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Texas Motor Speedway will host the 2022 NASCAR All-Star Race on Sunday. Even though there won’t be any points on the line, a $1 million prize to the winner always ensures exciting racing. The 1.5-mile oval in Fort Worth hosted for the first time last year and now it will have the honor of hosting again with a modified open portion of the race where 16 drivers will compete for the final three spots. There are 20 drivers who are already in the NASCAR All-Star Race 2022 field and one more who will be locked in via fan vote on Friday afternoon. The open portion of the 2022 NASCAR All-Star Race begins at 5:30 p.m. ET, while the 24-car race for $1 million is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. ET on FS1 (stream now on FuboTV).
Kyle Larson won 10 times on his way to winning the NASCAR Cup Series championship and he’s also the defending All-Star Race winner, so it’s no surprise that he’s the 9-2 favorite in the 2022 NASCAR All-Star Race odds from Caesars Sportsbook. Kyle Busch is a former all-star winner and he’s coming off a third-place finish on a 1.5-mile oval at Kansas so he’s next on the odds board at 7-1. Before scouring the 2022 NASCAR All-Star Race starting lineup and making any 2022 NASCAR Texas predictions, be sure to see the latest 2022 NASCAR All-Star Race at Texas picks from SportsLine’s proven projection model.
Developed by daily Fantasy pro and SportsLine predictive data engineer Mike McClure, this proprietary NASCAR prediction model simulates every race 10,000 times, taking into account factors such as track history and recent results.
In the 2021 season, McClure nailed Martin Truex Jr. to win at Martinsville for a strong 3-1 payout. Then, it called Chase Elliott to win at Road America for a 5-2 payout. McClure’s model also called Larson’s win at Texas for an 11-4 payout and his win at Kansas for a 9-4 payout in back-to-back weeks before nailing Larson to win the season-finale in Phoenix to claim the 2021 NASCAR Cup Championship.
In total, it nailed five of Larson’s wins during a historic season and has also gone 15-9 on its head-to-head matchup predictions to start the 2022 season. Earlier this season it was high on Ross Chastain to win in Austin, giving him a far better shot to win than his 40-1 odds implied. Two weeks ago, the model was also high on Joey Logano before he won as a 15-1 underdog. Anyone who followed its lead on those plays saw huge returns on their NASCAR picks.
Now, the model simulated the 2022 NASCAR All-Star Race (see tickets at StubHub) 10,000 times. Head to SportsLine to see the complete projected 2022 NASCAR All-Star Race at Texas leaderboard.
One surprise: the model is high on Alex Bowman, even though he’s a 15-1 long shot in the latest 2022 NASCAR at Texas odds. He’s a target for anyone looking for a huge payday. The 29-year-old has made the NASCAR playoffs in each of the last four seasons and he’s become a regular in the winner’s circle with seven wins since the start of 2019.
Bowman picked up four of those victories in a breakout season in 2021 and has already earned a victory this year at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, a 1.5-mile setup that has at least some similarity to what he’ll see in Fort Worth. He also ran ninth at Kansas last week and 10th in Atlanta earlier in the season, so it appears that his team feels comfortable with the “Next-Gen” car on a speedway. He also finished sixth in last year’s all-star race and led nine laps despite starting all the way back in 15th place.
And a massive shocker: William Byron, one of the Vegas favorites at 9-1, stumbles big-time and fails to crack the top 10. There are far better values in the 2022 NASCAR All-Star Race lineup. Byron is one of only two drivers (along with Ross Chastain) with two wins this season and that virtually guarantees his spot in the 2022 NASCAR Playoffs. However, he hasn’t been running particularly well of late.
Byron has finished outside the top 10 in each of his last five starts and has now been outside the top 10 in nine of the 13 total races this season. He’s also been outside the top 10 in four of his last six points races at Texas and finished a disappointing seventh despite leading 30 laps at the 2021 NASCAR All-Star Race.
The model is also targeting two other drivers with 2022 NASCAR at Texas odds of 15-1 or longer to make a serious run at the checkered flag. Anyone who backs these drivers could hit it big. You can see all of the model’s NASCAR picks over at SportsLine.
So who wins the NASCAR All-Star Race 2022? And which long shots make a run at the checkered flag? Check out the latest 2022 NASCAR at Texas odds below, then visit SportsLine now to see the full projected 2022 NASCAR All-Star Race leaderboard, all from the model that correctly predicted five of Kyle Larson’s wins last season.
Kyle Larson 9-2
Kyle Busch 7-1
Chase Elliott 15-2
William Byron 9-1
Martin Truex Jr. 9-1
Denny Hamlin 10-1
Ross Chastain 10-1
Ryan Blaney 12-1
Joey Logano 15-1
Christopher Bell 15-1
Alex Bowman 15-1
Kurt Busch 18-1
Kevin Harvick 25-1
Austin Cindric 40-1
Bubba Wallace 50-1
Chase Briscoe 60-1
Brad Keselowski 60-1
Aric Almirola 75-1
A.J. Allmendinger 100-1
Michael McDowell 300-1
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