NASCAR Cup Series action is speeding toward Daytona Beach this weekend, with Joey Logano atop the odds board as of writing.
Cup Series leader William Byron finds himself at +1200. Byron hasn't won this race since 2020, but can Sunday be the day he gets back there?
Read ahead for our full Coke Zero Sugar 400 betting picks and a full odds breakdown.
Odds to win 2025 Coke Zero Sugar 400
| Driver |  |
|---|---|
| Joey Logano | +1000 |
| Austin Cindric | +1100 |
| Chase Elliott | +1100 |
| Ryan Blaney | +1100 |
| Brad Keselowski | +1200 |
| William Byron | +1200 |
| Kyle Busch | +1500 |
| Ricky Stenhouse Jr. | +1600 |
| Christopher Bell | +1700 |
| Kyle Larson | +1700 |
| Ty Gibbs Chris Buescher | +1800 |
| Denny Hamlin | +2000 |
| Bubba Wallace | +2000 |
| Tyler Reddick | +2000 |
| Alex Bowman | +2200 |
| Daniel Suarez | +2200 |
| Ross Chastain | +2200 |
| Ryan Preece | +2500 |
| Chase Briscoe | +2800 |
| Carson Hocevar | +3500 |
Odds as of 8-22.
Coke Zero Sugar 400 field
This year will see the maximum number of drivers compete, as all 40 slots have been taken up. Other than the 36 Cup Series drivers, Austin Hill, Joey Gase, Casey Mears, and B.J. McLeod will join the fun.
Standing above everyone ahead of the race at +1000 is Joey Logano, with Austin Cindric (+1100) and Chase Elliott (+1100) rounding out the Top 3.
Coke Zero Sugar 400 expert picks and predictions
Odds listed below courtesy of DraftKings Sportsbook as of 8-22
Coke Zero Sugar 400 pre-qualifying favorites
Austin Cindric (+1,000)
His Duels finishes at Daytona are 16th, second, second, second, and first, respectively. His Daytona 500 results are 15th, first, 23rd, 22nd, and eighth, respectively. In the 400, he’s finished third, 37th, and 18th. Not bad, especially for a driver who won Talladega this spring and enters off his best finish last week at Richmond since his victory.
Kyle Busch (+1,500)
Needing a win, Busch finished 34th, seventh, 27th, and 21st, respectively, on superspeedways this season. However, he was runner-up in this race last year, seventh in 2023, and 10th in 2022.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (+1,600)
He finished fifth and sixth, respectively, in Atlanta this season, 18th in the Daytona 500, and 12th at Talladega. He’s won twice at Daytona, so worth the gamble.
Coke Zero Sugar 400 sleepers
Bubba Wallace (+2,200)
He’s finished 29th, ninth, eighth, and 22nd on superspeedways this season. Wallace finished fifth and sixth, respectively, at Daytona last year. In fact, in the 400, Wallace has finished 15th, 14th, 15th, fifth, second, 11th, 12th, and sixth, respectively.
Alex Bowman (+2,500)
HMS is 2-for-4 on superspeedays this season, and Bowman has been fast on these tracks. He was sixth in the Daytona 500, seventh at Talladega this spring and third in Atlanta this summer. Since 2021, he has had two Top-7 finishes in the “400.” Needing a win, he will have full teammate support to secure a playoff berth.
Chase Briscoe (+2,800)
The Daytona 500 pole sitter finished fourth this February but 15th at Talladega this spring. He was also 21st and 35th in Atlanta. However, he placed 10th in the 2024 Daytona 500 and earned the pole and 67 laps led in this race in 2023.
Ryan Preece (+3,000)
Doesn’t it seem fitting that Preece would land in victory lane this weekend after flipping the last two years here with race cars capable of winning the 400? Preece finished 32nd, 18th, 38th, and 15th on superspeedways this season. There’s no reason based on stats that he should win. Which is why he likely will… RFK Racing finished 1-2 here a few years ago and has flashed speed this season.
Ty Gibbs (+4,500)
He finished 14th in Atlanta this summer and fifth in this race last year. Worth a gamble to follow the first-time winners trend.
Ty Dillon (+6,500)
He finished third in a Duel this February and 14th in the Daytona 500. Also, Dillon placed eighth in the summer Atlanta race and 11th the last time he ran the 400 in 2023. Dillon’s best Daytona finish was fourth in the 2019 Coke Zero Sugar 400. He was sixth the year prior. Can we get two straight Dillon victories in as many weeks? His brother Austin won at Richmond last Saturday night.
Coke Zero Sugar 400 fades
Joey Logano (+1,000)
He’s finished 35th, 12th, 39th, and 36th, respectively, on drafting tracks this season. His last three Daytona finishes are 32nd, 31st and 35th, too.
