After collecting two wins in the first month of the season, Christopher Bell has already punched his ticket into the NASCAR playoffs and now he'll set his sights on the 2025 Shriners Children's 500 on Sunday. The race is scheduled for 312 laps around the one-mile tri-oval at Phoenix Raceway, with the green flag dropping at 3:30 p.m. ET. Ryan Blaney and Kyle Larson are +700 favorites, followed by Joey Logano (+750) and Christopher Bell (+750) in the 2025 Shriners Children's 500 odds. Before making any 2025 NASCAR Phoenix predictions, you NEED to see the latest 2025 Shriners Children's 500 picks from SportsLine's proven projection model.

Our proven projection model has simulated the 2025 Shriners Children's 500 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 at Daytona, it was also high on William Byron despite +2000 odds. The model also called its first victory of the 2024 season with Kyle Larson winning in Las Vegas for a 21-5 payout then predicted Denny Hamlin's wins in Bristol at 5-1 and Richmond at 17-4. 

It impressively nailed five of Larson's wins during his historic season in 2021, too. All told, the model has nailed a whopping 19 winners since 2021 and hit nine in 2023 alone! Anyone who followed its lead on those NASCAR picks could have seen HUGE returns.

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

For the 2025 Shriners Children's 500, we can tell you the model is high on Ross Chastain, even though he's a longshot at +2400 in the latest 2025 NASCAR at Phoenix odds. He's a target for anyone looking for a HUGE payday. And a massive shocker: Christopher Bell, the top Vegas favorite, stumbles big time and fails to crack the top five! There are far better values in the 2025 NASCAR Phoenix starting lineup.

The model is also targeting TWO OTHER drivers with odds of 12-1 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 Shriners Children's 500, and which EPIC longshots are MUST-BACKS? ... Join SportsLine right now to see the full projected NASCAR at Phoenix leaderboard, all from the model that's nailed 19 winners, including predicting Chase Elliott to win the 2025 Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray!