Iowa Speedway, 2026 NASCAR DFS results
Sunday, August 9, 2026 · Winner: Ty Gibbs · 350 laps
Race report
Ty Gibbs won the Iowa Speedway from P6 and led 20 laps but had to earn it in a race that stayed up for grabs. Ryan Blaney actually paced the field with 129 laps led but couldn't close it out.
For DFS, Christopher Bell was the top DraftKings score at 115.1 points. Biggest mover: Denny Hamlin, P29 to P5 (+24).
The model's pre-race top five (built lookahead-free) was led this week by Ryan Blaney, who finished P3 for 101 DK. 1 of the five finished top ten.
Scoring roughly followed the board (correlation 0.40), 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. Christopher Bell115.1
- 2. Ryan Blaney101
- 3. Denny Hamlin69.3
- 1. Christopher Bell95.8
- 2. Ryan Blaney84.9
- 3. Denny Hamlin83
Biggest mover: Denny Hamlin started 29, finished 5 (+24 positions).
How the model did
Its projected top 5 for Iowa Speedway and the DraftKings points each actually scored:
| 1 | Kyle Larson | P33 | -17.1 DK |
| 2 | Ryan Blaney | P3 | 101 DK |
| 3 | Tyler ReddickWrecked | P36 | -26 DK |
| 4 | Joey Logano | P14 | 25.7 DK |
| 5 | Brad Keselowski | P27 | -4.4 DK |
Full results & DFS scoring
| Pos | Driver | Start | Led | Fast | DK | FD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ty Gibbs | 6 | 20 | 26 | 66.7 | 82.5 |
| 2 | Christopher Bell | 22 | 108 | 58 | 115.1 | 95.8 |
| 3 | Ryan Blaney | 1 | 129 | 66 | 101 | 84.9 |
| 4 | Josh Berry | 13 | 0 | 6 | 51.7 | 76.5 |
| 5 | Denny Hamlin | 29 | 0 | 14 | 69.3 | 83 |
| 6 | Chase Briscoe | 20 | 0 | 15 | 58.8 | 77 |
| 7 | Ross Chastain | 9 | 40 | 12 | 54.4 | 74 |
| 8 | AJ Allmendinger | 25 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 76.5 |
| 9 | William Byron | 19 | 0 | 2 | 45.9 | 72 |
| 10 | Austin Dillon | 7 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 64.5 |
| 11 | Connor Zilisch | 8 | 0 | 1 | 29.5 | 63.4 |
| 12 | Bubba Wallace | 26 | 35 | 25 | 65 | 74.4 |
| 13 | Chris Buescher | 27 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 69.9 |
| 14 | Joey Logano | 3 | 0 | 17 | 25.7 | 56.4 |
| 15 | Chase Elliott | 32 | 18 | 4 | 51.3 | 71.2 |
| 16 | Zane Smith | 14 | 0 | 1 | 25.5 | 58.9 |
| 17 | Noah Gragson | 15 | 0 | 4 | 25.8 | 57.9 |
| 18 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr | 16 | 0 | 1 | 23.5 | 56.9 |
| 19 | John H. Nemechek | 21 | 0 | 12 | 31.4 | 57.9 |
| 20 | Ryan Preece | 35 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 63.4 |
| 21 | Riley Herbst | 28 | 0 | 7 | 31.2 | 58.4 |
| 22 | Todd Gilliland | 17 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 51.4 |
| 23 | Daniel Suárez | 33 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 57.9 |
| 24 | Ty Dillon | 31 | 0 | 1 | 25.5 | 55.4 |
| 25 | Michael McDowell | 11 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 43.9 |
| 26 | Austin Hill | 24 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 48.9 |
| 27 | Brad Keselowski | 4 | 0 | 8 | -4.4 | 37.3 |
| 28 | Cole Custer | 36 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 51.8 |
| 29 | Austin Cindric | 12 | 0 | 1 | -3.5 | 38.3 |
| 30 | Shane Van Gisbergen | 23 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 42.2 |
| 31 | Carson Hocevar | 18 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 38.2 |
| 32 | Cody Ware | 34 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 44.7 |
| 33 | Kyle Larson | 2 | 0 | 13 | -17.1 | 25.7 |
| 34 | Alex BowmanWrecked | 30 | 0 | 2 | 3.9 | 24.4 |
| 35 | Erik JonesWrecked | 10 | 0 | 0 | -19 | -6.1 |
| 36 | Tyler ReddickWrecked | 5 | 0 | 0 | -26 | -10.2 |
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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