Bubba Wallace wins Brickyard 400 in double-overtime thriller: Mother Nature wasn’t going to deprive Bubba Wallace of the most important win of his career, not on this Sunday afternoon. Unsure of the amount of fuel left in his No. 23 Toyota, Wallace survived a rain shower and two overtime restarts at Indianapolis Motor Speedway to win the Brickyard 400 presented by PPG in two overtimes he punched his ticket to the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs.[Read More]
#23-Bubba Wallace won the Brickyard 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The win is his first win of the year, first at Indianapolis and third career win.
#5-Kyle Larson finished 2nd followed by #11-Denny Hamlin, #60-Ryan Preece, #6-Brad Keselowski, #34-Todd Gilliland, #12-Ryan Blaney, #20-Christopher Bell, #48-Alex Bowman, and #77-Carson Hocevar.
Pole sitter #19-Chase Briscoe had to pit for fuel before the final restart and finish 18th.
Wallace was in control of the race, with a lead of more than 4 seconds over Larson, when rain hit turn one and forced an 18 minute red flag for track drying with 4 laps remaining. During the first overtime event, #38-Zane Smith wrecked, setting up a second overtime attempt. Wallace saved enough fuel to hold off Larson through both restarts and take the win.
Stage 1 was won by #19-Chase Briscoe. Stage 2 was won by #12-Ryan Blaney.
The fastest lap bonus a earned by #11-Denny Hamlin
The In-Season Challenge was won by #54-Ty Gibbs.
There were 15 lead changes among 10 drivers and 6 cautions for 28 yellow flag laps.
The average speed of the race was: 124.598mph.
See race details at: Race Results, Driver Points Standings, Owner Points Standings, Cumulative Report, Penalty Report.
Race Fast Facts – Indianapolis:
Bubba Wallace won the Brickyard 400, his third victory in 277 Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and eighth top-10 finish in 2025.
This is his first victory and fourth top-10 finish in five races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Kyle Larson (second) posted his fifth top-10 finish in eight races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It is his 14th top-10 finish in 2025.
Denny Hamlin (third) posted his ninth top-10 finish in 17 races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Shane Van Gisbergen (19th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Chase Elliott leads the point standings by 4 points over William Byron.
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Cup Series Playoff Standings after Indianapolis:
Race 22 of 26 in the regular season
1) #11-Denny Hamlin, 4 wins, 706 [24 playoff points]
2) #5-Kyle Larson, 3 wins, 711 [23 playoff points]
3) #20-Christopher Bell, 3 wins, 664 [17 playoff points]
4) #88-Shane Van Gisbergen, 3 wins, 392 [17 playoff points]
5) #9-Chase Elliott, 1 win, 726 [regular season points leader] [6 playoff points]
6) #24-William Byron, 1 win, 722 [12 playoff points]
7) #12-Ryan Blaney, 1 win, 616 [9 playoff points]
8) #19-Chase Briscoe, 1 win, 599 [6 playoff point]
9) #23-Bubba Wallace, 1 win, 550 [7 playoff points]
10) #22-Joey Logano, 1 win, 532 [7 playoff points]
11) #1-Ross Chastain, 1 win, 518 [6 playoff points]
12) #2-Austin Cindric, 1 win, 439 [8 playoff points]
13) #21-Josh Berry, 1 win, 414 [6 playoff points]
14) #45-Tyler Reddick, 655 [1 playoff point], +138 ahead of 17th
15) #48-Alex Bowman, 580, +63 ahead of 17th
16) #16-Chris Buescher, 559 [-4 playoff points], +34 ahead of 17th
Outside the top 16:
17) #60-Ryan Preece, 517, [2 playoff points], -42 behind 16th
18) #8-Kyle Busch, 478, -81 behind 16th
19) #54-Ty Gibbs, 464, -95 behind 16th
20) #16-A.J. Allmendinger, 435, -124 behind 16th
See the Driver Points Standings and Owner Points Standings.
Race updates:
Checkered flag for Bubba Wallace!
White flag – Wallace leads Larson by .35 second.
Lap 167 – Green flag for the second overtime attempt. Wallace clears Larson on the start.
Lap 166- Green flag next time by. Briscoe comes to pit road.
Lap 164 – Pit road is open. Leaders stay out. Gibbs is the only one to pit.
Lap 163 – Fuel will now start to be an issue for everyone. Wallace and Byron and in danger now.
Lap 162 – CAUTION is out. Smith and Reddick wreck on the backstretch. Logano and Love get some damage.
Lap 162 – Green flag for the first overtime attempt.
Lap 161 – Race will go green next time by.
Lap 160 – Under caution, current top 10: Wallace, Larson, Byron, Hamlin, Berry, Briscoe, Bell, Buescher, Hocevar, Keselowski.
