Kansas Speedway, 2026 NASCAR DFS results
Sunday, September 27, 2026 · Winner: Kyle Larson · 267 laps
Top pick Kyle Larson finished P1 · 144.4 DKProjected five captured 89% of the perfect lineup
Race report
Kyle Larson won the Kansas Speedway from the front row area (P2) and controlled the race, leading 235 laps of 267.
For DFS, Kyle Larson was the top DraftKings score at 144.4 points. The tournament-defining value came from Chase Briscoe, up from P23 to P4 for 74.7 DK off 19 spots of place differential.
The model's pre-race top five (built lookahead-free) scored best through Kyle Larson, who finished P1 for 144.4 DK. 4 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 0.61), so the favorites largely delivered.
Auto-generated from the official results and the model’s pre-race projection.
- 1. Kyle Larson144.4
- 2. Chase Briscoe74.7
- 3. Ryan Blaney70.8
- 1. Kyle Larson93.7
- 2. Chase Briscoe75.5
- 3. Ryan Blaney73.1
Biggest mover: Ryan Blaney started 25, finished 5 (+20 positions).
How the model did
Its projected top 5 for Kansas Speedway and the DraftKings points each actually scored:
| 1 | Kyle Larson | P1 | 144.4 DK |
| 2 | Denny Hamlin | P3 | 47.2 DK |
| 3 | Christopher Bell | P6 | 43.6 DK |
| 4 | Joey Logano | P20 | 4 DK |
| 5 | William Byron | P7 | 38.5 DK |
Full results & DFS scoring
| Pos | Driver | Start | Led | Fast | DK | FD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kyle Larson | 2 | 235 | 88 | 144.4 | 93.7 |
| 2 | Austin Cindric | 11 | 1 | 30 | 64.8 | 71.3 |
| 3 | Denny Hamlin | 6 | 2 | 6 | 47.2 | 66.4 |
| 4 | Chase Briscoe | 23 | 23 | 22 | 74.7 | 75.5 |
| 5 | Ryan Blaney | 25 | 4 | 24 | 70.8 | 73.1 |
| 6 | Christopher Bell | 3 | 0 | 19 | 43.6 | 60.2 |
| 7 | William Byron | 8 | 0 | 1 | 38.5 | 61.2 |
| 8 | Chase Elliott | 18 | 0 | 4 | 47.8 | 64.7 |
| 9 | Bubba Wallace | 7 | 0 | 17 | 40.7 | 57.7 |
| 10 | Ryan Preece | 9 | 0 | 2 | 33.9 | 57.2 |
| 11 | Tyler Reddick | 15 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 58.7 |
| 12 | Brad Keselowski | 16 | 0 | 2 | 35.9 | 57.7 |
| 13 | John H. Nemechek | 26 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 61.2 |
| 14 | Daniel Suárez | 14 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 53.7 |
| 15 | Ross Chastain | 13 | 1 | 1 | 26.7 | 51.8 |
| 16 | Erik Jones | 30 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 58.7 |
| 17 | Ty Gibbs | 5 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 44.7 |
| 18 | Alex Bowman | 33 | 0 | 2 | 40.9 | 57.2 |
| 19 | Todd Gilliland | 20 | 0 | 3 | 26.4 | 49.2 |
| 20 | Joey Logano | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 38.2 |
| 21 | Austin Dillon | 19 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 45.6 |
| 22 | AJ Allmendinger | 24 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 46.6 |
| 23 | Chris Buescher | 12 | 0 | 1 | 8.5 | 39.1 |
| 24 | Shane Van Gisbergen | 17 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 40.1 |
| 25 | Riley Herbst | 34 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 47.1 |
| 26 | Austin Hill | 32 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 44.6 |
| 27 | Michael McDowell | 22 | 0 | 2 | 10.9 | 38.1 |
| 28 | Ty Dillon | 36 | 0 | 1 | 22.5 | 43.6 |
| 29 | Connor Zilisch | 27 | 1 | 0 | 11.3 | 37.7 |
| 30 | Cole Custer | 29 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 37.1 |
| 31 | Zane Smith | 28 | 0 | 1 | 7.5 | 35.1 |
| 32 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr | 31 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 35.1 |
| 33 | Carson Hocevar | 4 | 0 | 4 | -19.2 | 19.9 |
| 34 | Cody Ware | 35 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 33.7 |
| 35 | Josh Berry | 10 | 0 | 5 | -16.7 | 19.2 |
| 36 | Noah GragsonDNF | 21 | 0 | 0 | -10 | 8.7 |
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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