Carson Hocevar grew to become NASCAR’s latest winner on Sunday, capturing the checkered flag after 500 miles of NASCAR Cup Sequence motion at Talladega Superspeedway. Chris Buescher completed second and Alex Bowman third.
In the long run, 21 vehicles completed on the lead lap, and a number of other others failed to succeed in the end after a Stage 2 melee that collected a minimum of 25 vehicles.
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Ryan Preece, who gained Stage 1, crashed coming to the checkered flag, whereas Stage 2 winner Ross Chastain went on to complete seventh within the race.
16 completely different drivers led laps throughout Sunday’s Cup race, and Christopher Bell — who additionally crashed on the ultimate lap — led probably the most at 31.
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2026 Talladega I NASCAR Cup Outcomes
1
77
Carson Hocevar
Chevrolet
188
3:23’24.678
9
19
55
2
17
Chris Buescher
Ford
188
3:23’24.792
0.114
7
22
50
3
48
Alex Bowman
Chevrolet
188
3:23’24.818
0.140
8
37
4
9
Chase Elliott
Chevrolet
188
3:23’24.862
0.184
9
35
5
38
Zane Smith
Ford
188
3:23’24.886
0.208
9
34
6
47
Ricky Stenhouse Jr
Chevrolet
188
3:23’24.930
0.252
8
2
38
7
1
Ross Chastain
Chevrolet
188
3:23’24.949
0.271
8
22
41
8
2
Austin Cindric
Ford
188
3:23’25.075
0.397
11
29
9
4
Noah Gragson
Ford
188
3:23’25.139
0.461
10
2
31
10
8
Kyle Busch
Chevrolet
188
3:23’25.223
0.545
13
27
11
34
Todd Gilliland
Ford
188
3:23’25.357
0.679
8
34
12
7
Daniel Suarez
Chevrolet
188
3:23’25.452
0.774
14
25
13
10
Ty Dillon
Chevrolet
188
3:23’25.462
0.784
13
24
14
45
Tyler Reddick
Toyota
188
3:23’25.510
0.832
13
2
27
15
11
Denny Hamlin
Toyota
188
3:23’25.617
0.939
13
28
22
16
16
AJ Allmendinger
Chevrolet
188
3:23’25.621
0.943
10
21
17
20
Christopher Bell
Toyota
188
3:23’28.001
3.323
7
31
29
18
60
Ryan Preece
Ford
188
3:23’28.002
3.324
6
21
34
19
3
Austin Dillon
Chevrolet
188
3:23’28.024
3.346
21
5
18
20
97
Shane van Gisbergen
Chevrolet
188
3:23’28.099
3.421
14
17
21
51
Cody Ware
Chevrolet
188
3:23’30.879
6.201
9
20
22
42
John Hunter Nemechek
Toyota
187
3:23’26.080
1 Lap
11
15
23
43
Erik Jones
Toyota
187
3:23’28.172
1 Lap
10
14
24
78
Daniel Dye
Chevrolet
186
3:23’27.137
2 Laps
12
25
35
Riley Herbst
Toyota
186
3:23’27.258
2 Laps
14
12
26
88
Connor Zilisch
Chevrolet
185
3:23’37.198
3 Laps
13
11
27
33
Jesse Love
Chevrolet
185
3:23’44.871
3 Laps
11
28
66
Chad Finchum
Ford
182
3:23’46.434
6 Laps
12
8
29
19
Chase Briscoe
Toyota
180
3:23’50.025
8 Laps
14
3
8
30
44
Joey Gase
Chevrolet
177
3:23’43.817
11 Laps
10
31
6
Brad Keselowski
Ford
166
3:23’46.917
22 Laps
8
15
32
71
Michael McDowell
Chevrolet
149
3:23’48.262
39 Laps
12
1
5
33
21
Josh Berry
Ford
124
2:41’08.865
64 Laps
6
Accident
9
34
54
Ty Gibbs
Toyota
122
2:02’11.363
66 Laps
7
17
Accident
3
35
24
William Byron
Chevrolet
119
2:00’32.068
69 Laps
9
Accident
2
36
23
Darrell Wallace Jr
Toyota
114
1:44’56.157
74 Laps
6
3
Accident
1
37
12
Ryan Blaney
Ford
114
1:44’56.317
74 Laps
5
Accident
7
38
41
Cole Custer
Chevrolet
114
1:44’56.428
74 Laps
6
Accident
1
39
22
Joey Logano
Ford
114
1:44’56.521
74 Laps
5
3
Accident
9
40
5
Kyle Larson
Chevrolet
114
1:44’56.707
74 Laps
7
Accident
1
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