Chicagoland Speedway, 2026 NASCAR DFS results
Sunday, July 5, 2026 · Winner: Chase Briscoe · 267 laps
Race report
Chase Briscoe won the Chicagoland Speedway from P7 and led 51 laps but had to earn it in a race that stayed up for grabs. William Byron actually paced the field with 94 laps led but couldn't close it out.
For DFS, William Byron was the top DraftKings score at 85.3 points, while Chase Briscoe led FanDuel (77.8). The tournament-defining value came from Corey Heim, up from P28 to P9 for 55.2 DK off 19 spots of place differential.
The model's pre-race top five (built lookahead-free) was led this week by William Byron, who finished P4 for 85.3 DK. 3 of the five ran top ten, a clean read on the day.
Scoring roughly followed the board (correlation 0.36), favorites paid, but there was room for a leverage play or two. Expected for a superspeedway/road-course slate, where variance runs high.
Auto-generated from the official results and the model’s pre-race projection.
- 1. William Byron85.3
- 2. Chase Briscoe71.9
- 3. Denny Hamlin70.8
- 1. Chase Briscoe77.8
- 2. William Byron76.1
- 3. Christopher Bell68.8
Biggest mover: Corey Heim started 28, finished 9 (+19 positions).
How the model did
Its projected top 5 for Chicagoland Speedway and the DraftKings points each actually scored:
| 1 | Denny Hamlin | P3 | 70.8 DK |
| 2 | Kyle Larson | P34 | -12.5 DK |
| 3 | Christopher Bell | P2 | 53 DK |
| 4 | William Byron | P4 | 85.3 DK |
| 5 | Chris Buescher | P19 | 10.3 DK |
Full results & DFS scoring
| Pos | Driver | Start | Led | Fast | DK | FD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chase Briscoe | 7 | 51 | 18 | 71.9 | 77.8 |
| 2 | Christopher Bell | 6 | 1 | 15 | 53 | 68.8 |
| 3 | Denny Hamlin | 1 | 30 | 54 | 70.8 | 66.7 |
| 4 | William Byron | 10 | 94 | 35 | 85.3 | 76.1 |
| 5 | Alex Bowman | 12 | 0 | 2 | 46.9 | 66.2 |
| 6 | Bubba Wallace | 8 | 35 | 25 | 60 | 66.2 |
| 7 | Ryan Blaney | 14 | 8 | 1 | 46.5 | 65 |
| 8 | Ty Gibbs | 5 | 0 | 9 | 37.1 | 58.2 |
| 9 | Corey Heim | 28 | 1 | 2 | 55.2 | 68.3 |
| 10 | Riley Herbst | 18 | 0 | 3 | 43.4 | 61.7 |
| 11 | Chase Elliott | 9 | 0 | 2 | 30.9 | 55.7 |
| 12 | Joey Logano | 31 | 1 | 1 | 50.7 | 65.3 |
| 13 | Austin Cindric | 23 | 18 | 3 | 45.9 | 61.5 |
| 14 | Daniel Suárez | 26 | 0 | 1 | 41.5 | 59.7 |
| 15 | Erik Jones | 22 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 56.2 |
| 16 | Todd Gilliland | 29 | 1 | 0 | 40.3 | 58.3 |
| 17 | AJ Allmendinger | 11 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 47.6 |
| 18 | Ross Chastain | 19 | 0 | 1 | 26.5 | 50.1 |
| 19 | Chris Buescher | 3 | 0 | 5 | 10.3 | 40.6 |
| 20 | Ty Dillon | 27 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 51.1 |
| 21 | Brad Keselowski | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 38.1 |
| 22 | Carson Hocevar | 15 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 42.1 |
| 23 | John H. Nemechek | 17 | 0 | 1 | 13.5 | 41.6 |
| 24 | Austin Dillon | 25 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 44.1 |
| 25 | Shane Van Gisbergen | 30 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 45.1 |
| 26 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr | 24 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 40.6 |
| 27 | Noah Gragson | 32 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 43.1 |
| 28 | Zane Smith | 16 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 33.6 |
| 29 | Michael McDowell | 38 | 0 | 6 | 24.7 | 43.1 |
| 30 | Cody Ware | 37 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 41.1 |
| 31 | Cole Custer | 33 | 2 | 0 | 12.5 | 37.8 |
| 32 | Ryan Preece | 20 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 29.6 |
| 33 | Josh Berry | 34 | 0 | 1 | 9.5 | 35 |
| 34 | Kyle Larson | 2 | 23 | 15 | -12.5 | 19.8 |
| 35 | JJ Yeley | 36 | 2 | 0 | 7.5 | 32.3 |
| 36 | Tyler Reddick | 13 | 0 | 16 | -10.8 | 17.2 |
| 37 | Austin HillWrecked | 35 | 0 | 1 | 2.5 | 7.7 |
| 38 | Connor ZilischWrecked | 21 | 0 | 0 | -14 | -5.5 |
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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