{"id":876665,"date":"2026-08-30T05:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T05:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876665\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T05:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T05:32:10","slug":"official-race-results-2026-nascar-cup-daytona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876665\/","title":{"rendered":"Official race results: 2026 NASCAR Cup Daytona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/ryan-preece\/16003\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ryan Preece<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/nascar-cup\/news\/ryan-preece-nascar-cup-win-daytona-finish-the-chase\/10850604\/\" data-custom-text=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">only led five laps, but that was more than enough to completely change the complexion of his season. <\/a>When the race-ending caution flag flew, he was just ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/daniel-suarez\/19888\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Daniel Suarez<\/a>, earning his first-ever NASCAR Cup win in his 249th career start.<\/p>\n<p>The win also vaulted him above <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/shane-van-gisbergen\/10844\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Shane van Gisbergen<\/a> in the championship standings, taking the 16th and final spot inside the Chase. SVG even earned his first-ever oval stage win, but it wasn&#8217;t enough to stop Preece.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both stage winners finished poorly, as Van Gisbergen placed 28th and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/ryan-blaney\/18336\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ryan Blaney<\/a> placed 33rd after a last-lap crash.<\/p>\n<p>22 different drivers led at least one lap in the action-packed race, with Austin Hill leading the most laps at 27.<\/p>\n<p>The race also went six laps beyond the scheduled distance, ending in overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>2026 NASCAR Cup Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona 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":"Ryan Preece only led five laps, but that was more than enough to completely change the complexion of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,48540,2884,634,3628,304077,82],"class_list":["post-876665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daytona-ii","tag-daytona-international-speedway","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-official-race-results-2026-nascar-cup-daytona","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876665","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=876665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}