Tyler Reddick stormed back atop the competition and utilized a late two-tire pit service to motor his way to a resurgent victory in the Freeway Insurance 500 at Phoenix Raceway on Sunday, October 18.
The 2026 Daytona 500 champion from Corning, California, led the final 18 of 312-scheduled laps in an event where he qualified in sixth place and notched a combined six stage points by finishing in the top-10 mark through the event’s first two stage periods. After navigating his way up as high as the runner-up spot behind teammate Bubba Wallace in the closing laps, a late-race caution caused by points leader Kyle Larson wrecking out of competition generated opportunities for Reddick and the field, including for numerous Chase contenders chasing down Larson’s points lead.
During the late-race caution from Larson’s incident, Reddick pitted for two fresh tires and exited pit road ahead of Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney, Christopher Bell and Bubba Wallace. Despite restarting in fifth place while Chase Briscoe, Chase Elliott and Ty Gibbs attempted to utilize a 19-lap dash to the finish to contend for the victory on worn tires, Reddick quickly dispatched the latter two, including Blaney, in a single lap before he overtook Briscoe for the lead another lap later. From there, Reddick fended off Blaney to notch his first Cup victory in six months and remain within striking distance of contending for his first series’ championship.
With on-track qualifying that determined the starting lineup occurring on Saturday, Ryan Blaney secured his fifth pole position of the 2026 season with a pole-winning lap at 137.143 mph in 26.250 seconds. Teammate Joey Logano started alongside Blaney on the front row with the second-fastest qualifying lap at 136.976 mph in 26.282 seconds.
Prior to the event, Ty Gibbs dropped to the rear of the field due to unapproved adjustments that were made to his No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota entry.
When the green flag waved and the event commenced, the field fanned out through the frontstretch’s dogleg and the first two turns as pole-sitter Ryan Blaney muscled his No. 12 Menards Ford Mustang Dark Horse entry ahead. With Blaney out in front through the backstretch and the final set of turns, he led the first lap over teammate Joey Logano as the field continued to fan out and jostle for early spots.
Just past the first five laps, Blaney’s early lead stood at six-tenths of a second over Logano while Joe Gibbs Racing’s Chase Briscoe, Denny Hamlin and Christopher Bell followed suit, respectively. Hamlin would lose two spots over Bell and Josh Berry on the track as Tyler Reddick, Connor Zilisch, Ross Chastain and Michael McDowell pursued in the top 10, respectively. While William Byron was trying to navigate his way back into the top-10 mark from 11th place, teammate Kyle Larson and Ty Gibbs were mired in 17th and 31st, respectively, while Blaney led by nine-tenths of a second at the Lap 10 mark.
Though the Lap 25 mark, Blaney extended his early lead by more than one-and-a-half seconds over Logano while third-place Bell trailed by more than two seconds. By then, seven Chase contenders that included Blaney, Logano, Bell, Briscoe, Hamlin, Reddick and Austin Cindric were racing in the top-10 mark at Phoenix while the remaining Chasers that include William Byron, Daniel Suarez, Chase Elliott, Bubba Wallace, Kyle Larson, Chris Buescher, Carson Hocevar, Ty Gibbs and Ryan Preece were scored in 11th, 13th, 14th, 16th, 18th, 20th, 24th, 26th and 29th, respectively.
The Lap 30 mark featured Blaney leading by two seconds over Logano while Bell, who trailed the lead by two-and-a-half seconds, started to reel in on Logano for the runner-up spot as the former trailed by half a second. As Bell continued to intimidate Logano, Berry battled and overtook Briscoe for fourth place, teammates Briscoe and Hamlin settled in fifth and sixth, respectively, and Cindric moved up to eighth place. Meanwhile, Larson was mired in 17th place in between Wallace and Michael McDowell as Blaney maintained his lead by less than two seconds over Logano on Lap 35.
