Segment 2 recap
Tyler Reddick passed Chase Briscoe with nine laps to go to win a much calmer Segment 2 of Sunday’s NASCAR All-Star Race at Dover (Live on FS1, HBO Max, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
Chase Briscoe finished second, followed by Denny Hamlin, Carson Hocevar and Connor Zilisch. Erik Jones, William Byron, Alex Bowman, Michael McDowell and Noah Gragson completed the top 10.
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At Lap 6, Ross Chastain and Brad Keselowski made contact exiting Turn 2, with Segment 1 winner Bubba Wallace also suffering damage for the first yellow of the sprint. Chastain spun down the backstretch and pancaked the inside wall, but Keselowski took the brunt of it, driving his battered No. 6 Ford backward to pit road.
A few laps later, leader Shane van Gisbergen got sucked around in Turn 4, forcing another caution as he spun in front of heavy traffic from the restart.
That caution handed AJ Allmendinger the lead, but five laps after the restart, Reddick, 2026‘s most dominant driver so far, passed him at Lap 25 to take top position.
With 24 laps remaining in Segment 2, Ty Gibbs went spinning out of Turn 4 after a tire issue took him from sixth place.
Every lead lap car beside Allmendinger and Jones pitted for fresh Goodyear rubber, with the two leading the field for the restart. Briscoe took the lead from Allmendinger under green two laps later, but it didn‘t last long as with nine laps to go, Reddick sailed past to return to point. Allmendinger faded to 19th on the final run.
Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Hamlin and Briscoe will make up the front row for the 200-lap main event.
This story will be updated.
Segment 1 recap
Bubba Wallace won Segment 1 of Sunday’s NASCAR All-Star Race (Live on FS1, HBO Max, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) in a mini-race that featured two large wrecks bookending the dash.
Kyle Larson, Todd Gilliland and Ryan Preece all made contact down the frontstretch after completing Lap 1, causing a crash toward the rear of the field involving nine cars. Preece backed into the Turn 1 wall and his No. 60 Ford ignited, ending his day early. Ryan Blaney suffered heavy front-end damage, and Chase Elliott, Daniel Suárez, Michael McDowell, John Hunter Nemechek and Cole Custer were also involved.
MORE: See Lap 2 crash replays
After a lengthy red-flag period, the segment restarted at Lap 6 with Brad Keselowski in the lead. Denny Hamlin, who’s won the last two points-paying races at the 1-mile concrete oval, took over the top spot at Lap 19 and set sail.
With 14 laps to go in Segment 1, Carson Hocevar suffered a flat right-front tire, hitting the wall in Turn 3 before a debris caution came out for the No. 77 Chevrolet’s tire carcass. Hamlin, the leader, stayed out on old Goodyear tires, but William Byron led a group of 17 cars down pit road for fresh rubber before a six-lap dash to the checkered flag.
Bubba Wallace stayed out and restarted second, passing his 23XI Racing owner Hamlin in Turn 4 for his first lead of the afternoon.
With three laps to go, another large crash claimed several other contenders down the frontstretch. Riley Herbst got loose exiting Turn 4 and received contact from Alex Bowman, causing a stack-up that claimed Elliott, Nemechek, Zane Smith, Christopher Bell, Chris Buescher, Kyle Busch, Noah Gragson and others. Nine cars were involved. The segment ended under yellow with Wallace taking the top honors.
MORE: See late Segment 1 crash replays
Hamlin finished second with Ross Chastain third, Chase Briscoe fourth and Keselowski fifth. Austin Cindric, William Byron, Joey Logano, Austin Dillon and Tyler Reddick rounded out the top 10.
The top 26 finishers from Segment 1 will now invert for another 75-lap dash. The average finish over the two segments sets the starting lineup for the 200-lap main event.
This story will be updated.