Lap 158 – Pit road is open. Reddick is the first to pit. He was 6th. Nemechek also pits from 12th. Most stay out.
5:26pm/et – Red flag is lifted. Race is back to yellow. Cars will go around the track and pit road will be opened. Will have an overtime finish.
5:15pm/et – NASCAR thinks they could have the track dry in 10-15 minutes.
Lap 157 – 5:07pm/et – Race is red flagged for rain. Cars are stopped just before the start-finish. If they can get restarted, there will be an overtime attempt. Track drying is underway. Turn 1 got very wet. The rest of the track is in good shape.
Lap 155 – CAUTION is out for rain in turn 1. Top 10 are: Wallace, Larson, Byron, Hamlin, Berry, Reddick, Briscoe, Bell, Buescher, and Hocevar.
Lap 153 – With 8 laps left, Larson is still over 4 seconds back. Byron moves to third over Reddick. Hamlin is fifth.
Lap 151 – Ten laps remaining. Wallace’s lead over Larson still more than 4 seconds.
Lap 149- 12 to go. Wallace leads Larson by more than 4 seconds.
Lap 146 – 15 to go. Everyone has now pitted. The top 10 are Wallace, Larson, Reddick, Byron, Hamlin, Berry, Briscoe, Bell, Buescher, Hocevar.
Lap 140 – Blaney pits from the lead. Legge was passed by Wallace on track and he is now the leader.
Lap 139 – 22 laps to go. Blaney and Legge up front by still need to pit. Behind them Wallace leads Reddick by 2 seconds. Larson is a half second behind Reddick.
Lap 137 – 24 laps remaining. Blaney is the leader over Legge.
Lap 136 – Haley, Keselowski, and Gilliland pit. Blaney takes the lead.
Lap 135 – It’s now Haley, Keselowski, Gilliland Blaney, Legge, Logano, Wallace, Reddick, Larson and Berry. Logano has no power on the car.
Lap 133 – Logano with a tire down. Race stays green.
Lap 132 – Haley, Keselowski, Gilliland, Blaney and Legge still have not pitted but they all need fuel before the end. Logano is sixth and leads Wallace by .5 second. Reddick is 1 second behind Wallace.
Lap 126 – 35 laps remaining. The top 5 cars have not pitted yet: Haley, Keselowski, Gilliland, Blaney, Legge. Then it’s Logano, Wallace, Reddick, Larson, and Berry.
Lap 123 – Nemechek pits. Haley takes the lead.
Lap 122 – Leaders come to pit road: Larson, Hamlin, Hocevar, Reddick, Preece among them. Nemechek to the lead.
Lap 121 – Bell and Gibbs among those pitting this time.
Lap 120 – Wallace pits.
Lap 119 – Berry, Logano and Byron have pitted.
Lap 118 – Larson leads Hamlin by .25 second. The fuel window will open in the next few laps.
Lap 111- 50 laps remaining. Larson continues to hold the lead. Hamlin is .5 second back. Third place Byron is one second back.
Lap 106 – Green flag for the start of the final stage. 55 lap remaining. Everyone needs to pit for fuel before the end of the race.
Lap 104 – On the restart it will be: Larson, Hamlin, Byron, Hocevar, Logano, Buescher, Wallace, Briscoe, Nemechek and Elliott up front.
Lap 103 – Pit road is open. A handful of drivers pit. Most of the other leaders stay out.
Lap 102 – Blaney had to pit with pit road closed because they were low on fuel.
Lap 101 – CAUTION out for the end of stage 2. Blaney wins it over Larson, Hamlin, Byron, Keselowski, Bowman, Hocevar, Logano, Buescher, and Wallace.
Lap 99 – Blaney leads Larson and Hamlin with two laps remaining in stage 2.
Lap 98 – Jones officially done for the day.
Lap 97 – Green flag with four laps remaining in stage 2.
Lap 95 – On the restart it will be: Blaney, Keselowski, Byron, Bowman, Larson, Hamlin, Logano, Hocevar, Buescher, Wallace. Nemechek, who was first off pit road, will restart 13th.
Lap 94 – Pit road is open. Most drivers that had not pitted are in. Blaney will take the lead. Off pit road: Nemechek, Bell, Briscoe, Reddick.
Lap 90 – CAUTION out for an accident by Jones. He lost the right front wheel and hit the wall.
Lap 89 – Wallace pits from the lead. Briscoe to the top.
Lap 88 – Pit stops continuing to cycle through. Wallace still the leader over Briscoe, Jones, Reddick, and Blaney.
Lap 84 – Cindric has a tire go down while leading. He had to crawl to pit road. Logano and Logano pit. The race stays under green. Wallace now the leader.
Lap 83 – It’s Cindric, Logano, Wallace, Buescher and Gibbs the top 5.
