Go Bowling at the Glen

Shane van Gisbergen had a dominating day for Trackhouse Racing in the Go Bowling at the Glen race at Watkins Glen International, picking up his seventh career win. Van Gisbergen’s margin of victory was seven seconds over Michael McDowell who started and finished in second place in his Spire Motorsports Chevrolet. Ty Gibbs and Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Chase Briscoe finished third and fourth respectively. Tyler Reddick finished fifth in his Toyota Camry. 

Last year’s Watkins Glen winner, Shane van Gisbergen started from the pole for this year’s race with Michael McDowell beside him. Van Gisbergen dominated the stage until he pitted with two laps remaining in the stage, turning the lead over to teammate Ross Chastain. Chastain held on to win stage one for his third stage win of the season. 

Stage two started the same way the first stage started, with Van Gisbergen and McDowell in the first two positions. Once again, Van Gisbergen jumped to the lead, but this time, Conner Zilisch was able to pass McDowell for second. The Trackhouse teammates pulled out to a comfortable lead when the caution came out for debris on the track. Most of the field made a pit stop, but McDowell chose to stay out from the third position and assumed the lead. McDowell took the lead at the restart and remained up front until four laps to go in the stage when Van Gisbergen moved back to the lead. Van Gisbergen stretched out his lead to win stage two. 

Van Gisbergen started the final stage in the lead and stayed there until he pitted with 25 laps remaining and turned the lead over to Ty Gibbs. Gibbs held on to the lead the over a hard charging Zilisch, but with eight laps remaining, Van Gisbergen easily passed him to go back up front. 

Chase Elliott had a strong performance today to secure the win in his Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet in the Wurth 400 at Texas Motor Speedway. Elliott won for the second time this year leading a race high 87 laps. Denny Hamlin was strong all day and finished in second place after leading 21 laps. Alex Bowman had his second third place finish in a row after having to miss several races this year with Vertigo. Tyler Reddick had another good race finishing fourth and Chris Buescher was the top finishing Ford in fifth place. 

After winning his first career NASCAR Cup Series race last week, Carson Hocevar came to Texas and won the pole position in his Spire Motorsports Chevrolet with teammate Daniel Suarez in second. Hocevar led the first twenty laps until Denny Hamlin passed him for the lead. Hamlin led sixteen laps and then made his green flag pit stop, handing the lead back to Hocevar, who ran five laps up front before his pit stop. Josh Berry led a lap before he pitted and turned the lead over to Brad Keselowski, who also ran one lap up front before pitting. When all the pit stops cycled through, Chase Briscoe took the lead with Hamlin right behind him. On lap 47, Christopher Bell made his way to the front. With thirteen laps to go, Bell and Hamlin were battling for the lead when Todd Gilliland spun out and clipped Bell, sending Bell into the outside wall and ending his day. Several teams pitted under caution and Erik Jones stayed out to assume the lead. Jones was able to hold on for his first career stage win.

Hocevar started the second stage in the lead and was leading when William Byron spun out on lap 93 while in the seventh position. During the pit stops under caution, several teams experiences issues on pit road. Briscoe made minor contact with Kyle Larson while Joey Logano hit Cole Custer in the rear, damaging Custer’s car and sending Logano to the garage. Hamlin also made slight contact with Conner Zilisch as he was exiting his pit box. When the green flag fell, Corey Heim was in the lead in his 23XI Racing Toyota after he did not stop under caution. On lap 102 Ty Gibbs hit the outside wall and damaged his car. Heim remained in the lead when they resumed racing with Suarez moving into second place. Chase Elliott moved up front when Heim made a pit stop with 13 laps to go in the stage. Larson spun out with six laps to go and contacted the wall, opening the door for most of the field to make their pit stops. Keselowski and his teammate Ryan Preece stayed out for track position. The green flag fell with just one lap to go in the stage and Chase Elliott, who started third, passed both Keselowski and Preece for his first stage win this year.

The last stage started with Elliott leading the pack to the green flag. Elliott stayed in the lead until his pit stop. Several other drivers led for a few laps during the cycle, and when all the stops were done, Elliott was back up front. After running almost the entire final stage under the green flag, with eleven laps to go, Heim spun out and hit the wall to bring out a caution. They went back to green flag racing with four laps to go and Elliott was leading with Hamlin beside him. Elliott was able to hold off Hamlin for the win.

