Denny Hamlin is a two-time NASCAR All-Star Race winner. On Sunday evening, Hamlin won the 2026 All-Star Race at Dover Motor Speedway, earning his first victory in the exhibition event since 2015. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver passed Chase Briscoe with 30 laps to go to win $1,000,000.
It was a crazy event that featured multiple big crashes. Most notably, a Lap 2 wreck caused by Ryan Preece damaged Kyle Larson, Ryan Blaney, and Chase Elliott. Ultimately, the new All-Star Race format created a situation where over half of the "locked in" drivers had accidents before the main event at Dover.
Hamlin was able to survive the chaos and drove away from Briscoe in the closing laps. It marks the driver of the No. 11 car's third straight victory at Dover, with two of those being points races. Hamlin was the class of the field, and it resulted in a $1,000,000 check for the No. 11 team at Joe Gibbs Racing.
NASCAR results: 2026 All-Star Race at Dover Motor Speedway
No. 11 Denny Hamlin
No. 19 Chase Briscoe
No. 43 Erik Jones
No. 3 Austin Dillon
No. 88 Connor Zilisch
No. 2 Austin Cindric
No. 24 William Byron
No. 71 Michael McDowell
No. 48 Alex Bowman
No. 6 Brad Keselowski
No. 4 Noah Gragson
No. 16 AJ Allmendinger
No. 12 Ryan Blaney
No. 77 Carson Hocevar
No. 10 Ty Dillon
No. 47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
No. 8 Kyle Busch
No. 21 Josh Berry
No. 97 Shane Van Gisbergen
No. 23 Bubba Wallace
No. 7 Daniel Suarez
No. 45 Tyler Reddick
No. 20 Christopher Bell
No. 54 Ty Gibbs
No. 22 Joey Logano
No. 5 Kyle Larson
This article originally appeared on Motorsports Wire: Denny Hamlin wins 2026 NASCAR All-Star Race at Dover Motor Speedway
