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Official race results: NASCAR Cup 2026 at Texas Motor Speedway

Chase Elliott is back in Victory Lane for the second time this year

Chase Elliott led 87 of 267 laps (more than any other driver) to win Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway. He beat Denny Hamlin and Alex Bowman in a four-lap sprint to the checkered flag.

11 different drivers led laps during the race, which featured several incidents as well. In the end, 20 cars finished on the lead lap and four drivers (Heim, Gibbs, Logano, Bell) recorded DNFs.

After locking out the front row in qualifying, the Spire duo of Daniel Suarez and Carson Hocevar also secured a double top ten for the team in sixth and seventh, respectively.

Erik Jones won Stage 1 after staying out, while Elliott won Stage 2.

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cla	#	driver	manufacturer	laps	time	gap	pits	laps led	retirement	pts
1	9	Chase Elliott	Chevrolet	267	2:56'17.659		7	87		69
2	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	267	2:56'18.066	0.407	8	21		43
3	48	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet	267	2:56'18.364	0.705	8			35
4	45	Tyler Reddick	Toyota	267	2:56'18.446	0.787	9			42
5	17	Chris Buescher	Ford	267	2:56'18.649	0.990	8			36
6	7	Daniel Suarez	Chevrolet	267	2:56'18.985	1.326	9			36
7	77	Carson Hocevar	Chevrolet	267	2:56'19.394	1.735	9	40		41
8	24	William Byron	Chevrolet	267	2:56'19.798	2.139	10			31
9	23	Bubba Wallace	Toyota	267	2:56'19.896	2.237	9			28
10	12	Ryan Blaney	Ford	267	2:56'20.344	2.685	10	5		27
11	35	Riley Herbst	Toyota	267	2:56'20.743	3.084	7	1		29
12	43	Erik Jones	Toyota	267	2:56'20.860	3.201	9	13		35
13	6	Brad Keselowski	Ford	267	2:56'21.255	3.596	9	4		32
14	60	Ryan Preece	Ford	267	2:56'21.408	3.749	10			29
15	2	Austin Cindric	Ford	267	2:56'21.737	4.078	9			22
16	88	Connor Zilisch	Chevrolet	267	2:56'21.935	4.276	11			21
17	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Chevrolet	267	2:56'23.012	5.353	9			20
18	3	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	267	2:56'23.353	5.694	9			19
19	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	Chevrolet	267	2:56'23.858	6.199	8			26
20	8	Kyle Busch	Chevrolet	267	2:56'26.736	9.077	9			22
21	42	John Hunter Nemechek	Toyota	266	2:56'18.306	1 Lap	13			16
22	38	Zane Smith	Ford	266	2:56'22.386	1 Lap	9			15
23	19	Chase Briscoe	Toyota	266	2:56'22.886	1 Lap	9	4		20
24	10	Ty Dillon	Chevrolet	266	2:56'23.180	1 Lap	11			13
25	16	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet	266	2:56'23.476	1 Lap	9			16
26	1	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	266	2:56'23.629	1 Lap	10			11
27	71	Michael McDowell	Chevrolet	266	2:56'23.700	1 Lap	9			10
28	4	Noah Gragson	Ford	266	2:56'24.055	1 Lap	10			9
29	21	Josh Berry	Ford	266	2:56'27.091	1 Lap	9			8
30	51	Cody Ware	Chevrolet	265	2:56'27.750	2 Laps	10			7
31	67	Corey Heim	Toyota	254	2:43'45.678	13 Laps	7	69	Accident
32	34	Todd Gilliland	Ford	254	2:56'35.512	13 Laps	21			5
33	66	Chad Finchum	Ford	223	2:56'41.634	44 Laps	14
34	5	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	180	2:56'38.055	87 Laps	10			3
35	41	Cole Custer	Chevrolet	173	2:56'30.939	94 Laps	10			2
36	54	Ty Gibbs	Toyota	110	1:20'36.074	157 Laps	8	1	Accident	8
37	22	Joey Logano	Ford	95	1:04'44.281	172 Laps	6		Accident	1
38	20	Christopher Bell	Toyota	68	34'39.098	199 Laps	4	22	Accident	1