Kansas Speedway, 2026 NASCAR DFS results
Sunday, April 19, 2026 · Winner: Tyler Reddick · 274 laps
Race report
Tyler Reddick won the Kansas Speedway from the pole and led 10 laps but had to earn it in a race that stayed up for grabs. Denny Hamlin actually paced the field with 131 laps led but couldn't close it out.
For DFS, Denny Hamlin was the top DraftKings score at 86.5 points. The tournament-defining value came from Brad Keselowski, up from P21 to P6 for 54.4 DK off 15 spots of place differential.
The model's pre-race top five (built lookahead-free) was led this week by Denny Hamlin, who finished P4 for 86.5 DK. 4 of the five ran top ten, a clean read on the day.
Scoring roughly followed the board (correlation 0.46), 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. Denny Hamlin86.5
- 2. Kyle Larson73.9
- 3. Tyler Reddick57.4
- 1. Denny Hamlin76.5
- 2. Kyle Larson76.2
- 3. Tyler Reddick71.4
Biggest mover: Austin Cindric started 34, finished 12 (+22 positions).
How the model did
Its projected top 5 for Kansas Speedway and the DraftKings points each actually scored:
| 1 | Denny Hamlin | P4 | 86.5 DK |
| 2 | Tyler Reddick | P1 | 57.4 DK |
| 3 | Kyle Larson | P2 | 73.9 DK |
| 4 | Ty Gibbs | P9 | 30.8 DK |
| 5 | Ryan Blaney | P24 | 3.5 DK |
Full results & DFS scoring
| Pos | Driver | Start | Led | Fast | DK | FD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tyler Reddick | 1 | 10 | 22 | 57.4 | 71.4 |
| 2 | Kyle Larson | 4 | 78 | 23 | 73.9 | 76.2 |
| 3 | Chase Briscoe | 5 | 0 | 4 | 44.8 | 66.4 |
| 4 | Denny Hamlin | 2 | 131 | 35 | 86.5 | 76.5 |
| 5 | Bubba Wallace | 10 | 0 | 7 | 47.2 | 65.9 |
| 6 | Brad Keselowski | 21 | 0 | 3 | 54.4 | 69.9 |
| 7 | William Byron | 14 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 64.9 |
| 8 | Chase Elliott | 13 | 0 | 9 | 45.1 | 62.9 |
| 9 | Ty Gibbs | 3 | 0 | 4 | 30.8 | 56.4 |
| 10 | Chris Buescher | 7 | 1 | 4 | 33.1 | 57 |
| 11 | Ryan Preece | 12 | 0 | 1 | 33.5 | 57.9 |
| 12 | Austin Cindric | 34 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 67.4 |
| 13 | Carson Hocevar | 6 | 6 | 20 | 33.5 | 52.5 |
| 14 | Riley Herbst | 22 | 0 | 2 | 37.9 | 58.4 |
| 15 | Corey Heim | 24 | 0 | 4 | 38.8 | 57.9 |
| 16 | Austin Dillon | 20 | 0 | 1 | 31.5 | 54.4 |
| 17 | Todd Gilliland | 26 | 0 | 4 | 36.8 | 55.9 |
| 18 | Alex Bowman | 33 | 0 | 2 | 40.9 | 57.9 |
| 19 | Daniel Suárez | 8 | 1 | 0 | 13.3 | 44 |
| 20 | Christopher Bell | 11 | 47 | 14 | 32.1 | 48.5 |
| 21 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr | 16 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 44.8 |
| 22 | John H. Nemechek | 32 | 0 | 1 | 30.5 | 51.3 |
| 23 | Erik Jones | 19 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 43.3 |
| 24 | Ryan Blaney | 9 | 0 | 1 | 3.5 | 36.8 |
| 25 | Cole Custer | 29 | 0 | 18 | 29.1 | 45.3 |
| 26 | Ross Chastain | 31 | 0 | 17 | 28.7 | 44.7 |
| 27 | Josh Berry | 30 | 0 | 4 | 19.8 | 42.7 |
| 28 | Noah Gragson | 28 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 40.2 |
| 29 | Connor Zilisch | 36 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 42.7 |
| 30 | Joey Logano | 15 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 30.7 |
| 31 | AJ Allmendinger | 27 | 0 | 23 | 16.4 | 35.1 |
| 32 | Zane Smith | 25 | 0 | 12 | 7.4 | 32.6 |
| 33 | Ty Dillon | 37 | 0 | 3 | 13.4 | 37.1 |
| 34 | Michael McDowell | 18 | 0 | 3 | -7.6 | 26.1 |
| 35 | Kyle Busch | 23 | 0 | 1 | -5.5 | 27 |
| 36 | Shane Van Gisbergen | 17 | 0 | 0 | -14 | 22.5 |
| 37 | Cody Ware | 35 | 0 | 8 | 5.6 | 29.8 |
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