is a race winner.
to on April 26 at Talladega Superspeedway.
The No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet was within the 27-car crash on Lap 115 that ended the times of a number of contenders, however he escaped with little injury. After a pit cease, Hocevar steadily drove to the entrance earlier than spending the ultimate 30 laps on the head of the pack.
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Not solely was an enormous day in Hocevar’s profession, however he left Talladega in eighth in factors, 70 factors forward of the Chase cutline.
Listed below are the winners and losers from the NASCAR Talladega race:
CUP POINTS:
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NASCAR Talladega race greatest images, together with Tyler Reddick, Kyle Larson
TALLADEGA, ALABAMA – APRIL 26: Honorary tempo automotive driver, Eladio Carrion poses for images on monitor previous to the NASCAR Cup Collection Jack Hyperlink’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on April 26, 2026 in Talladega, Alabama. (Photograph by David Jensen/Getty Photographs)
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NASCAR Talladega race greatest images, together with Tyler Reddick, Kyle Larson
TALLADEGA, ALABAMA – APRIL 26: Honorary tempo automotive driver, Eladio Carrion poses for images on monitor previous to the NASCAR Cup Collection Jack Hyperlink’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on April 26, 2026 in Talladega, Alabama. (Photograph by David Jensen/Getty Photographs)
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NASCAR Talladega race greatest images, together with Tyler Reddick, Kyle Larson
TALLADEGA, ALABAMA – APRIL 26: NASCAR Cup Collection driver, Kyle Larson (L) and honorary tempo automotive driver, Eladio Carrion pose for images within the #5 hauler previous to the NASCAR Cup Collection Jack Hyperlink’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on April 26, 2026 in Talladega, Alabama. (Photograph by Paras Griffin/Getty Photographs)
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NASCAR Talladega race greatest images, together with Tyler Reddick, Kyle Larson
TALLADEGA, ALABAMA – APRIL 26: NASCAR Cup Collection driver, Kyle Larson converse to visitor within the #5 hauler previous to the NASCAR Cup Collection Jack Hyperlink’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on April 26, 2026 in Talladega, Alabama. (Photograph by Paras Griffin/Getty Photographs)
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NASCAR Talladega race greatest images, together with Tyler Reddick, Kyle Larson
TALLADEGA, ALABAMA – APRIL 26: Alex Bowman, driver of the #48 Ally Chevrolet, indicators autographs for NASCAR followers previous to the NASCAR Cup Collection Jack Hyperlink’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on April 26, 2026 in Talladega, Alabama. (Photograph by David Jensen/Getty Photographs)
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NASCAR Talladega race greatest images, together with Tyler Reddick, Kyle Larson
TALLADEGA, ALABAMA – APRIL 26: Alex Bowman, driver of the #48 Ally Chevrolet, walks the grid previous to the NASCAR Cup Collection Jack Hyperlink’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on April 26, 2026 in Talladega, Alabama. (Photograph by David Jensen/Getty Photographs)
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NASCAR Talladega race greatest images, together with Tyler Reddick, Kyle Larson
TALLADEGA, ALABAMA – APRIL 26: Carson Hocevar, driver of the #77 Chili’s Trip the ‘Dente Chevrolet, waves to followers as he walks onstage throughout driver intros previous to the NASCAR Cup Collection Jack Hyperlink’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on April 26, 2026 in Talladega, Alabama. (Photograph by Sean Gardner/Getty Photographs)
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NASCAR Talladega race greatest images, together with Tyler Reddick, Kyle Larson
TALLADEGA, ALABAMA – APRIL 26: Austin Cindric, driver of the #2 Menards/FrogTape Ford, waves to followers as he walks onstage throughout driver intros previous to the NASCAR Cup Collection Jack Hyperlink’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on April 26, 2026 in Talladega, Alabama. (Photograph by Sean Gardner/Getty Photographs)
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NASCAR Talladega race greatest images, together with Tyler Reddick, Kyle Larson
TALLADEGA, ALABAMA – APRIL 26: Ryan Blaney, driver of the #12 Wurth Ford, waves to followers as he walks onstage throughout driver intros previous to the NASCAR Cup Collection Jack Hyperlink’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on April 26, 2026 in Talladega, Alabama. (Photograph by Sean Gardner/Getty Photographs)
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NASCAR Talladega race greatest images, together with Tyler Reddick, Kyle Larson
TALLADEGA, ALABAMA – APRIL 26: Austin Dillon, driver of the #3 Bass Professional Outlets/Winchester Lengthy Beard XR Chevrolet, waves to followers as he walks onstage throughout driver intros previous to the NASCAR Cup Collection Jack Hyperlink’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on April 26, 2026 in Talladega, Alabama. (Photograph by Sean Gardner/Getty Photographs)
NASCAR Talladega winners and losers as Carson Hocevar breaks throughWinner: Carson Hocevar
Is Hocevar the following celebrity driver? WIll the Talladega win be the primary pivot level of his Corridor of Fame profession?
Nobody can say for positive. However it’s undoubtedly attention-grabbing to consider. The instruments are there.
Expertise and aggression mixed could be a dangerously good mixture in motorsports. Hocevar has each.
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His celebration, driving down the frontstretch whereas hanging out of the motive force’s aspect window, is already legendary. What number of automobiles at brief tracks throughout America are going to get broken by profitable drivers attempting to repeat that?
Hocevar’s maiden victory is a superb reminder of what might be subsequent for him. One factor I really feel comfy predicting: It will not take 91 races for him to get win No. 2.
Winner: Alex Bowman
Alex Bowman’s aid was evident the second he exited his automotive post-race following his third-place run at Talladega.
“Actually, to be blunt, it simply feels good to get out of right here with out crashing,” Bowman instructed FOX after the race.
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Bowman had a season-best end in his third race again after lacking 4 races with vertigo.
Making the Chase is not doubtless for Bowman (who made the playoffs in seven of the final eight seasons), however it might be fairly the story if he had been to make a run at it. With 16 races remaining earlier than the cutoff, Bowman is 146 factors behind sixteenth place. Unlikely? Sure. Attainable? Positive.
Losers: Toyota (for first time in 2026)
Hocevar’s win apart, probably the most notable factor concerning the remaining working order was the absence of Toyota inside the highest 10.
Christopher Bell was caught up within the last-lap crash within the tri-oval, knocking Toyota out of the highest 10.
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Tyler Reddick, regardless of getting heavy injury in two separate incidents, was the best working Toyota driver in 14th. Denny Hamlin was a lap down for a lot of the race after a rushing penalty on pit highway after the primary cease. Ty Gibbs, Bubba Wallace and Chase Briscoe had been caught up within the 27-car crash.
What does it imply? Nothing. Talladega might be that means. However it’s a notable incidence after two months of dominance within the Cup Collection.
Loser: Joey Logano
It is not time to place Logano on the Chase bubble but, as a result of he has the historical past of getting the required outcomes when wanted.
However the actuality is that by means of 10 of 26 regular-season races, Logano is fifteenth in factors, 12 factors forward of the cutline, after getting caught up within the Massive One and ending thirty ninth at Talladega.
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Logano has posted three finishes of thirtieth or worst combined in with a top-5 and a top-10 end.
Logano’s greatest finishes have come on a pack-racing monitor (third at Daytona) and two brief tracks (third at Martinsville and seventh at Bristol). The No. 22 group has struggled on conventional ovals longer than a mile.
4 of the following 5 races are on these sorts of ovals, with a visit to Watkins Glen combined in.
A DNF at Talladega was not what Logano wanted. The priority degree is gentle up to now, however Logano’s kind has to enhance quickly.
