Official race results for the 2026 Daytona 500

Cars were crashing all over the place on the final lap, but NASCAR kept it green as Tyler Reddick used a push from 23XI Racing teammate Riley Herbst to take the lead and win NASCAR's biggest race. This follows a 2025 season where he went winless, but he more than made up for it as he hands team owners Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin's NASCAR's most coveted trophy.

Former Daytona 500 winners Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Joey Logano finished second and third, respectively, and all three 23XI drivers finished inside the top ten

Zane Smith won Stage 1 while Bubba Wallace won Stage 2 at Daytona. 

25 cars finished on the lead lap, but many of them were mangled due to the last-lap chaos. Of the 41 starters, 25 drivers lead lap(s) in the Daytona 500 in a new race record, and while Wallace led the most at 40, his winning teammate Reddick led only one -- the most important lap of all.

Full Results of the 68th running of the Daytona 500

cla	#	driver	manufacturer	laps	time	gap	int	pits	laps led	retirement
1	45	Tyler Reddick	Toyota	200	3:23'55.750			11	1
2	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	Chevrolet	200	3:23'56.058	0.308	0.308	10	4
3	22	Joey Logano	Ford	200	3:23'56.192	0.442	0.134	11	9
4	9	Chase Elliott	Chevrolet	200	3:23'56.227	0.477	0.035	10	2
5	6	Brad Keselowski	Ford	200	3:23'56.297	0.547	0.070	9
6	38	Zane Smith	Ford	200	3:23'56.323	0.573	0.026	12	9
7	17	Chris Buescher	Ford	200	3:23'56.360	0.610	0.037	8	4
8	35	Riley Herbst	Toyota	200	3:23'56.425	0.675	0.065	12
9	21	Josh Berry	Ford	200	3:23'56.959	1.209	0.534	10
10	23	Darrell Wallace Jr	Toyota	200	3:23'57.735	1.985	0.776	9	40
11	4	Noah Gragson	Ford	200	3:23'57.826	2.076	0.091	12
12	24	William Byron	Chevrolet	200	3:23'58.464	2.714	0.638	16
13	7	Daniel Suarez	Chevrolet	200	3:23'59.647	3.897	1.183	13
14	10	Ty Dillon	Chevrolet	200	3:24'14.162	18.412	14.515	13	3
15	8	Kyle Busch	Chevrolet	200	3:24'14.810	19.060	0.648	14	19
16	5	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	200	3:24'16.096	20.346	1.286	18	7
17	51	Cody Ware	Ford	200	3:24'16.873	21.123	0.777	12	2
18	77	Carson Hocevar	Chevrolet	200	3:24'18.042	22.292	1.169	13	1
19	16	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet	200	3:24'18.043	22.293	0.001	13	1
20	1	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	200	3:24'29.212	33.462	11.169	13	12
21	43	Erik Jones	Toyota	200	3:24'33.353	37.603	4.141	11
22	71	Michael McDowell	Chevrolet	200	3:24'40.310	44.560	6.957	13	10
23	54	Ty Gibbs	Toyota	200	3:24'58.140	1'02.390	17.830	15
24	41	Cole Custer	Ford	200	3:26'11.598	2'15.848	1'13.458	14
25	60	Ryan Preece	Ford	200	3:26'50.798	2'55.048	39.200	18
26	42	John Hunter Nemechek	Toyota	199	3:23'08.138	1 Lap	1 Lap	11	19
27	12	Ryan Blaney	Ford	199	3:23'08.218	1 Lap	0.080	9	2
28	67	Corey Heim	Toyota	199	3:23'08.303	1 Lap	0.085	10	8
29	84	Jimmie Johnson	Toyota	199	3:23'08.392	1 Lap	0.089	11
30	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Chevrolet	199	3:24'31.295	1 Lap	1'22.903	13	3
31	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	198	3:24'35.276	2 Laps	1 Lap	11	3
32	66	Casey Mears	Ford	195	3:24'21.019	5 Laps	3 Laps	15
33	88	Connor Zilisch	Chevrolet	195	3:24'22.084	5 Laps	1.065	15
34	2	Austin Cindric	Ford	193	3:24'46.463	7 Laps	2 Laps	10	5
35	20	Christopher Bell	Toyota	191	3:11'14.023	9 Laps	2 Laps	8	9
36	19	Chase Briscoe	Toyota	188	3:24'32.269	12 Laps	3 Laps	13	23
37	3	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	137	3:04'06.094	63 Laps	51 Laps	12
38	40	Justin Allgaier	Chevrolet	123	1:59'52.177	77 Laps	14 Laps	8	3
39	34	Todd Gilliland	Ford	123	1:59'52.290	77 Laps	0.113	13	1
40	48	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet	123	1:59'52.730	77 Laps	0.440	7
41	78	BJ McLeod	Chevrolet	4	3'20.639	196 Laps	119 Laps	5

Lap Leader Breakdown

Laps	Driver
1-3	Kyle Busch
4-7	John Hunter Nemechek
8-11	Kyle Busch
12-13	Joey Logano
14-18	John Hunter Nemechek
19	Joey Logano
20-28	John Hunter Nemechek
29	Joey Logano
30	John Hunter Nemechek
31-34	Joey Logano
35-57	Chase Briscoe
58	Chase Elliott
59	Todd Gilliland
60-68	Zane Smith
69	AJ Allmendinger
70-71	Ryan Blaney
72-74	Austin Cindric
75-76	Denny Hamlin
77-79	Darrell Wallace Jr
80-81	Cody Ware
82-83	Ross Chastain
84	Justin Allgaier
85-87	Ty Dillon
88	Justin Allgaier
89	Ricky Stenhouse Jr
90-95	Ross Chastain
96-97	Austin Cindric
98-100	Ross Chastain
101-103	Shane van Gisbergen
104	Kyle Larson
105-108	Kyle Busch
109-112	Kyle Larson
113	Kyle Busch
114	Kyle Larson
115-116	Kyle Busch
117	Kyle Larson
118-121	Kyle Busch
122	Denny Hamlin
123	Justin Allgaier
124-130	Darrell Wallace Jr
131-133	Ricky Stenhouse Jr
134-136	Darrell Wallace Jr
137-138	Corey Heim
139	Darrell Wallace Jr
140	Christopher Bell
141	Corey Heim
142-144	Darrell Wallace Jr
145	Christopher Bell
146	Darrell Wallace Jr
147-148	Christopher Bell
149	Corey Heim
150-151	Christopher Bell
152	Darrell Wallace Jr
153-156	Corey Heim
157	Christopher Bell
158-162	Darrell Wallace Jr
163-164	Christopher Bell
165-180	Darrell Wallace Jr
181-184	Chris Buescher
185	Kyle Busch
186	Ross Chastain
187	Chase Elliott
188	Joey Logano
189-198	Michael McDowell
199	Carson Hocevar
200	Tyler Reddick

 

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