Denny Hamlin wins 2026 NASCAR All-Star Race at Dover Motor Speedway

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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.

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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​

1. No. 11 Denny Hamlin
2. No. 19 Chase Briscoe
3. No. 43 Erik Jones
4. No. 3 Austin Dillon
5. No. 88 Connor Zilisch
6. No. 2 Austin Cindric
7. No. 24 William Byron
8. No. 71 Michael McDowell
9. No. 48 Alex Bowman
10. No. 6 Brad Keselowski
11. No. 4 Noah Gragson
12. No. 16 AJ Allmendinger
13. No. 12 Ryan Blaney
14. No. 77 Carson Hocevar
15. No. 10 Ty Dillon
16. No. 47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
17. No. 8 Kyle Busch
18. No. 21 Josh Berry
19. No. 97 Shane Van Gisbergen
20. No. 23 Bubba Wallace
21. No. 7 Daniel Suarez
22. No. 45 Tyler Reddick
23. No. 20 Christopher Bell
24. No. 54 Ty Gibbs
25. No. 22 Joey Logano
26. No. 5 Kyle Larson

This article originally appeared on Motorsports Wire: Denny Hamlin wins 2026 NASCAR All-Star Race at Dover Motor Speedway

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