Ryan Blaney Wins Homestead Season Finale With White-Flag Pass of Tyler Reddick

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Ryan Blaney won Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, passing Tyler Reddick at the white flag to close the 2026 season with a win for Team Penske.

The championship was decided long before the finish. Kyle Larson clinched his third Cup title at the end of Stage 1 and finished 12th.

Stage Results

Stage 1 ended early when Chase Briscoe blew an engine. Reddick won the stage, ahead of Blaney and Christopher Bell. Larson’s fourth-place finish in the stage was enough to lock up the title.

Denny Hamlin won Stage 2, with Bell second. Larson scrubbed the wall, cut a right-rear tire, pitted early and finished the stage 17th.

Blaney’s Comeback From the Rear

Blaney’s day nearly went sideways at the break after Stage 1. The No. 12 team had to bring him back for a second pit stop to check for a loose wheel, which sent him to the rear of the field for the start of Stage 2.

He drove from the back to finish fifth in that stage.

How the Finish Played Out

After the final round of green-flag stops with about 40 laps to go, William Byron cycled out to the lead, ahead of Reddick and Hamlin.

With 15 laps to go, Noah Gragson made contact with Daniel Suárez and spun him, bringing out a caution and one more round of pit stops.

Byron won the race off pit road, followed by Hamlin and Reddick. Blaney came off fourth and Bubba Wallace fifth.

Reddick took the lead on the restart. Hamlin scrubbed the wall and fell to sixth. Blaney got past Byron for second in the closing laps, then passed Reddick at the white flag and held on to win.

Reddick finished second, Byron third, Bell fourth and Wallace fifth. Blaney finished fourth in the final Chase standings.

Full Results: 2026 NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race at Homestead

1. Ryan Blaney
2. Tyler Reddick
3. William Byron
4. Christopher Bell
5. Bubba Wallace
6. Denny Hamlin
7. Austin Cindric
8. Daniel Suárez
9. Noah Gragson
10. Michael McDowell
11. Ty Gibbs
12. Kyle Larson
13. Josh Berry
14. Zane Smith
15. Austin Hill
16. Alex Bowman
17. Joey Logano
18. Todd Gilliland
19. Connor Zilisch
20. Erik Jones
21. Justin Haley
22. Chase Elliott
23. AJ Allmendinger
24. Chris Buescher
25. Ryan Preece
26. Austin Dillon
27. Ross Chastain
28. Brad Keselowski
29. Cole Custer
30. John Hunter Nemechek
31. Ty Dillon
32. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
33. Riley Herbst
34. Shane van Gisbergen
35. Cody Ware
36. JJ Yeley
37. Casey Mears
38. Chad Finchum
39. Chase Briscoe
40. Corey Heim

Sunday’s race was the 36th and final race of the 2026 Cup Series season.