Kyle Larson
2026 Season: NASCAR Cup Series
● Playoff eligibleThrough October 4, 2026
Roles
- Alumni, Lee Faulk Racing
- Driver, Hendrick Motorsports
Coverage (20 articles)
Briscoe Wins Las Vegas a Week After Losing Kansas
A week after Kyle Larson took Kansas from him late, Chase Briscoe led 175 laps at Las Vegas and held Larson off at the end. Larson still leaves with a 40-point Chase lead over Denny Hamlin.
Larson Wins Kansas and Opens a 26-Point Lead in the Cup Chase
Kyle Larson swept both stages, led 235 of 267 laps and passed Chase Briscoe with seven laps left to win the Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway. He came in leading the NASCAR Cup Series Chase by one point. He leaves leading by 26, with six races to go.
Joey Logano Won the Bristol Night Race. Ryan Blaney Led 202 Laps and Finished 33rd.
Joey Logano came from fourth on the final restart for his 40th Cup Series win. Ryan Blaney, who led 202 laps, crashed out while racing Carson Hocevar for second and traded punches with him on pit road. Kyle Larson leads The Chase by one point.
Christopher Bell Ended a 33-Race Winless Streak by Winning the Southern 500.
Bell won the Cook Out Southern 500 by 1.038 seconds over Ty Gibbs, his first victory in 33 races and the end of a season with seven runner-up finishes. His crew gave away the lead on a stop after he had won the second segment, and he took it back with 12 laps to go. Ty Gibbs finished second after starting 28th.
Kyle Larson Gained 24 Places at Richmond. Then He Led All 50 Laps at Knoxville.
Kyle Larson finished sixth after starting 30th at Richmond, then flew to Iowa and led all 50 laps to win his fourth Knoxville Nationals title.
Corey Heim Just Won the Brickyard 400. His Cup Points Total Is Still Zero.
Heim held off Christopher Bell by 0.287 seconds at Indianapolis and led more laps than anyone in the field. He is the defending Truck Series champion, declared for points in that series, and the official scoring report credits him with nothing in Cup.
Denny Hamlin Has Won Every Crown Jewel but One. It Runs Sunday.
Hamlin has seven wins across NASCAR's four biggest races and none of them is the Brickyard 400. A win Sunday makes him the fifth driver ever to complete the set.
North Wilkesboro Gets Its First Points Race in Thirty Years.
North Wilkesboro hosts its first Cup Series points race since 1996, and Denny Hamlin's shrinking lead lands at a short track no one has a modern read on. A preview of Sunday's Window World 450.
Denny Hamlin Has a 44-Point Lead and No Answer for Atlanta
Denny Hamlin leads the Cup Series by 44 points with seven races left, but Sunday night the Quaker State 400 visits EchoPark Speedway, a drafting track where he has no top 10 all year. Tyler Reddick, the driver chasing him, is the defending winner and one of the best pack racers in the field. If Reddick can stop crashing, Atlanta is where the title math gets nervous.
William Byron Won Everything at Chicagoland Except the Race
William Byron swept both stages at Chicagoland and led 94 laps, more than anyone else on the grid. He finished fourth. Chase Briscoe led the final 46 laps, beat Christopher Bell by 0.276 seconds, and gave Joe Gibbs Racing a 1-2-3 in NASCAR's first Cup race at the track since 2019.
The Cup Series Returns to Chicagoland Speedway on Sunday, Its First Race There Since 2019
NASCAR's Cup Series returns to Chicagoland Speedway on Sunday for the first time since 2019, a 2,562-day gap. The eero 400 caps a three-day holiday weekend at the Joliet oval and lands in a regular-season points race that Denny Hamlin, after a six-race surge, now leads by a single point over Tyler Reddick.
Shane van Gisbergen Has Seven Cup Wins. Every One Is a Road Course. Sonoma Could Make It Eight.
Shane van Gisbergen has won seven Cup races, every one on a road course. If he wins Sunday's Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma, he'll be the first driver whose first eight Cup wins are all road courses. Most of the field is racing for points and a bracket; he's racing for a record nobody thought to keep.
NASCAR Trades the San Diego Streets for Sonoma's Hills, and the Road-Course Aces Are Circling
NASCAR leaves its wild San Diego street debut for Sonoma's road course and the Toyota / Save Mart 350 on June 28. Road-course ace Shane van Gisbergen sits just below the playoff cutoff, Kyle Larson and Chase Elliott loom, and Tyler Reddick's points lead is down to eight with nine races to the cutoff.
Corey Heim Wins NASCAR's First San Diego Cup Race and Leaves With Zero Points
Corey Heim won the Anduril 250 at the San Diego Street Course, the first Cup Series race ever run at Naval Base Coronado, then collected zero championship points: as a Truck Series cross-entry he was ineligible. It was the first Cup win of his career. Tyler Reddick still leads the standings.
NASCAR Hits the Streets of San Diego: Hamlin's Hot Streak Meets His Road-Course Problem
Denny Hamlin has won three straight and chopped Tyler Reddick's points lead to 19. This weekend NASCAR races a street course laid through an active naval base for the first time ever, and road courses are the one place Hamlin has never figured out. The title could swing in San Diego.
Hamlin Wins Third Straight at Pocono, Cutting Reddick's Lead to 19 Points
Denny Hamlin held off Tyler Reddick by 1.678 seconds at Pocono on Sunday for his third straight NASCAR Cup win, a record eighth at the track. The streak cut Reddick's once-100-point lead to 19, turning the championship into a contest with 10 races left to set the Chase field.
Hamlin Grabs Pocono Pole
Denny Hamlin was the last man out at Pocono and grabbed the Busch Light Pole by fifty-seven thousandths of a second, his fourth of the season. The bigger story is the streak: two straight wins, his best track in front of him, and a shot at the first three-race run of his career on Sunday.
Hamlin Charges From the Back to Win at Michigan, Honor an Old Friend
Denny Hamlin drove from the rear of the field to win the FireKeepers Casino 400 at Michigan for the second straight week, his 63rd career Cup win tying the late Kyle Busch for ninth all-time. He honored Busch with an 18-8 tribute flag, and with points leader Tyler Reddick wrecked out for his first DNF, cut the title gap to 51.
Two Toyotas, One Title, and the Track Ford Refuses to Lose
Tyler Reddick and Denny Hamlin have turned 2026 into a two-Toyota title fight, and they're carrying it into Michigan International Speedway, the track Ford has won at 44 times and can't win at now. A FireKeepers Casino 400 preview from John Speedway.
Kyle Larson Heads to Nashville on a 37-Race Winless Streak.
Kyle Larson hasn't won a Cup Series race since Kansas in May 2025. The streak now stands at 37, his longest since joining Hendrick Motorsports, and on Sunday night he returns to the track where his 5.2 average finish is the best he has anywhere.