Martinsville Speedway, 2026 NASCAR DFS results
Sunday, March 29, 2026 · Winner: Chase Elliott · 400 laps
Race report
Chase Elliott won the Martinsville Speedway from P10 and led 84 laps but had to earn it in a race that stayed up for grabs. Denny Hamlin actually paced the field with 292 laps led but couldn't close it out.
For DFS, Denny Hamlin was the top DraftKings score at 150.9 points. The tournament-defining value came from Brad Keselowski, up from P23 to P13 for 43.2 DK off 10 spots of place differential.
The model's pre-race top five (built lookahead-free) was led this week by Denny Hamlin, who finished P2 for 150.9 DK. 5 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 0.82), so the favorites largely delivered.
Auto-generated from the official results and the model’s pre-race projection.
- 1. Denny Hamlin150.9
- 2. Chase Elliott86.7
- 3. Joey Logano56
- 1. Denny Hamlin108.7
- 2. Chase Elliott95.9
- 3. Joey Logano81
Biggest mover: Chase Briscoe started 27, finished 14 (+13 positions).
How the model did
Its projected top 5 for Martinsville Speedway and the DraftKings points each actually scored:
| 1 | Denny Hamlin | P2 | 150.9 DK |
| 2 | William Byron | P5 | 43.4 DK |
| 3 | Christopher Bell | P7 | 42.8 DK |
| 4 | Ryan Blaney | P6 | 55.3 DK |
| 5 | Joey Logano | P3 | 56 DK |
Full results & DFS scoring
| Pos | Driver | Start | Led | Fast | DK | FD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chase Elliott | 10 | 84 | 26 | 86.7 | 95.9 |
| 2 | Denny Hamlin | 1 | 292 | 82 | 150.9 | 108.7 |
| 3 | Joey Logano | 9 | 0 | 20 | 56 | 81 |
| 4 | Ty Gibbs | 4 | 0 | 22 | 49.9 | 77 |
| 5 | William Byron | 2 | 6 | 13 | 43.4 | 75.1 |
| 6 | Ryan Blaney | 12 | 2 | 24 | 55.3 | 78.2 |
| 7 | Christopher Bell | 11 | 0 | 4 | 42.8 | 76 |
| 8 | Austin Cindric | 6 | 0 | 25 | 45.3 | 72 |
| 9 | Kyle Larson | 13 | 0 | 11 | 44 | 74 |
| 10 | Josh Berry | 3 | 2 | 19 | 36.1 | 67.7 |
| 11 | Shane Van Gisbergen | 5 | 0 | 12 | 31.4 | 67 |
| 12 | Ryan Preece | 17 | 0 | 6 | 38.7 | 71.5 |
| 13 | Brad Keselowski | 23 | 0 | 7 | 43.2 | 73 |
| 14 | Chase Briscoe | 27 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 73.5 |
| 15 | Tyler Reddick | 8 | 0 | 11 | 26 | 62.5 |
| 16 | Ross Chastain | 18 | 14 | 1 | 33 | 67.4 |
| 17 | Carson Hocevar | 7 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 59 |
| 18 | Michael McDowell | 20 | 0 | 1 | 27.5 | 64 |
| 19 | Chris Buescher | 16 | 0 | 27 | 33.2 | 60.4 |
| 20 | Daniel Suárez | 22 | 0 | 3 | 26.4 | 61.9 |
| 21 | Erik Jones | 19 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 58.9 |
| 22 | Justin Allgaier | 21 | 0 | 1 | 19.5 | 58.3 |
| 23 | Todd Gilliland | 29 | 0 | 5 | 27.3 | 60.8 |
| 24 | Kyle Busch | 34 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 61.8 |
| 25 | Austin Dillon | 30 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 58.3 |
| 26 | Connor Zilisch | 25 | 0 | 6 | 17.7 | 54.2 |
| 27 | AJ Allmendinger | 28 | 0 | 3 | 17.4 | 54.2 |
| 28 | Noah Gragson | 31 | 0 | 1 | 17.5 | 54.2 |
| 29 | John H. Nemechek | 32 | 0 | 5 | 18.3 | 53.2 |
| 30 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr | 33 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 52.2 |
| 31 | Cole Custer | 24 | 0 | 2 | 3.9 | 46.1 |
| 32 | Cody Ware | 35 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 49.9 |
| 33 | Austin Hill | 37 | 0 | 1 | 12.5 | 49.4 |
| 34 | Zane Smith | 14 | 0 | 0 | -13 | 34.1 |
| 35 | Riley HerbstWrecked | 26 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 33.8 |
| 36 | Bubba WallaceWrecked | 15 | 0 | 0 | -16 | 26.7 |
| 37 | Ty DillonDNF | 36 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 33.3 |
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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