At the Lap 40 mark, Blaney had his advantage slightly decrease to one-and-a-half seconds over Logano while third-place Bell pursued by just under three seconds. Behind, fourth-place Berry trailed by four seconds as he remained in front of Briscoe and Hamlin while Byron climbed up to ninth place behind Reddick and Cindric. Blaney remained in the lead over the next three laps when the event’s first caution flew due to a two-car accident that involved Michael McDowell and Riley Herbst, where the latter ran into the left-rear area of the latter and sent both up towards the outside wall through Turns 3 and 4.
During the event’s first caution period, the field led by Blaney pitted for a first time. Following the pit stops and with numerous competitors pitting for only two fresh tires, Hamlin, who pitted for two tires, exited pit road first ahead of Byron, Elliott, Logano, Larson, Briscoe and Bell while Blaney exited pit road eighth ahead of Berry and Reddick.
The event’s next restart with 10 laps remaining in the first stage period featured the field fanning out through the fronstretch’s dogleg as Byron tried to battle Hamlin for the lead. Amid the side-by-side battle, Byron, who raced on the outside lane, led the next lap while Hamlin fought back and cleared Byron’s entry for the next lap. Seconds later, Logano, who pitted for four fresh tires, muscled his No. 22 Hunt Brother’s Pizza Ford Mustang Dark Horse entry into the runner-up spot before he overtook Hamlin and led the following lap. With Logano leading Hamlin, Byron, Bell, Blaney, Elliott and Briscoe, Larson, who pitted for two tires, plummeted to 15th place and he continued to lose spots as the laps in the first stage period dwindled.
When the first stage period concluded on Lap 60, Logano captured his fifth Cup stage victory of the 2026 season. Hamlin, Bell, Blaney, Briscoe, Byron, Elliott, Ross Chastain, Reddick and Berry were scored in the top 10, respectively. By then, eight Chasers (Logano, Hamlin, Bell, Blaney, Briscoe, Byron, Elliott and Reddick) accumulated stage points by finishing in the top-10 mark in the first stage period while the remaining Chasers that include Daniel Suarez, Bubba Wallace, Cindric, Ty Gibbs, Chris Buescher, Larson, Carson Hocevar and Preece were mired in 11th, 15th, 16th, 18th, 19th, 22nd, 24th and 25th, respectively.
Under the event’s first stage break period, the field led by Logano returned to pit road for service. Following the pit stops and with numerous two-tire pit services ensuing, Logano exited pit road first ahead of Bell, Briscoe, Brad Keselowski and Connor Zilisch while Bubba Wallace, Tyler Reddick, Chris Buescher, Blaney and Chastain followed suit, respectively. By then, Hamlin was mired in 13th place behind Byron and Elliott while Larson was in 20th place behind Gibbs. Meanwhile, Zane Smith was penalized for dragging his fuel can out of his pit box.
The second stage period started on Lap 68 as Logano and Bell occupied the front row. At the start, the latter two dueled for the lead through the frontstretch’s dogleg until Bell, who restarted on the outside lane, motored his No. 20 DeWalt Toyota Camry XSE entry ahead of Logano through the first two turns and entering the backstretch to assume the lead. Bell led the next lap over Logano, Briscoe, Keselowski, Blaney, Zilisch and a stacked field. As Bell led by eight-tenths of a second over Logano by Lap 75, Hamlin, who made contact with Shane van Gisbergen earlier, was mired in 18th place and trailed Larson by two spots while Blaney carved his way up to fourth place.
By Lap 85, Bell stabilized his lead by more than one-and-a-half seconds over Logano and Blaney while fourth-place/teammate Briscoe trailed by three seconds. Meanwhile, non-Chase contenders Keselowski, Berry, Chastain and Zilisch were racing from fifth through eighth, respectively, as Wallace and Reddick were scored in the top 10 ahead of Todd Gilliland, Elliott, Byron, Austin Dillon and Cindric. As Blaney overtook Logano for the runner-up spot, Hamlin was mired in 16th place while Larson dropped to 20th place while Bell continued to lead by more than a second over Blaney on Lap 90.