Strategy was the name of the game at Talladega Superspeedway and in the end, it was a first-time winner again at the track as Carson Hocevar held off a hard charging Chris Buescher. It was a popular win for Hocevar as he gave the fans a unique victory celebration as he rode on his door down the track celebrating with the fans.  Buescher had a strong car all day but ended up finishing in second place. Teammates Alex Bowman and Chase Elliott finished third and fourth respectively in their Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolets. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. rounded out the top five in fifth place.

The qualifying session was rained out; therefore, Tyler Reddick started on the pole with Kyle Larson in second place. Denny Hamlin, who started in third place, led the first lap. It did not take long for the field to go three wide and start swapping the lead back and forth. Chad Finchum moved to the front on lap 11 to lead for the first time in his short NASCAR Cup career. Finchum led seven laps before Hamlin jumped back up front. After the green flag pitstops, Ty Gibbs assumed the lead. With ten laps to go in the stage, all the green flag pit stops were completed, putting Ryan Preece in the lead with his teammate Chris Buescher behind him. Preece held on to win the first stage with five other Fords behind him.

Bubba Wallace led the field for the start of stage two. Wallace was out front when on lap 115, he was hit from behind and started a big wreck. Most of the cars were involved in the wreck in some form or fashion. After they went back to green flag racing, Ross Chastain was leading the pack when Ty Gibbs cut his right front tire and hit the outside wall on lap 124. Chastain held on to win stage two for his second stage win of the year.

Chris Buescher started the final stage in the lead. Erik Jones was hit by Carson Hocevar with eight laps to go in the race, bringing out the caution flag. The green flag dropped with three laps left and Buescher was leading the field and Hocevar beside him. Hocevar was pushed to the win by Alex Bowman as Buescher got loose coming to the finish line.

Tyler Reddick would continue his dominance in the 2026 Cup Series season at the AdventHealth 400 at Kansas Speedway.  Reddick picked up win number five this year and his thirteenth of his career. Kyle Larson, who dominated stage two finished second. Chase Briscoe was third with Denny Hamlin and Brad Keselowski fourth and fifth respectively. 

It was an all-Toyota front row with Tyler Reddick continuing his hot start for 2026 with the pole starting position and Denny Hamlin alongside him. Hamlin led the initial lap but Reddick passed him going into turn one on the second lap. Reddick would not maintain the lead for too long as Hamlin would go back up front on lap four. Hamlin pitted on lap 38, handing the lead over to Carson Hocevar who led two laps before he pitted. After the green flag pit stops, Hamlin assumed the lead. Hamlin held on to win the first stage with Kyle Larson finishing second.

At the start of the second stage, both Larson and Chase Elliott passed Hamlin. Larson pitted with 41 laps to go in the stage, turning the lead over to Chris Buescher. Buescher would pit the next lap, moving Hocevar to the lead for one lap. When the pit cycle finished, Larson was back in the lead. Larson stayed out front to win his third stage of the year and Hamlin finished second.

Hamlin beat Larson on the pit stop and started stage three out front. After Hamlin led the first lap, his teammate Christpher Bell passed him for the lead. Bell made his green flag pit stop with 47 laps remaining, turning the lead over to Daniel Suarez. Suarez had a tire go down, putting Hamlin back in the lead after everyone’s pit stop. With ten laps remaining, pole sitter Reddick passed Hamlin for the lead. Hamlin got back around Reddick with three laps left, then a caution flag flew for a spin by Cody Ware, setting up an overtime finish. On the restart, Larson was third and dropped low to pass Hamlin and Reddick, but on the last lap, Reddick would get back by Larson for the win.

Ty Gibbs won for the first time in his career and broke a 131-race winless streak in the NASCAR Cup series at Bristol Motor Speedway in the Food City 500. Gibbs driving his grandfather’s Toyota held off a hard charging Ryan Blaney who had to settle for second. Kyle Larson who dominated early, finished third with Tyler Reddick and Chase Briscoe finishing fourth and fifth respectively. 

Ryan Blaney in his Penske Ford started the race from the pole position and stayed there for the first 45 laps until Kyle Larson passed when Blaney got loose in turn one. The first caution came out when Brad Keselowski spun out in turn one, bringing the majority of the field in for pit stops. When they went back to green flag racing, Chase Elliott and Josh Berry started out front since they did not pit. It did not take long before Larson took the lead back. Larson would hang on to win the first stage.

Larson started the second stage in the lead and was out front when the next caution came out when Christopher Bell hit the wall coming out of turn four early in the stage. It did not take long before another caution came out when Shane Van Gisbergen spun and made contact with John Hunter Nemechek and Alex Bowman. Larson would take off when the green flag dropped again and would stay out front to win the stage and sweep both stage wins for the day. 

