{"id":828078,"date":"2026-07-26T23:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T23:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/828078\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T23:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T23:19:09","slug":"official-nascar-cup-race-results-2026-brickyard-400-at-indianapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/828078\/","title":{"rendered":"Official NASCAR Cup race results: 2026 Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/nascar-cup\/news\/corey-heim-stuns-brickyard-400-win-part-time-cup-driver\/10842262\/\" data-custom-text=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corey Heim now has two NASCAR Cup Series wins in his first 15 starts, winning both as a part-time driver this year.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In just his 15th career start, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/23xi-racing\/39354\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">23XI Racing<\/a> driver passed his boss, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/denny-hamlin\/6539\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Denny Hamlin<\/a>, and then held off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/christopher-bell\/16942\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Christopher Bell<\/a> to win the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>Heim led 58 of 160 laps, more than any other driver. Gibbs led 46 laps, and Hocevar led 31 laps from pole. Eleven different drivers led laps during Sunday&#8217;s race, mostly through pit cycles as passing was very difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Heim is the first part-time Cup driver to win multiple races in a single season since Tim Richmond and Davey Allison did it in 1987. At 24 years old, he&#8217;s also the youngest Brickyard 400 winner since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/jeff-gordon\/24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jeff Gordon<\/a> in 1994. Additionally, Heim is the fastest driver to win their first two Cup wins since A.J. Foyt in 1965, doing so in 15 starts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/ty-gibbs\/825881\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ty Gibbs<\/a> finished 12th after winning Stage 1, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/ross-chastain\/17535\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ross Chastain<\/a> finished 23rd after winning Stage 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the checkered flag, 31 of 39 starters were still on the lead lap, and six drivers failed to reach the checkered flag.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR Cup 2026 Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis race 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":"Corey Heim now has two NASCAR Cup Series wins in his first 15 starts, winning both as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[2074,49,48,28942,3844,9579,634,3628,289311,82],"class_list":["post-828078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-23xi-racing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-corey-heim","tag-indianapolis","tag-indianapolis-motor-speedway","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-official-nascar-cup-race-results-2026-brickyard-400-at-indianapolis","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828078","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=828078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}