Circuit of The Americas, 2026 NASCAR DFS results
Sunday, March 1, 2026 · Winner: Tyler Reddick · 95 laps
Race report
Tyler Reddick won the Circuit of The Americas from the pole and controlled the race, leading 58 laps of 95.
For DFS, Tyler Reddick was the top DraftKings score at 66.7 points. The tournament-defining value came from Kyle Larson, up from P15 to P6 for 49.3 DK off 9 spots of place differential.
The model's pre-race top five (built lookahead-free) was led this week by Tyler Reddick, who finished P1 for 66.7 DK. 3 of the five ran top ten, a clean read on the day.
Scoring roughly followed the board (correlation 0.32), 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. Tyler Reddick66.7
- 2. Shane Van Gisbergen56.2
- 3. Kyle Larson49.3
- 1. Tyler Reddick58.3
- 2. Shane Van Gisbergen55.2
- 3. Christopher Bell50
Biggest mover: Kyle Busch started 30, finished 12 (+18 positions).
How the model did
Its projected top 5 for Circuit of The Americas and the DraftKings points each actually scored:
| 1 | Tyler Reddick | P1 | 66.7 DK |
| 2 | Ross Chastain | P35 | -21.9 DK |
| 3 | Chase BriscoeDNF | P37 | -26.6 DK |
| 4 | AJ Allmendinger | P9 | 33.3 DK |
| 5 | Christopher Bell | P3 | 48.3 DK |
Full results & DFS scoring
| Pos | Driver | Start | Led | Fast | DK | FD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tyler Reddick | 1 | 58 | 16 | 66.7 | 58.3 |
| 2 | Shane Van Gisbergen | 13 | 2 | 6 | 56.2 | 55.2 |
| 3 | Christopher Bell | 8 | 0 | 5 | 48.3 | 50 |
| 4 | Ty Gibbs | 9 | 5 | 4 | 48.1 | 49.5 |
| 5 | Michael McDowell | 6 | 5 | 3 | 42.6 | 46.5 |
| 6 | Kyle Larson | 15 | 0 | 5 | 49.3 | 49 |
| 7 | Chase Elliott | 5 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 42.5 |
| 8 | Ryan Blaney | 4 | 11 | 16 | 42 | 41.6 |
| 9 | AJ Allmendinger | 7 | 1 | 0 | 33.3 | 40.6 |
| 10 | Denny Hamlin | 19 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 45 |
| 11 | Bubba Wallace | 24 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 46 |
| 12 | Kyle Busch | 30 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 47.5 |
| 13 | William Byron | 10 | 1 | 0 | 27.3 | 36.1 |
| 14 | Connor Zilisch | 25 | 0 | 6 | 42.7 | 42 |
| 15 | Joey Logano | 20 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 38 |
| 16 | Ty Dillon | 21 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 37 |
| 17 | John H. Nemechek | 31 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 40.5 |
| 18 | Ryan Preece | 29 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 38 |
| 19 | Austin Dillon | 33 | 0 | 1 | 38.5 | 38.5 |
| 20 | Brad Keselowski | 26 | 0 | 1 | 29.5 | 33.5 |
| 21 | Todd Gilliland | 17 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 27.5 |
| 22 | Noah Gragson | 35 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 35 |
| 23 | Riley Herbst | 32 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 32 |
| 24 | Chris Buescher | 14 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 21.5 |
| 25 | Daniel Suárez | 23 | 0 | 2 | 15.9 | 24.5 |
| 26 | Josh Berry | 22 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 22.5 |
| 27 | Jesse Love | 27 | 0 | 1 | 15.5 | 23.5 |
| 28 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr | 34 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 25.5 |
| 29 | Cole Custer | 18 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16 |
| 30 | Cody Ware | 37 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 24 |
| 31 | Carson Hocevar | 12 | 0 | 0 | -9 | 10 |
| 32 | Austin Cindric | 28 | 0 | 1 | 5.5 | 16.5 |
| 33 | Zane Smith | 11 | 0 | 1 | -13.5 | 6.5 |
| 34 | Erik Jones | 36 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 17.3 |
| 35 | Ross Chastain | 2 | 4 | 9 | -21.9 | -0.8 |
| 36 | Alex Bowman | 16 | 0 | 0 | -15 | 3.9 |
| 37 | Chase BriscoeDNF | 3 | 8 | 3 | -26.6 | -6 |
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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