Through the Lap 100 mark, Bell maintained his lead by more than a second over Blaney while Logano, Briscoe, Berry, Keselowski, Chastain, Zilisch, Wallace and Gilliland trailed in the top-10 mark, respectively. Behind, Hamlin moved up to 14th place, though he had Elliott, Cindric and Reddick racing in front of him, and Byron dropped to 17th place while Larson, who lost another two spots, was mired in 22nd place. Over the next 10 laps, Larson became the lowest-running Chase contender on the track as he dropped to 25th place. By then, Hamlin was scored in 13th place and Briscoe lost a spot to fifth place while Bell led by more than one-and-a-half seconds over Logano.
Then nearing the Lap 120 mark, a cycle of green flag pit stops slowly commenced as Reddick pitted. By then, Bell retained the lead by half a second over Logano while Berry, Briscoe, Blaney, Chastain, Wallace, Keselowski, Zilisch and Cindric were scored in the top 10, respectively. Meanwhile, Halmin retained 13th place and Larson was mired in 24th place while Byron was in 19th place. Byron and Suarez would pit a lap later (Lap 121) under green before the leader Bell pitted on Lap 123. Hamlin, Elliott, Cindric, Shane van Gisbergen, Austin Dillon, Erik Jones, Noah Gragson, Wallace, Zilisch, Keselowski pitted under green prior to the Lap 125 mark before Blaney, Chastain and Gilliland pitted at the Lap 125 mark. Logano would then pit from the lead by Lap 126 before Bell cycled back as the leader two laps later as Berry pitted. Amid the pit stops, Keselowski spun while trying to enter pit road towards the Lap 125 mark, but the event remained under green flag conditions, while Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Ty Dillon were penalized for speeding on pit road.
Towards the Lap 135 mark, Bell was leading by more than five seconds over Logano while third-place Berry trailed by eight seconds. Behind, Briscoe occupied fourth place in front of Blaney, Wallace, Reddick, Elliott and Daniel Suarez while Hamlin was in 13th place. Meanwhile, Larson was the fourth competitor scored a lap down in 27th. Bell had his advantage shrink down to four seconds over Logano just past the Lap 140 mark before the advantage slightly shrunk down to just above three seconds on Lap 145 and stabilized to the latter mark another five laps later.
At the halfway mark on Lap 156, Bell maintained the lead by more than two seconds over Berry, the latter of whom overtook Logano for the runner-up spot two laps earlier, as Logano, Briscoe, Blaney, Wallace, Reddick, Elliott, Gilliland and Cindric occupied the remaining top-10 spots over Chastain, Hamlin, Zilisch, Suarez and Austin Dillon, respectively, while Larson was the sixth competitor scored a lap down in 28th place. Meanwhile, Byron, Gibbs, Preece and Buescher were in the top-20 mark while Hocevar was the first competitor scored a lap down in 22nd place.
Seconds later, the caution flew due to Austin Dillon wrecking his No. 3 Dow Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 entry up towards the outside wall in Turns 3 and 4 after he blew a right-rear tire. During this latest caution period, the field led by Bell pitted for service. Following the pit stops, Logano just managed to edge both Bell and Briscoe off of pit road first while Cindric, Berry, Blaney, Wallace, Elliott, Reddick and Chastain followed suit, respectively.
For the next restart on Lap 163, Logano fended off Bell, Briscoe and the field for a full circuit as Logano led the next lap. Amid the on-track battles, Logano retained the lead just past the Lap 165 mark while Briscoe outdueled teammate Bell for the runner-up spot. Behind, Berry, Blaney, Wallace, Reddick, Gilliland, Elliott and Hamlin were racing in the top-10 mark while Larson, who used the wave around to cycle back on the lead lap, was mired in 27th place. Logano continued to lead by seven-tenths of a second on Lap 170 over Briscoe and Hamlin outdueled Elliott for ninth place while Logano stretched his advantage up by more than a second at the Laps 175 and 180 marks.
