Chase Briscoe holds off Christopher Bell for Chicagoland win
Chase Briscoe held off a late charge from his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Christopher Bell to capture his first win of the NASCAR Cup Series season Sunday at Chicagoland Speedway.
Briscoe won the eero 400 for his first win since Talladega in October of 2025. The win was his sixth overall in the series.
Christopher Bell settled for second, his fourth second-place finish of the year. His last victory came at Bristol in September of 2025.
William Byron, winner of Stages 1 and 2, finished third.
Pole sitter Denny Hamlin finished fourth.
Alex Bowman rounded out the Top-5 for his third such finish of the year.
Throughout the race
5 to go: Briscoe continues to lead Bell by under a second as the two navigate lap traffic.
10 laps to go: Briscoe leads over Bell and Byron.
Lap 173: Byron to the lead after the restart for Stage 3.
Lap 165: Byron wins Stage 2. 2-10: Briscoe, Hamlin, Gibbs, Blaney, Bell, Elliott, Bowman, Cindric, Nemechek
Lap 160: Byron leading over Briscoe/Hamlin with 5 to go in the stage.
Lap 135: Caution during green-flag pit stops. Reddick leaking fluid and to the garage. Blaney scored the leader.
Lap 124: Three-way battle for the lead, Briscoe prevails over Hamlin and Wallace.
Lap 100: Wallace leads Byron, Buescher, Briscoe and Reddick.
Lap 93: Larson spins into the front stretch infield grass while running third. Wallace the leader. Caution.
Lap 90: Byron back to the lead on the restart.
Lap 80: Byron wins the stage. 2-10: Larson, Wallace, Cindric, Briscoe, Buescher, Herbst, Hamlin, Gibbs, Reddick.
Lap 71: William Byron is in the lead.
Lap 54: Austin Cindric scored as the leader, Herbst second.
Lap 47: Austin Hill backs the rear-end into the outside retaining wall with contact from SVG.
Lap 38: Larson grabs the lead back on the restart.
Lap 33: Caution for a Zane Smith spin. He continues. Contact from Hocevar.
Lap 20: Hamlin takes the lead back from Larson.
Lap 16: Larson leads Buescher and Hamlin.
Lap 7: Back to green, Hamlin/Larson on front row.
Lap 1: Hamlin takes the lead, with a crash on the backstretch. Preece and Zilisch wreck off of Turn 2. Zilisch made contact with the inside retaining wall.
6:27 p.m.: Green flag!
6:21 p.m.: Racecars have rolled off of pit road.
6:18 p.m: Engines fired!
6:08 p.m: Pre-race ceremonies underway.
The NASCAR Cup Series takes on Chicagoland Speedway today for the eero 400. Follow along here for live updates.
Denny Hamlin and Kyle Larson start on the front row. The green flag is expected around 6 p.m. ET.
Laps/Stages: 267 (80, 165, 267).
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book "All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story" with racer Geoff Bodine.
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