Christopher Bell will try to become the first back-to-back winner of the NASCAR Cup Series season when he competes in the 2024 Enjoy Illinois 300 at World Wide Technology Raceway on Sunday. Bell is 10-1 and Kyle Larson is the 11-2 favorite in the latest 2024 Enjoy Illinois 300 odds. Denny Hamlin is 6-1 and reigning Cup Series champion Ryan Blaney is 8-1, while William Byron and Martin Truex Jr. are 9-1 in the 2024 NASCAR at Gateway odds. Michael McDowell will be on the pole, and Sunday's race is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. ET. Before making any NASCAR at Gateway picks, be sure to see what CBS Sports NASCAR writer 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 he chronicles stock car racing with the same thoroughness and passion that he's had since becoming a full-time race fan in 2001. He has an annual NASCAR media credential and also publishes a popular weekly NASCAR predictions column, famously calling Ross Chastain and Daniel Suarez's breakthrough wins in 2022. Taranto is off to a red-hot start for SportsLine in 2024, nailing eight winners already - including 16-1 longshot Byron at the Daytona 500 and 14-1 longshot Chase Elliott at Texas. Anybody following his NASCAR picks has seen HUGE returns!

For the 2024 Enjoy Illinois 300, we can tell you Taranto is high on Christopher Bell, even though he's a longshot at 10-1. Another curveball: He's fading Tyler Reddick, even though he is among the leaders this season with eight top-10 finishes! "His Gateway record in the Cup Series isn't a particularly good one, 16th in 2022 and a DNF last year after a crash, and he also hasn't been successful there in any other series," Taranto told SportsLine.

Taranto also locked in four more Enjoy Illinois 300 best bets and is high on a major dark horse who is getting triple-digit odds! You ABSOLUTELY need to see his picks before locking in any NASCAR picks of your own.

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