Lap 81 – Eighty laps are complete and the race has reached the halfway point and is official. No immediate concern of race-stopping rain. Cindric still the leader. Some green flag pit stops beginning.
Lap 79 – Custer has a tire go down and limps to pit road. Bryon pits from second place in hopes of a caution but the race stays green.
Lap 78 – Cindric leads Byron by .35 second. Third place Hocevar is 5.2 seconds back.
Lap 74 – A few light rain drops reported in turn 1. No issue at this point.
Lap 73 – ADillon is officially done for the day.
Lap 72 – Nine laps until halfway. Cindric is the leader over Byron, Hocevar, Wallace, Logano, Buescher, Berry, Larson, Gibbs and Briscoe.
Lap 66 – Bowman pits and Cindric is now the leader. Haley also pits.
Lap 65 – Preece pits from the lead. Bowman now out front.
Lap 63 – Cody Ware goes to the garage.
Lap 61 – Preece continues to lead over Bowman, Haley, Cindric and Byron.
Lap 58 – ADillon goes to the wall with radiator damage from the restart stack up.
Lap 56 – Back to green for the start of the final stage. Weather still not an immediate issue, but 25 laps from halfway and an official race. Stenhouse collected damage on the restart when the field stacked up coming to green.
Lap 54 – Staying out under caution and now up front are Preece, Bowman, Haley, Cindric, Berry, Logano and Jones. Hocevar lines up 8th after pitting.
Lap 53 – Pit road open. A variety of strategies. Of those that pitted, Hocevar is off first with two tires then Briscoe, Byron, Reddick, Wallace, Busch, Larson, Suarez, Buescher, and Gibbs.
Lap 51 – CAUTION for the end of stage 1. Briscoe wins it. He’s followed by Wallace, Byron, Reddick, Buescher, Busch, Hocevar, Larson, ADillon and Allmendinger.
Lap 47 – Jones pits from 5th place for fuel.
Lap 44 – This time by, it’s Berry’s turn to pit. It’s now Briscoe, Wallace, Jones, Byron and Reddick the top 5 with 7 laps remaining in stage 1.
Lap 43 – Cindric pits from the lead. Briscoe back to the front.
Lap 42 – Logano pits under green. He did not pit under caution.
Lap 41 – Ten laps remaining in stage 1. Cindric continues to lead Logano, Briscoe, Berry, and Wallace.
Lap 34 – Chastain is unofficially done for the day and will finish last, barring any disqualifications.
Lap 31 – Cindric and Logano still up front. Briscoe is third, with Wallace fourth and Berry back to fifth.
Lap 27 – McDowell has a tire goes down and is limping to pit road. No caution.
Lap 23 – Back to green. Cindric, Logano, Berry, Briscoe, Wallace the top 5.
Lap 21 – Pit road is open. Most lead lap cars come to pit road. Off pit road: Briscoe, Wallace, Reddick, Jones, Byron, Buescher, Busch, Allmendinger, Hocevar, Larson. They all take two tires. Staying out: Cindric, Logano, Berry.
Lap 18 – CAUTION is out for Chastain. Contact from McDowell sent him into the wall in turn 3.
Lap 16 – Briscoe’s lead consistent at .3 second ahead of Reddick. Wallace is .66 second back. Hamlin has slipped back to 33rd, 20 seconds off the
lead. The final car on track is Bilicki, nearly 42 seconds back.
Lap 11 – Reddick has moved to second and is .35 second behind Briscoe. Wallace is now third..
Lap 6 – Five laps complete. Briscoe leads Wallace, Reddick, Byron and Jones. Hamlin has moved up to 30th after starting in the rear.
Lap 2 – Briscoe leads the first lap.
• 2:10pm/et – Green flag at Indianapolis. Briscoe and Wallace on the front row.
• 1:58pm/et – Engines have been fired.
• 1:51pm/et – Pre-race ceremonies are underway. They have been moved up 10 minutes from the original schedule.
• 15 minutes until pre-race ceremonies. There are some storms south of the track but they are moving east and no danger at this point.
• As of 12:00pm/et, the radar is generally clear around the speedway. The concern is with some pop up storms during the heat of the day.
• Should rain interrupt the race, it will be official after lap 80.
• Weather could be an issue today. The National Weather Service forecast is: “Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 5pm. Partly sunny and hot, with a high near 91. West southwest wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.” Rain is expected to be spotty, so it will just be a matter of where things develop. Meteorologist Brian Neudorff puts the odds of racing at 60-70%.
Race details:
Broadcast: TNT, IMS Radio Network, and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio
Distance: 160 laps / 400 miles
Stages: 50 / 100 / 160
Average time of race: 3:29:09
Pit road speed: 45 mph
Caution car speed: 55 mph
Fuel Window: 40 laps
Timing (all times local & subject to change)
Invocation: 2:00:20 p.m.
