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2026 Food City 500
Held on April 12, 2026 at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, TN
505 L, 269.165 M, 433.29 KM - Extended by Green-White-Checkered

FEATURE RESULTS
Fin St # Driver Sponsor Make Laps Led Status Pts
1 5 54 Ty Gibbs Monster Energy Toyota 505 25 running 59
2 1 12 Ryan Blaney Discount Tire Ford 505 190 running 53
3 8 5 Kyle Larson HendrickCars.com Chevy 505 284 running 54
4 2 45 Tyler Reddick Comparion Insurance Agency Toyota 505 0 running 33
5 3 19 Chase Briscoe Lance Snacks Toyota 505 0 running 45
6 35 34 Todd Gilliland Love's Travel Stops Ford 505 0 running 31
7 20 22 Joey Logano Shell, Pennzoil Ford 505 0 running 33
8 17 60 Ryan Preece Kroger, Muscle Milk Ford 505 0 running 29
9 11 11 Denny Hamlin National Debt Relief, Sport Clips Toyota 505 0 running 41
10 10 77 Carson Hocevar Spectrum Chevy 505 0 running 38
11 12 23 Bubba Wallace Wrestlemania Vegas, Chumba Casino Toyota 505 0 running 30
12 13 7 Daniel Suarez NationsGuard Chevy 505 0 running 25
13 7 17 Chris Buescher Trimble Ford 505 0 running 24
14 21 6 Brad Keselowski Consumer Cellular Ford 505 0 running 23
15 22 16 A.J. Allmendinger Grizzly Nicotine Pouches, The Fallen Outdoors Chevy 505 0 running 22
16 9 2 Austin Cindric Tarkett, Menards Ford 505 0 running 23
17 23 47 Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. NOS Energy Drink Chevy 504 0 running 20
18 24 3 Austin Dillon Bass Pro Shops Club, Winchester Long Beard XR Chevy 504 0 running 19
19 15 38 Zane Smith Aaron's Rent to Own Ford 504 0 running 18
20 6 1 Ross Chastain Busch Light Fishing Chevy 504 0 running 17
21 4 35 Riley Herbst Monster Energy Zero Sugar Toyota 504 0 running 19
22 18 9 Chase Elliott NAPA Auto Parts Chevy 504 6 running 15
23 28 43 Erik Jones AdventHealth, Dollar Tree Toyota 503 0 running 14
24 19 71 Michael McDowell Delaware Life Chevy 503 0 running 13
25 29 8 Kyle Busch Bank OZK Chevy 503 0 running 12
26 16 4 Noah Gragson Long John Silver's Ford 503 0 running 11
27 14 20 Christopher Bell Rheem Toyota 501 0 running 19
28 30 41 Cole Custer Haas, HaasTooling.com Chevy 501 0 running 9
29 32 10 Ty Dillon Ohio Logistics Warehousing & Transportation Chevy 501 0 running 8
30 34 24 William Byron Valvoline Chevy 500 0 running 7
31 36 51 Cody Ware Costa Oil Chevy 500 0 running 6
32 25 21 Josh Berry Ford, Motorcraft, Quick Lane Tire & Auto Center Ford 490 0 running 16
33 26 88 Connor Zilisch Roto-Rooter Chevy 478 0 running 4
34 33 97 Shane Van Gisbergen WeatherTech Chevy 335 0 running 3
35 31 42 John Hunter Nemechek Dollar Tree, Colgate, Sour Patch Kids, Oreo Toyota 324 0 running 2
36 37 66 Chad Finchum Brian King Roofing, Platinum Preferred Contractor Ford 241 0 steering 0
37 27 48 Alex Bowman Ally Chevy 163 0 accident 1
RACE DATA
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Time of Race: 3h:01:50
Starting Lineup Set By: Time Trials
Fast Qualifier: Ryan Blaney - 15.101 sec.
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Margin of Victory: 0.055 seconds
Average Speed: 88.817 mph
Cautions: 9 for 72 laps - Laps 63-70 (#6,47 accident turn 2); Laps 127-136 (end of stage 1); Laps 145-151 (#20 spun turn 2); Laps 161-168 (#34,42,48,97 accident turn 4); Laps 252-260 (end of stage 2); Laps 313-320 (#8,20,35,43,71 accident frontstretch); Laps 383-390 (#88 accident turn 2); Laps 478-485 (#9 spun turn 2); Laps 498-503 (#8,35 accident turn 1)
Lead Changes: 12 among 4 drivers - Ryan Blaney (1-43); Kyle Larson (CA) (48-63); Ryan Blaney (64); Chase Elliott (65-70); Kyle Larson (CA) (71-130); Ryan Blaney (131); Kyle Larson (CA) (132-254); Ryan Blaney (255); Kyle Larson (CA) (256-314); Ryan Blaney (315); Kyle Larson (CA); (316-337); Ryan Blaney (338-480); Ty Gibbs (481-505)
Fastest Lap: Ryan Blaney - 15.554 seconds (lap 7)