The final 250 lap stage started with Larson leading the pack. The caution flag flew next as Riley Herbst hit Kyle Busch in turn four, spinning Busch out. Also caught up in the accident were Erik Jones, Michael McDowell and Christopher Bell. After the pit stops, Larson took his position back out front. With 162 laps left, Blaney passed Larson for the lead. Another caution came out when Connor Zilisch spun in turn two. Chase Elliott contacted the wall and brought out the caution with 23 laps remaining. Blaney pitted and Ty Gibbs did not so Gibbs restarted the race in the lead with 15 laps to go. Herbst spun out with four laps remaining to set up an overtime finish with Gibbs in first and Blaney and Larson second and third respectfully. At the restart, Gibbs held on for the win.

Denny Hamlin won for the 61st time in the NASCAR Cup Series in the Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The victory made him the fifth driver in Cup history to win races over the span of twenty seasons. Chase Elliott finished second with his teammate William Byron behind him in third. Hamlin’s teammates, pole sitter Christopher Bell and Ty Gibbs, would finish fourth and fifth respectively. 

Joe Gibbs Racing locked up the first three starting positions with Christopher Bell on the pole and Denny Hamlin in second. Bell led the first three laps before Hamlin took over on lap four. There would be several lead changes during the green flag pit stops, but when they all cycled through, Hamlin was back up front. Bell moved back to the lead with nine laps to go in the stage and held on for the stage one win.

Stage two started with Bell in the lead and Kyle Larson in second place. Bell kept the lead until lap 94 when Larson took the lead as his teammate Wiliam Byron pushed him to the front. After the green flag stops, it was Larson back up front. Byron took the lead with six laps left in the stage and won stage two. 

The final stage started with Larson and Byron leading the pack to the green. Byron led the field until lap 186 when Hamlin went back out front. The first caution for cause came out on lap 211 when Connor Zilisch spun out as Byron was passing Hamlin for the lead. After the pit stops, Bell and Hamlin were back leading the pack and Hamlin jumped to the lead at the drop of the green flag. Hamlin would not relinquish the lead, cruising to his first win of the year. 

Ryan Blaney had to battle back from two pit road mistakes to take the win in the Straight Talk Wireless 500 at Pheonix Raceway. Blaney followed up the Team Penske win yesterday in the Indy Series with the first win of the year for Ford. Christopher Bell had a dominant race but, in the end, he had to settle for second place. Kyle Larson was the top finishing Chevrolet in third while Ty Gibbs and teammate Denny Hamlin finished fourth and fifth. 

Joey Logano started on the pole with Kyle Larson beside him. Logano would hold the lead for the first 48 laps until his teammate Ryan Blaney took the lead. Blaney would hold the lead until the end of stage one for the stage win. 

After the pit stops, Christopher Bell assumed the lead with a quick pit stop from his Joe Gibbs Racing team.  Stage two started with Bell taking the lead and was out front when the yellow flag came out for the Shane Van Gisbergen spin when his tire went down. After the yellow flag pit stops, Bell assumed the lead. The caution came back out on lap 103 when Daniel Suarez spun out when he contacted Chase Elliott. Josh Berry and Ryan Preece were also involved and sustained light damage. Logano was able to grab the lead from Bell and held the lead until lap 126 when Bell retook the lead. Chase Brisco blew a tire on lap 132 and hit the wall in turn four, bringing out the next caution. After the pit stops, Logano retook the lead for the restart. Bell jumped back in front of Logano for the lead and held it until the next caution flag flew when another tire blew, this time it was Noah Gragson. Gragson hit the wall, ending his day. Preece did not pit during the caution and assumed the lead for the restart. Denny Hamlin started third and went low to pass Preece at the green flag. Hamlin was able to stay there until Bell retook the lead with 12 laps to go in the stage. Bell would stretch his lead over Hamlin and won stage two by three seconds.

The final stage began with Bell taking over where he left off, leading the field. Preece brought out the next caution when Conner Zilisch hit him going into turn one on lap 210. On the restart, Logano hit Ross Chastain, sending him into Anthony Alfredo, who in turn hit Austin Cindric. Bell once again took the lead at the restart. After having to battle back from two miscues on pit stops, Blaney was pressing Bell when Van Gisbergen spun on lap 246. On the restart, Logano spun out in front of Josh Berry and Daniel Suarez. The next caution was due to Austin Dillon having tire issues on lap 288. During the pit stops, Bell took four tires, while Ty Gibbs and Blaney only put on two, putting Gibbs and Blaney on the front row for the restart. Before they could finish a lap, Zane Smith and John Hunter Nemechek collided, taking both of them out of contention. At the restart, Gibbs held the lead, but Blaney was able to pass him and take the lead with nine laps to go. 

