2025 Enjoy Illinois 300 odds, picks: Projected NASCAR at Gateway leaderboard, predictions by top model

The 2025 NASCAR Playoffs roll on to their second race with the 2025 Enjoy Illinois 300 on Sunday. Held at World Wide Technology Raceway, also known as Gateway, this event takes place on a 1.250-miles asphalt track just outside of St. Louis. Team Penske has won two of the three NASCAR Gateway races, and one of its drivers, Ryan Blaney, is a +500 co-favorite in the latest Enjoy Illinois 300 odds. He is tied with Christopher Bell, while Denny Hamlin is the third-favorite with +650 NASCAR Illinois odds.

Chase Briscoe won the first Cup Series Playoffs race but is a +1000 NASCAR longshot for 2025 NASCAR Illinois. Kyle Busch is one of three people that can call himself a NASCAR at Gateway winner and is at +600 to finish in the top three with 2025 Enjoy Illinois 300 props. Chris Buecher, who is not in the playoff chase but has back-to-back top 10 finishes, is at +120 to notch a third straight top 10.

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The green flag will drop at 3 p.m. ET on Sunday afternoon, and the race is scheduled for 240 laps around the four-turn oval that opened in 1997. Before making any NASCAR at Gateway predictions, you NEED to see the latest 2025 Enjoy Illinois 300 picks from SportsLine's proven projection model.

Our proven projection model has simulated Sunday's 2025 Enjoy Illinois 300 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 Illinois 2025 and released its projections.

For Sunday's 2025 Enjoy Illinois 300, we can tell you the model is high on Chase Elliott, even though he's a longshot at +1800 in the latest 2025 NASCAR at Gateway odds. He's a target for anyone looking for a HUGE payday. It's also revealed a shocking NASCAR prop for this weekend: Tyler Reddick finishes top 5 for a +170 payout. He's a potentially a strong value pick for your Gateway NASCAR prop bets.

The model is also targeting TWO 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 Enjoy Illinois 300, and which EPIC longshots are MUST-BACKS? ... Join SportsLine right now to see the full projected NASCAR at Illinois leaderboard, all from the model that's nailed 27 winners!

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