{"id":877776,"date":"2026-08-31T03:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/877776\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T03:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:46:22","slug":"chase-field-set-as-nascar-heads-to-darlington-speedway-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/877776\/","title":{"rendered":"Chase field set as NASCAR heads to Darlington &#8211; Speedway Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. \u2014 The field is set for NASCAR\u2019s 2026 Chase for the Cup Series championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ryan Preece\u2019s dramatic Daytona victory secured the final playoff berth and completed the 16-driver championship lineup. The 10-race Chase begins next Sunday at Darlington Raceway with the Southern 500.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2026 NASCAR Cup Series Chase Field<\/p>\n<p>Denny HamlinRyan BlaneyTyler ReddickTy GibbsChase BriscoeChristopher BellKyle LarsonChase ElliottJoey LoganoChris BuescherDaniel SuarezCarson HocevarWilliam ByronBubba WallaceAustin CindricRyan Preece<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hamlin enters as the regular-season champion after building an 89-point advantage over Blaney during the first 26 races. Preece enters as the final seed but carries momentum after the biggest victory of his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. \u2014 The field is set for NASCAR\u2019s 2026 Chase for the Cup Series championship. Ryan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-877776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877776","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=877776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}