For the quartet of drivers making up the Championship 4, Phoenix Raceway is a fitting venue to decide the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series championship.

Denny Hamlin, Chase Briscoe, Kyle Larson and William Byron advanced to the Championship 4 and can win the title by finishing ahead of their three playoff competitors in Sunday’s Cup Series championship race at Phoenix Raceway (3 p.m. ET, NBC, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

The relatively flat, one-mile oval features a dogleg on the frontstretch and a wide, flat Turn 1 that should be the catalyst for five, six and potentially seven-wide racing on restarts. Phoenix is also a track that tends to lend itself to long green-flag runs — the 2024 finale had only four caution flags, two of which were for stage ends.

A Toyota driver (Christopher Bell) won th

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