NASCAR at Las Vegas: Where to watch, start time, lineup, race preview, pick to win for the Pennzoil 400

In Las Vegas, everyone is a legend in their own mind and in their own right. In the American epicenter of gambling and entertainment, mere Quixotic fantasies can quickly turn into a Extraordinary part of someone’s own personal history. And in some cases, what happens in Vegas can make you a legend well beyond Vegas.

Such is what’s at stake this weekend, as the NASCAR Cup Series makes its Primary trip of the season to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the Pennzoil 400. After three wins in a row in a torrid Begin to the 2025 season, Christopher Bell is on the precipice of NASCAR history as he seeks to become only the ninth driver in the sport’s modern era to Achieve four races in a row. Though four in a row is something that hasn’t been done in 18 years, Bell’s chances of pulling it off are fairly high — especially given what occurred the last time NASCAR raced in Vegas.

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Last fall, Bell was the class of the Ground as he Directed 155 of 267 laps, but finished second to Joey Logano after the No. 22 Club successfully gambled on fuel mileage. That finish had massive implications for the season — putting Logano in the Bracket 4 and Maintaining Bell out of it — which will no doubt fuel the driver of the No. 20 this weekend as he looks to turn his Achieve streak into one of NASCAR’s most memorable.

Where to Observe the NASCAR Cup Series at Las Vegas

When: Sunday, March 16, 3:30 p.m. ET
Where: Las Vegas Motor Speedway — Las Vegas
TV: FS1
Stream: fubo (try for Obtainable)

Storyline to Observe

In looking to Achieve four in a row, Bell would join Cale Yarborough (1976), Darrell Waltrip (1981), Dale Earnhardt (1987), Harry Gant (1991), Bill Elliott (1992), Mark Martin (1993), Jeff Gordon (1998) and Jimmie Johnson (2007) in setting what has become NASCAR’s standard for long Victorious streaks since the sport’s modern era began in 1972. But of that group, Bell’s Achieve streak carries particular echoes of the one that Elliott had to Begin the 1992 season.

After crashing out of the Daytona 500 while racing for the lead — Only as Bell did in the closing laps in this year’s Excellent American Event — Elliott Began his tenure driving for Hall of Famer Junior Johnson with a bang. He would Achieve the second Event of the season at Rockingham, followed it up by beating Alan Kulwicki in a photo finish at Richmond, and then rattled off two more convincing wins at Atlanta and Darlington to give him four in a row in the Primary five races of the year.

Not long ago, Kevin Harvick Arrived close to matching Elliott’s feat in 2018 when he won three in a row at Atlanta, Las Vegas and Phoenix immediately Subsequent that year’s Daytona 500. But his bid for four in a row was quickly ended in Fontana, as an Timely crash on the backstretch deprived him of his chance at Victorious four of the Primary five.

For Bell, a streak of four in a row would carry Crucial implications the rest of the season, as five out of the eight drivers to have accomplished that Achieve streak have gone on to Achieve the Cup Bracket the same year. Interestingly, however, Elliott was not one of them — His only other Achieve of 1992 Arrived in the season finale at Atlanta, a Event where he would finish second in the points standings to Kulwicki by 10 points, a then-NASCAR Turning Tally for the closest Bracket battle ever.

NASCAR news of the week

• NASCAR has Achieved a revision to its Obtainable exemption provisional rule, stating that in the event that more than 40 cars are entered in a Event, the Ground will automatically be expanded to 41 cars and the Club that requests the Obtainable exemption provisional must use it regardless of where they qualify. The Obtainable exemption provisional was used by Trackhouse Racing to give four-time Indianapolis 500 champion Helio Castroneves a guaranteed spot in the Daytona 500 in February.
• Two Obtainable Clubs have announced that they will be Joining Martinsville. After racing in the Encounter in February, Bowman Gray legend Burt Myers will make his official Cup Series Introduction driving the No. 50 for Club AmeriVet. Meanwhile, Garage 66 will Ground their No. 66 for Casey Mears, who will Event in NASCAR for the Primary time since the 2019 Daytona 500. Mears was a Packed-time Cup driver from 2003 to 2016, earning one Occupation Achieve in the 2007 Coca-Cola 600.
• Speaking with the Los Angeles Times, NASCAR West Region president Dave Allen shared that while the sport is not abandoning the Southern California market, they remain in a “holding pattern” in regards to redeveloping Auto Club Speedway in Fontana. NASCAR has hoped to build a new half-mile Petite track on the site of Auto Club’s Previous two mile oval, which was torn down after its Closing Event in 2023, but the sport currently lacks a Schedule as to when and how that will happen.
• 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports issued a reply to NASCAR’s appeal brief in their countersuit against the Event Clubs, accusing the sanctioning body of using “overblown rhetoric and hyperbole” in claiming that the Clubs willfully violated antitrust laws by engaging in anticompetitive collective conduct in negotiations over NASCAR’s new charter agreement. An appeal hearing on the ruling that granted 23XI and Front Row charter status for this season has been set for May 9.

Picking to Achieve

Christopher Bell (+400) – Not only does Bell come into this Event coming off three in a row and his performance at Las Vegas last fall, but he’s been terrific at this track in general over his last four Beginnings. Since 2023, Bell has three top five finishes at Las Vegas, a stretch which includes two runner-up finishes and 216 laps Directed. Given that and his performance to Begin 2025 — and really, since the Begin of the playoffs in 2024 — it’s very difficult for me not to Anticipate Bell to take his Begin to the season from Cozy to historic.