Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 2026 NASCAR DFS results
Sunday, July 26, 2026 · Winner: Corey Heim · 160 laps
Race report
Corey Heim won the Indianapolis Motor Speedway from P7 and led the most laps on the day (58).
For DFS, Corey Heim was the top DraftKings score at 70.5 points. The tournament-defining value came from Christopher Bell, up from P23 to P2 for 66.2 DK off 21 spots of place differential.
The model's pre-race top five (built lookahead-free) was led this week by Denny Hamlin, who finished P5 for 47.9 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 0.56), so the favorites largely delivered.
Auto-generated from the official results and the model’s pre-race projection.
- 1. Corey Heim70.5
- 2. Christopher Bell66.2
- 3. Ryan Preece62.3
- 1. Corey Heim67.8
- 2. Christopher Bell66.5
- 3. Ryan Preece62.1
Biggest mover: Ryan Preece started 34, finished 8 (+26 positions).
How the model did
Its projected top 5 for Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the DraftKings points each actually scored:
| 1 | Denny Hamlin | P5 | 47.9 DK |
| 2 | Tyler Reddick | P10 | 29.5 DK |
| 3 | Carson Hocevar | P9 | 40.6 DK |
| 4 | Kyle LarsonWrecked | P39 | -25.2 DK |
| 5 | Ty Gibbs | P12 | 43.5 DK |
Full results & DFS scoring
| Pos | Driver | Start | Led | Fast | DK | FD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Corey Heim | 7 | 58 | 11 | 70.5 | 67.8 |
| 2 | Christopher Bell | 23 | 0 | 7 | 66.2 | 66.5 |
| 3 | Joey Logano | 19 | 0 | 10 | 61.5 | 62 |
| 4 | Chase Briscoe | 11 | 1 | 3 | 48.6 | 56.6 |
| 5 | Denny Hamlin | 5 | 14 | 12 | 47.9 | 53.4 |
| 6 | Brad Keselowski | 16 | 0 | 4 | 49.8 | 56 |
| 7 | Josh Berry | 26 | 1 | 0 | 56.3 | 59.6 |
| 8 | Ryan Preece | 34 | 1 | 0 | 62.3 | 62.1 |
| 9 | Carson Hocevar | 1 | 31 | 13 | 40.6 | 47.1 |
| 10 | Tyler Reddick | 3 | 1 | 5 | 29.5 | 43.6 |
| 11 | Chris Buescher | 15 | 0 | 2 | 36.9 | 48 |
| 12 | Ty Gibbs | 4 | 46 | 20 | 43.5 | 45.6 |
| 13 | Cole Custer | 12 | 0 | 1 | 29.5 | 43.5 |
| 14 | Austin Cindric | 35 | 0 | 1 | 50.5 | 53.5 |
| 15 | Zane Smith | 30 | 0 | 1 | 43.5 | 49.5 |
| 16 | Shane Van Gisbergen | 25 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 45.5 |
| 17 | Daniel Suárez | 2 | 1 | 7 | 14.4 | 32.6 |
| 18 | Michael McDowell | 6 | 0 | 4 | 14.8 | 33 |
| 19 | Alex Bowman | 8 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 32.5 |
| 20 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr | 24 | 0 | 1 | 27.5 | 39 |
| 21 | William Byron | 21 | 0 | 9 | 25.1 | 36 |
| 22 | Noah Gragson | 33 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 40.5 |
| 23 | Ross Chastain | 22 | 5 | 1 | 19.7 | 34 |
| 24 | Todd Gilliland | 36 | 0 | 1 | 30.5 | 39 |
| 25 | AJ Allmendinger | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 24 |
| 26 | Ryan Blaney | 13 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 24.5 |
| 27 | Erik Jones | 14 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 23.5 |
| 28 | Bubba Wallace | 29 | 0 | 3 | 16.4 | 29.5 |
| 29 | Austin Dillon | 20 | 0 | 5 | 6.3 | 23.5 |
| 30 | Ty Dillon | 28 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 26 |
| 31 | Cody Ware | 37 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 29 |
| 32 | John H. Nemechek | 17 | 1 | 0 | -5.7 | 17.4 |
| 33 | Austin HillWrecked | 32 | 0 | 1 | 7.5 | 20 |
| 34 | Connor ZilischWrecked | 31 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 17.7 |
| 35 | Casey MearsWrecked | 38 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 19.6 |
| 36 | Riley HerbstWrecked | 18 | 0 | 0 | -13 | 8 |
| 37 | Chase Elliott | 27 | 0 | 0 | -6 | 10.9 |
| 38 | Daniel DyeWrecked | 39 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 12.8 |
| 39 | Kyle LarsonWrecked | 10 | 0 | 4 | -25.2 | -8.2 |
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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