NASCAR Cup Series Grant Park 165 Predictions & Picks: Will SVG Cruise to Another Chicago Win?

Last year, Shane van Gisbergen took the NASCAR world by storm by winning the Chicago street race on his Cup Series debut. Today, SVG will be after a Windy City as he chases a victory in the Grant Park 165 (4:30 pm ET, NBC).

Yesterday, SVG claimed his third road course win of the Xfinity Series season as he took the checkered flag in The Loop 121, becoming the first driver on the circuit to win three times this season.

He will start today’s race fifth behind polesitter and series points leader Kyle Larson, Ty Gibbs, Michael McDowell, and Tyler Reddick.

After coming in eighth in last week’s Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway, Larson now holds a 20-point lead over Hendrick Motorsports teammate Chase Elliott atop the Cup Series standings with seven regular season races remaining.

If Larson can parlay his fifth pole of the season into his first victory from pole since he clinched the series championship at Phoenix in 2021, he will take a big step towards the regular season title.

However, despite starting up front, he is not the favorite to win in the Windy City. Instead, it’s SVG that sits atop the Grant Park 165 odds at BetOnline, followed by Larson, Gibbs, Reddick, and Christopher Bell, who will start seventh.

Odds to Win the NASCAR Cup Series Grant Park 165

• Shane van Gisbergen +175
• Kyle Larson +375
• Ty Gibbs +550
• Tyler Reddick +700
• Christopher Bell +900
• Michael McDowell +1100
• Alex Bowman +2000
• Denny Hamlin +2200
• Chase Elliott +2200
• Bubba Wallace +3300
• Martin Truex Jr. +4000
• J. Allmendinger +4000
• William Byron +5000
• Chris Buescher +5000
• Daniel Suarez +5000
• Kyle Busch +6000
• Ross Chastain +6600
• Joey Logano +7500
• Austin Cindric +7500

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Grant Park 165 Predictions & Picks

• Chris Buescher to finish in the top 10 (+175 at BetOnline): In the other two road races this season, Buescher finished eighth at Circuit of the Americas and third at Sonoma. He will start 16^th in today’s Grant Park 165, but don’t be surprised if he somehow winds up in the top five for the fourth time in five races.
• Chase Elliott to finish in the top 10 (+100 at Bovada): In last year’s Chicago street race, Elliott started 26^th but finished third. With his history on road courses, you should like his chances to do well again, even though he will start 18^th. At Sonoma, he finished fourth behind Larson, McDowell, and Buescher.
• Tyler Reddick to finish in the top five (+110 at Bovada): Reddick finished in the top ten at both Circuit of the Americas (fifth) and Sonoma (eighth), and I feel confident that he will bag his eighth top-five finish of the season in Chicago, where he started second and ran well last year before his day was ended by a crash with 18 laps left.
• Shane van Gisbergen to win (+175): There are a lot of accomplished road course racers in the Grant Park 165 field, but it’s hard to look past SVG. He may be a work in progress on ovals, but he will be in his element today.

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