Ryan Blaney commands Cracker Barrel 400 at Nashville Superspeedway: Ryan Blaney claimed his first victory of the 2025 season Sunday night in the Cracker Barrel 400 at Nashville Superspeedway. The 2023 NASCAR Cup Series champion led a commanding, race-best 139 of the 300 laps to finally secure that all-important Playoff position. Blaney has come so close this season to hoisting a trophy only to have random racing bad luck break his heart and challenge his resolve. But Sunday, the sport’s popular 31-year-old, third-generation racer ultimately drove his No. 12 Team Penske Ford to a 2.830-second win over 22-year-old Spire Motorsports’ Carson Hocevar in a 103-lap green flag run that closed out the race.[Read More]
#12-Ryan Blaney won the Cracker Barrel 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Nashville Superspeedway. The win is his first win of the year, first at Nashville and 14th career win.
#77-Carson Hocevar tied his career-best by finishing 2nd. They were followed by #11-Denny Hamlin (making his 700th Cup start), #22-Joey Logano, #24-William Byron, #23-Bubba Wallace, #43-Erik Jones, #5-Kyle Larson, #45-Tyler Reddick, and #20-Christopher Bell.
Pole sitter #19-Chase Briscoe led 51 laps early in the race but fell back to finish 17th
The fastest lap bonus was earned by #11-Denny Hamlin.
Stage 1 was won by #11-Denny Hamlin. Stage 2 was won by #12-Ryan Blaney.
There were 18 lead changes among 9 drivers and 7 cautions for 35 yellow flag laps.
The average speed of the race was: 129.068mph.
See race details at: Race Results, Driver Points Standings, Owner Points Standings, Cumulative Report, Penalty Report.
Race Fast Facts – Nashville:
Ryan Blaney won the Cracker Barrel 400, his 14th victory in 356 Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and seventh top-10 finish in 2025.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in five races at Nashville Superspeedway.
Carson Hocevar (second) posted his first top-10 finish in two races at Nashville Superspeedway. It is his third top-10 finish in 2025.
Denny Hamlin (third) posted his third top-10 finish in five races at Nashville Superspeedway.
Riley Herbst (24th) was the highest finishing rookie.
William Byron leads the point standings by 48 points over Kyle Larson.
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Cup Series Playoff Standings after Nashville:
Race 14 of 26 in the regular season
1) #5-Kyle Larson, 3 wins, 499, [23 playoff points]
2) #20-Christopher Bell, 3 wins, 459 [16 playoff points]
3) #11-Denny Hamlin, 2 win, 443 [13 playoff points]
4) #24-William Byron, 1 win, 574 [regular season points leader], [11 playoff points]
5) #12-Ryan Blaney, 1 win, 417, [8 playoff points] +XX ahead of 17th
6) #22-Joey Logano, 1 win, 380 [7 playoff points]
7) #1-Ross Chastain, 1 win, 377 [5 playoff points]
8) #2-Austin Cindric, 1 win, 303 [7 playoff points]
9) #21-Josh Berry, 1 win, 278 [6 playoff points]
10) #9-Chase Elliott, 442, +153 ahead of 17th
11) #45-Tyler Reddick, 429, +140 ahead of 17th
12) #23-Bubba Wallace, 343, [2 playoff points], +54 ahead of 17th
13) #19-Chase Briscoe, 342, +53 ahead of 17th
14) #48-Alex Bowman, 334, +45 ahead of 17th
15) #16-Chris Buescher, 297, +8 ahead of 17th
16) #8-Kyle Busch, 291, +2 ahead of 17th
Outside the top 16:
17) #60-Ryan Preece, 289, [1 playoff point], -2 behind 16th
18) #77-Carson Hocevar, 287, -4 behind 16th
19) #47-Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., 285, -6 behind 16th
20) #16-A.J. Allmendinger, 284, -7 behind 16th
See the Driver Points Standings and Owner Points Standings.
Race updates:
Checkered flag. Ryan Blaney gets his first win of the season over Hocevar, Hamlin, Logano, Byron, Wallace, Jones, Larson, Reddick and Bell.
White flag for Blaney.
