Las Vegas Motor Speedway, 2026 NASCAR DFS results

Sunday, October 4, 2026 · Winner: Chase Briscoe · 267 laps

Top pick Denny Hamlin finished P16 · 32.6 DKProjected five captured 66% of the perfect lineup

Race report

Chase Briscoe won the Las Vegas Motor Speedway from P4 and controlled the race, leading 175 laps of 267.

For DFS, Chase Briscoe was the top DraftKings score at 116.5 points. The tournament-defining value came from Ryan Blaney, up from P20 to P5 for 60.6 DK off 15 spots of place differential.

The model's pre-race top five (built lookahead-free) scored best through Tyler Reddick, who finished P3 for 51.4 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 0.54), so the favorites largely delivered.

Auto-generated from the official results and the model’s pre-race projection.

Top DraftKings scores

1. Chase Briscoe116.5
2. Ryan Blaney60.6
3. Austin Cindric54.4

Top FanDuel scores

1. Chase Briscoe88.7
2. Ryan Blaney71.2
3. Kyle Larson68.7

Biggest mover: Shane Van Gisbergen started 25, finished 9 (+16 positions).

How the model did

Its projected top 5 for Las Vegas Motor Speedway and the DraftKings points each actually scored:

Last updated: Oct 5, 2026, 4:55 PM ET
1	Denny Hamlin	P16	32.6 DK
2	Christopher Bell	P23	13.2 DK
3	Tyler Reddick	P3	51.4 DK
4	Kyle Larson	P2	51.4 DK
5	William Byron	P6	42.7 DK

Full results & DFS scoring

Last updated: Oct 5, 2026, 4:55 PM ET
Pos	Driver	Start	Led	Fast	DK	FD
1	Chase Briscoe	4	175	55	116.5	88.7
2	Kyle Larson	6	0	12	51.4	68.7
3	Tyler Reddick	5	1	18	51.4	65.8
4	Austin Cindric	7	33	7	54.4	68.5
5	Ryan Blaney	20	10	9	60.6	71.2
6	William Byron	8	0	6	42.7	62.7
7	Chase Elliott	13	0	4	44.8	63.7
8	Bubba Wallace	9	1	14	43.6	60.3
9	Shane Van Gisbergen	25	0	2	51.9	66.7
10	Joey Logano	23	0	2	47.9	64.2
11	Alex Bowman	15	0	0	36	58.7
12	Carson Hocevar	10	0	19	37.6	54.7
13	Chris Buescher	14	0	1	31.5	55.2
14	Daniel Suárez	11	0	14	32.3	52.2
15	AJ Allmendinger	19	0	3	33.4	54.7
16	Denny Hamlin	1	39	24	32.6	48.1
17	Ty Gibbs	2	0	15	17.8	43.2
18	Riley Herbst	22	0	1	29.5	51.7
19	Austin Dillon	28	0	0	33	53.2
20	Noah Gragson	36	0	0	39	55.7
21	Michael McDowell	18	0	2	18.9	45.2
22	Austin Hill	33	0	0	31	51.1
23	Christopher Bell	3	8	27	13.2	35.4
24	Brad Keselowski	16	0	0	10	39.6
25	Erik Jones	21	0	0	13	40.6
26	Josh Berry	35	0	1	25.5	46.1
27	Cole Custer	24	0	0	12	39.1
28	Ryan Preece	12	0	0	-2	31.5
29	John H. Nemechek	32	0	0	16	40
30	Ross Chastain	17	0	1	-0.5	31
31	Ty Dillon	29	0	0	8	35.5
32	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	26	0	1	3.5	32.4
33	Todd Gilliland	27	0	0	2	31.4
34	Cody Ware	34	0	2	7.9	33.3
35	Connor Zilisch	31	0	0	2	30.2
36	Zane Smith	30	0	0	-1	28.2

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