The odds for who will stand above the field as the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series champion have been updated. Denny Hamlin’s win in the Cook Out 400 at Martinsville Speedway certainly switched up the betting lines.

“Our cars are tanks now,” Bell said. “The Xfinity (Series) cars are a lot more fragile than what we have today. It just comes down to respect, and whenever you have respect in a race car and respect for your competitors, the outcome is a lot different. We want to be known as racers; We don’t want to be known as wreckers.”

Following Kyle Larson's first win of the season at Homestead-Miami Speedway, the NASCAR Cup Series heads to Martinsville Speedway for the running of the Cook Out 400 on Sunday. This week's stop at Martinsville will be the first race of the season at a short track and the seventh race of the season.