Jesse Love Secures 2 Additional NASCAR Cup Series Starts; Kyle Larson Earns Top Drivers’ Championship Odds

2026 Championship 4 Race Scheduled For Homestead 

The Championship 4 race will be switching venues next season. With Phoenix Raceway scheduled to stage the 2025 finale for a sixth-straight year, NASCAR officials are planning for annual changes. 

NASCAR Executive Vice President Ben Kennedy told The Athletic that the national series intends to rotate the championship site from year to year, beginning with Homestead-Miami Speedway in ‘26. The South Florida venue hosted the finale from 2002 to 19. 

“It is a change,” Kennedy said. “We’ve also made a handful of other pretty bold changes to the schedule — we’ve gone to new venues, we’ve shook up the Clash (exhibition race), we’ve changed the playoff schedule — and one of the remaining things that we have on our checkoff list is to also begin a rotation of our championship and move it to different venues. So glad we were able to deliver on that one.”

 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Drivers’ Championship Odds    

Here is a Week 12 look at the drivers’ odds for the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series drivers’ championship, according to FanDuel Sportsbook:

*-Odds current at time of publication