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Everything you need to know for Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race in Phoenix, the fourth race of the 2023 Cup Series campaign.
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📍 Location: Avondale, Arizona 📐 Track length: 1 mile 🎟️ Buy tickets: Two races this weekend 💰 Race purse: $7,453,660 📏 Race distance: 312 laps | 312 miles 🔢 Stages: 60 | 185 | 312 -- 🚗 Pit stall assignments: Where drivers will pit on Sunday 📋 Starting lineup: Where drivers will start on Sunday 📦 Rules package: New rules for short tracks, road courses 🏆 Most recent winner: Joey Logano, 2022 championship race 📸 At-track photos: Weekend shots from PhoenixKey things to watch 🔑 Top story line New winners. Three races down, three unique drivers with a trip to Victory Lane. The historic parity displayed during the 2022 season seems to have carried over so far, but a lot of time still remains for the cream to rise to the top. Will Sunday's race in Phoenix produce the fourth new winner in a four-race span? Perhaps we will also see the first victory of 2023 for Ford or Toyota after Chevrolet is off to a dominant start to open the new campaign. Of the 2023 winners so far, Kyle Busch is the only one with a victory at Phoenix — three, to be exact — and is among the experts' early favorites to pick up another this weekend. But three versus the rest of the field, racing with a new rules package? Chances are that this historic pace will continue for at least one more week. 🤔 💭 : How will the new rules package come into play? | Breaking down the Next Gen changes History tells us... Sunday could be Kevin Harvick's race to lose. Harvick has an astounding nine victories at the Arizona track and is currently on a streak of 19 consecutive Phoenix races with a top-10 finish — yes, you read that correctly. It's unquestionably the best track for the Cup Series veteran, and that's saying a lot considering his tremendous success elsewhere over the last two decades. Still, Harvick hasn't won here since 2018, and in pursuit of his first win of the 2023 season in his final campaign, it just means that much more. When it comes down to the final stage, Harvick is almost always in the mix for the checkered. If he makes it to Victory Lane on Sunday, he will join an elite list of drivers with 10 wins at a single track — and that's no feat to forget. He may not be the betting favorite to win, but watch out for... Chase Briscoe. Briscoe has had a pretty slow start to the year, without any top-10 results through the first three races. But Sunday's race at Phoenix could easily be where he kicks it into gear and makes a run as the defending spring race winner. Last season, his first full year after his 2021 rookie campaign, Briscoe showed that this 1-miler is one of his better tracks with the victory and a fourth-place finish in the annual finale. In total, he led 112 laps between the two races and could very well add to that number this weekend. At 20-1 odds (DraftKings), it's worth taking the early jump in case he improves his standing with a strong showing in practice and qualifying. | Who is the betting favorite? Practice and qualifying Kyle Larson clearly has the car to beat. Larson showed up in a dominant way during both practice and qualifying, topping the early charts and earning his first Busch Light Pole Award of the 2023 season. Denny Hamlin earned the second front-row starting position, followed by last week's winner William Byron. Perhaps the biggest story of the sessions may have been the confiscation of Hendrick Motorsports' hood louvers by NASCAR officials on Friday after the practice session and Justin Haley's on Saturday before qualifying. | For more info, read the full qualifying recap. 🃏 Fantasy Update: Last-minute roster advice for Phoenix