EchoPark Speedway, 2026 NASCAR DFS results
Sunday, July 12, 2026 · Winner: Ryan Blaney · 263 laps
Race report
Ryan Blaney won the EchoPark Speedway from the pole and controlled the race, leading 171 laps of 263.
For DFS, Ryan Blaney was the top DraftKings score at 91.4 points. The tournament-defining value came from Christopher Bell, up from P32 to P2 for 74.6 DK off 30 spots of place differential.
The model's pre-race top five (built lookahead-free) was led this week by Ryan Blaney, who finished P1 for 91.4 DK. 3 of the five ran top ten, a clean read on the day.
Scoring roughly followed the board (correlation 0.49), 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. Ryan Blaney91.4
- 2. Christopher Bell74.6
- 3. Tyler Reddick71.8
- 1. Ryan Blaney86.4
- 2. Christopher Bell81.8
- 3. Ty Gibbs76
Biggest mover: Christopher Bell started 32, finished 2 (+30 positions).
How the model did
Its projected top 5 for EchoPark Speedway and the DraftKings points each actually scored:
| 1 | Tyler Reddick | P8 | 71.8 DK |
| 2 | Ryan Blaney | P1 | 91.4 DK |
| 3 | Chase Elliott | P13 | 26.6 DK |
| 4 | William Byron | P16 | 37.9 DK |
| 5 | Carson Hocevar | P3 | 65.5 DK |
Full results & DFS scoring
| Pos | Driver | Start | Led | Fast | DK | FD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ryan Blaney | 1 | 171 | 8 | 91.4 | 86.4 |
| 2 | Christopher Bell | 32 | 5 | 3 | 74.6 | 81.8 |
| 3 | Carson Hocevar | 14 | 25 | 16 | 65.5 | 72.3 |
| 4 | Ty Gibbs | 23 | 32 | 8 | 70.6 | 76 |
| 5 | Erik Jones | 11 | 0 | 4 | 46.8 | 65.3 |
| 6 | Shane Van Gisbergen | 12 | 0 | 8 | 47.6 | 64.3 |
| 7 | Austin Dillon | 4 | 0 | 9 | 38.1 | 58.8 |
| 8 | Tyler Reddick | 31 | 8 | 24 | 71.8 | 71.6 |
| 9 | Joey Logano | 2 | 0 | 5 | 30.3 | 54.8 |
| 10 | Chris Buescher | 13 | 0 | 6 | 39.7 | 58.8 |
| 11 | Ross Chastain | 9 | 0 | 5 | 32.3 | 55.3 |
| 12 | Denny Hamlin | 28 | 0 | 3 | 48.4 | 63.3 |
| 13 | Chase Elliott | 7 | 5 | 3 | 26.6 | 51.8 |
| 14 | Austin Cindric | 8 | 0 | 10 | 27.5 | 50.3 |
| 15 | Michael McDowell | 18 | 0 | 3 | 32.4 | 53.8 |
| 16 | William Byron | 26 | 0 | 2 | 37.9 | 56.3 |
| 17 | Cole Custer | 33 | 0 | 3 | 43.4 | 58.3 |
| 18 | John H. Nemechek | 24 | 0 | 4 | 32.8 | 52.3 |
| 19 | Todd Gilliland | 21 | 0 | 1 | 26.5 | 49.3 |
| 20 | Ty Dillon | 16 | 0 | 4 | 20.8 | 45.3 |
| 21 | Daniel Suárez | 5 | 0 | 6 | 7.7 | 38.3 |
| 22 | Alex Bowman | 6 | 0 | 3 | 5.4 | 37.3 |
| 23 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr | 15 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 40.3 |
| 24 | Ryan Preece | 19 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 40.9 |
| 25 | Josh Berry | 17 | 1 | 4 | 11.1 | 38.4 |
| 26 | Brad Keselowski | 10 | 0 | 3 | 1.4 | 33.3 |
| 27 | Noah Gragson | 36 | 0 | 3 | 25.4 | 44.8 |
| 28 | Connor Zilisch | 25 | 0 | 2 | 11.9 | 37.8 |
| 29 | Bubba Wallace | 22 | 11 | 6 | 11.5 | 35.9 |
| 30 | Zane Smith | 34 | 0 | 3 | 17.4 | 39.2 |
| 31 | Austin Hill | 30 | 0 | 5 | 11.3 | 35.6 |
| 32 | Cody Ware | 35 | 0 | 3 | 13.4 | 36.4 |
| 33 | Chad Finchum | 38 | 0 | 1 | 13.5 | 36.4 |
| 34 | Kyle Larson | 3 | 4 | 11 | -18 | 17.7 |
| 35 | Riley HerbstWrecked | 29 | 0 | 6 | 2.7 | 28.5 |
| 36 | Chase BriscoeWrecked | 20 | 0 | 10 | -6.5 | 22.4 |
| 37 | AJ AllmendingerWrecked | 27 | 0 | 4 | -4.2 | 22 |
| 38 | BJ McLeodDNF | 37 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13 |
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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