National Anthem: 2:01:10 p.m.
Command: 2:08:10 p.m.
Green Flag: 2:20:00 p.m.
Paint Schemes
Cars to the rear: #11-Denny Hamlin (backup car), #38-Zane Smith (unapproved adjustments), #42-John Hunter Nemechek (unapproved adjustments), #62-Jesse Love (unapproved adjustments), #71-Michael McDowell (unapproved adjustments)
Pit Stall Selections: The selections of pit stalls for the Brickyard 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway have been made.
Pole winner #19-Chase Briscoe chose pit stall 1.
Outside pole sitter #22-Bubba Wallace took the 6th stall, with an opening in front of it.
See all pit choices on the Indianapolis Pit Stall page.
#19-Chase Briscoe won the Busch pole for the Brickyard 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway with a speed of 183.165mph for his fifth pole of the year, first at Indianapolis and seventh of his career.
#23-Bubba Wallace will start second followed by #43-Erik Jones,#45-Tyler Reddick, #54-Ty Gibbs, ,#24-William Byron, #17-Chris Buescher, #77-Carson Hocevar, #16-A.J. Allmendinger, and #2-Austin Cindric.
See the complete qualifying results and the Brickyard 400 Starting Lineup.
Indianapolis Motor Speedway – Qualifying Fast Facts:
Chase Briscoe won the Pole Award for the Brickyard 400 with a lap of 49.136 seconds, 183.165 mph.
This is his seventh pole in 166 NASCAR Cup Series races.
This is his fifth pole and 12th top-10 start in 2025.
This is his first pole in two races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
* Bubba Wallace (second) posted his eighth top-10 start of 2025 and his first in five races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Erik Jones (third) posted his second top-10 start at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It is his fourth in 22 races this season.
Shane Van Gisbergen (11th) was the fastest qualifying rookie.
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Qualifying Order
Practice for the Brickyard 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway is over. The results:
#11-Denny Hamlin 182.038
#42-John Hunter Nemechek 181.781
#6-Brad Keselowski 181.305
#54-Ty Gibbs 181.075
#38-Zane Smith 180.948
Slowest: #66-Josh Bilicki 164.660
Most laps run: #24-William Byron, #45-Tyler Reddick, #60-Ryan Preece, #19-Chase Briscoe, 22 laps
Best 10 consecutive lap avg (of 36 drivers): #42-John Hunter Nemechek, 178.178mph.
Notes:After practice was cancelled on Friday, this session was just 25 minutes.
See the fastest speeds, best 10 consecutive lap average, laps run on the Brickyard 400 Practice speeds page.
Inspection: There were no multi-time failures in Cup inspection.
Friday Practice for the Brickyard 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was cancelled due to rain. The Cup Series will now have a single 25 minute practice at 2:00pm/et on Saturday, followed by qualifying.
Crew Rosters
The entry list for the Brickyard 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway is posted, 39 teams/drivers [for 40 spots] are listed.
The open teams entered are #66-Josh Bilicki, #62-Jessee Love, and #78-Katherine Legge, as well as #4-Noah Gragson, #23-Bubba Wallace, #34-Todd Gilliland, #35-Riley Herbst, #38-Zane Smith, #45-Tyler Reddick.
See the full entry list on the Brickyard 400 Entry List page.
Statistical Advance: Analyzing the Brickyard 400: A look at some of the top statistical performers at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana, going into the Brickyard 400 on Sunday.
Goodyear Fast Facts — Indianapolis: Cup Series teams will race on the same right side tire as at Indianapolis last year and Pocono a few weeks ago, but the left side tire hasn’t been used at this track before. It’s the same tire raced at Charlotte and Michigan earlier this season, and is designed for more lap-time fall-off.
NASCAR Cup Series News & Notes – Indianapolis Motor Speedway:
Dover Storylines and Insights:
- This weekend marks the 29th running of a NASCAR Cup Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval (1994-2020, 2024-2025). From 2021-2023, the series ran three races on IMS road course.
- The stages for the Brickyard 400: 50-100-160.
- Chevrolet won 12 consecutive Brickyard 400s from 2003 to 2014 but won only two of the last seven.
- Three organizations won nine of the last 10 Brickyard 400s: (Hendrick Motorsports-four wins, Stewart-Haas Racing-three wins, Joe Gibbs Racing-two wins).
- Six Brickyard 400s went into overtime including five of the last seven.
- Katherine Legge is set to become the 21st driver to start in both the Indianapolis 500 and Brickyard 400.
- Denny Hamlin can become the fifth driver all time to complete the Grand Slam of Crown Jewel events with a win this weekend, joining Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick and Dale Earnhardt.
- And much more.
Race rules and information:
