Las Vegas Motor Speedway, 2026 NASCAR DFS results
Sunday, March 15, 2026 · Winner: Denny Hamlin · 267 laps
Race report
Denny Hamlin won the Las Vegas Motor Speedway from the front row area (P2) and led the most laps on the day (134).
For DFS, Denny Hamlin was the top DraftKings score at 100.7 points. The tournament-defining value came from Chase Elliott, up from P15 to P2 for 61.8 DK off 13 spots of place differential.
The model's pre-race top five (built lookahead-free) was led this week by Denny Hamlin, who finished P1 for 100.7 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 0.74), so the favorites largely delivered.
Auto-generated from the official results and the model’s pre-race projection.
- 1. Denny Hamlin100.7
- 2. Chase Elliott61.8
- 3. William Byron61.2
- 1. Denny Hamlin83.6
- 2. Chase Elliott73.2
- 3. William Byron70.3
Biggest mover: Brad Keselowski started 28, finished 10 (+18 positions).
How the model did
Its projected top 5 for Las Vegas Motor Speedway and the DraftKings points each actually scored:
| 1 | Denny Hamlin | P1 | 100.7 DK |
| 2 | Christopher Bell | P4 | 56.9 DK |
| 3 | Kyle Larson | P7 | 55.9 DK |
| 4 | William Byron | P3 | 61.2 DK |
| 5 | Tyler Reddick | P13 | 27.2 DK |
Full results & DFS scoring
| Pos | Driver | Start | Led | Fast | DK | FD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Denny Hamlin | 2 | 134 | 47 | 100.7 | 83.6 |
| 2 | Chase Elliott | 15 | 0 | 15 | 61.8 | 73.2 |
| 3 | William Byron | 9 | 26 | 17 | 61.2 | 70.3 |
| 4 | Christopher Bell | 1 | 31 | 27 | 56.9 | 65.3 |
| 5 | Ty Gibbs | 3 | 0 | 7 | 40.2 | 61.7 |
| 6 | Chris Buescher | 10 | 0 | 2 | 42.9 | 63.7 |
| 7 | Kyle Larson | 5 | 62 | 12 | 55.9 | 65.9 |
| 8 | Chase Briscoe | 18 | 0 | 14 | 52.3 | 64.7 |
| 9 | Bubba Wallace | 4 | 0 | 4 | 31.8 | 56.2 |
| 10 | Brad Keselowski | 28 | 4 | 1 | 53.5 | 67.1 |
| 11 | Ryan Preece | 8 | 0 | 7 | 32.2 | 55.2 |
| 12 | Austin Dillon | 11 | 0 | 1 | 30.5 | 55.2 |
| 13 | Tyler Reddick | 7 | 0 | 7 | 27.2 | 51.7 |
| 14 | Zane Smith | 12 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 52.7 |
| 15 | Joey Logano | 21 | 3 | 1 | 35.2 | 56 |
| 16 | Ryan Blaney | 6 | 5 | 4 | 20.1 | 47.2 |
| 17 | Ross Chastain | 17 | 0 | 4 | 27.8 | 50.7 |
| 18 | Daniel Suárez | 13 | 0 | 1 | 20.5 | 47.2 |
| 19 | Austin Cindric | 31 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 54.7 |
| 20 | Erik Jones | 14 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 44.7 |
| 21 | John H. Nemechek | 26 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 49.1 |
| 22 | Carson Hocevar | 19 | 1 | 16 | 24.5 | 44.2 |
| 23 | Riley Herbst | 20 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 43.1 |
| 24 | AJ Allmendinger | 29 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 46 |
| 25 | Justin Allgaier | 22 | 0 | 37 | 30.7 | 41 |
| 26 | Michael McDowell | 30 | 0 | 5 | 22.3 | 43.5 |
| 27 | Cole Custer | 35 | 1 | 0 | 23.3 | 44.6 |
| 28 | Kyle Busch | 24 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 37.5 |
| 29 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr | 23 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 35.5 |
| 30 | Noah Gragson | 34 | 0 | 6 | 18.7 | 39.5 |
| 31 | Josh Berry | 32 | 0 | 2 | 11.9 | 36.9 |
| 32 | Connor Zilisch | 25 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 31.9 |
| 33 | Ty Dillon | 36 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 35.9 |
| 34 | Todd Gilliland | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29.9 |
| 35 | Cody Ware | 33 | 0 | 6 | 6.7 | 31.3 |
| 36 | Shane Van Gisbergen | 16 | 0 | 0 | -15 | 21.2 |
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