Official Race Results for the Cook Out Southern 500 At Darlington

Post-race inspection in the NASCAR Cup Series garage is complete, and there were no issues, which means Christopher Bell and the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing team are the official winners of the NASCAR Cup Series Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway.

NASCAR says the No. 6 RFK Racing Ford, and the No. 67 23XI Racing Toyota will head back to the NASCAR R&D Center for further inspection.

This is officially Bell's first win of the 2026 season, and the driver's 14th win in his 243-race NASCAR Cup Series career. With the win, Bell finally shook off the funk of a disappointing season, which saw him finish runner-up seven times before he finally claimed the first win on Sunday night.

Bell, a native of Norman, OK, led the race four times for a total of 46 laps. Bell also won Stage 2 on Sunday night, and he set the fastest lap of the race, a 29.936-second lap, on Lap 345. Kyle Larson led the most laps with 99 in the 367-lap slugfest.

There were 29 lead changes in the Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway between 12 drivers.

In all, the race was slowed for caution six times for a total of 44 laps, and the average speed of the event was 123.741 mph. Bell's margin of victory was 1.038 seconds over Ty Gibbs, his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate.

Here are the official results from the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway:

Fin	Car	Driver	Laps	Points
1	20	Christopher Bell (C)	367	73
2	54	Ty Gibbs (C)	367	36
3	45	Tyler Reddick (C)	367	46
4	12	Ryan Blaney (C)	367	44
5	5	Kyle Larson (C)	367	41
6	19	Chase Briscoe (C)	367	43
7	21	Josh Berry	367	34
8	23	Bubba Wallace (C)	367	44
9	22	Joey Logano (C)	367	28
10	60	Ryan Preece (C)	367	31
11	77	Carson Hocevar (C)	367	26
12	48	Alex Bowman	367	25
13	2	Austin Cindric (C)	367	28
14	9	Chase Elliott (C)	367	23
15	43	Erik Jones	367	22
16	34	Todd Gilliland	367	21
17	71	Michael McDowell	367	20
18	11	Denny Hamlin (C)	367	35
19	67	Corey Heim (i) *	367	0
20	17	Chris Buescher (C)	367	17
21	7	Daniel Suarez (C)	367	16
22	16	AJ Allmendinger	367	15
23	6	Brad Keselowski	367	14
24	42	John Hunter Nemechek	367	13
25	38	Zane Smith	367	12
26	97	Shane van Gisbergen	366	11
27	1	Ross Chastain	366	10
28	33	Austin Hill (i)	366	0
29	3	Austin Dillon	366	8
30	35	Riley Herbst	366	7
31	10	Ty Dillon	366	6
32	4	Noah Gragson	366	5
33	41	Cole Custer	366	4
34	88	Connor Zilisch #	365	3
35	47	Rick Stenhouse, Jr.	363	2
36	51	Cody Ware	363	1
37	24	William Byron (C)	319	6
38	66	Chad Finchum (i) *	243	0

(C) indicates Chase contender
# indicates Rookie of the Year contender
(i) indicates a driver ineligible to score points
* indicates an "Open" entry

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