Lap 296 – Five to go. Blaney still in control. The lead remains 3 seconds.
Lap 291 – Blaney up by 3 seconds over Hocevar. Then Hamlin, Logano, Byron, Wallace, Jones, Larson, Chastain, Bell.
Lap 286 – No change up front. It’s looking like Blaney’s race to lose without a caution.
Lap 281 – With 20 to go, Blaney’s lead is steady.
Lap 276 – 25 to go. Blaney’s lead is 2.4 seconds over Hocevar. Hamlin is 3 seconds back.
Lap 271 – With 30 laps remaining, Blaney’s lead over Hocevar is 2.9 seconds, Hamlin is 3.8 seconds back.
Lap 270 – 31 laps to go. Keselowski pits and Blaney regains the lead over Hocevar, Hamlin, Logano, and Jones.
Lap 267 – ADillon pits and Keselowski becomes the leader.
Lap 261 – Forty laps to go. ADillon, Keselowski, and Berry up front. They have not pitted. Then Blaney, Hocevar, Hamlin, Logano, Jones, and Wallace.
Lap 259- Cindric and Van Gisbergen pit. ADillon to the lead. Blaney up to sixth. Hamlin now 8th.
Lap 256 – Hamlin pits from the lead. Cindric takes the top spot.
Lap 255 – Hamlin leads Cindric, Van Gisbergen, ADillon, Keselowski, Berry, Preece, Gibbs, Haley, and Blaney.
Lap 251 – Byron pits from second. Hamlin still out and leading.
Lap 249 – Blaney pits from the lead. Hamlin out front now.
Lap 246 – Logano pits from third. Larson is also in.
Lap 243 – Jones comes to pit road a bit early to kick off green flag stops. He did not get the tank full during the last stop.
Lap 240 – Blaney has pulled out to a 2.1 second lead over Hamlin.
Lap 231 – Seventy laps remaining: Blaney, Hamlin, Logano, Jones, Byron, Hocevar, Chastain, Wallace, Larson, Busch the top 10. Everyone needs to pit for fuel once more.
Lap 218 – Hamlin has moved to second, but is 1 second behind Blaney. Logano has fallen 1.8 second back.
Lap 210 – Blaney’s lead is .85 second over Logano. Hamlin is up to third.
Lap 200 – Blaney to the lead. Then Logano, Jones, Bron, and Hamlin.
Lap 199 – Back to green. Logano still the leader.
Lap 194 – CAUTION for an accident by Preece in turn 2.
Lap 193 – Back to green for the start of the final stage. 108 laps remaining.
Lap 189 – Leaders pit for service. Off pit road: Logano, Blaney, Jones, Hamlin, Hocevar, Byron.
Lap 186 – CAUTION out for the end of stage 2. Blaney wins it over Byron, Hamlin, Logano, Jones, Cindric, Hocevar, Smith, Berry, Bell.
Lap 180 – Blaney’s lead over Byron is 1.4 second.
Lap 170 – Blaney now takes the lead. Byron to second, then Hamlin, Logano, Jones.
Lap 169 – Hamlin leads at the line.
Lap 168 – Byron to the lead.
Lap 166 – Twenty laps remaining in stage 2. Hamlin leads Blaney by .15 second. Then Byron, Logano, and Jones.
Lap 147 – The race seems to have finally settled back down a bit. Hamlin leads Blaney, Byron, Logano, and Jones.
Lap 137 – Green flag out with Hamlin, Blaney, Logano, Cindric, Byron the top 5.
Lap 131 – CAUTION for an accident by Heim after he pinched Keselowski up against the frontstretch wall. Reddick will be the free pass.
Lap 128 – Reddick pits with a possible tire down.
Lap 124 – Green flag again. Hamlin still leads. Larson had to pit with a loose wheel.
Lap 119 – Green flag back out. Hamlin, Cindric, Logano, Blaney, Bell the top 5. Bowman had gone to the garage for repairs.
CAUTION out after Bell wrecks.
Lap 114 – CAUTION for Bowman, Larson, and Gragson. Gragson goes straight to the garage. Larson with very little damage.
Lap 113 – Stenhouse goes to the garage for repairs.