When the second stage period concluded on Lap 185, Logano cruised to his second consecutive Cup stage victory of this event and his sixth of the 2026 season. Briscoe settled in second ahead of Bell, Berry, Wallace, Blaney, Reddick, Hamlin, Gilliland and Elliott, respectively. With eight of 16 Chasers (Logano, Briscoe, Bell, Wallace, Blaney, Reddick, Hamlin and Elliott) scored in the top-10 mark and racking up the event’s second round of stage points, the remaining Chasers that include Hocevar, Gibbs, Buescher, Byron, Suarez, Cindric, Preece and Larson were mired in 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 17th, 19th, 21st and 27th, respectively. Despite being mired within the top-30 mark, Larson and teammate Alex Bowman just managed to remain on the lead lap at the second stage’s conclusion.
During the event’s second stage break period, the lead lap field led by Logano pitted for service. Following the pit stops, Logano exited pit road first ahead of Briscoe, Wallace, Berry and Hamlin while Gilliland, Elliott, Reddick, Bell and Chastain followed suit, respectively. Meanwhile, Blaney plummeted to 15th place following a slow pit service on the left side of his entry.
With 119 laps remaining, the final stage period commenced as Logano and Briscoe occupied the front row. At the start, the field fanned out through the frontstretch’s dogleg and for a full circuit as Logano fended off Briscoe to lead the next lap. As Logano maintained the lead over Briscoe and Wallace over the next three laps, Hamlin navigated his way up to fourth place while Bell was battling Berry for fifth place. Meanwhile, Blaney was mired in 12th place and Larson was down in 25th place as Logano led by nine-tenths of a second in front of five Toyotas with 110 laps remaining.
Down to the final 100 laps, Logano, who reported a small vibration in his entry, was leading by half a second over Wallace while third-place Briscoe trailed by nearly two seconds. Behind, Hamlin, Bell and Reddick occupied fourth through sixth on the track while Gilliland, Berry, Blaney and Elliott were racing in the top 10. Meanwhile, Larson was mired in 26th place as Suarez, Hocevar, Gibbs, Cindric, Buescher, Byron and Preece were in 11th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 24th, respectively.
Then with 90 laps remaining, the caution flew due to Cody Ware wrecking entering the first turn due to a flat right-rear tire. Two laps prior, Hamlin endured a late issue when he blew a right-rear tire and limped his No. 11 Progressive Toyota Camry XSE entry on to pit road to have the flat tire serviced. Amid losing a lap to the field, Hamlin was penalized for speeding while entering pit road with the flat tire and nearly slipping up the track in the process. At the time of caution, Logano fended off Wallace by within half a second to retain the lead. During this caution period, the field led by Logano pitted for service. Following the pit stops, Wallace exited pit road first ahead of Briscoe, Bell and Reddick while Logano dropped to fifth place amid a slow pit service. Berry, Blaney, Elliott, Suarez and Gilliland followed suit, respectively.
The next restart with 82 laps remaining featured Wallace fending off Briscoe, Bell, Reddick and the field for a full cycle as Wallace led the next lap. With Wallace retaining the lead with 80 laps remaining and the following five laps, Briscoe retained the runner-up spot by nine-tenths of a second while Reddick, Bell, Logano, Blaney, Hocevar, Elliott, Berry and Gibbs trailed in the top 10, respectively. Meanwhile, Larson was racing in 22nd place and Hamlin was ranked the first competitor a lap down in 31st place as Wallace extended his late lead up by a second with 70 laps remaining.
As the event reached its final 60-lap mark, Wallace retained the lead by more than one-and-a-half seconds over Briscoe while Reddick, Wallace’s teammate, trailed by nearly three seconds in third place. Behind, top-five Chasers Bell and Blaney trailed by four seconds while Logano was mired five seconds behind in sixth place. Amid the battles at the front, Larson retained 22nd place while Hamlin continued to race as the first competitor a lap down in 30th place. Within the Chase field, Gibbs, Cindric, Buescher, Byron, Preece and Suarez were scored in 11th, 15th, 16th, 18th, 19th and 24th, respectively, as Wallace continued to lead by more than a second with 50 laps remaining.
