KANSAS CITY, Kan. \u2014 The NASCAR Cup Series returns to the Midwest this Sunday for the AdventHealth 400 at Kansas Speedway, bringing a slate of historic milestones and high-stakes drama to the 1.5-mile oval. The 400.5-mile, 267-lap race will be broadcast at 2 p.m. ET on FOX.<\/p>\n
A focal point of the weekend is Kyle Larson, who arrives at a track where he has been historically dominant, yet finds himself mired in a 32-race winless streak\u2014his longest drought since joining Hendrick Motorsports in 2021. His last victory came at Kansas in May 2025, where he led a staggering 221 laps, setting the record for the most laps led by any driver in a 400-mile race on a 1.5-mile track in Cup Series history. Larson remains the only repeat winner in the last 11 races at Kansas.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Tyler Reddick enters the weekend chasing the legacy of Dale Earnhardt. Reddick has the opportunity to become just the fourth driver in series history\u2014and the first since Earnhardt in 1987\u2014to win five of a season\u2019s first nine races.<\/p>\n
Reddick\u2019s team, 23XI Racing, has established a major stronghold at the Kansas track. The organization has won three of the last eight races at the speedway with three different drivers, making them a formidable force heading into Sunday.<\/p>\n
Given Kansas Speedway\u2019s recent history of chaotic and razor-thin finishes\u2014including Larson\u2019s 0.001-second victory over Chris Buescher in May 2024, the closest in series history\u2014fans can expect another dramatic finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Kan. \u2014 The NASCAR Cup Series returns to the Midwest this Sunday for the AdventHealth 400…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,34486,374,4384,73229,12716,634,582,721,722,82,348],"class_list":{"0":"post-612764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-dale-earnhardt","11":"tag-fox","12":"tag-hendrick-motorsports","13":"tag-kansas-speedway","14":"tag-motorsports","15":"tag-nascar","16":"tag-racing","17":"tag-series","18":"tag-speedway","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612764","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=612764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}