Lap 112 – Back to green flag racing. Hamlin the leader.
Lap 108 – Everyone back on pit road. Off pit road: Hamlin, Cindric, Logano, Blaney, Bell, Reddick, McDowell, Elliott, Briscoe, and Byron.
Lap 105 – Caution out for Stenhouse into the wall after contact from Hocevar. He continues on. Wallace is the free pass.
Lap 98 – Green flag for the start of the second stage. Blaney the leader.
Lap 94 – Leaders pit. Off pit road. Blaney, Cindric, Hamlin, Reddick, Briscoe, Bell, Byron, Elliott, Logano, McDowell. Blaney and Cindric take just two tires.
Lap 91 – CAUTION out for the end of stage 1. Hamlin wins it over Reddick, Briscoe, Byron, Bell, Elliott, Blaney, McDowell, Logano, Chastain.
Lap 88 – Byron takes third from Briscoe.
Lap 86 – Reddick to second.
Lap 84 – Hamlin takes the lead from Briscoe. Reddick is up to third.
Lap 81 – Hamlin has moved back to 2nd.
Lap 79 – Twelve laps left in stage 1. Briscoe leads Byron by .28 second. Hamlin is third, .62 second back. Larson is the last driver on the lead lap, in 27th.
Lap 71 – Blaney and Cindric pit and Briscoe take the lead back over.
Lap 70 – Haley finally pits. He was too fast on pit road.
Lap 69 – Briscoe reports that his brake pedal is going to the floor. Blaney still leads Cindric and Haley. Briscoe, Hamlin, Byron, Reddick, TDillon, Bell, and Elliott round out the top 10.
Lap 57 – Up front it’s Blaney, Cindric, Haley, TDillon and Nemechek. They have not pitted yet. Briscoe is sixth.
Lap 47 – Reddick pits from the lead. Blaney takes the lead.
Lap 42 – Hamlin pits from the lead, handling it to Reddick.
Lap 41 – Briscoe pits from the lead and Hamlin takes the spot. Green flag stops will be in full swing now.
Lap 40 – Larson hit pit road for service. He’s the first drive to come in.
Lap 33 – Briscoe leading Hamlin by a half second. Third place Byron is more than 2 seconds back. Still 36 drivers on the lead lap.
Lap 21 – With 20 laps complete, Briscoe continues to lead. He’s .323 second ahead of Hamlin. Finchum, Allmendinger, and Yeley are a lap down.
Lap 11 – After ten laps, it’s Briscoe, Hamlin, Byron, Reddick, Bell, Elliott, McDowell, Logano, Chastain and Keselowski.
Lap 3 – Briscoe leads the second lap. Allmendinger comes back on track more than a lap down. Larson got loose and fell to 36th place.
Lap 2 – Briscoe leads the first lap. Allmendinger comes to pit road to serve his penalty.
• 7:20pm/et – Green flag at Nashville. Briscoe and Hamlin on the front row. First stage is 90 laps.
• 7:09pm/et – Engines have been fired.
• 7:01pm/et – Pre-race ceremonies are underway.
• 6:30pm/et – Prime is now live with pre-race coverage.
• 6:07pm/et – Allmendinger is still the only driver going to the rear tonight.
• 5:03pm/et – As of now, Denny Hamlin is still expected to run tonight.
• As of this morning, Allmendinger is the only car falling to the rear for the start of the race.
• Weather should not be an issue for tonight’s race, but there could be some rain this afternoon. The National Weather Service says: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 83. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Race Details:
Broadcast: NASCAR on Prime, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio
Distance: 300 laps / 399 miles
Stages: 90 / 185 / 300
Average time of race: 3:33:05
Pit road speed: 45 mph
Caution car speed: 55 mph
Fuel Window: 80 laps
Timing (all times local & subject to change)
Invocation: 6:01:20 p.m.
National Anthem: 6:02:00 p.m.
Command: 6:09:00 p.m.
Green Flag: 6:19:00 p.m.
Paint Schemes
Cars to the rear: #16-Allmendinger (unapproved adjustment)
Pit Stall Selections: The selections of pit stalls for the Cracker Barrel 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Nashville Superspeedway have been made.