Within the final 50-lap mark, a late cycle of green flag pit stops commenced as Larson pitted from 21st place. Noah Gragson pitted a few laps later before Logano pitted with 46 laps remaining. By then, Connor Zilisch and Erik Jones pitted with Logano before Blaney, Chastain, and Keselowski pitted another lap later. Reddick, Buescher, Preece, Austin Hill and AJ Allmendinger pitted seconds later before the leader Wallace pitted with 43 laps remaining. Hocevar, Zane Smith, Cindric, van Gisbergen and Hamlin pitted before Todd Gilliland, Corey Heim, Byron and Elliott pitted with nearly 40 laps remaining.
For the final 40-lap mark, Briscoe, Bell and Berry all pitted under green from the front of the field. With nearly the entire field having pitted, Ty Gibbs and Suarez, both of whom have not yet pitted, occupied the top-two spots before Gibbs pitted with 37 laps remaining. With Suarez quickly being overtaken on the track and Gibbs pitting, Wallace cycled back as the leader while teammate Reddick occupied the runner-up spot. Behind, Logano, Blaney, Suarez, Hocevar and Briscoe occupied the top-seven spots and Bell was mired in 12th place behind Elliott. Meanwhile, Larson was up to 15th place and Hamlin was mired a lap down in 31st place while Wallace led by more than a second with 35 laps remaining.
Then with 30 laps remaining and Wallace retaining the lead, the caution flew when Larson blew a right-front tire and went dead straight into the outside wall through the first two turns. Larson’s incident was enough for the reigning two-time Cup Series champion to nurse his damaged No. 5 Valvoline Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 entry behind the wall and knock him out from further competition amid an event where he struggled to keep pace with his competition.
“Anything in the top 20 would’ve been great,” Larson said in the infield care center on USA Sports. “Bummer, but we just weren’t good. It happens. [I’ll] Just try to go [to Talladega] and forget about today. Get back after it and do a good job, which we’ve done well at the superspeedways, so hopefully, we can just execute, score some points and keep ourselves in the hunt.”
At the time of caution, Hamlin was mired the fourth competitor a lap down in 29th place, with Erik Jones receiving the free pass in 26th place. During this caution period, a majority of the front-runners led by Wallace returned to pit road while Briscoe, Elliott and Ty Gibbs remained on the track. Following the pit stops, Reddick exited pit road first ahead of Logano, Blaney, Bell, Gilliland and Wallace, respectively, with Wallace pitting for four fresh tires while the competitors ahead, including teammate Reddick, pitted for two. Soon after, Wallace was penalized for speeding on pit road.
As the event restarted with 19 laps remaining, Briscoe motored ahead of the field as Gibbs and Elliott made slight side-by-side contact through the frontstretch’s dogleg. This allowed Blaney to go beneath Gibbs in a three-wide attempt through the first two turns before Reddick, who pitted for two fresh tires, executed a bold four-wide overtake on Blaney, Gibbs and Elliott through the first two turns to motor his way into the runner-up spot. With the field behind fanned out, Briscoe led the next lap over a hard-charging Reddick. Then amid Reddick’s charge, the latter went beneath Briscoe entering Turns 3 and 4 before Reddick assumed command when the field cycled back to the frontstretch with 17 laps remaining.
As Reddick led by nine-tenths of a second with 14 laps remaining, Blaney steered his way into the runner-up spot while Briscoe, Elliott, Heim, Bell and Logano were racing in the top-seven mark, respectively. With the event reaching its final 10-lap mark, Reddick extended his late lead by more than a second over Blaney while Elliott, Bell and Briscoe followed suit ahead of Heim, Logano, Suarez, Gibbs and Keselowski. Meanwhile, Wallace was mired in 19th place and Hamlin was mired a lap down in 28th place. As Briscoe drifted back to eighth place, Reddick stabilized his lead by more than a second over Blaney.
