Daytona International Speedway, 2026 NASCAR DFS results
Saturday, August 29, 2026 · Winner: Ryan Preece · 166 laps
Race report
Ryan Preece won the Daytona International Speedway from P4 and led 5 laps but had to earn it in a race that stayed up for grabs. Austin Hill actually paced the field with 27 laps led but couldn't close it out.
For DFS, Ricky Stenhouse Jr was the top DraftKings score at 70.3 points, while Daniel Suárez led FanDuel (67.1). Biggest mover: Ricky Stenhouse Jr, P32 to P5 (+27).
The model's pre-race top five (built lookahead-free) was led this week by Tyler Reddick, who finished P3 for 57.2 DK. 1 of the five finished top ten.
This one was chaos, scoring barely correlated with pre-race odds (correlation -0.05), exactly the kind of week where leverage and differentiation win tournaments. 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. Ricky Stenhouse Jr70.3
- 2. Daniel Suárez64.4
- 3. Austin Dillon62.2
- 1. Daniel Suárez67.1
- 2. Ricky Stenhouse Jr66.2
- 3. Tyler Reddick62.1
Biggest mover: Ricky Stenhouse Jr started 32, finished 5 (+27 positions).
How the model did
Its projected top 5 for Daytona International Speedway and the DraftKings points each actually scored:
| 1 | Tyler Reddick | P3 | 57.2 DK |
| 2 | Ryan BlaneyWrecked | P33 | -3.8 DK |
| 3 | Chase Elliott | P23 | 23.7 DK |
| 4 | William Byron | P22 | 16.3 DK |
| 5 | Carson HocevarWrecked | P38 | -4 DK |
Full results & DFS scoring
| Pos | Driver | Start | Led | Fast | DK | FD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ryan Preece | 4 | 5 | 3 | 50.6 | 61.6 |
| 2 | Daniel Suárez | 23 | 0 | 3 | 64.4 | 67.1 |
| 3 | Tyler Reddick | 17 | 5 | 2 | 57.2 | 62.1 |
| 4 | Michael McDowell | 18 | 0 | 6 | 56.7 | 60.6 |
| 5 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr | 32 | 1 | 9 | 70.3 | 66.2 |
| 6 | Austin Cindric | 8 | 6 | 1 | 42 | 53.2 |
| 7 | Austin Dillon | 29 | 0 | 7 | 62.2 | 61.6 |
| 8 | Alex Bowman | 20 | 0 | 1 | 48.5 | 55.6 |
| 9 | Josh Berry | 24 | 1 | 1 | 50.7 | 56.2 |
| 10 | Cole Custer | 16 | 0 | 3 | 41.4 | 50.6 |
| 11 | Denny Hamlin | 30 | 0 | 6 | 53.7 | 56.1 |
| 12 | Harrison Burton | 5 | 0 | 3 | 25.4 | 42.1 |
| 13 | Chase Briscoe | 12 | 10 | 0 | 31.5 | 45.1 |
| 14 | Brad Keselowski | 21 | 10 | 3 | 39.9 | 48.1 |
| 15 | John H. Nemechek | 27 | 2 | 1 | 41 | 48.8 |
| 16 | Corey Heim | 11 | 0 | 2 | 22.9 | 39.1 |
| 17 | Christopher Bell | 35 | 0 | 2 | 44.9 | 49.6 |
| 18 | Joey Logano | 9 | 2 | 0 | 16.5 | 35.3 |
| 19 | Todd Gilliland | 33 | 8 | 5 | 42.3 | 46.4 |
| 20 | Bubba Wallace | 26 | 0 | 2 | 29.9 | 40.6 |
| 21 | Ty Dillon | 31 | 0 | 5 | 33.3 | 41.6 |
| 22 | William Byron | 13 | 14 | 4 | 16.3 | 32.5 |
| 23 | Chase Elliott | 22 | 19 | 2 | 23.7 | 36 |
| 24 | Ross Chastain | 1 | 12 | 5 | 0.3 | 23.3 |
| 25 | Connor Zilisch | 7 | 0 | 6 | 1.7 | 23.6 |
| 26 | Noah Gragson | 37 | 0 | 20 | 36 | 37.1 |
| 27 | Austin Hill | 3 | 27 | 4 | -0.4 | 21.3 |
| 28 | Shane Van Gisbergen | 6 | 6 | 1 | -6 | 19.2 |
| 29 | Daniel Dye | 39 | 0 | 3 | 24.4 | 33.6 |
| 30 | AJ Allmendinger | 36 | 0 | 6 | 20.7 | 30.6 |
| 31 | Kyle Larson | 10 | 2 | 2 | -9.6 | 16.3 |
| 32 | Zane SmithWrecked | 34 | 15 | 3 | 16.1 | 28 |
| 33 | Ryan BlaneyWrecked | 19 | 5 | 2 | -3.8 | 18 |
| 34 | Ty GibbsWrecked | 14 | 1 | 2 | -11.8 | 13.6 |
| 35 | Cody WareWrecked | 25 | 8 | 3 | -0.6 | 18.3 |
| 36 | Joey Gase | 40 | 0 | 4 | 10.8 | 23.5 |
| 37 | Casey Mears | 38 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 21 |
| 38 | Carson HocevarWrecked | 28 | 1 | 6 | -4 | 13.5 |
| 39 | Erik JonesWrecked | 15 | 0 | 1 | -21.5 | 5.4 |
| 40 | Chris Buescher | 2 | 6 | 1 | -35 | -2.3 |
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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