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2026 NASCAR Cup Series Daytona 500 Race Results

Originally posted on Racing America on SI
By Toby Christie | Last updated Feb 15, 2026 7:53 PM ET

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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