When the white flag waved and the final lap started, Reddick remained in the lead by eight-tenths of a second over Blaney. Amid Blaney’s late-race charge, he ran out of time as Reddick smoothly cycled his No. 45 Rockstar Energy Toyota Camry XSE entry around Phoenix Raceway for a final time and returned to the frontstretch to claim the checkered flag and the victory by eight-tenths of a second over Blaney.
With the victory, Reddick notched his 14th career win in the NASCAR Cup Series division, his sixth of the 2026 season, his first at Phoenix Raceway and his first victory since he won at Kansas Speedway in mid-April. Reddick’s Phoenix victory was the eighth of the 2026 Cup seaosn for 23XI Racing and the 18th for Toyota, with Toyota clinching its fourth manufacturer’s title in NASCAR’s premier series.
Prior to Phoenix, Reddick trailed the points lead by 114 points while strapped in seventh place in the Chase standings. With the Phoenix victory and the late misfortunes of points leader Kyle Larson, Reddick is only 56 points behind the points lead and remains in contention of his first championship with three events remaining on this year’s schedule.
“[The wait]’s way too long,” Reddick said on the frontstretch on USA Sports. “Man, the way that we worked there, just thinking of Phoenix, we wanted to be a lot better than when we came back here. I think we checked that box. For us, this group never lost the motivation, never lost the drive to keep searching and keep trying to find ways to make ourself better and just be an all-around better team. [Today] didn’t really start right, but just something about today, I had a really good feeling. Practice was amazing. We’re back to Victory Lane. First victory for Rockstar Energy, too. Cheers!”
“Good [pit] strategy,” Reddick added. “I think [crew chief] Billy [Scott] had a really good idea of what we needed to do there, going off what our balance was. Just got really fortunate. I didn’t have a good launch, but there was a hole and I was able to get through it. I thought [Briscoe] was gonna be able to cover the move into [Turn] 3, but I got him loose and we were able to check out.”
Blaney, who led 51 laps from pole position, settled in the runner-up spot on his two fresh tires while Elliott, who remained on the track on worn tires like Briscoe and Ty Gibbs, settled in third place. Bell, who led a race-high 85 laps and pitted for two fresh tires prior to the final restart, navigated his way up to a fourth-place result while Corey Heim notched his third top-five result by finishing in fifth place.
Despite falling short of the victory, both Blaney and Bell trail points leader Kyle Larson by 40 and five points, respectively, as both labeled themselves within the championship hunt approaching the final three-scheduled events of this season.
“Proud of the effort, everyone sticking with it all day,” Blaney said. “Just kind of fighting it out and giving us a shot to win at the end. Just didn’t quite have enough to chase down [Reddick]. Overall, really proud of the effort. Gained a lot of points today, so it’s hard to be upset about that. Try to go the next three weeks and do the same.”
“It’s going to be a battle, that’s for sure,” Bell said. “We’re right there in it. Just really proud of our team. They’ve been doing a really good job of bringing fast race cars, executing races. We’ve been able to qualify well, run upfront in the stages. I felt like our performance tapered off a little bit as the day went on, but we had the right strategy to put tires on there at the end and had good restarts to get some track position. We’re in the hunt. That’s all you can ask for.”
Joey Logano, who led 84 laps, settled in sixth place ahead of Daniel Suarez while Chase Briscoe settled in eighth place following his late gamble to remain on the track on worn tires compared to a majority of the field for the 19-lap dash to the finish. Amid the result and falling short of winning three events in a row, Briscoe is only 24 points behind points leader Kyle Larson as he too looks ahead to the final three-scheduled events, including next weekend’s Chase event at Talladega Superspeedway, to continue to reel in Larson for the points lead.
