NASCAR at Nashville: The place to look at, dwell stream, lineup, race preview, decide to win for the Cracker Barrel 400

LEBANON, Tenn. — Nashville is a metropolis famend worldwide as the house of the nation music. To stroll down the streets of Decrease Broadway, and to absorb all of the sounds and sights of the town nightlife, is to be immersed absolutely within the tradition of nation music, the artists who’ve made the style well-known, and its influence on American tradition past the banks of the Cumberland River.

However simply as many musicians have made it large out of Nashville, so too have many racers. A bit of methods away from the Carolinas, racers like Darrell Waltrip, Sterling Marlin, Bobby Hamilton and extra went from racing and profitable on the Nashville Fairgrounds to NASCAR stardom, affirming Nashville’s place as one in all racing’s nice outposts and hotbeds within the southeast. And from the 5/8 mile Fairgrounds to only off of downtown in Lebanon, the custom of racing in Nashville continues with this weekend’s Cracker Barrel 400 for the NASCAR Cup Sequence at Nashville Superspeedway.

As they’ve since NASCAR’s return to Nashville in 2021, everybody can be vying for the best to strum the Gibson Guitar that goes to the race winner — one which Joey Logano earned after this race resulted in a NASCAR report quintuple time beyond regulation one yr in the past that ended up having huge penalties for the season as an entire. Logano’s Nashville win and the extraordinary circumstances that led to it allowed him to make the playoffs, single-handedly sparking his inconceivable championship run.

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The place to look at the NASCAR Cup Sequence at Nashville

When: Sunday, June 1 at 7 p.m. ET
The place: Nashville Superspeedway – Lebanon, Tennessee
Stream: Amazon Prime

Beginning lineup

Chase Briscoe gained the pole for the Cracker Barrel 400 on Saturday, setting a brand new observe report of 29.125 (164.395 mph) in qualifying for his second-straight pole and third general this season. Denny Hamlin will begin on the surface pole, however he’ll be on child watch on Sunday as he and his spouse count on the start of their new little one. Within the occasion Hamlin is unable to begin the race, Ryan Truex can be on standby because the reserve driver for the No. 11 workforce.

1. #19 – Chase Briscoe
2. #11 – Denny Hamlin
3. #24 – William Byron
4. #45 – Tyler Reddick
5. #1 – Ross Chastain
6. #6 – Brad Keselowski
7. #20 – Christopher Bell
8. #71 – Michael McDowell
9. #22 – Joey Logano
10. #17 – Chris Buescher
11. #9 – Chase Elliott
12. #23 – Bubba Wallace
13. #47 – Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
14. #43 – Erik Jones
15. #12 – Ryan Blaney
16. #2 – Austin Cindric
17. #16 – A.J. Allmendinger
18. #7 – Justin Haley
19. #60 – Ryan Preece
20. #21 – Josh Berry
21. #3 – Austin Dillon
22. #54 – Ty Gibbs
23. #88 – Shane van Gisbergen (R)
24. #48 – Alex Bowman
25. #8 – Kyle Busch
26. #77 – Carson Hocevar
27. #38 – Zane Smith
28. #5 – Kyle Larson
29. #41 – Cole Custer
30. #4 – Noah Gragson
31. #10 – Ty Dillon
32. #99 – Daniel Suarez
33. #67 – Corey Heim
34. #51 – Cody Ware
35. #34 – Todd Gilliland
36. #42 – John Hunter Nemechek
37. #35 – Riley Herbst (R)
38. #44 – J.J. Yeley
39. #66 – Chad Finchum

Storyline to look at

With the calendar now turning from Might to June and Race No. 14 of the season at hand, Nashville marks the beginning of the second half of the common season and an essential benchmark within the race to qualify for the NASCAR playoffs this fall.

