•Chase Briscoe won the Charlotte race, which was the closest to the end of the 2026 NASCAR season, and claimed 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 four points behind Ryan Blaney. Briscoe completed his successful run, which he had to abandon halfway last month after losing to Larson in Kansas, with a victory at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway last week, before taking the lead at the Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday.
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 the restart when he passed between Blaney and Larson during the pit stop. In the third stage, the drivers maintained a balanced pace of wear as this was the part of the race where the tires were used for the longest time. Bell approached Briscoe in the last two laps of the closing and made 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, leaving Larson behind.