“[The strategy] just didn’t work out,” Briscoe said. “[Elliott] was on the same strategy as us and ran third. You can’t really blame it on that, but overall, we’re in serious contention at least for the championship with [Larson]’s issues. [I] Wish we would have obviously been in Victory Lane with our Columbia Bank Toyota. [I] Felt like we were better than eighth-place car, but that was just what the result was. It’s crazy to be 24 points out now. Three weeks ago, we were 123 out. It’s anybody’s race right now. Talladega is definitely going to be the deciding factor and hopefully, we can go there and survive the chaos.”
Ross Chastain and Ty Gibbs completed the top 10 on the track at Phoenix. With eight of 16 Chasers (Reddick, Blaney, Elliott, Bell, Logano, Suarez, Briscoe and Gibbs) finishing in the top 10, the remaining Chasers that include Carson Hocevar, Bubba Wallace, Ryan Preece, Austin Cindric, William Byron, Chris Buescher, Denny Hamlin and Kyle Larson finished 12th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 21st, 22nd, 28th and 34th, respectively.
For Hamlin, his 28th-place result at Phoenix keeps him within 31 points shy of the points lead approaching the final three events of the 2026 season, though the Virginia veteran was left disappointed on not capitalizing amid Kyle Larson’s late misfortunes.
“The beginning [of the event] was not great once we got back in traffic,” Hamlin said. “I thought the second half of the race, we were really strong and gonna contend for the win. [I was] Just right there with [Briscoe] when the tire blew for third. Definitely not ideal, but what can you do? I feel like [I] just need when we got a good car like we were the second half of the race to finish well and we just haven’t finished.”
The seventh Cup Series’ Chase event of the 2026 season at Phoenix saw 21 lead changes among 10 leaders, and six cautions over 43 laps. In addition, 27 of 37 starters finished on the lead lap.
Results:
- Tyler Reddick, 18 laps led
- Ryan Blaney, 51 laps led
- Chase Elliott
- Christopher Bell, 85 laps led
- Corey Heim
- Joey Logano, 84 laps led, Stages 1 & 2 winner
- Daniel Suarez
- Chase Briscoe, 13 laps led
- Ross Chastain
- Ty Gibbs, two laps led
- Josh Berry, one lap led
- Carson Hocevar
- Noah Gragson
- Todd Gilliland
- Zane Smith
- Brad Keselowski
- Bubba Wallace, 52 laps led
- Ryan Preece
- Austin Cindric
- Connor Zilisch
- William Byron, two laps led
- Chris Buescher
- AJ Allmendinger
- Austin Hill
- Erik Jones
- Shane van Gisbergen
- Cole Custer
- Denny Hamlin, one lap down, four laps led
- Alex Bowman, one lap down
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr., one lap down
- Ty Dillon, two laps down
- Riley Herbst, four laps down
- John Hunter Nemechek, five laps down
- Kyle Larson – OUT, Accident
- Cody Ware – OUT, Accident
- Michael McDowell, 111 laps down
- Austin Dillon – OUT, Accident
*Bold indicates Chase Drivers
After the seventh Chase event of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season, Kyle Larson maintains the lead the standings by only five points over Christopher Bell, with Chase Briscoe trailing by 24 points, Denny Hamlin by 31, Ryan Blaney by 40, Joey Logano by 44 and Tyler Reddick by 56. The rest of the 16-car Chase field is displayed below.
Chase Standings:
- Kyle Larson
- Christopher Bell -5
- Chase Briscoe -24
- Denny Hamlin -31
- Ryan Blaney -40
- Joey Logano -44
- Tyler Reddick -56
- Austin Cindric -130
- Ty Gibbs -132
- Chase Elliott -149
- Carson Hocevar -158
- Bubba Wallace -162
- Daniel Suarez -188
- William Byron -190
- Chris Buescher -204
- Ryan Preece -211
Next on the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series’ Chase schedule is the Yellawood 500 at Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Alabama. The event is scheduled to occur next Sunday, October 25, and air at 2 p.m. ET on NBC, MRN Radio, SiriusXM and HBO MAX.
