New Hampshire Motor Speedway, 2026 NASCAR DFS results
Sunday, August 23, 2026 · Winner: Ryan Blaney · 301 laps
Race report
Ryan Blaney won the New Hampshire Motor Speedway from P8 and led the most laps on the day (115).
For DFS, Ryan Blaney was the top DraftKings score at 101.5 points. The tournament-defining value came from Bubba Wallace, up from P23 to P2 for 79.3 DK off 21 spots of place differential.
The model's pre-race top five (built lookahead-free) was led this week by Ryan Blaney, who finished P1 for 101.5 DK. 4 of the five ran top ten, a clean read on the day.
Scoring roughly followed the board (correlation 0.47), 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.
- 1. Ryan Blaney101.5
- 2. Josh Berry79.4
- 3. Bubba Wallace79.3
- 1. Ryan Blaney88.1
- 2. Bubba Wallace82.8
- 3. Josh Berry74.9
Biggest mover: Bubba Wallace started 23, finished 2 (+21 positions).
How the model did
Its projected top 5 for New Hampshire Motor Speedway and the DraftKings points each actually scored:
| 1 | Denny Hamlin | P7 | 34.5 DK |
| 2 | William Byron | P30 | -4.4 DK |
| 3 | Tyler Reddick | P8 | 35.8 DK |
| 4 | Christopher Bell | P4 | 47 DK |
| 5 | Ryan Blaney | P1 | 101.5 DK |
Full results & DFS scoring
| Pos | Driver | Start | Led | Fast | DK | FD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ryan Blaney | 8 | 115 | 46 | 101.5 | 88.1 |
| 2 | Bubba Wallace | 23 | 22 | 24 | 79.3 | 82.8 |
| 3 | Josh Berry | 2 | 73 | 47 | 79.4 | 74.9 |
| 4 | Christopher Bell | 6 | 0 | 11 | 47 | 68.1 |
| 5 | Kyle Larson | 9 | 18 | 12 | 52.9 | 69.9 |
| 6 | Ty Gibbs | 7 | 0 | 1 | 39.5 | 65.6 |
| 7 | Denny Hamlin | 4 | 0 | 1 | 34.5 | 62.6 |
| 8 | Tyler Reddick | 1 | 0 | 15 | 35.8 | 59.6 |
| 9 | Ryan Preece | 18 | 17 | 9 | 52.3 | 68.3 |
| 10 | Noah Gragson | 19 | 0 | 2 | 43.9 | 65.6 |
| 11 | Brad Keselowski | 25 | 0 | 1 | 46.5 | 67.1 |
| 12 | Austin Cindric | 26 | 0 | 5 | 47.3 | 66.1 |
| 13 | Zane Smith | 14 | 0 | 1 | 31.5 | 58.6 |
| 14 | Joey Logano | 21 | 0 | 2 | 36.9 | 60.6 |
| 15 | Alex Bowman | 10 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 53.6 |
| 16 | Michael McDowell | 15 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 54.6 |
| 17 | Daniel Suárez | 35 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 63.1 |
| 18 | Chris Buescher | 16 | 0 | 3 | 24.4 | 52.1 |
| 19 | Carson Hocevar | 22 | 0 | 11 | 32 | 53.5 |
| 20 | Shane Van Gisbergen | 5 | 30 | 12 | 20.9 | 46.5 |
| 21 | Todd Gilliland | 13 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 46 |
| 22 | Cole Custer | 32 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 54 |
| 23 | AJ Allmendinger | 24 | 0 | 8 | 23.6 | 48.5 |
| 24 | Austin Hill | 28 | 0 | 1 | 22.5 | 49 |
| 25 | Chase Elliott | 29 | 0 | 2 | 21.9 | 48 |
| 26 | Chase Briscoe | 17 | 0 | 3 | 8.4 | 40.5 |
| 27 | Ty Dillon | 33 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 47 |
| 28 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr | 30 | 0 | 7 | 19.2 | 44 |
| 29 | Cody Ware | 36 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 45.5 |
| 30 | William Byron | 3 | 26 | 9 | -4.4 | 29.7 |
| 31 | John H. Nemechek | 31 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 39.6 |
| 32 | Austin Dillon | 34 | 0 | 2 | 11.9 | 38.2 |
| 33 | Erik JonesDNF | 11 | 0 | 0 | -14 | 22.1 |
| 34 | Riley HerbstWrecked | 27 | 0 | 2 | 0.9 | 25.7 |
| 35 | Connor ZilischWrecked | 20 | 0 | 2 | -8.1 | 20.7 |
| 36 | Ross ChastainDNF | 12 | 0 | 0 | -19 | -2.9 |
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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