could hit it BIG. You ABSOLUTELY NEED to see who they are before locking in any NASCAR picks.

So who wins the 2025 Cook Out 400, and which EPIC longshots are MUST-BACKS? ... Join SportsLine right now to see the full projected NASCAR at Richmond leaderboard, all from the model that's nailed 27 winners!

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