{"id":477950,"date":"2026-02-16T05:55:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T05:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/477950\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T05:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T05:55:21","slug":"official-race-results-for-the-2026-daytona-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/477950\/","title":{"rendered":"Official race results for the 2026 Daytona 500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cars were crashing all over the place on the final lap, but NASCAR kept it green as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/tyler-reddick\/19367\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tyler Reddick<\/a> used a push from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/23xi-racing\/39354\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">23XI Racing<\/a> teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/riley-herbst\/450672\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Riley Herbst<\/a> to take the lead and win NASCAR&#8217;s biggest race. This follows a 2025 season where he went winless, but he more than made up for it as he hands team owners Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin&#8217;s NASCAR&#8217;s most coveted trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Former Daytona 500 winners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/ricky-stenhouse-jr\/8876\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ricky Stenhouse Jr<\/a>. and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/joey-logano\/9725\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Joey Logano<\/a> finished second and third, respectively, and all three 23XI drivers finished inside the top ten<\/p>\n<p>Zane Smith won Stage 1 while Bubba Wallace won Stage 2 at Daytona.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>25 cars finished on the lead lap, but many of them were mangled due to the last-lap chaos. Of the 41 starters, 25 drivers lead lap(s) in the Daytona 500 in a new race record, and while Wallace led the most at 40, his winning teammate Reddick led only one &#8212; the most important lap of all.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>Full Results of the 68th running of the Daytona 500<\/p>\n<p>Lap Leader Breakdown<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            We want your opinion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our 5 minute survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cars were crashing all over the place on the final lap, but NASCAR kept it green as Tyler&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,19546,2884,634,3628,193745,82],"class_list":["post-477950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daytona-500","tag-daytona-international-speedway","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-official-race-results-for-the-2026-daytona-500","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}