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Who gained the NASCAR race at present? Full outcomes from 2026 Cook Out 400 in Martinsville

SportsMar 29, 2026
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The 2026 Cook Out 400 is finally done and dusted. The seventh race of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season started at 3:30 pm ET and lasted for two hours, 47 minutes, and 18 seconds at Martinsville Speedway with a total of 37 entries.

This year’s Cook Out 400 saw eight lead changes among six different drivers and witnessed five caution flags.

Who won the NASCAR race today?

Chase Elliott, driving the #9 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports (HMS), secured his first win of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season after beating Denny Hamlin in Sunday’s Cook Out 400. It’s the first win of the season for Chevrolet and HMS.

Elliott utilized a magnificent strategy called by his #9 HMS team crew chief Alan Gustafson as NASCAR’s Most Popular Driver short-pitted on lap 261 to gain track position, and then he grabbed the lead for good after a restart with 68 laps to go and held off the charge of the day’s most dominant driver, Hamlin, to cross the finish line in P1.

The 30-year-old driver from Dawsonville, Georgia, led 84 laps and crossed the finish line by a margin of 0.565 seconds ahead of Hamlin, who led a race-high 292 laps to take the checkered flag. The win marked the 12th of his career and second at Martinsville.

Denny Hamlin finished runner-up, followed by Joey Logano, Ty Gibbs, and William Byron in the top five. Ryan Blaney, Christopher Bell, Austin Cindric, the defending series champion Kyle Larson, and Josh Berry completed the top 10.

2026 Cook Out 400 final results

Here are the final results of NASCAR’s 2026 Cook Out 400 at Martinsville Speedway:

  1. #9 – Chase Elliott
  2. #11 – Denny Hamlin
  3. #22 – Joey Logano
  4. #54 – Ty Gibbs
  5. #24 – William Byron
  6. #12 – Ryan Blaney
  7. #20 – Christopher Bell
  8. #2 – Austin Cindric
  9. #5 – Kyle Larson
  10. #21 – Josh Berry
  11. #97 – Shane Van Gisbergen
  12. #60 – Ryan Preece
  13. #6 – Brad Keselowski
  14. #19 – Chase Briscoe
  15. #45 – Tyler Reddick
  16. #1 – Ross Chastain
  17. #77 – Carson Hocevar
  18. #71 – Michael McDowell
  19. #17 – Chris Buescher
  20. #7 – Daniel Suarez
  21. #43 – Erik Jones
  22. #48 – Justin Allgaier
  23. #34 – Todd Gilliland
  24. #8 – Kyle Busch
  25. #3 – Austin Dillon
  26. #88 – Connor Zilisch
  27. #16 – AJ Allmendinger
  28. #4 – Noah Gragson
  29. #42 – John Hunter Nemechek
  30. #47 – Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.
  31. #41 – Cole Custer
  32. #51 – Cody Ware
  33. #33 – Austin Hill
  34. #38 – Zane Smith
  35. #35 – Riley Herbst
  36. #23 – Bubba Wallace
  37. #10 – Ty Dillon

Catch the NASCAR teams and drivers next at Bristol Motor Speedway for the eight races of the season on April 12, 2026.