Chase Elliott (+1,100)
He’s finished 30th or worse in almost half of his 16 Daytona starts, including a 36th-place finish in this race last year. He was 15th in this year’s Daytona 500 and 14th in the 2024 version. While he won in Atlanta this July, he placed 20th in the spring and fifth at Talladega.
William Byron (+1,200)
The last two times for a Daytona sweep? 1982 and 2013. Buddy Baker and Jimmie Johnson accomplished those feats. I don’t see Byron adding his name to that list on Saturday night. He finished 27th, trying to do so last year. On superspeedways this season, he’s finished first in the Daytona 500, third at Talladega, but 27th and 37th in Atlanta.
Ryan Blaney (+1,400)
Blaney finished seventh in the Daytona 500 and fourth a week later at Atlanta. But, in his last two superspeedway starts, he’s finished 37th at Talladega and 40th in the summer race at Atlanta. Also, other than his 2021 Coke Zero Sugar 400 victory, Blaney has finished 15th, 36th, and 29th, respectively, since. Furthermore, factoring in the Duels, he’s finished 36th, 18th, 30th, 29th, eighth, and seventh at Daytona over his last six tries.
Brad Keselowski (+1,600)
He finished second in the summer Atlanta race, runner-up in this race in 2023, and eighth last year. However, in the summer race from his 2016 win until 2023, he finished 31st, 36th, 39th, 10th, 33rd, and 35th, respectively. Keselowski also finished 26th in the Daytona 500.
Kyle Larson (+1,700)
He’s never won a superspeedway race and has just three Top-5 finishes in 49 starts on them, at that. At Daytona, he finished 32nd, 37th, 18th, 27th and 11th, 21st and 20th, respectively. That’s why, despite finishing third this spring in Atlanta and runner-up at Talladega, the safe play is to punt.
Christopher Bell (+1,700)
He was third in both races last year and won the spring Atlanta race this season. However, he was also 31st in the Daytona 500, 35th at Talladega, and 30th in the summer Atlanta race.
Denny Hamlin (+2,200)
He's never won the summer Daytona race, and his four superspeedway finishes this season are 24th, sixth, 21st, and 31st, respectively. Since 2021, he’s finished 14th, 25th, 26th, and 38th in the “400.”
Coke Zero Sugar 400 prop pick
Both drivers need to win, and I can see it happening outright. They could get the drafting help to be a factor in the end.
Jones finished fifth this summer in Atlanta, won this race in 2018, and won the Clash in 2020. He also had a Top 5 going in the 2022 and 2023 Daytona 500s before being caught up in those late race crashes. Jones finished 12th in this year’s Daytona 500.
Nemechek fits the first-time winner trend. What’s crazy is, when factoring in the Duels, Nemechek has finished in the Top-15 in all eight Daytona tries. He placed 11th in the 2020 summer race and 15th last year. He also was fifth in the Daytona 500.
Pick: Legacy Motor Club Top-5 Finishes Combo (+1400 at DraftKings)
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Daytona International Speedway track analysis
While it’s a superspeedway, it differs from Talladega. It’s .16 miles shorter and not as wide either. The most you can get is three-wide on this track, but even that gets hairy. The race looks like Talladega, though in terms of a pack race with a similar strategy. It’s more about handling and drafting help rather than outright speed.
Winning at one of NASCAR’s most prestigious tracks, Daytona International Speedway, is a major accomplishment too. So, it’s not all that surprising that the Top 10 winningest drivers at Daytona are all also in the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
Coke Zero Sugar 400 trends
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None of the last 17 points-paying Daytona races were won by a former series champion.
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Each of the last 19 Daytona winners started fifth or back. Only one Daytona pole winner has won here since 2011 (Dale Earnhardt Jr. 2016)
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There have been 15 different winners in the last 15 Coke Zero Sugar 400s.
Coke Zero Sugar 400 info
| Location: | Daytona International Speedway, City, Province |
| Date: | Sunday, August 23, 2025 |
| Start time: | 7:30 p.m. ET |
| TV: | FOX |
Previous Coke Zero Sugar 400 winners
There have been 15 different winners in the last 15 Coke Zero Sugar 400s.
| Year | Winner |
| 2024 | Harrison Burton |
| 2023 | Chris Buescher |
| 2022 | Austin Dillon |
| 2021 | Ryan Blaney |
| 2020 | William Byron |
| 2019 | Justin Haley |
| 2018 | Erik Jones |
| 2017 | Rickey Stenhouse Jr. |
| 2016 | Brad Keselowski |
| 2015 | Dale Earnhardt Jr. |
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