{"id":615241,"date":"2026-04-19T21:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/615241\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T21:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:45:09","slug":"nascar-cup-2026-kansas-spring-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/615241\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Cup 2026 Kansas spring race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Reddick has now won five of the first nine races to open the 2026 NASCAR Cup season, passing Kyle Larson in the final seconds of Sunday&#8217;s race at Kansas Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>Chase Briscoe, who restarted 11th in overtime with four fresh tires, surged all the way up to third by the time the checkered flag flew.<\/p>\n<p>Denny Hamlin led the way at the start of the final two-lap dash, but fell back to fourth in the chaos, while Bubba Wallace finished fifth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All 37 starters finished the race, and there wasn&#8217;t a single natural yellow until Cody Ware spun just moments away from the white flag.<\/p>\n<p>Hamlin won Stage 1 while Larson won Stage 2 in Sunday&#8217;s race, and Hamlin also led the most laps at 131. Reddick only led ten en route to the race win.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>2026 Kansas I NASCAR Cup Results<\/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":"Tyler Reddick has now won five of the first nine races to open the 2026 NASCAR Cup season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,1435,73229,634,3628,231303,82],"class_list":["post-615241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-speedway","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-official-race-results-nascar-cup-2026-kansas-spring-race","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615241","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=615241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}