NASCAR Chase at Bristol 2026: Odds, TV times and more info

BRISTOL, Tenn. — The NASCAR Chase is in full swing this weekend with the NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series all racing this weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway.

The Trucks race Thursday night, then the O’Reilly cars race Friday night and the Cup cars race Saturday night.

The Truck drivers are in the first race of the postseason while the O’Reilly and Cup drivers are each in their second race of their postseasons.

500 laps (Stages end on laps 125/250/500)
Saturday, Sept. 19 at 7:30 p.m. ET
USA Sports, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90, PRN affiliates
Practice and qualifying: Friday at 4:30 p.m. ET on truTV, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90
Last year’s winner: Christopher Bell (Ty Gibbs won in the spring)

Just one open entry is entered for Saturday night: Josh Bilicki in the No. 66 Garage 66 Ford.

Gateway winner Kyle Larson is the odds-on favorite for Bristol. He led the most laps in the spring Bristol Cup race and won two of the three races before that.

Spring winner Ty Gibbs and multi-time Bristol winner Denny Hamlin are second, just ahead of 2025 night race winner Christopher Bell:

Ty Gibbs, Denny Hamlin +500
Chase Elliott, Joey Logano +1600
Carson Hocevar, Bubba Wallace, Chris Buescher +3000
Daniel Suarez, AJ Allmendinger, Michael McDowell, Noah Gragson, Shane van Gisbergen +10000
Connor Zilisch, Austin Dillon +15000
John Hunter Nemechek, Zane Smith +25000
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. +35000
Todd Gilliland, Riley Herbst +50000
Ty Dillon, Cole Custer +75000

*Odds according to Caesars Sportsbook.
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Here are the points standings after Gateway:

300 laps (Stages end on laps 85/170/300)
Friday, Sept. 18 at 7:30 p.m. ET
The CW, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90, PRN affiliates
Practice and qualifying: Friday at 2 p.m. ET on ESPN app/CW
Last year’s winner: Aric Almirola/No. 19 JGR Toyota (Spring: Connor Zilisch/No. 1 JRM team)

With 39 cars entered for the race, one driver will fail to qualify. Here are the unique entries for this weekend, compared to Gateway:

Ryan Ellis: No. 02 Young’s Motorsports
Josh Bilicki: No. 07 SS-Green Light
Jake Finch: No. 9 JR Motorsports
Andrew Patterson: No. 32 Jordan Anderson Racing
J.J. Yeley: No. 38 RSS Racing (Yeley made his 400th start at Nashville SS)
Logan Bearden: No. 42 Young’s Motorsports
Landon Huffman: No. 43 Alpha Prime Racing
Carson Ware: No. 53 Joey Gase Motorsports
David Starr: No. 55 for BJ McLeod
Nick Sanchez: No. 87 Peterson Racing Group
Stefan Parsons: No. 92 DGM Racing

Despite falling to second in the points standings, Justin Allgaier remains the odds-on favorite for the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series championship, at +120.

Here are the Chase points standings with the odds to win the championship:

Sheldon Creed 2175 points (+550)
Justin Allgaier -3 (+120)
Brandon Jones -76 (+2000)
Parker Retzlaff -83 (+5500)
Rajah Caruth -118 (+5500)

No surprise, Justin Allgaier is the odds-on favorite, as he has been in most races this season. He was the last series regular entered in this weekend’s race to win at Bristol (September 2023). He also has a career-high six wins this season.

Jesse Love, Sheldon Creed, Austin Hill +1000
Nick Sanchez, Ryan Sieg +4000
Dean Thompson, Patrick Staropoli +35000
Brennan Poole, Josh Williams +75000
Kyle Sieg, Logan Bearden, Ryan Ellis, Landon S. Huffman +125000
Blaine Perkins, Dawson Cram +200000
Garrett Smithley, JJ Yeley, Lavar Scott, Josh Bilicki, David Starr, Carson Ware +250000

250 laps (Stages end on laps 125/250/500)
Thursday, Sept. 17 at 8 p.m. ET

FS1, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90, NASCAR Racing Network
Practice and qualifying: Thursday at 3 p.m. ET
Last year’s winner: Layne Riggs (Spring: Christopher Bell/No. 62 Halmar-Friesen)

With 37 entries, one driver will go home. Here are the unique entries for this weekend:

Jackson MacEnko: No. 22
Regan Smith: No. 25 Kaulig Racing
William Sawalich: No. 62 Halmar-Friesen Racing
Parker Kligerman: No. 75 Henderson Motorsports
Tristan McKee: No. 77 Spire Motorsports

Here are the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Chase points standings with the odds to win the championship:

Layne Riggs 2100 points (+130)
Kaden Honeycutt -25 (+300)
Chandler Smith -35 (+550)
Christian Eckes -40 (+800)
Grant Enfinger -55 (+1600)
Daniel Hemric -60 (+2200)

The odds-on favorite is Layne Riggs. He has six wins this season, including five in the last nine races. He has won the last two September Bristol races.