Bristol Motor Speedway, 2026 NASCAR DFS results
Sunday, April 12, 2026 · Winner: Ty Gibbs · 505 laps
Race report
Ty Gibbs won the Bristol Motor Speedway from P5 and led 25 laps but had to earn it in a race that stayed up for grabs. Kyle Larson actually paced the field with 284 laps led but couldn't close it out.
For DFS, Kyle Larson was the top DraftKings score at 150.8 points. The tournament-defining value came from Todd Gilliland, up from P35 to P6 for 71.5 DK off 29 spots of place differential.
The model's pre-race top five (built lookahead-free) was led this week by Kyle Larson, who finished P3 for 150.8 DK. 5 of the five ran top ten, a clean read on the day.
Scoring roughly followed the board (correlation 0.49), favorites paid, but there was room for a leverage play or two.
Auto-generated from the official results and the model’s pre-race projection.
- 1. Kyle Larson150.8
- 2. Ryan Blaney141.6
- 3. Todd Gilliland71.5
- 1. Kyle Larson119.4
- 2. Ryan Blaney109
- 3. Todd Gilliland100
Biggest mover: Todd Gilliland started 35, finished 6 (+29 positions).
How the model did
Its projected top 5 for Bristol Motor Speedway and the DraftKings points each actually scored:
| 1 | Ryan Blaney | P2 | 141.6 DK |
| 2 | Kyle Larson | P3 | 150.8 DK |
| 3 | Tyler Reddick | P4 | 45.2 DK |
| 4 | Denny Hamlin | P9 | 45.6 DK |
| 5 | Ty Gibbs | P1 | 71 DK |
Full results & DFS scoring
| Pos | Driver | Start | Led | Fast | DK | FD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ty Gibbs | 5 | 25 | 35 | 71 | 98 |
| 2 | Ryan Blaney | 1 | 190 | 118 | 141.6 | 109 |
| 3 | Kyle Larson | 8 | 284 | 75 | 150.8 | 119.4 |
| 4 | Tyler Reddick | 2 | 0 | 16 | 45.2 | 86.5 |
| 5 | Chase Briscoe | 3 | 0 | 22 | 46.9 | 85.5 |
| 6 | Todd Gilliland | 35 | 0 | 10 | 71.5 | 100 |
| 7 | Joey Logano | 20 | 0 | 2 | 50.9 | 91 |
| 8 | Ryan Preece | 17 | 0 | 15 | 51.8 | 88 |
| 9 | Denny Hamlin | 11 | 0 | 19 | 45.6 | 83.5 |
| 10 | Carson Hocevar | 10 | 0 | 20 | 43 | 81.5 |
| 11 | Bubba Wallace | 12 | 0 | 5 | 35.3 | 81 |
| 12 | Daniel Suárez | 13 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 80 |
| 13 | Chris Buescher | 7 | 0 | 6 | 26.7 | 75.5 |
| 14 | Brad Keselowski | 21 | 0 | 13 | 41.9 | 81 |
| 15 | AJ Allmendinger | 22 | 0 | 8 | 38.6 | 80 |
| 16 | Austin Cindric | 9 | 0 | 5 | 22.3 | 72 |
| 17 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr | 23 | 0 | 4 | 33.8 | 77.4 |
| 18 | Austin Dillon | 24 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 76.4 |
| 19 | Zane Smith | 15 | 0 | 2 | 20.9 | 70.4 |
| 20 | Ross Chastain | 6 | 0 | 6 | 11.7 | 64.4 |
| 21 | Riley Herbst | 4 | 0 | 7 | 7.2 | 61.9 |
| 22 | Chase Elliott | 18 | 6 | 2 | 18.4 | 68 |
| 23 | Erik Jones | 28 | 0 | 1 | 24.5 | 70.8 |
| 24 | Michael McDowell | 19 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 64.8 |
| 25 | Kyle Busch | 29 | 0 | 1 | 21.5 | 68.3 |
| 26 | Noah Gragson | 16 | 0 | 2 | 6.9 | 60.3 |
| 27 | Christopher Bell | 14 | 0 | 19 | 10.6 | 57.6 |
| 28 | Cole Custer | 30 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 64.1 |
| 29 | Ty Dillon | 32 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 63.6 |
| 30 | William Byron | 34 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 63 |
| 31 | Cody Ware | 36 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 62.5 |
| 32 | Josh Berry | 25 | 0 | 6 | 4.7 | 54.5 |
| 33 | Connor Zilisch | 26 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 52.3 |
| 34 | Shane Van Gisbergen | 33 | 0 | 1 | 6.5 | 40 |
| 35 | John H. Nemechek | 31 | 0 | 3 | 3.4 | 36.4 |
| 36 | Chad FinchumDNF | 37 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 29.6 |
| 37 | Alex BowmanWrecked | 27 | 0 | 0 | -6 | 15.3 |
Wrecked and DNF tags come from the official finishing status - those drivers fell well below their projection through attrition, not a model miss.
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