NASCAR legend Kevin Harvick has thrown his support behind William Byron as the favorite to win the NASCAR Cup Series race at the Circuit of the Americas this weekend. The 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season began on a high note with Hendrick Motorsports driver William Byron clinching the victory at the Daytona 500.

Kevin Harvick will be one of the many watching with a keen interest in 18-year old Connor Zilisch, as the young phenom makes his NASCAR Cup Series debut this weekend at COTA for Trackhouse Racing. Zilisch won multiple races in the ARCA Menards Series last year,

Through the first two weeks of the season NASCAR has taken on superspeedways, but this week the drivers will turn their attention to a different style of racing: the road course at COTA. The annual event gives drivers the chance to flex a different set of muscles.