Darlington Raceway, 2026 NASCAR DFS results
Sunday, September 6, 2026 · Winner: Christopher Bell · 367 laps
Race report
Christopher Bell won the Darlington Raceway from P11 and led 46 laps but had to earn it in a race that stayed up for grabs. Kyle Larson actually paced the field with 99 laps led but couldn't close it out.
For DFS, Kyle Larson was the top DraftKings score at 110.3 points. Biggest mover: Ty Gibbs, P28 to P2 (+26).
The model's pre-race top five (built lookahead-free) was led this week by Christopher Bell, who finished P1 for 78.2 DK. 3 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 0.69), so the favorites largely delivered.
Auto-generated from the official results and the model’s pre-race projection.
- 1. Kyle Larson110.3
- 2. Christopher Bell78.2
- 3. Ty Gibbs74.3
- 1. Kyle Larson92.6
- 2. Ty Gibbs89.7
- 3. Christopher Bell89.3
Biggest mover: Ty Gibbs started 28, finished 2 (+26 positions).
How the model did
Its projected top 5 for Darlington Raceway and the DraftKings points each actually scored:
| 1 | Tyler Reddick | P3 | 69.7 DK |
| 2 | Denny Hamlin | P18 | 45.6 DK |
| 3 | Christopher Bell | P1 | 78.2 DK |
| 4 | Chase Briscoe | P6 | 53.3 DK |
| 5 | Daniel Suárez | P21 | 3.9 DK |
Full results & DFS scoring
| Pos | Driver | Start | Led | Fast | DK | FD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christopher Bell | 11 | 46 | 26 | 78.2 | 89.3 |
| 2 | Ty Gibbs | 28 | 0 | 14 | 74.3 | 89.7 |
| 3 | Tyler Reddick | 1 | 74 | 27 | 69.7 | 81.1 |
| 4 | Ryan Blaney | 24 | 1 | 13 | 66.1 | 83.8 |
| 5 | Kyle Larson | 25 | 99 | 59 | 110.3 | 92.6 |
| 6 | Chase Briscoe | 7 | 30 | 15 | 53.3 | 75.2 |
| 7 | Josh Berry | 14 | 0 | 13 | 49.9 | 74.2 |
| 8 | Bubba Wallace | 17 | 38 | 13 | 60.4 | 78 |
| 9 | Joey Logano | 13 | 0 | 2 | 39.9 | 70.7 |
| 10 | Ryan Preece | 3 | 0 | 2 | 27.9 | 64.2 |
| 11 | Carson Hocevar | 34 | 2 | 2 | 56.4 | 78.4 |
| 12 | Alex Bowman | 10 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 64.7 |
| 13 | Austin Cindric | 6 | 0 | 7 | 26.2 | 61.2 |
| 14 | Chase Elliott | 18 | 1 | 7 | 36.4 | 65.8 |
| 15 | Erik Jones | 36 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 73.2 |
| 16 | Todd Gilliland | 21 | 5 | 2 | 34.2 | 64.7 |
| 17 | Michael McDowell | 5 | 0 | 4 | 15.8 | 54.7 |
| 18 | Denny Hamlin | 4 | 68 | 39 | 45.6 | 59.5 |
| 19 | Corey Heim | 22 | 0 | 5 | 29.3 | 60.2 |
| 20 | Chris Buescher | 35 | 0 | 1 | 38.5 | 65.2 |
| 21 | Daniel Suárez | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3.9 | 47.4 |
| 22 | AJ Allmendinger | 30 | 0 | 7 | 31.2 | 59.7 |
| 23 | Brad Keselowski | 12 | 0 | 4 | 9.8 | 49.2 |
| 24 | John H. Nemechek | 19 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 51.2 |
| 25 | Zane Smith | 33 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 56.7 |
| 26 | Shane Van Gisbergen | 26 | 1 | 10 | 20.8 | 51.7 |
| 27 | Ross Chastain | 23 | 0 | 5 | 13.3 | 48.6 |
| 28 | Austin Hill | 32 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 51.6 |
| 29 | Austin Dillon | 9 | 0 | 0 | -7 | 38.6 |
| 30 | Riley Herbst | 15 | 0 | 1 | -2.5 | 40.1 |
| 31 | Ty Dillon | 27 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 44.6 |
| 32 | Noah Gragson | 29 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 44.1 |
| 33 | Cole Custer | 16 | 0 | 30 | 4.5 | 36.1 |
| 34 | Connor Zilisch | 31 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 42 |
| 35 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr | 8 | 0 | 0 | -21 | 28.8 |
| 36 | Cody Ware | 37 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 41.8 |
| 37 | William ByronDNF | 20 | 0 | 5 | -10.7 | 27.4 |
| 38 | Chad FinchumDNF | 38 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 27.3 |
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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