NASCAR Cup Series
Jesse Love Tackling NASCAR Cup Series at Circuit of The Americas in March
Feb 20, 2026
Tyler Reddick doubled up to start the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season, winning the Autotrader 400 at EchoPark Speedway.
Reddick took advantage of a second overtime restart and moved to the front of the field in his No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota. Reddick crossed the line ahead of Chase Briscoe, Ross Chastain, Carson Hocevar and Daniel Suarez.
With the win, Reddick becomes the sixth driver in NASCAR Cup Series history to win the first two races of a season. He joins Marvin Panch, Bob Welborn, David Pearson, Jeff Gordon and Matt Kenseth on that list. Kenseth was the most recent to achieve that feat, doing so in 2009.
Next week, the NASCAR Cup Series competes in the DuraMax Grand Prix Powered by RelaDyne at Circuit of The Americas. Coverage will be on FOX, the Performance Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, with the green flag waving at 3:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, March 1.
-Photo credit: Dirk Bizub/Racing America
Autotrader 400 Unofficial Results
| Fin | No | Driver | Laps | Delta |
| 1 | 45 | Tyler Reddick | 271 | --- |
| 2 | 19 | Chase Briscoe | 271 | 0.164 |
| 3 | 1 | Ross Chastain | 271 | 0.232 |
| 4 | 77 | Carson Hocevar | 271 | 0.290 |
| 5 | 7 | Daniel Suarez | 271 | 0.400 |
| 6 | 97 | Shane Van Gisbergen | 271 | 0.487 |
| 7 | 38 | Zane Smith | 271 | 0.553 |
| 8 | 23 | Bubba Wallace | 271 | 0.587 |
| 9 | 60 | Ryan Preece | 271 | 0.675 |
| 10 | 12 | Ryan Blaney | 271 | 0.699 |
| 11 | 9 | Chase Elliott | 271 | 0.828 |
| 12 | 16 | AJ Allmendinger | 271 | 0.859 |
| 13 | 11 | Denny Hamlin | 271 | 0.885 |
| 14 | 4 | Noah Gragson | 271 | 1.003 |
| 15 | 17 | Chris Buescher | 271 | 1.161 |
| 16 | 10 | Ty Dillon | 271 | 1.251 |
| 17 | 6 | Brad Keselowski | 271 | 1.395 |
| 18 | 22 | Joey Logano | 271 | 1.482 |
| 19 | 42 | John Hunter Nemechek | 271 | 1.820 |
| 20 | 71 | Michael McDowell | 271 | 3.925 |
| 21 | 20 | Christopher Bell | 271 | 14.295 |
| 22 | 41 | Cole Custer | 270 | 1 lap |
| 23 | 48 | Alex Bowman | 269 | 2 laps |
| 24 | 43 | Erik Jones | 269 | 2 laps |
| 25 | 34 | Todd Gilliland | 258 | BTW |
| 26 | 2 | Austin Cindric | 257 | BTW |
| 27 | 51 | Cody Ware | 257 | BTW |
| 28 | 24 | William Byron | 256 | BTW |
| 29 | 3 | Austin Dillon | 256 | BTW |
| 30 | 88 | Connor Zilisch # | 223 | OUT |
| 31 | 44 | * JJ Yeley(i) | 220 | OUT |
| 32 | 5 | Kyle Larson | 160 | OUT |
| 33 | 35 | Riley Herbst | 157 | 114 laps |
| 34 | 8 | Kyle Busch | 124 | OUT |
| 35 | 78 | * BJ McLeod | 111 | OUT |
| 36 | 47 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr. | 103 | OUT |
| 37 | 54 | Ty Gibbs | 81 | OUT |
| 38 | 21 | Josh Berry | 81 | OUT |