Pole winner #19-Chase Briscoe chose pit stall 1.
Outside pole sitter #11-Denny Hamlin took the 23rd stall, with an opening in front of it.
See all pit choices on the Nashville Pit Stall page.
#19-Chase Briscoe won the Busch pole for the Cracker Barrel 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Nashville Superspeedway with a speed of 164.395mph for his third pole of the year, first at Nashville and fifth of his career.
#11-Denny Hamlin will start second followed by #24-William Byron, #45-Tyler Reddick, #1-Ross Chastain, #6-Brad Keselowski, #20-Christopher Bell, #71-Michael McDowell, #22-Joey Logano and #17-Chris Buescher.
See the complete qualifying results and the Cracker Barrel 400 Starting Lineup.
Nashville Superspeedway – Qualifying Fast Facts:
Chase Briscoe won the Pole Award for the Cracker Barrel 400 with a lap of 29.125 seconds, 164.395 mph.
This is his fifth pole in 158 NASCAR Cup Series races.
This is his third pole and fifth top-10 start in 2025.
This is his first pole in five races at Nashville Superspeedway.
Denny Hamlin (second) posted his seventh top-10 start of 2025 and his fourth in five races at Nashville Superspeedway.
William Byron (third) posted his fourth top-10 start at Nashville Superspeedway. It is his 10th in 14 races this season.
Shane Van Gisbergen (23rd) was the fastest qualifying rookie.
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Qualifying Order
Practice for the Cracker Barrel 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Nashville Superspeedway is over. The results:
#45-Tyler Reddick 161.337
#11-Denny Hamlin 161.006
#9-Chase Elliott 160.822
#24-William Byron 160.816
#19-Chase Briscoe 160.784
Slowest: #66-Chad Finchum, 153.461mph
Most laps run: #9-Chase Elliott, 45 laps.
Best 10 consecutive lap avg (of 35 drivers): #45-Tyler Reddick, 160.240mph.
Notes: #8-Kyle Busch and #21-Josh Berry spun early in group 2 in separate incidents. They did not hit anything. The top 7 speeds were all set in Group 2.
See the fastest speeds, best 10 consecutive lap average, laps run on the Cracker Barrel 400 Practice speeds page.
Crew Rosters
The entry list for the Cracker Barrel 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Nashville Superspeedway is posted, 39 teams/drivers [for 40 spots] are listed.
Open teams entered are: #44-J.J. Yeley, #66-Chad Finchum, #67-Corey Heim.
See the full entry list on the Cracker Barrel 400 Entry List page.
Nashville News & Notes:
- This weekend marks the fifth running of a NASCAR Cup Series race at Nashville Superspeedway (2021-2025).
- At 1.33 miles, Nashville is the longest concrete oval on the NASCAR schedule.
- Four different drivers have won at Nashville Superspeedway in the NASCAR Cup Series – Kyle Larson (2021), Chase Elliott (2022), Ross Chastain (2023) and Joey Logano (2024).
- 42 Cup Series races were held at the Nashville Fairgrounds between 1958 and 1984.
- Three drivers won the last six concrete races (Denny Hamlin – 3, Kyle Larson – 2, Joey Logano – 1).
- Kyle Larson won the last four stages on concrete.
- This race last year went 31 laps past the scheduled distance, the most extra laps ever in a Cup race due to five overtime finishes.
- The 2024 Nashville race was 4hrs, 3 min, 54 seconds, the longest race of the 2024 season.
- Joey Logano got his first win of 2024 in this race last year, his five wins since winning this race last year (including Nashville) rank second to only Kyle Larson with six.
- Five of Joey Logano’s eight top-five finishes since the start of 2024 are wins including a win at Nashville last year.
- Much more here
Statistical Advance: A look at some of the top statistical performers at Nashville Superspeedway just outside Nashville, Tennessee, going into the Cracker Barrel 400 on Sunday.
Goodyear Fast Facts — Nashville: This is the same right-side tire Cup teams ran at Nashville last season, but with a different left-side tire . . . compared to what was run at this track in 2024, this left-side features a compound change for more tire wear and lap-time fall-off.
Race rules and information:
