•Chase Briscoe, who won the Charlotte race, which is the closest to the end of the 2026 NASCAR season, scored his second consecutive victory. With this result, he narrowed the 19-point gap to championship leader Kyle Larson, but moved up from eighth to sixth place and is now only 4 points behind Ryan Blaney. Last month, Briscoe completed his successful run after losing to Kyle Larson in Kansas, and on Sunday he took the lead at Charlotte Motor Speedway after his victory at Las Vegas Motor Speedway last week.
In the second stage, Christopher Bell started as the powerful Joe Gibbs Racing driver, won the stage and took the lead, but lost the lead during a restart when he passed between Blaney and Larson during a pit stop. In the third stage, the drivers maintained a balanced pace of wear, with Bell closing in on Briscoe in the final two laps and making a move to take the lead in the final corners; this battle, which resulted in the two cars touching, continued. Briscoe finished the race with a 0.029-second margin, overtaking Larson.
