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Live NASCAR race updates: Blaney, Briscoe claim stage wins in Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis
SPEEDWAY, Ind. — Ryan Blaney and Chase Briscoe claimed the stage wins in the NASCAR Cup Series Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Follow here for live race updates.
NASCAR Cup Series’ Brickyard 400 at Indy Final Stage
Chase Briscoe in 7th reports a right-rear tire vibration, lap 148.
Bubba Wallace cycles out to the lead with Tyler Reddick, Kyle Larson, William Byron, Denny Hamlin, Josh Berry, Chase Briscoe, Christopher Bell, Chris Buescher and Carson Hocevar in 10th with 16 laps to go. Larson takes second from Reddick, who is still trying to save fuel.
Ryan Blaney is pitting this lap, lap 142.
Keselowski, Haley come in, anticipating a caution for Logano who got the car re-fired. 23 to go now.
LAP 134: Joey Logano with a right-rear tire down! He was set to be leading the race! Bubba Wallace will take that spot.
Bubba Wallace is told: “We are good on fuel, the 22 is concerned. Push hard.”
Kudos to Katherine Legge who has stayed on the lead lap and has had a solid race through all the strategies shuffling around. As everything is still in flux, Legge sits fifth.
Joey Logano emerges with the lead after making a shorter pit stop than everyone else. Prospective top-10 is now Logano, Bubba, Reddick, Larson, Berry, Byron, Hamlin, Briscoe, Bell and Buescher… Hocevar is set to be 11th.
Kyle Larson, Denny Hamlin, Carson Hocevar and Tyler Reddick all pit on lap 122… the last time for fuel.
Josh Berry pits on lap 117, Logano pits on 118, Byron pits on 119. Briscoe also pits. Byron had a slower stop.
Kyle Larson hung on to the lead after the first restart of the final stage. Larson leads Denny Hamlin, William Byron, Carson Hocevar, Joey Logano, Bubba Wallace, Tyler Reddick, Chris Buescher, Ryan Preece and Christopher Bell. Reddick and Preece each gained four spots while Bell gained two. John Hunter Nemechek dropped two spots to 11th, Chase Briscoe dropped four to 11th.
Here is the top-10 as the final stage will start on lap 106:
- Kyle Larson
- Denny Hamlin
- William Byron
- Carson Hocevar
- Joey Logano
- Chris Buescher
- Bubba Wallace
- Chase Briscoe
- John Hunter Nemechek
- Chase Elliott
The first driver who pitted during the stage caution is in 18th — Alex Bowman. The fuel window is 40 laps but drivers have gone 43 laps on fuel.
NASCAR Cup Series’ Brickyard 400 at Indy Stage Two Winner: Ryan Blaney
Ryan Blaney hangs on to win Stage Two at Indy. Top 10: Blaney, Larson, Hamlin, Byron, Keselowski, Bowman, Hocever, Logano, Buescher, Bubba.
LAP 97: Brad Keselowski stayed out too. He’ll be on the outside front row with Ryan Blaney with William Byron, Alex Bowman, Kyle Larson, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Carson Hocevar, Chris Buescher and Bubba Wallace rounding out the top-10.
John Hunter Nemechek in 13th is the first guy who pitted under caution.
Blaney stays out, lap 93. Preece, Haley come in with the others mentioned in the first group below.
LAP 91: Chase Briscoe, Tyler Reddick, Ryan Blaney, Christopher Bell, Zane Smith, John Hunter Nemechek, Brad Keselowski, Shane van Gisbergen and Katherine Legge didn’t pit before the caution came out. William Byron in 10th will cycle to the lead for what will be less than eight laps to go in the second stage.
Rounding out the top-10 will be Alex Bowman, Ryan Preece, Kyle Larson, Justin Haley, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Carson Hocevar, Chris Buescher and Bubba Wallace.
Erik Jones has crashed with a right-front tire issue on lap 89. Caution flies. It appears he had a brake rotor that exploded his wheel. Free pass goes to Todd Gilliland.
Leader Austin Cindric blows a right-rear tire in turn one. Joey Logano takes the lead… Lap 84. No caution yet. Joey Logano, Chris Buescher, Ty Gibbs pit expecting a caution. Denny Hamlin also pits.
Kyle Larson pits on lap 80, Carson Hocevar on lap 81. They both ran inside the top-10 before pitting.
TOP-10: Austin Cindric, Joey Logano, Bubba Wallace, Chris Buescher, Josh Berry, Ty Gibbs, Chase Briscoe, Erik Jones, Denny Hamlin, Tyler Reddick. Kyle Larson and Carson Hocevar were trapped a lap down after their stops.
Ty Dillon goes a lap down with nose damage from the restart wreck. Cole Custer has a tire problem. Lap 78… William Byron to pit road seeing the tire issue.
Ryan Preece pits on lap 63. Alex Bowman and Justin Haley pit on lap 64. Preece went 42 laps on fuel, Bowman and Haley went 43. They had a few caution laps helping them. Preece and Haley are now a lap down.
William Byron to fifth. He now leads the drivers on the standard strategy, lap 60.
Austin Dillon, Ty Dillon, Tyler Reddick, Cody Ware Ricky Stenhouse Jr. have damage after a bad restart for Josh Berry. Reddick and Ty Dillon are the only ones who don’t pit. Ty Dillon is facing Ty Gibbs for the $1 million grand prize in the NASCAR in-season tournament.
