NASCAR: Who will join Denny Hamlin and Chase Briscoe in the championship race? Nick BrombergOctober 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM 1 The playoff scenarios at Martinsville look pretty straightforward. Denny Hamlin and Chase Briscoe are in.
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Nick BrombergOctober 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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The playoff scenarios at Martinsville look pretty straightforward.
Denny Hamlin and Chase Briscoe are in. Hamlin won at Las Vegas in the first race of the third round and Briscoe won a week ago at Talladega.
That leaves six drivers for two spots. And those two drivers will likely either be both Christopher Bell and Kyle Larson or one of those drivers and either Ryan Blaney, Chase Elliott, William Byron or Joey Logano if one of those four drivers wins.
Bell and Larson are far ahead of the other four in the points standings. Bell is 37 points ahead of Byron in fifth in the points standings. Larson is 36 points up on Byron. Given that a driver can get a maximum of 60 points in a race and 20 of those points are via the first two stages, Byron and Logano (38 points back of Larson) need one or both of Bell and Larson to have early trouble if they aren't going to advance to the final round via a win.
If a driver is going to win his way into the final round, the odds favor Blaney. And for good reason. Blaney has won each of the last two fall races at Martinsville. He passed Elliott with 15 laps to go to win a season ago and got past Aric Almirola with 23 laps remaining in 2023 to win his first race at the half-mile track before winning the championship a week later.
Blaney is +350 to win the race at BetMGM ahead of Hamlin at +425. Hamlin has the most success at Martinsville of any driver in the field. Elliott, who last won at Martinsville in the fall of 2020 and can't mathematically advance to the final round on points, is at +650.
Despite not being locked in to the title race just yet, Bell is the championship favorite at BetMGM. He's currently +250 to win the title, even though there's a plausible scenario that he misses out on the final round. If Blaney wins and Larson outscores Bell by two points, Bell's chances of a championship are toast.
Hamlin is the No. 2 favorite for the title ahead of Larson and Briscoe.
Martinsville favorites -
Ryan Blaney (+350)
Denny Hamlin (+425)
Chase Elliott (+650)
Kyle Larson (+675)
Christopher Bell (+675)
William Byron (+800)
Joey Logano (+900)
Chase Briscoe (16-1)
Josh Berry (25-1)
Bubba Wallace (25-1)
Cup Series title odds -
Christopher Bell (+250)
Denny Hamlin (+275)
Kyle Larson (+300)
Chase Briscoe (+375)
Ryan Blaney (+900)
Chase Elliott (18-1)
Joey Logano (20-1)
William Byron (22-1)
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