June 16, 2026, 10:01 a.m. ET<\/p>\n
NASCAR’s second annual In-Season Challenge will begin at Sonoma Raceway in two weeks. The NASCAR Cup Series point standings after the race at Pocono Raceway determined the seedings. This is different than 2025, which used the average finish across three races.<\/p>\n
The 32-driver bracket is whittled down each race over the course of five weekends, with the best finish in the matchup advancing to the next round. The winner of the In-Season Challenge will earn $1 million, which is equivalent to the prize for winning the NASCAR All-Star Race. In 2025, Ty Gibbs and the No. 54 team for Joe Gibbs Racing won the prize over Ty Dillon.<\/p>\n
Below, you can check out the In-Season Challenge matchups for the first round of 32 drivers at Sonoma Raceway in two weeks!<\/p>\n
NASCAR In-Season Challenge: Sonoma Raceway (32 drivers)<\/p>\n
(Left Side of Bracket)<\/p>\n
Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a>1) Tyler Reddick v. 32) Alex Bowman16) Austin Cindric v. 17) Brad Keselowski8) Daniel Suarez v. 25) Todd Gilliland9) Carson Hocevar v. 24) Zane Smith12) Chase Briscoe v. 21) A.J. Allmendinger5) Ty Gibbs v. 28) Austin Dillon13) Bubba Wallace v. 20) Michael McDowell4) Chase Elliott v. 29) Noah Gragson<\/p>\n (Right Side of Bracket)<\/p>\n 2) Denny Hamlin v. 31) Ty Dillon15) Erik Jones v. 18) Joey Logano7) Chris Buescher v. 26) John Hunter Nemechek10) Christopher Bell v. 23) Ross Chastain11) William Byron v. 22) Ricky Stenhouse Jr.6) Kyle Larson v. 27) Riley Herbst14) Shane van Gisbergen v. 19) Ryan Preece3) Ryan Blaney v. 30) Josh BerryMore: Denny Hamlin wins NASCAR Cup Series race at Pocono in June 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 16, 2026, 10:01 a.m. ET NASCAR’s second annual In-Season Challenge will begin at Sonoma Raceway in two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[159202,49,48,634,247067,82,161408,160874,190829,160875,160878,159095,159089,159085],"class_list":["post-740762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-accessfree","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sourcemotorsports-wire","tag-sports","tag-sstssportsmotornascar","tag-sstsnnascar","tag-tagaustin-dillon","tag-tagauto-racing","tag-tagnascar","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740762","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=740762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}