Kyle Larson dominated Sunday at Kansas Speedway but had to rally in the final 30 laps to be first to the checkers for the second time in three races, winning the NASCAR Cup Series’ Hollywood Casino 400 in Kansas City, Kan.
Chase Briscoe passed Larson with 30 to go, but the two-time Cup champ caught and passed the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota on the backstretch with seven laps left.
Larson, who led 235 laps, beat Austin Cindric’s Team Penske Ford by 0.565 seconds for his second win of 2026 and fourth career at Kansas.
Denny Hamlin, Briscoe and Ryan Blaney rounded out the top five.
Larson entered with a one-point lead in the Chase’s championship standings over Hamlin and will go to Las Vegas with a 26-point advantage over the No. 11 driver.
Chevrolet recorded win No. 5 in the past six race at Kansas.
In the first of three straight 1 1/2-mile speedway races, Joey Logano started at the point with the help of last Saturday’s Bristol win and the NASCAR metric, but Larson immediately moved past the No. 22 Ford. Tyler Reddick, who won at Kansas from the pole in April, plummeted to 33rd at one point in the 267-lap event.
Larson led all 35 laps before a competition caution, and he picked up where he left off with Hamlin, Carson Hocevar and Cindric behind at the 50-lap mark. A little shuffling left Larson with maximum bonus points as Stage 1 ended and Hamlin, Cindric, Hocevar and Christopher Bell filling the next positions.
On Lap 122’s restart, Hocevar drifted up the track, banged against Ty Gibbs and wrecked Bubba Wallace as three Chase drivers were involved in the six-car frontstretch mess.
Larson built a giant 2 1/2-second lead over Cindric in Stage 2’s closing circuits and again maxed out on stage points by claiming his second segment. Hamlin finished third with Briscoe and Bell following the trio.
Reddick’s No. 45 Toyota came to life, rallied to pick off five spots and moved up to sixth shortly after the restart, while Larson battled Briscoe and Cindric up front.
However, Reddick’s crew had a miscue on Lap 219 that led to an 18-second pit stop. Reddick, the series leader with five victories this season, finished 11th.