Tyler Reddick did something no one else in the history of the NASCAR Cup Series has been able to do, win the first three races of the season. Reddick did so in dominating fashion as he led the most laps in the DuraMAX Texas Grand Prix Powered by RelaDyne at the Circuit of Americas course and held off a late charge by road course ace Shane Van Gisbergen, who finished second. Christopher Bell and teammate Ty Gibbs finished in third and fourth with Michael McDowell finishing fifth.

Tyler Reddick continued his red-hot start for the 2026 season by winning the pole and Ross Chastain put his Chevy beside him for the start of the race. Chase Briscoe jumped to the inside and passed both Reddick and Chastain to take the early lead. Ryan Blaney, who started in fourth place, took the lead on lap 9. Blaney pitted with three laps to go in the stage and Chastain took the lead and stayed there for the stage one win.

After Chastain and others made their pit stop, Blaney moved back to the lead to start stage two, but it was Reddick who took the lead when the green flag dropped. Reddick stayed out front until three laps to go in the stage when he made his green flag pit stop, handing the lead over to Blaney. Blaney would pit the next lap, putting Ty Gibbs out front and Gibbs stayed there to take the stage two win. 

The final stage started with Reddick leading the pack to the green flag. On lap 70, Reddick made a green flag pit stop and Shane Van Gisbergen took the lead. The next lap, Van Gisbergen pitted, handing the lead over to William Byron. Michael McDowell passed Byron for the lead on the next lap. On lap 75, Chastain spun out bringing out the caution flag. After the pit stops, Reddick moved back to the lead. On the restart, Reddick stayed out front and Van Gisbergen moved to second. Although Van Gisbergen pressed Reddick during the closing laps, Reddick would handle the pressure for his historic win. 

The Autotrader 400 at Echo Park Speedway was an exciting, action-packed event that ended with Tyler Reddick winning the first two races of the year in a heavily damaged car after losing his right front fender in an accident with fellow Toyota driver Denny Hamlin. Chase Briscoe finished second followed by three Chevrolets, Ross Chastian third, Carson Hocevar fourth and Daniel Suarez fifth.

Qualifying was rained out therefore last week’s winner Tyler Reddick started on the pole with Joey Logano beside him. Reddick and Logano swapped the lead back and forth for the first half of stage one before Chase Elliott and Brad Keselowski moved to the lead for a while. Reddick and Logano took the control back around lap 35 until Elliott took the lead on lap 46. Kyle Larson took his turn at the front of the pack with four laps to go in the stage, then Bubba Wallace moved to the lead, but it was Austin Cindric taking the stage one win as he passed Wallace on the last lap.

Stage two started with Larson pacing the field until Wallace passed him on lap 73. Larson went back to the lead on lap 81 and then on the next lap, the caution flag came out when Ty Gibbs contacted Josh Berry, ending the day for both of them. When the green flag flew, Larson stayed out front with his teammate William Byron in second place until Reddick moved to the lead. The next caution was on lap 103 when Riley Herbst lost control and spun Austin Dillon. They collected several other cars in the accident Ricky Srenhouse Jr, BJ Mcleod, Todd Gilliland, Cole Custer and Zane Smith all sustained damage. Kyle Busch hit the inside wall hard on the backstretch, bringing out the next caution and ending his day. Larson took the lead with 23 laps to go in the stage and Wallace switched the lead back and forth with Larson. Chase Briscoe moved around both of them with 10 laps to go in the stage. Larson went back to the point with 4 laps remaining in the stage and Byron made a pass on the last lap to win the stage. Coming to the stage finish, Larson moved down the track and hit Shane Van Gisbergen, putting Larson out of the race.

