Bristol Motor Speedway, 2026 NASCAR DFS results
Saturday, September 19, 2026 · Winner: Joey Logano · 500 laps
Top pick Kyle Larson finished P2 · 67.6 DKProjected five captured 92% of the perfect lineup
Race report
Joey Logano won the Bristol Motor Speedway from the front row area (P2) and led 93 laps but had to earn it in a race that stayed up for grabs. Ryan Blaney actually paced the field with 202 laps led but couldn't close it out.
For DFS, Ty Gibbs was the top DraftKings score at 109.9 points, while Joey Logano led FanDuel (102.8). Biggest mover: Josh Berry, P32 to P6 (+26).
The model's pre-race top five (built lookahead-free) scored best through Joey Logano, who finished P1 for 88.6 DK. 5 of the five ran top ten, a clean read on the day.
It was a chalk-friendly day: FanDuel scoring tracked the betting market closely (rank correlation 0.67), so the favorites largely delivered.
Auto-generated from the official results and the model’s pre-race projection.
- 1. Ty Gibbs109.9
- 2. Joey Logano88.6
- 3. Ryan Blaney78.4
- 1. Joey Logano102.8
- 2. Ty Gibbs102
- 3. Josh Berry98
Biggest mover: Josh Berry started 32, finished 6 (+26 positions).
How the model did
Its projected top 5 for Bristol Motor Speedway and the DraftKings points each actually scored:
| 1 | Kyle Larson | P2 | 67.6 DK |
| 2 | Denny Hamlin | P8 | 37.3 DK |
| 3 | Joey Logano | P1 | 88.6 DK |
| 4 | William Byron | P9 | 34.5 DK |
| 5 | Christopher Bell | P4 | 59.5 DK |
Full results & DFS scoring
| Pos | Driver | Start | Led | Fast | DK | FD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joey Logano | 2 | 93 | 43 | 88.6 | 102.8 |
| 2 | Kyle Larson | 1 | 45 | 34 | 67.6 | 94 |
| 3 | Carson Hocevar | 5 | 39 | 48 | 74.4 | 92.9 |
| 4 | Christopher Bell | 12 | 1 | 25 | 59.5 | 91.1 |
| 5 | Ty Gibbs | 13 | 120 | 73 | 109.9 | 102 |
| 6 | Josh Berry | 32 | 0 | 25 | 75.3 | 98 |
| 7 | Bubba Wallace | 10 | 0 | 22 | 49.9 | 85.5 |
| 8 | Denny Hamlin | 3 | 0 | 14 | 37.3 | 80.5 |
| 9 | William Byron | 4 | 0 | 10 | 34.5 | 79.5 |
| 10 | Ryan Preece | 16 | 0 | 12 | 45.4 | 84 |
| 11 | Austin Cindric | 8 | 0 | 10 | 33.5 | 78.5 |
| 12 | Ross Chastain | 7 | 0 | 10 | 30.5 | 76.5 |
| 13 | Chris Buescher | 23 | 0 | 5 | 42.3 | 82.9 |
| 14 | Daniel Suárez | 28 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 83.8 |
| 15 | Brad Keselowski | 11 | 0 | 1 | 24.5 | 73.8 |
| 16 | Noah Gragson | 36 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 84.8 |
| 17 | Austin Dillon | 9 | 0 | 2 | 18.9 | 69.8 |
| 18 | Tyler Reddick | 20 | 0 | 6 | 29.7 | 73.7 |
| 19 | Todd Gilliland | 24 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 74.2 |
| 20 | Shane Van Gisbergen | 22 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 71.7 |
| 21 | Michael McDowell | 21 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 69.7 |
| 22 | AJ Allmendinger | 18 | 0 | 1 | 16.5 | 66.7 |
| 23 | Chase Elliott | 27 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 69.7 |
| 24 | Connor Zilisch | 15 | 0 | 7 | 12.2 | 62.1 |
| 25 | John H. Nemechek | 19 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 62.5 |
| 26 | Cole Custer | 17 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 60 |
| 27 | Chase BriscoeDNF | 26 | 0 | 6 | 16.7 | 62.9 |
| 28 | Zane Smith | 35 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 65.9 |
| 29 | Austin Hill | 25 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 59.4 |
| 30 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr | 31 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 60.5 |
| 31 | Cody Ware | 30 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 58.4 |
| 32 | Erik Jones | 14 | 0 | 1 | -8.5 | 48.3 |
| 33 | Ryan BlaneyWrecked | 29 | 202 | 53 | 78.4 | 71.9 |
| 34 | Riley HerbstDNF | 34 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 50.2 |
| 35 | Alex BowmanWrecked | 6 | 0 | 3 | -21.6 | 34.3 |
| 36 | Ty Dillon | 33 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 43.7 |
| 37 | Josh BilickiDNF | 37 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 37.8 |
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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