{"id":523907,"date":"2026-07-13T13:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/523907\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:55:10","slug":"official-race-results-2026-nascar-cup-at-atlanta-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/523907\/","title":{"rendered":"Official race results: 2026 NASCAR Cup at Atlanta II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/ryan-blaney\/18336\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ryan Blaney<\/a> earned his 19th career NASCAR Cup victory, winning from pole position at Atlanta in a three-wide battle. Blaney also swept both stages, dominating most of the event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/bubba-wallace\/18588\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bubba Wallace<\/a> finished second, but was later penalized for advancing his position below the yellow line. That penalty dropped him down to 29th as the last car on the lead lap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/christopher-bell\/16942\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Christopher Bell<\/a> was ultimately credited with second, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/carson-hocevar\/953387\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Carson Hocevar<\/a> third, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/ty-gibbs\/825881\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ty Gibbs<\/a> fourth, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/erik-jones\/19934\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Erik Jones<\/a> fifth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/shane-van-gisbergen\/10844\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Shane van Gisbergen<\/a> finished sixth, matching his finish from this race earlier in the year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/austin-dillon\/14661\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Austin Dillon<\/a> was seventh, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/tyler-reddick\/19367\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tyler Reddick<\/a> eighth, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/joey-logano\/9725\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Joey Logano<\/a> ninth, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/chris-buescher\/17348\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Chris Buescher<\/a> tenth.<\/p>\n<p>Impressively, 29 of 38 starters finished on the lead lap in Sunday&#8217;s race, which ended just before 2am EST on Monday due to a lengthy weather delay.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR Cup 2026 Atlanta II 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 Blaney earned his 19th career NASCAR Cup victory, winning from pole position at Atlanta in a three-wide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[258961,164089,12314,111,139,69,259389,213],"class_list":["post-523907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-atlanta-ii","tag-atlanta-motor-speedway","tag-nascar-cup","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-official-race-results-2026-nascar-cup-at-atlanta-ii","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}