The last stage started with five Fords out front with Ryan Blaney leading the first green flag lap. Several cars swapped the lead for the next few laps with Denny Hamlin looking the strongest in the early part of the stage. Briscoe eventually moved around his teammate and paced the field for the middle part of the stage. Coming to lap 200, Shane Van Gisbergen spun out in turn four, bringing out the sixth caution of the day. Cindric made his way back to the front with 40 laps to go. A couple of laps later, Hamlin hit the back of Logano and spun out in front of Reddick and collected several drivers. Also caught up in the accident were AJ Allmendinger, Chris Buescher, Joey Logano, Alex Bowman, Michael McDowell and Connor Zilisch. Logano spun out after he contacted Carson Hocevar, causing another caution. The caution came out with four laps to go as Byron got loose and was working his way to the bottom of the track when Cindric clipped him, collecting several other cars, including Logano, Austin Dillon, John Hunter Nemechek, Noah Gragson, Hamlin, Gilliland, Custer, Erik Jones and Cody Ware. The race would finish in overtime as several drivers pitted for four new tires. When they dropped the green flag, Hocevar tried to move between Christopher Bell and Wallace, but Bell tried to close the hole and Hocevar hit Bell, sending him into the wall and bringing out the caution. On the second overtime start, Reddick was able to pass both Hocevar and Wallace to hold on for the win.

In a dramatic last lap battle, Tyler Reddick won his first Daytona 500 with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. second and Joey Logano third. Chase Elliott, who came out of turn four with the lead, had to settle for fourth when he was hit by Riley Herbst coming to the finish line and Brad Keselowski overcame his off-season injury to finish fifth. Carson Hocevar took the white flag in the lead but was hit by Erik Jones, taking them both out of contention. Reddick only led one lap in the race, but it was the most important one, to secure the biggest win of his career and the also for his 23XI team. 

The Great American Race started with two-time Cup champion Kyle Busch on the pole and Joe Gibbs Racing driver Chase Briscoe beside him. Busch was able to move out front and stayed there until lap four when John Hunter Nemechek brought the inside lane to the front of the field. The first caution flag came out when BJ McCloud spun on lap 5 and made contact with William Byron and Justin Allgaier. Also involved in the incident were Casey Mears, Noah Gragson and Tyler Reddick. The green flag came back out on lap 12 with Kyle Busch and Joey Logano going back and forth for the lead. Nemechek took the lead on lap 16 and swapped the lead with Logano until the third line developed with Brisco leading that lane to the front of the field, taking the lead on lap 36 for the first time. Briscoe pitted on lap 58, handing the lead to Chase Elliott for one lap before Elliott hit pit road. Zane Smith found himself in the lead and he stretched his gas milage looking to maximize the stage points. The strategy worked as Smith won his first career stage. 

Cindric started out front for stage two until the Toyotas hooked up and moved to the front as Denny Hamlin took the lead on lap 76. Fellow Toyota driver Bubba Wallace grabbed the lead on lap 78. Team Chevy drivers hooked up on the inside and came to the front with Cody Ware taking the lead on lap 81, Ross Chastain moved to the lead two laps later on lap 83. Allgaier took the lead on lap 85 and the caution flag came out coming to lap 86 as Chastain tapped Ware sending him into Ty Gibbs and Briscoe. Austin Dillon hit Briscoe, causing damage to Dillon’s front end. The restart had Chastain leading the field and Kyle Larson beside him. The outside lane prevailed and Chastain paced the field until lap 97 when Cindric moved back to the lead. Chastain would retake the lead the following lap until his teammate Shane Van Gisbergen led for the first time on lap 102. Kyle Larson would lead lap 105 and Kyle Busch 106. Hamlin moved back to the lead on lap 123 but he and Allgaier got together and took out several of the front runners, twenty cars in all. Wallace made it through to lead the field under caution to the stage two win.

The final stage began with the Toyotas of Wallace and Corey Heim up front and Wallace jumped back out into the lead. Three Toyota drivers lead each line as the race moved on with Heim on the bottom, Wallace in the middle and Christopher Bell in the outside lane. With twenty laps to go, Wallace and three other Toyotas made their gas-and-go pitstop, putting Chris Buescher in the lead. Five laps later, the group of Ford drivers pitted and that put Busch back in the lead. With thirteen laps remaining, Elliott lead as Busch made his stop for gas but he only went one lap before he pitted. Everyone had pitted except Michael McDowell, who was waiting for a caution and he got what he was waiting for when Heim tapped Hamlin, knocking him into Bell, bringing out a caution. With five laps remaining, the green flag fell with McDowell in first place after he was in 31st place before everyone started making their pit stops. McDowell had his teammate Hocevar and Hocevar pushed McDowell to the lead coming the white flag. In a chaotic final lap, Tyler Reddick came to the finish line first as cars wrecked all around him.