2025 Grant Park 165 Early Race Picks

Date/Time: Sunday July 6th, 2025. 2:00PM (EST)
Where: Chicago Street Course
TV: TNT

Over the weekend, NASCAR will host two races between the Xfinity and Cup Series at the Chicago Street Course while most Americans celebrate July 4th weekend. While I personally love the tradition of racing at Daytona around July 4th, Chicago has become the new racing venue for Independence Day weekend festivities or at least for the immediate future. As we prepare for another weekend of racing, I wanted to jump on some early betting opportunities for Sunday’s Grant Park 165 before on-track activities begin on Saturday. I believe there are a couple of drivers that have enough betting value to warrant early betting consideration and I also believe there are some drivers that have desirable upside in prop bet formats as well. For those reasons, I am locking-in the following selections below for our Sunday betting card. Keep in mind, full race previews and additional betting selections for each race will be published separately. Hope everyone enjoys the holiday weekend and we make some money in the process!

Grant Park 165 Early Betting Picks

Christopher Bell +900 (1 unit)
Ty Gibbs +1400 (.75 unit)
Michael McDowell +2500 (.5 unit)

H2H Match-Ups and Props

Tyler Reddick -110 over William Byron (2 units)
Joey Logano +350 wins Group D (Blaney, Hamlin, Preece)(1 unit)
Cole Custer +500 finishes Top 10 (.5 unit)