With Ross Chastain’s win within the Coca-Cola 600 per week in the past, eight drivers — Chastain, Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell, Denny Hamlin, William Byron, Joey Logano, Austin Cindric and Josh Berry — have earned a playoff spot by advantage of profitable a race. That leaves eight spots at the moment out there for drivers to make the playoffs on factors, that are at the moment held by Chase Elliott, Tyler Reddick, Ryan Blaney, Alex Bowman, Chase Briscoe, Bubba Wallace, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Ryan Preece.

For the drivers at the moment in on factors, nonetheless, their maintain on a playoff spot stays extraordinarily tenuous — significantly with loads of frontrunners nonetheless as a consequence of win, together with these at the moment on the alternative aspect of the minimize line. Because it stands, the closest drivers to the playoff minimize line are at the moment Chris Buescher (-6), A.J. Allmendinger (-13), Kyle Busch (-14) and Michael McDowell (-21), all of whom have loads of time to place themselves in then image earlier than the summer season months finish.

NASCAR information of the week

• The Nationwide Motorsports Appeals Panel has diminished a penalty given to Chris Buescher’s workforce after Kansas Speedway, ruling that whereas Buescher’s No. 17 automobile had an unlawful entrance bumper cowl, they didn’t violate the part of the NASCAR rulebook pertaining to the exhaust cowl panel. In consequence, Buescher has had his factors penalty diminished from 60 to 30 factors, whereas the remainder of his penalty (5 playoff factors, a two-race suspension for crew chief Scott Graves and a $75,000 nice) stays in place.

  The penalty is a giant assist to Buescher’s playoff probabilities as they stand, because the 30-point swing now places him six factors behind Ryan Preece for the final spot at the moment out there on the playoff grid.

• NASCAR is contemplating a rise in horsepower for brief tracks, with the sanctioning physique concentrating on a rise to 750 horsepower as early as this season with the aim of additional enhancing the racing product on these racetracks. NASCAR managing director of communications Mike Forde confirmed on an episode of “Hauler Discuss” that the subject was introduced up throughout separate conferences with drivers and workforce house owners, and the matter is now being mentioned with the game’s engine builders.
• After renovating the racetrack to the purpose that it efficiently returned to the NASCAR Xfinity and Craftsman Truck Sequence schedules, Dan Lovenheim is promoting Rockingham Speedway. Talking to the Charlotte Observer, Lovenheim said that after efficiently constructing the historic observe again up and bringing NASCAR again to the power, “the time is correct to cross the baton to somebody who can take it additional than we will.”
• Kaulig Racing has introduced that reigning V8 Supercars champion Will Brown will race for them on the Chicago Road Course in July, driving a 3rd automobile as a teammate to A.J. Allmendinger and Ty DIllon. It’s going to mark Brown’s second profession Cup begin, because the Toowoomba, Queensland native made his Cup debut final yr driving for Richard Childress Racing at Sonoma the place he completed thirty first.
• The Athletic has reported that Jim France, co-owner and CEO of NASCAR, was near a deal to financially assist an entry within the upcoming Cup Sequence race at Sonoma fielded by Spire Motorsports, with Jack Aitken — who drives for the France-owned Motion Categorical Racing in IMSA — set to make his Cup debut. Nevertheless, the plan was reportedly scrapped following backlash within the storage space over a perceived battle of curiosity.

Decide to Win

Denny Hamlin (+600) — Every little thing that unfolded within the chaotic end to final yr’s Nashville race invalidated the drive in regulation by Hamlin, who had taken the lead from Ross Chastain within the last laps and was set to cruise to victory. Hamlin has been due for a Gibson Guitar, as he is led no less than 70 laps (265 complete) within the final three Cup races at Nashville and in addition has two poles to go along with top-10 finishes of sixth (2022) and third (2023).

So who wins the NASCAR Cracker Barrel 400 2025, and which longshots are must-backs? Take a look at the most recent 2025 NASCAR at Nashville odds beneath, then go to SportsLine now to see the total NASCAR Nashville projected leaderboard, all from the mannequin that has nailed 21 winners, and discover out.