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Josh Berry will look to win back-to-back races and try to earn his third top-five finish of the season on Sunday at the 2025 NASCAR Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. He is hoping to become the second driver this year to have multiple wins. Christopher Bell won three races in a row prior to Berry's win at last week's Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Berry took fourth at the Shriners Children's 500 at Phoenix Raceway on March 9. The latest 2025 NASCAR Miami forecast is calling for cloudy skies and temperatures in the 70s.

Kyle Larson is the favorite at +350, with Tyler Reddick at +700, Ryan Blaney at +550, William Byron at +750, and Bell at +1400 in the latest 2025 Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway odds. Sunday's race is scheduled to start at 3 p.m. ET. Before making any 2025 Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway picks or NASCAR predictions, you need to see what NASCAR insider Steven Taranto has to say.

Taranto, who moonlights as a sim racer and has 20 career wins in iRacing, is the lead NASCAR writer for CBSSports.com and chronicles stock car racing with the same thoroughness and passion he's had since becoming a full-time race fan in 2001. He has an annual NASCAR medial credential and also publishes a popular weekly NASCAR predictions column, famously calling Ross Chastain and Daniel Suarez's breakthrough wins in 2022.

Taranto was red-hot for SportsLine in 2024 as he nailed 17 winners, including 16-1 longshot William Byron at the Daytona 500 and 14-1 longshot Chase Elliott at Texas. Anyone following his NASCAR picks could have seen huge returns.

Now, Taranto has analyzed the starting lineup and odds for Sunday's 2025 NASCAR Cup Straight Talk Wireless 400 Homestead-Miami Speedway. He's sharing his best bets at SportsLine.

2025 Homestead-Miami NASCAR expert picks

For the 2025 Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Taranto is high on Kyle Larson, who won at Homestead in the fall of 2022. He has been solid this season and has accumulated three top-10 finishes. He was ninth at last week's Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas. He placed third at both the Ambetter Health 400 in Atlanta and was third at the Shriners Children's 500 in Phoenix. Larson is going off at +400 at Caesars Sportsbook.

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The 32-year-old Hendrick Motorsports veteran has registered 29 career Cup Series wins, registering 21 poles and 185 top-10 finishes in 370 races over 13 years. He won the 2021 season championship, and placed sixth overall in 2024. He registered his last win last year at the 2024 Bank of America Roval 400 in Charlotte. He has also had success in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, earning 15 wins, 82 top-10 finishes and seven poles over a nine-year span. See which other drivers he's backing at SportsLine.

A surprise: Taranto is fading Ryan Blaney at +550. Blaney has struggled over the past two weeks, finishing a disappointing 35th at Las Vegas last week and 28th at Phoenix the week before that. He does have two top-10 finishes in 2025, placing seventh at the Daytona 500 and fourth at Atlanta the following week. The 31-year-old was the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series season champion, and placed second overall a year ago.

The Team Penske driver, who began his Cup Series career in 2014 at the 5-hour Energy 400 in Kansas, has had a lot of success at racing's highest level. In 11 years, he has raced in 342 events, earning 13 wins, 149 top-10 finishes and 11 pole positions. He earned his first victory in 2017 at the Axalta presents the Pocono 400 in Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa. His last win was at the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Xfinity 500 in Martinsville. See all of Taranto's picks at SportsLine. 

How to make 2025 Straight Talk Wireless 400 predictions

Taranto has also identified four other drivers in his 2025 NASCAR Straight Talk Wireless 400 best bets. He's also high on a huge NASCAR longshot who's going off at 80-1, potentially netting any backer a huge payday. You can only see who they are here.

So who wins the 2025 Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami, and which massive longshot could stun NASCAR? Visit SportsLine now to see the 2025 Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami picks and best bets from a NASCAR insider who nailed a colossal 17 winners last year, and find out.

2025 Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway odds, lineup

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Kyle Larson +350
Ryan Blaney +550
Tyler Reddick +700
William Byron +750
Denny Hamlin +1200
Christopher Bell +1400
Chase Elliott +2200
Ross Chastain +1600
Joey Logano +1600
Kyle Busch +2200
Chase Briscoe +2800
Alex Bowman +2800
Josh Berry +3000
Chris Buescher +4500
Carson Hocevar +4500
Bubba Wallace +4500
Brad Keselowski +4500
Austin Cindric +4500
Ty Gibbs +5000
Daniel Suarez +5000
Ryan Preece +6500
A.J. Allmendinger +8000
Noah Gragson +10000
Michael McDowell +13000
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. +15000
Shane Van Gisbergen +17000
Austin Dillon +17000
Zane Smith +20000
Justin Haley +20000
Erik Jones +20000
John Hunter Nemechek +25000
Todd Gilliland +30000
Riley Herbst +30000
Cole Custer +30000
Ty Dillon +40000
Cody Ware +70000
J.J. Yeley +100000