2025 Shriners Children’s 500 odds, Phoenix NASCAR picks: Expert who hit 17 winners picking 100-1 longshot

Katherine Legge will become the first woman since Danica Patrick in 2018 to race in the NASCAR Cup Series when she makes her debut on Sunday in the 2025 Shriners Children’s 500 at Phoenix Raceway. The British driver competes part-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, IndyCar Series and IMSA SportsCar Championship. She set the record for fastest qualifying effort at the Indianapolis 500 in 2023. Legge became the first woman to win a major open-wheel race in North America when she took first at Long Beach during the 2005 Toyota Atlantic Championship developmental open-wheel event.

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. Sunday’s NASCAR at Phoenix race is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. ET. Before making any 2025 Shriners Children’s 500 at Phoenix Raceway picks or NASCAR predictions, you need to see what NASCAR insider 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 chronicles stock car racing with the same thoroughness and passion he’s had since becoming a full-time race fan in 2001. He has an annual NASCAR medial 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. Anyone following his NASCAR picks could have seen huge returns.

Now, Taranto has analyzed the starting lineup and odds for Sunday’s Shriners Children’s 500 at Phoenix Raceway. He’s sharing his best bets at SportsLine.

2025 NASCAR Shriners Children’s 500 expert picks

For the 2025 Shriners Children’s 500 at Phoenix Raceway, Taranto is high on Christopher Bell, who has won back-to-back races after taking the checkered flag at both Atlanta and Texas Motor Speedway. He now sets his sights on becoming the first driver since Kyle Larson in 2021 to win three races in a row. He has been dominant at Phoenix. The 30-year-old won last year’s spring race in Phoenix, and led 143 laps in the fall, before taking fifth. Bell is going off at +425 at Caesars Sportsbook:

Bell has 11 career Cup Series wins, registering 13 poles and 87 top-10 finishes in 183 racers over six years. He finished fifth overall a year ago, after finishing a career-best third in 2022. Bell has also had a lot of success in the NASCAR Xfinity and Craftsman Truck Series. He has 19 career Xfinity races and seven Craftsman Truck triumphs. See which other drivers he’s backing at SportsLine.

A surprise: Taranto is fading Joey Logano. Despite all of Logano’s successes, he has been pedestrian at Phoenix when he is not competing in the Championship 4. He has won at the track twice over the past three years, but was 34th last spring and 11th in the 2023 spring race. He is looking for his first top-10 finish of the season, so he’s a driver to avoid at sites like DraftKings Sportsbook:

Logano began his Cup Series career in 2008 at the Sylvania 300 in New Hampshire. Over the past 17 years, he has raced in 579 events, earning 36 wins, 287 top-10 finishes and 31 pole positions. He won his first race in 2009 at the Lenox Industrial Tools 301 in New Hampshire. His last victory came last fall at the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race in Phoenix. See all of Taranto’s picks at SportsLine. 

How to make 2025 Shriners Children’s 500 predictions

Taranto has also identified four other drivers in his 2025 NASCAR Shriners Children’s 500 best bets. He’s also high on a huge NASCAR longshot who’s fetching over 100-1, potentially netting any backer a huge payday. You can only see who they are here.

So who wins the 2025 Shriners Children’s 500 at Phoenix, and which massive longshot could stun NASCAR? Visit SportsLine now to see the 2025 Shriners Children’s 500 at Phoenix picks and best bets from a NASCAR insider who nailed a colossal 17 winners last year, and find out.

2025 Shriners Children’s 500 at Phoenix Raceway odds, field

See full Shriners Children’s 500 at Phoenix Raceway picks at SportsLine

Ryan Blaney +700
Kyle Larson +700
Joey Logano +750
Christopher Bell +750
Kyle Busch +850
Tyler Reddick +850
William Byron +850
Chase Elliott +1300
Denny Hamlin +1700
Chase Briscoe +2100
Ross Chastain +1400
Ty Gibbs +2200
Chris Buescher +2200
Josh Berry +3300
Brad Keselowski +3500
Bubba Wallace +4000
Alex Bowman +5500
Austin Cindric +6500
Ryan Preece +7500
Carson Hocevar +7500
Daniel Suarez +8000
Cole Custer +10000
Noah Gragson +10000
Michael McDowell +17500
Erik Jones +20000
Riley Herbst +20000
Justin Haley +20000
AJ Allmendinger +25000
Austin Dillon +25000
Shane Van Gisbergen +25000
Todd Gilliland +30000
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. +30000
Zane Smith +35000
John Hunter Nemechek +75000
Ty Dillon +150000
Cody Ware +250000
Katherine Legge +250000