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The 2022 Superstar Racing Experience continues on CBS and Paramount+ on Saturday at the venue in which it ended last season, at the Nashville Fairgrounds. Although the 2022 Camping World SRX Series returns to a familiar location, it will do so with two new drivers to the circuit. Matt Kenseth and Josef Newgarden are set to make their SRX debuts, and for the second time this season, the traditional 12-car field has been expanded to 13. Kenseth won seven races on the NASCAR Cup Series in 2013, and has 39 in his career, while Newgarden has three wins in nine races on the NTT IndyCar Series this season.

The main event begins at 8 p.m. ET in Nashville, where returning drivers Tony Stewart, Bobby Labonte and Paul Tracy all finished in the top five last season. You can see who steps up by watching live on CBS or streaming the race on Paramount+ with their must-have Premium plan. 

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How to watch Superstar Racing Experience at Nashville Fairgrounds 

  • Date: Saturday, July 9
  • Time: 8 p.m. ET
  • TV: CBS
  • Streaming: Paramount+

Top SRX at Nashville picks

Before you tune in to Saturday's race, you need to see the picks from SportsLine's advanced computer model. SportsLine's proprietary racing model, developed by Mike McClure, simulates every race 10,000 times, taking into account a slew of factors including track history and recent results. 

Last season, the model was all over Stewart finishing on top of the leaderboard at the SRX Series at Eldora. The model also called Stewart winning at Knoxville, and now it has dialed in on Saturday's SRX race at South Boston Speedway. In 2021, the model nailed five of Kyle Larson's wins during a historic NASCAR Cup Series season, and has also gone 15-10 on its head-to-head matchup predictions to start 2022. Earlier this season it was high on Ross Chastain to win in Austin, giving him a far better shot to win than his 40-1 odds implied. The model was also high on Joey Logano before he won as a 15-1 underdog at Darlington. Anyone who followed its lead on those plays saw huge returns.

For Saturday, the model predicts that Helio Castroneves will struggle and barely crack the top 10 in the main event. Castroneves gave the series its biggest story since it began when he entered himself in the season-opener just hours before racing was set to begin, and won the main event in Pensacola. The following week at South Boston, he won the second heat, but didn't otherwise factor into things. Castroneves was not part of the field last weekend when SRX was in Stafford Springs.

While Castroneves was always set to be a part-time driver on the SRX Series, part of the appeal was a promise from CEO Don Hawk that if he won one of the six events, Hawk would secure a spot for him in NASCAR's running of the Daytona 500 next year. Now that it is mission accomplished for Castroneves, the question of how significant another win in Nashville is to him factors into the equation. 

With other drivers like Kenseth and Newgarden looking to make an impression in their first SRX event, things this weekend aren't shaping up to be as easy as they were in Pensacola.

How to watch the SRX Series at Nashville Fairgrounds

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Marco Andretti
Greg Biffle
Helio Castroneves
Ryan Hunter-Raey
Tony Kanaan
Matt Kenseth
Bobby Labonte
Josef Newgarden
Ryan Newman
Tony Stewart
Paul Tracy
Michael Waltrip
Cole Williams