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2025 Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray odds, NASCAR picks: Best bets for Winston-Salem from proven racing expert

CBS Sports NASCAR writer Steven Taranto reveals his NASCAR picks to SportsLine for the 2025 Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray on Sunday

The 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season unofficially gets underway on Sunday as the 2025 Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray takes place at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C. The preseason exhibition race was held at Daytona International Speedway from its inception in 1979 through 2021 before moving to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for the past three years. Denny Hamlin won the Clash for the fourth time in his career last season, putting him within two of Dale Earnhardt's all-time mark. Reigning Cup Series champion Joey Logano has captured the checkered flag in this race twice.

Hamlin, Kyle Larson and Christopher Bell are 8-1 co-favorites in the latest 2025 Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray odds, while Chase Briscoe is 17-2. Logano and 2023 series champ Ryan Blaney are 10-1. Sunday's race is scheduled to start at 8 p.m. ET.

Before making any NASCAR at Bowman Gray 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 was red-hot for SportsLine in 2024 as he nailed 17 winners, including 16-1 longshot William Byron at the Daytona 500 and 14-1 longshot Chase Elliott at Texas. Anybody following his NASCAR picks has seen HUGE returns!

For the 2025 Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray, we can tell you Taranto is high on Joey Logano (10-1), who won this race at Daytona in 2017 and Los Angeles in 2022. Another curveball: He's fading Chase Briscoe (17-2), who finished seventh in last year's Clash. "With his move to Joe Gibbs Racing to take over for Martin Truex Jr. headlining the big changes for this season, Briscoe has been given the second-best odds of winning," Taranto told SportsLine. "It's not a bad idea in and of itself, considering that Briscoe is now driving for the team that won the Clash with Truex in 2023, but I would hold my horses a bit here."

Taranto also locked in four more Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray best bets and is high on a MAJOR dark horse who is going off at more than 30-1! You ABSOLUTELY need to see his picks before locking in any NASCAR picks of your own.

So who wins the Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray 2025? And which MASSIVE longshot do you need to target NOW? ...  Join SportsLine right now to see the 2025 NASCAR at Winston-Salem best bets, all from the expert who nailed a colossal 17 race winners last year!

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