William Byron
NASCAR Cup Series Driver
2026 Season: NASCAR Cup Series
● Playoff eligibleThrough September 19, 2026 · 121 pts behind leader
Roles
- Driver, Hendrick Motorsports
Coverage (11 articles)
Joey Logano Won the Bristol Night Race. Ryan Blaney Led 202 Laps and Finished 33rd.
Joey Logano came from fourth on the final restart for his 40th Cup Series win. Ryan Blaney, who led 202 laps, crashed out while racing Carson Hocevar for second and traded punches with him on pit road. Kyle Larson leads The Chase by one point.
Christopher Bell Ended a 33-Race Winless Streak by Winning the Southern 500.
Bell won the Cook Out Southern 500 by 1.038 seconds over Ty Gibbs, his first victory in 33 races and the end of a season with seven runner-up finishes. His crew gave away the lead on a stop after he had won the second segment, and he took it back with 12 laps to go. Ty Gibbs finished second after starting 28th.
Two Drivers Made the Playoff at Daytona. Between Them They Led 11 Laps.
Ryan Preece led five laps of the Coke Zero Sugar 400 and won it. Austin Cindric led six and finished sixth. Both are in the Cup Series playoff and Shane Van Gisbergen, who won the opening stage, is out. Twelve drivers led more laps than the winner, and one of them cracked the top ten.
Denny Hamlin Has a 44-Point Lead and No Answer for Atlanta
Denny Hamlin leads the Cup Series by 44 points with seven races left, but Sunday night the Quaker State 400 visits EchoPark Speedway, a drafting track where he has no top 10 all year. Tyler Reddick, the driver chasing him, is the defending winner and one of the best pack racers in the field. If Reddick can stop crashing, Atlanta is where the title math gets nervous.
William Byron Won Everything at Chicagoland Except the Race
William Byron swept both stages at Chicagoland and led 94 laps, more than anyone else on the grid. He finished fourth. Chase Briscoe led the final 46 laps, beat Christopher Bell by 0.276 seconds, and gave Joe Gibbs Racing a 1-2-3 in NASCAR's first Cup race at the track since 2019.
Hamlin Wins Third Straight at Pocono, Cutting Reddick's Lead to 19 Points
Denny Hamlin held off Tyler Reddick by 1.678 seconds at Pocono on Sunday for his third straight NASCAR Cup win, a record eighth at the track. The streak cut Reddick's once-100-point lead to 19, turning the championship into a contest with 10 races left to set the Chase field.
Hamlin Grabs Pocono Pole
Denny Hamlin was the last man out at Pocono and grabbed the Busch Light Pole by fifty-seven thousandths of a second, his fourth of the season. The bigger story is the streak: two straight wins, his best track in front of him, and a shot at the first three-race run of his career on Sunday.
Kyle Larson Hasn't Won in 36 Races. He's Headed to the One Kind of Track Where That Usually Ends.
Kyle Larson heads to the Coca-Cola 600 on a 36-race winless streak, his longest since joining Hendrick Motorsports in 2021, but Charlotte is a 1.5-mile track, and no driver in the Next Gen era has been better on them. Ten career wins, 17 stage wins, and 1,920 laps led on the mile-and-a-halfs say Sunday is his best chance to end it.
What to Watch and Who's Hot at Dover's First All-Star Race
The NASCAR All-Star Race goes to Dover Motor Speedway Sunday for the first time in the event's 41-year history, the 42nd running of the showcase, three segments, 26 cars, the trophy on the line. A preview of what to watch and who's hot heading in.
William Byron Returns to the Team That Built Him — for One Night in Kansas
Saturday night, Byron runs the No. 88 for JR Motorsports. Sunday afternoon, he's in the No. 24 for Hendrick Motorsports. Same Kansas weekend, same Charlotte story, thirty miles on either end of I-77.
Hendrick Motorsports Files to Rezone 22 Acres Near Charlotte Motor Speedway: What It Means
Hendrick Motorsports wants to rezone 22 acres near Charlotte Motor Speedway for manufacturing and fabrication. The expansion would grow the largest NASCAR campus in America. Here is what is being proposed, the approval timeline, and what it means for Charlotte jobs and land use.