Nashville Superspeedway, 2026 NASCAR DFS results

Sunday, May 31, 2026 · Winner: Denny Hamlin · 300 laps

Race report

Denny Hamlin won the Nashville Superspeedway from the pole and led 57 laps but had to earn it in a race that stayed up for grabs.

For DFS, Chase Briscoe was the top DraftKings score at 82.9 points. Biggest mover: Chase Briscoe, P31 to P3 (+28).

The model's pre-race top five (built lookahead-free) was led this week by Christopher Bell, who finished P2 for 78.7 DK. 3 of the five ran top ten, a clean read on the day.

Scoring roughly followed the board (correlation 0.28), 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.

Top DraftKings scores

1. Chase Briscoe82.9
2. Christopher Bell78.7
3. Denny Hamlin67.8

Top FanDuel scores

1. Chase Briscoe83.4
2. Denny Hamlin78.7
3. Chase Elliott75.3

Biggest mover: Chase Briscoe started 31, finished 3 (+28 positions).

How the model did

Its projected top 5 for Nashville Superspeedway and the DraftKings points each actually scored:

1	Denny Hamlin	P1	67.8 DK
2	Tyler Reddick	P6	54.9 DK
3	Kyle Larson	P23	27.2 DK
4	William ByronWrecked	P30	-9.1 DK
5	Christopher Bell	P2	78.7 DK

Full results & DFS scoring

Pos	Driver	Start	Led	Fast	DK	FD
1	Denny Hamlin	1	57	19	67.8	78.7
2	Christopher Bell	4	29	61	78.7	73.9
3	Chase Briscoe	31	14	23	82.9	83.4
4	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	15	0	0	51	72.5
5	Shane Van Gisbergen	10	12	2	47.9	69.7
6	Tyler Reddick	2	42	23	54.9	67.2
7	Chase Elliott	29	3	10	64.3	75.3
8	Ryan Blaney	7	46	21	56	67.1
9	Zane Smith	11	18	2	42.4	64.8
10	Carson Hocevar	17	0	0	41	64.5
11	Erik Jones	13	3	2	35.7	61.3
12	Ty Dillon	30	0	0	49	68
13	Ty Gibbs	6	1	10	27.8	54.6
14	Joey Logano	9	1	0	24.3	54.6
15	Michael McDowell	14	0	2	27.9	55.5
16	Noah Gragson	26	0	0	37	59.9
17	Riley Herbst	23	1	0	32.3	57
18	Austin Dillon	32	0	0	39	59.9
19	Daniel Suárez	3	10	0	10.5	44.9
20	Todd Gilliland	21	0	0	24	51.4
21	Cole Custer	20	0	0	20	49.4
22	Cody Ware	34	0	0	32	54.9
23	Kyle Larson	5	56	27	27.2	44.5
24	John H. Nemechek	27	0	0	21	48.3
25	Corey Heim	24	0	5	18.3	45.3
26	Austin Cindric	36	0	0	26	49.6
27	Austin Hill	25	0	2	13.9	42.3
28	Chad Finchum	37	0	0	23	46.4
29	Chris BuescherWrecked	22	0	0	6	37.1
30	William ByronWrecked	8	0	2	-9.1	23.1
31	Josh BerryWrecked	33	0	0	12	32.4
32	Bubba WallaceWrecked	18	0	0	-5	22.3
33	Alex BowmanWrecked	19	0	0	-6	21.3
34	Brad KeselowskiWrecked	12	0	0	-15	15.2
35	AJ AllmendingerWrecked	16	7	0	-11.2	14.4
36	Ryan PreeceDNF	28	0	0	-3	10
37	Ross ChastainWrecked	35	0	0	2	11.1
38	Connor ZilischWrecked	38	0	0	3	10.1

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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