•Chase Briscoe won the Charlotte race, which marked the end of the 2026 NASCAR season, and secured 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 just four points behind Ryan Blaney. Briscoe completed his successful run after missing out on the victory last month in Kansas, when he lost to Larson. On Saturday, he took the lead at Charlotte Motor Speedway after his win at Las Vegas Motor Speedway the previous 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 the pit stop. In the third stage, the drivers maintained a balanced pace with the longest tire use in this section, which was towards the end of the race. Bell approached Briscoe in the last two laps of the finish 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 0.029 seconds ahead of Larson. Briscoe’s front right tire began to wear down in the last six laps and the car stopped turning when it approached the last lapped traffic. After the race, the driver said, “I felt like I was going to break the wall at any moment.” “It just stopped turning. So I don’t know what those finishes are like in the end. I really need to stop making them so exciting.” Blaney, Berry and Denny Hamlin finished fifth behind Larson. Bell, Blaney and Hamlin moved forward at a minimal level ahead of Larson; Larson finished the race in sixth place.
