2026 NASCAR Cup Series Daytona 500 Race Results

DAYTONA BEACH, Florida -- Tyler Reddick has claimed the victory in the biggest race in NASCAR, the Daytona 500. After a thrilling finish, which featured numerous crashes, Reddick made a clutch move to swoop around Chase Elliott for the race lead off of the race's final turn.
As Reddick crossed the finish line to score his first-career Daytona 500 win, and the first Daytona 500 win for 23XI Racing, a team co-owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin, the rest of the field crashed for the runner-up spot behind him.
Reddick won the race by a margin of victory of 0.308 seconds.
The race featured 65 lead changes among 25 different leaders, and the race was slowed for caution five times for a total of 32 laps.
The race had an average speed of 147.107 mph.
Fin | Car | Driver | Laps | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 45 | Tyler Reddick | 200 | 58 |
2 | 47 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr. | 200 | 35 |
3 | 22 | Joey Logano | 200 | 36 |
4 | 9 | Chase Elliott | 200 | 33 |
5 | 6 | Brad Keselowski | 200 | 32 |
6 | 38 | Zane Smith (S1) | 200 | 41 |
7 | 17 | Chris Buescher | 200 | 39 |
8 | 35 | Riley Herbst | 200 | 35 |
9 | 21 | Josh Berry | 200 | 28 |
10 | 23 | Bubba Wallace (S2) | 200 | 37 |
11 | 4 | Noah Gragson | 200 | 27 |
12 | 24 | William Byron | 200 | 25 |
13 | 7 | Daniel Suarez | 200 | 31 |
14 | 10 | Ty Dillon | 200 | 23 |
15 | 8 | Kyle Busch | 200 | 29 |
16 | 5 | Kyle Larson | 200 | 21 |
17 | 51 | Cody Ware | 200 | 20 |
18 | 77 | Carson Hocevar (X) | 200 | 27 |
19 | 16 | AJ Allmendinger | 200 | 18 |
20 | 1 | Ross Chastain | 200 | 17 |
21 | 43 | Erik Jones | 200 | 16 |
22 | 71 | Michael McDowell | 200 | 19 |
23 | 54 | Ty Gibbs | 200 | 14 |
24 | 41 | Cole Custer | 200 | 13 |
25 | 60 | Ryan Preece | 200 | 15 |
26 | 42 | John Hunter Nemechek | 199 | 19 |
27 | 12 | Ryan Blaney | 199 | 27 |
28 | 67* | Corey Heim (i) | 199 | 0 |
29 | 84* | Jimmie Johnson (OEP) | 199 | 0 |
30 | 97 | Shane van Gisbergen | 199 | 8 |
31 | 11 | Denny Hamlin | 198 | 7 |
32 | 66* | Casey Mears | 195 | 6 |
33 | 88 | Connor Zilisch # | 195 | 5 |
34 | 2 | Austin Cindric | 193 | 13 |
35 | 20 | Christopher Bell | 191 | 3 |
36 | 19 | Chase Briscoe | 188 | 2 |
37 | 3 | Austin Dillon | 137 | 1 |
38 | 40* | Justin Allgaier (i) | 123 | 0 |
39 | 34 | Todd Gilliland | 123 | 1 |
40 | 48 | Alex Bowman | 123 | 3 |
41 | 78* | B.J. McLeod | 4 | 1 |
(S1) denotes Stage 1 winner
(S2) denotes Stage 2 winner
(X) denotes Xfinity Fastest Lap
* denotes "Open" entry
# denotes Rookie of the Year contender
(i) denotes a driver ineligible to score points
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Toby Christie is the Editor-in-Chief of Racing America. He has 15 years of experience as a motorsports journalist and has been with Racing America since 2023.
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