Watkins Glen International, 2026 NASCAR DFS results
Sunday, May 10, 2026 · Winner: Shane Van Gisbergen · 100 laps
Race report
Shane Van Gisbergen won the Watkins Glen International from the pole and controlled the race, leading 74 laps of 100.
For DFS, Shane Van Gisbergen was the top DraftKings score at 78.4 points. The tournament-defining value came from Austin Dillon, up from P25 to P6 for 57.9 DK off 19 spots of place differential.
The model's pre-race top five (built lookahead-free) was led this week by Shane Van Gisbergen, who finished P1 for 78.4 DK. 2 of the five finished top ten.
This one was chaos, scoring barely correlated with pre-race odds (correlation 0.07), exactly the kind of week where leverage and differentiation win tournaments. Expected for a superspeedway/road-course slate, where variance runs high.
Auto-generated from the official results and the model’s pre-race projection.
- 1. Shane Van Gisbergen78.4
- 2. Austin Dillon57.9
- 3. Ty Gibbs54.1
- 1. Shane Van Gisbergen60.4
- 2. Austin Dillon54.5
- 3. Ty Gibbs53.2
Biggest mover: Austin Dillon started 25, finished 6 (+19 positions).
How the model did
Its projected top 5 for Watkins Glen International and the DraftKings points each actually scored:
| 1 | Shane Van Gisbergen | P1 | 78.4 DK |
| 2 | Ross Chastain | P27 | -6.5 DK |
| 3 | Michael McDowell | P2 | 46 DK |
| 4 | Christopher Bell | P21 | 8 DK |
| 5 | Joey Logano | P38 | -29 DK |
Full results & DFS scoring
| Pos | Driver | Start | Led | Fast | DK | FD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shane Van Gisbergen | 1 | 74 | 33 | 78.4 | 60.4 |
| 2 | Michael McDowell | 2 | 5 | 6 | 46 | 50.5 |
| 3 | Ty Gibbs | 10 | 17 | 4 | 54.1 | 53.2 |
| 4 | Chase Briscoe | 9 | 0 | 1 | 45.5 | 49.5 |
| 5 | Tyler Reddick | 15 | 0 | 4 | 50.8 | 51 |
| 6 | Austin Dillon | 25 | 0 | 2 | 57.9 | 54.5 |
| 7 | AJ Allmendinger | 12 | 0 | 3 | 43.4 | 46.5 |
| 8 | Kyle Busch | 21 | 0 | 1 | 49.5 | 49.5 |
| 9 | Austin Cindric | 3 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 39 |
| 10 | John H. Nemechek | 17 | 0 | 2 | 41.9 | 44.5 |
| 11 | Ryan Blaney | 7 | 0 | 2 | 28.9 | 38 |
| 12 | Chris Buescher | 14 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 40 |
| 13 | Daniel Suárez | 16 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 39.5 |
| 14 | Ryan Preece | 30 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 45 |
| 15 | Cole Custer | 19 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 38 |
| 16 | Denny Hamlin | 20 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 37 |
| 17 | Todd Gilliland | 22 | 0 | 1 | 31.5 | 36.5 |
| 18 | Zane Smith | 33 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 40.5 |
| 19 | Erik Jones | 24 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 34.5 |
| 20 | Connor Zilisch | 5 | 0 | 13 | 13.9 | 23.5 |
| 21 | Christopher Bell | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 23.5 |
| 22 | Noah Gragson | 35 | 0 | 1 | 33.5 | 35.5 |
| 23 | Kyle Larson | 23 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 28 |
| 24 | Chase Elliott | 27 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 28.5 |
| 25 | Alex Bowman | 28 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 27.5 |
| 26 | Riley Herbst | 32 | 0 | 2 | 22.9 | 28 |
| 27 | Ross Chastain | 4 | 4 | 1 | -6.5 | 12.9 |
| 28 | Carson Hocevar | 11 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 14.5 |
| 29 | Bubba Wallace | 18 | 0 | 1 | 2.5 | 16.5 |
| 30 | Brad Keselowski | 26 | 0 | 4 | 9.8 | 19 |
| 31 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr | 29 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 19 |
| 32 | Josh Berry | 34 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 20 |
| 33 | Ty Dillon | 31 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 16.9 |
| 34 | Josh Bilicki | 37 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 18.4 |
| 35 | Katherine Legge | 38 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 17.4 |
| 36 | William Byron | 13 | 0 | 2 | -17.1 | 3.2 |
| 37 | Cody WareWrecked | 36 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12.5 |
| 38 | Joey Logano | 6 | 0 | 0 | -29 | -4.5 |
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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