WALLACE AND BELL BOTH SECURE TOP FIVE FINISHES FOR TOYOTA AT NEW HAMPSHIRE
Five Toyota’s Finish the Day Inside the Top-10 at the 1.058-mile oval
LOUDON, NH. (August 23, 2026) – Bubba Wallace led the way for Toyota by finishing runner-up in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Wallace and fellow Toyota driver Christopher Bell (fourth) both posted top-five finishes, while five Toyota Camry XSEs finished inside the top 10. Ty Gibbs (sixth), Denny Hamlin (seventh) and Tyler Reddick (eighth) rounded out the top 10 for Toyota.
Wallace’s second-place finish extended Toyota’s streak to 13 straight second-place finishes – every race since the All-Star Race in Dover in May. Additionally, a Toyota driver has finished first or second in 22 of 24 races this season, with Talladega in April and Watkins Glen in May as the only events where a Toyota Camry XSE was not in the top two finishing positions.
With his 17th top-10 finish of the season, Hamlin has already claimed the No. 1 seed for the Chase, which starts in two weeks at Darlington Raceway.
TOYOTA RACING Post-Race Recap
NASCAR Cup Series (NCS)
New Hampshire Motor Speedway
Race 25 of 36 – 318.46 miles, 301 laps
TOYOTA FINISHING POSITIONS
1st, Ryan Blaney*
2nd, BUBBA WALLACE
3rd, Josh Berry*
4th, CHRISTOPHER BELL
5th, Kyle Larson*
6th, TY GIBBS
7th, DENNY HAMLIN
8th, TYLER REDDICK
26th, CHASE BRISCOE
31st, JOHN HUNTER NEMECHEK
34th, RILEY HERBST
33rd, ERIK JONES
*non-Toyota driver
TOYOTA QUOTES
BUBBA WALLACE, No. 23 Cincoro Tequila Toyota Camry XSE, 23XI Racing
Finishing Position: 2nd
How challenging was it fighting for the win there at the end?
“That’s the thing, I kind of hate about this place. Last time we ran good, one of the worst driving cars we ever started. We had the worst driving car this year and I finished second. Just been saying it all week long, I think I finally know, throw out the field I’m chasing, which is hard to go as a race car driver, searching for the right front, it’s not really ever there. We fought, man. Had a nice day just by myself, regrouping. Got the head right. I knew I had to fight all day. That’s what it takes. Where it starts is with this No. 23 team. Man, they pushed me to be the absolute best. I fail them a lot, but they stick behind me. It’s super cool. I appreciate that. Appreciate Cincoro being on our Toyota Camry. Excited to get home and see Amanda, Becks and Cameron. Have some fun at Daytona.”
Chasing your friend there at the end. The lockup at the end with a few laps to go, did that seal it?
“It did. I picked up a big vibration on the left front. That was kind of it, so… made our great day go to crap and salvaging what we had.”
CHRISTOPHER BELL, No. 20 Rheem Toyota Camry XSE, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finishing Position: 4th
You started on wet-weather tires and transitioned to dry. What was your big takeaway from this race?
“It was another strong performance by our 20 team. Ultimately, we didn’t have enough to compete with the frontrunners. Get out of here with a top-five finish, it was a really good day, good and solid day. We had the mishap on pit road, then the team was able to persevere and finish about where we should have. Really happy with fourth place today. Just lacking a little bit right now.”
With the contact on pit road with your tire changer Blake Houston, for you as a driver, that also is jarring? How do you keep your head in the game when that happens?
“It was certainly tough. My signal to go is the jack dropping. On a two-tire stop, they’re supposed to be gone across the front of the car. Whenever the jack dropped, I saw he was still there, then I saw him kind of flopping around in my rearview camera. I didn’t feel my car jump up in the air, so I knew I didn’t run him over. I hope he didn’t get his fingers stuck in the wheel or anything. It’s alarming and very eye-opening that these guys jumping across pit wall, they’re risking it. I’m super grateful for all the pit crew members, specifically my team. They do a really good job. I’m glad Blake is okay.”
TY GIBBS, No. 54 Monster Energy Toyota Camry XSE, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finishing Position: 6th
Do you feel like you maximized your day today?
“Yeah, my 54 guys did a great job over there. Our 54 Monster Energy Camry was great. We just needed to be a little bit better there, but I need to be a little better too. Obviously, a lot better results than last year and the year before that too. So, we’ll take it and we’ll keep going on. I just want to say thank you to everyone who helps me out, my trainers, JB, Cooper, and everybody, Monster Energy, SAIA and Toyota. We’ll just keep going for it and look forward to the playoffs.”
DENNY HAMLIN, No. 11 National Debt Relief Toyota Camry XSE, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finishing Position: 7th
What was it like to have to work your way through the field twice?
“It was tough, we were just pedestrian today. We just didn’t quite have it, but obviously we had that in the beginning where we lost track position early. On the pit stop thing, just miscommunication there, but ultimately a decent crawl back. I live week to week, and I focused on this track and I’m just like we got to get better here for sure, we haven’t had it over the last couple.”
Is the No. 11 team in Championship form right now?
“These are our bad days, bad-ish. But I feel good about where our team is right now, everyone is kind of clicking well and we don’t have a whole lot of weaknesses. We’re just not as strong as the Penske cars on these types of racetracks, but Martinsville we are good, Phoenix we’ve been good, just over the last few years this has not been as strong as those guys. And when I say strong, I mean top five, top seven, so it’s something we can work with. The mile and-a-half’s are certainly something that’s been our strength for a couple of years now. I look forward to getting the Chase started and seeing where it goes.”
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