North Wilkesboro Speedway, 2026 NASCAR DFS results
Sunday, July 19, 2026 · Winner: Joey Logano · 450 laps
Race report
Joey Logano won the North Wilkesboro Speedway from P11 and controlled the race, leading 323 laps of 450.
For DFS, Joey Logano was the top DraftKings score at 180.8 points. The tournament-defining value came from Chase Briscoe, up from P30 to P3 for 80.1 DK off 27 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 64.6 DK. 2 of the five finished top ten.
Scoring roughly followed the board (correlation 0.45), 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. Joey Logano180.8
- 2. Chase Briscoe80.1
- 3. Denny Hamlin64.6
- 1. Joey Logano125.3
- 2. Chase Briscoe97
- 3. Bubba Wallace90.8
Biggest mover: Chase Briscoe started 30, finished 3 (+27 positions).
How the model did
Its projected top 5 for North Wilkesboro Speedway and the DraftKings points each actually scored:
| 1 | Ryan Blaney | P11 | 23.6 DK |
| 2 | Christopher Bell | P19 | 17.9 DK |
| 3 | Denny Hamlin | P2 | 64.6 DK |
| 4 | Ty Gibbs | P4 | 60.6 DK |
| 5 | Tyler Reddick | P30 | -7.1 DK |
Full results & DFS scoring
| Pos | Driver | Start | Led | Fast | DK | FD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joey Logano | 11 | 323 | 100 | 180.8 | 125.3 |
| 2 | Denny Hamlin | 7 | 9 | 34 | 64.6 | 88.4 |
| 3 | Chase Briscoe | 30 | 5 | 24 | 80.1 | 97 |
| 4 | Ty Gibbs | 2 | 47 | 24 | 60.6 | 85.7 |
| 5 | Shane Van Gisbergen | 8 | 49 | 15 | 61 | 87.4 |
| 6 | Bubba Wallace | 26 | 8 | 10 | 64.5 | 90.8 |
| 7 | Brad Keselowski | 23 | 7 | 1 | 55.2 | 87.6 |
| 8 | Todd Gilliland | 18 | 0 | 2 | 46.9 | 82.9 |
| 9 | Daniel Suárez | 17 | 1 | 4 | 45.1 | 81 |
| 10 | Ryan Preece | 21 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 81.4 |
| 11 | Ryan Blaney | 1 | 1 | 3 | 23.6 | 69.9 |
| 12 | William Byron | 15 | 0 | 8 | 37.6 | 75.3 |
| 13 | Carson Hocevar | 4 | 0 | 12 | 26.4 | 68.3 |
| 14 | Austin Cindric | 14 | 0 | 3 | 30.4 | 71.8 |
| 15 | Kyle Larson | 27 | 0 | 9 | 44.1 | 76.8 |
| 16 | Ty Dillon | 22 | 0 | 1 | 33.5 | 72.8 |
| 17 | Chase Elliott | 10 | 0 | 36 | 35.2 | 65.2 |
| 18 | Riley Herbst | 34 | 0 | 1 | 41.5 | 75.7 |
| 19 | Christopher Bell | 3 | 0 | 22 | 17.9 | 58.7 |
| 20 | Chris Buescher | 9 | 0 | 8 | 15.6 | 60.2 |
| 21 | Erik Jones | 6 | 0 | 2 | 6.9 | 57.2 |
| 22 | Zane Smith | 29 | 0 | 1 | 27.5 | 67.2 |
| 23 | Austin Dillon | 12 | 0 | 22 | 17.9 | 57.1 |
| 24 | Michael McDowell | 16 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 57.6 |
| 25 | Noah Gragson | 31 | 0 | 8 | 26.6 | 63.6 |
| 26 | Alex Bowman | 25 | 0 | 2 | 15.9 | 59.1 |
| 27 | Ross Chastain | 13 | 0 | 5 | 3.3 | 51.6 |
| 28 | Cole Custer | 20 | 0 | 2 | 6.9 | 53.6 |
| 29 | Cody Ware | 36 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 60.1 |
| 30 | Tyler Reddick | 5 | 0 | 13 | -7.1 | 43 |
| 31 | John H. Nemechek | 19 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 48.5 |
| 32 | Connor Zilisch | 32 | 0 | 24 | 19.8 | 53.3 |
| 33 | Austin Hill | 33 | 0 | 2 | 8.9 | 52.2 |
| 34 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr | 24 | 0 | 3 | -1.6 | 46.2 |
| 35 | Chad FinchumDNF | 37 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 37.3 |
| 36 | Josh BerryWrecked | 28 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 20.9 |
| 37 | AJ AllmendingerDNF | 35 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22 |
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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