Top 10 is now Preece, Bowman, Haley, Hocevar, Cindric, Byron, Wallace, Logano, Buescher and Berry, who fell from near the top-five to 10th.
Staying out: Ryan Preece, Alex Bowman, Justin Haley, Austin Cindric, Josh Berry, Joey Logano and Erik Jones. Preece last pitted on lap 21, Bowman and Haley on lap 20 — Cindric on lap 42, Berry on lap 43, Logano on lap 41 and Jones on lap 46.
Off pit road: Carson Hocevar (two tires), Chase Briscoe (four), William Byron, (four), Tyler Reddick (four), Bubba Wallace (four), Kyle Busch (four), Kyle Larson (four), Daniel Suarez (four), Chris Buescher (four), Ty Gibbs (four).
NASCAR Cup Series’ Brickyard 400 at Indy Stage One Winner: Chase Briscoe
Chase Briscoe wins the first stage at Indy.
Stage One Top 10 (LAP 50): Briscoe, Bubba Wallace, William Byron, Tyler Reddick, Chris Buescher, Kyle Busch, Carson Hocevar, Kyle Larson, Austin Dillon, A.J. Allmendinger
The top-10 drivers will likely pit amd restart behind Austin Cindric, Josh Berry, Joey Logano and Erik Jones. They pitted before the stage end. Free pass goes to Josh Bilicki.
LAP 47: Chase Briscoe leads Bubba Wallace, William Byron, Tyler Reddick, Chris Buescher, Kyle Busch, Carson Hocevar, Kyle Larson, Austin Dillon and A.J. Allmendinger. Erik Jones pits to join the Penske strategy. Jones just managed to stay on the lead lap.
Cindric, Berry and Logano stay on the lead lap. Berry leaped Logano with taking less fuel to stay on the lead lap.
LAP 41: Joey Logano pits for the first time. Austin Cindric and Josh Berry, who are on the same strategy, pit a lap and two laps later, respectively.
Austin Cindric isn’t saving at all. He leads by 1.8 seconds and counting as he is running lap times around three tenths faster than everyone else. He stayed out with second-place Joey Logano and fifth-place Josh Berry during the first caution. Mostly everyone took two fresh tires, except for Ty Gibbs and others who took four and have mostly stalled out.
Top 10: 2 22 19 23 21 43 24 45 17 8. McDowell with tire issues and coming to pit road, lap 26. Seems to be extenuating issues from what happened with Chastain who is in the garage after an incident. Noah Gragson has an unscheduled pit stop. His team reports smoke coming from the car.
Joey Logano, Austin Cindric and Josh Berry stayed out and will lead the field to the green flag. Behind them are Chase Briscoe, Bubba Wallace, Tyler Reddick, Erik Jones, William Byron, Chris Buescher, Kyle Busch, A.J. Allmendinger, Carson Hocevar and Kyle Larson.
TOP-10, LAP 20: Chase Briscoe, Tyler Reddick, Bubba Wallace, William Byron, Erik Jones, Ty Gibbs, Chris Buescher, Carson Hocevar, Austin Cindric and A.J. Allmendinger. Pit stops underway under caution…
Ross Chastain drives away after safety crews pump up the shocks so he can get back to pit road after crashing in turn three. That pump was something NASCAR put in place as an option for teams after drivers had issues driving away from crashes with the Gen 7 car.
Chastain has crashed entering turn three. Chastain appeared to block a run from Michael McDowell who bumped him on the entry to the corner, setting off the wreck.
Tyler Reddick jumps to second, lap 8. The first stage is 50 laps.
Chase Briscoe takes the early lead, leading the first few laps ahead of Bubba Wallace, Tyler Reddick, William Byron, Erik Jones, Ty Gibbs, Chris Buescher, Carson Hocevar, Austin Cindric and A.J. Allmendinger.
Denny Hamlin is up nine spots to 30th. He crashed in qualifying and had to go to a backup car after being fastest in practice. If he can win, it’ll be the worst start for one any of his Cup wins.
Brickyard 400 Race Start
Chase Briscoe is starting on the pole for the Brickyard 400 after a series-high fifth pole on the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season. Briscoe is the first driver to win the pole for NASCAR’s three biggest crown jewels — the Brickyard 400, the Daytona 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 — in the same year.
Toyota claimed the first five starting spots, with Briscoe leading the way.
Meanwhile, teammate Denny Hamlin will start 39th — last — after a crash in qualifying. He will race in a backup car.
Michael McDowell, John Hunter Nemechek, Zane Smith and Jesse Love will also start in the rear of the field for “unapproved adjustments.”
Could rain affect the Brickyard 400?
Possibly. According to Brian Neudorff, the NASCAR weatherman, there is a chance of rain about two hours after the expected command to fire the engines. There is a good chance of getting the race in, as what happened Saturday in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race and last week in the NASCAR Cup Series race at Dover:
Brickyard 400 Info
Here’s how you can watch the NASCAR Cup Series’ Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis and more info:
- TV: TNT, Radio: IMS Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Ch. 90 (More: NASCAR at Indianapolis 2025: Odds and more info)
- 160 laps (Stages: 50 / 100 / 160)
- Fuel Window: 40 laps
- Green flag: 2:20 p.m. ET
- Average time of race: Three hours, 29 minutes and nine seconds
- Pit road speed: 45 mph
- Caution car speed: 55 mph