Darlington Raceway, 2026 NASCAR DFS results
Sunday, March 22, 2026 · Winner: Tyler Reddick · 293 laps
Race report
Tyler Reddick won the Darlington Raceway from the pole and led 77 laps but had to earn it in a race that stayed up for grabs. Brad Keselowski actually paced the field with 142 laps led but couldn't close it out.
For DFS, Tyler Reddick was the top DraftKings score at 100.3 points, while Brad Keselowski led FanDuel (85). The tournament-defining value came from Ty Gibbs, up from P28 to P6 for 60.7 DK off 22 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 100.3 DK. 1 of the five finished top ten.
Scoring roughly followed the board (correlation 0.47), 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. Tyler Reddick100.3
- 2. Brad Keselowski98.5
- 3. Ty Gibbs60.7
- 1. Brad Keselowski85
- 2. Tyler Reddick80
- 3. Ty Gibbs75.4
Biggest mover: Ty Gibbs started 28, finished 6 (+22 positions).
How the model did
Its projected top 5 for Darlington Raceway and the DraftKings points each actually scored:
| 1 | Tyler Reddick | P1 | 100.3 DK |
| 2 | Kyle Larson | P32 | -9 DK |
| 3 | Chase Elliott | P15 | 19.3 DK |
| 4 | Bubba Wallace | P34 | -23.6 DK |
| 5 | Denny Hamlin | P11 | 34.5 DK |
Full results & DFS scoring
| Pos | Driver | Start | Led | Fast | DK | FD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tyler Reddick | 1 | 77 | 80 | 100.3 | 80 |
| 2 | Brad Keselowski | 5 | 142 | 40 | 98.5 | 85 |
| 3 | Ryan Blaney | 7 | 0 | 10 | 49.5 | 69.3 |
| 4 | Carson Hocevar | 16 | 2 | 8 | 56.1 | 72.5 |
| 5 | Austin Cindric | 12 | 0 | 5 | 48.3 | 68.8 |
| 6 | Ty Gibbs | 28 | 1 | 1 | 60.7 | 75.4 |
| 7 | Daniel Suárez | 11 | 0 | 4 | 42.8 | 65.3 |
| 8 | William Byron | 13 | 0 | 8 | 44.6 | 64.8 |
| 9 | Chris Buescher | 6 | 41 | 12 | 47.7 | 63.9 |
| 10 | Erik Jones | 24 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 67.3 |
| 11 | Denny Hamlin | 9 | 0 | 10 | 34.5 | 58.3 |
| 12 | Chase Briscoe | 23 | 4 | 9 | 47.1 | 64.2 |
| 13 | Ryan Preece | 17 | 0 | 1 | 34.5 | 59.3 |
| 14 | Shane Van Gisbergen | 33 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 65.8 |
| 15 | Chase Elliott | 3 | 6 | 4 | 19.3 | 49.9 |
| 16 | Ross Chastain | 25 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 58.8 |
| 17 | Josh Berry | 26 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 57.8 |
| 18 | Connor Zilisch | 32 | 0 | 1 | 39.5 | 59.3 |
| 19 | Christopher Bell | 22 | 0 | 3 | 28.4 | 52.7 |
| 20 | Michael McDowell | 20 | 0 | 3 | 24.4 | 50.2 |
| 21 | Kyle Busch | 8 | 0 | 1 | 8.5 | 42.7 |
| 22 | Zane Smith | 19 | 0 | 4 | 18.8 | 46.7 |
| 23 | Todd Gilliland | 31 | 0 | 2 | 27.9 | 51.2 |
| 24 | Justin Allgaier | 15 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 41.7 |
| 25 | Austin Dillon | 10 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 37.7 |
| 26 | Noah Gragson | 30 | 0 | 2 | 20.9 | 46.1 |
| 27 | John H. Nemechek | 21 | 0 | 4 | 10.8 | 40.1 |
| 28 | Cole Custer | 35 | 0 | 3 | 22.4 | 45.6 |
| 29 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr | 18 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 35.6 |
| 30 | AJ Allmendinger | 27 | 0 | 29 | 22.1 | 38.6 |
| 31 | Ty Dillon | 36 | 0 | 1 | 15.5 | 41.6 |
| 32 | Kyle Larson | 4 | 20 | 11 | -9 | 26.1 |
| 33 | Joey Logano | 29 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 35 |
| 34 | Bubba Wallace | 2 | 0 | 3 | -23.6 | 19.8 |
| 35 | Riley Herbst | 14 | 0 | 3 | -13.6 | 24.3 |
| 36 | Cody Ware | 34 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 32.5 |
| 37 | Timmy HillDNF | 37 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9.2 |
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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