Christopher Bell, who has had success at Circuit of the Americas in the past, will try to make it back-to-back wins when the NASCAR Cup Series moves to the road course at Austin, Texas, on Sunday. Bell won his 10th Cup Series race of his career last week when he took the checkered flag at the Ambetter Health 400 in Atlanta. Bell finished second at COTA a year ago behind William Byron Jr. He also placed third in the event during the 2022 NASCAR season. Shane Van Gisbergen is the +450 co-favorite for NASCAR at COTA 2025, followed by Tyler Reddick at +450 and Kyle Larson at +750 in the latest 2025 EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix odds. The latest Austin weather forecast is calling for partly cloudy skies and temperatures in the 70s. Sunday's race is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. ET. 

Before making any NASCAR at Austin, Texas, picks, you NEED 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 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. Anybody following his NASCAR picks has seen HUGE returns!

For the 2025 EchoPark Texas Grand Prix, Taranto is high on veteran New Zealand Cup driver Shane van Gisbergen. Another curveball: He's fading Kyle Larson, who won NASCAR's last road course race. "Outside of a runner-up finish in the track's inaugural Cup race in 2021, Larson's record at COTA has been quite pedestrian with no top-10 finishes and just one finish inside the top 15," Taranto told SportsLine.

Taranto also locked in four more 2025 NASCAR at Austin best bets and is high on a MAJOR dark horse who is going off at more than 80-1! You ABSOLUTELY NEED to see his picks before locking in any NASCAR picks of your own.

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