{"id":275558,"date":"2025-05-04T13:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T13:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/nascar-insider-picks-team-penske-star-driver-as-favorite-to-win-2025-cup-race-at-texas\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:08:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:08:38","slug":"nascar-insider-picks-team-penske-star-driver-as-favorite-to-win-2025-cup-race-at-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/nascar-insider-picks-team-penske-star-driver-as-favorite-to-win-2025-cup-race-at-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR insider picks Team Penske star driver as favorite to win 2025 Cup race at Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-content\" data-postid=\"4903548\" data-slug-id=\"2503909\">\n<div class=\"vidazoo-player-container\">\n<span class=\"vidazoo-close-btn  hidden \"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staticg.sportskeeda.com\/cmc-predictor\/v2\/cross-icon.png?w=40\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" alt=\"close\"\/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season heads to the Texas Motor Speedway for the 11th race of the season, the W\u00fcrth 400. Ahead of the event, NASCAR insider Bob Pockrass gave his prediction, picking the winner, top-five finishers, and a long-shot winner for the 2025 W\u00fcrth 400.<\/p>\n<p>Pockrass picked Team Penske driver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/player\/austin-cindric\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-is-sponsored=\"false\">Austin Cindric<\/a> to take the checkered flag at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday, May 4. Cindric didn\u2019t have a good record at the 1.5-mile Texas, as he also has two top-five finishes to his name in five races. The #2 Ford driver will start from the third position in the 38-driver field on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out Pockrass\u2019 top five predictions are Alex Bowman, Ty Gibbs, Kyle Larson, and the defending series champion Joey Logano. He also chose Michael McDowell as a long-shot prospect. McDowell will start from the fifth position.<\/p>\n<p><template id=\"also-read-articles-template\"><\/p>\n<p><\/template><\/p>\n<p>Pockrass wrote on X:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMy pick for Cup race today at Texas: Cindric &#8230; top-5: Cindric Bowman Gibbs Larson Logano &#8230; longshot: McDowell FS1 (ET) 2-NASCAR RaceDay 3:43-Cup green, stages 80-85-102, 9 sets tires, fuel 62-68 laps\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Austin Cindric has scored a win, one top-5, and three top-10 finishes in 10 races so far and will look to clinch the second consecutive win of the season. He has an average finish of 17.1 in nine races and currently stands 14th in the Cup Series points table. He has the 14th-highest odds of +8000 to win the event.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Pockrass\u2019 picks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/player\/kyle-larson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-is-sponsored=\"false\">Kyle Larson<\/a> and William Byron as the top favorites to win the W\u00fcrth 400. Larson and Byron will start fourth and 24th on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR legend Jimmie Johnson is the most successful active driver with five wins at the Texas race.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><strong>Kevin Harvick also picks the 23XI Racing driver to win the 2025 NASCAR W\u00fcrth 400 at Texas Motor Speedway<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The 2014 Cup Series champion-turned-commentator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/nascar\/news-kevin-harvick-picks-23xi-racing-driver-favorite-win-2025-texas-cup-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-is-sponsored=\"false\">Kevin Harvick picked 23XI Racing driver Tyler Reddick as a favorite to win his second race of the season<\/a> at the 1.5-mile-long Texas track.<\/p>\n<p>On the latest episode of Kevin Harvick\u2019s <em>Happy Hour<\/em>, when his co-host Kaitlyn Vincie asked him to give his prediction for this weekend\u2019s Texas race, Harvick picked Reddick and said [55:12]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m gonna pick Tyler Reddick I think that Reddick has been good at this particular racetrack and I think he and Bubba Wallace both run really good at this racetrack\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"sportskeeda-embed\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/nascar\/youtube\">\n<div class=\"yt-wrapper\">                    <noscript><iframe title=\"Austin Cindric wins at Talladega despite clash with teammate Joey Logano! 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