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Tyler Reddick’s slide continues, more NASCAR Chicagoland race winners, losers

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Chase Briscoe is rounding into form as the NASCAR Cup Series season moves into summertime — again.

Like last season, Briscoe is starting to run up front consistently. After last week’s runner-up finish at Sonoma, Briscoe finally broke through with his first win of the season at Chicagoland.

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Briscoe held off teammate Christopher Bell to win the eero 400 in the Cup Series’ first race at the 1.5-mile track since 2019.

Here are the winners and losers from the NASCAR Chicagoland race:

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NASCAR Chicagoland winners and losers as Toyota continues its dominance

Winner: Toyota dominance

The year of Toyota continued at Chicagoland, with teammates Chase Briscoe and Christopher Bell battling for the win in the final laps.

Briscoe had just enough of a lead to hold off Bell’s one real chance to make a move on the final lap to claim his first victory of the season.

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Seven of the top-10 finishers were Toyotas, with Briscoe, Bell, Denny Hamlin (third), Bubba Wallace (sixth), Ty Gibbs (seventh), Corey Heim (ninth) and Riley Herbst (10th) all adding a tally.

Outside of SVG’s road-course brilliance, a couple wins by Spire Motorsports and two Chase Elliott wins, Toyota has stood alone as the kings of the sport in 2026. Hendrick Motorsports has made an effort to draw closer, but with uneven success compared to Joe Gibbs Racing and 23XI Racing’s sheer numbers up front.

With Tyler Reddick’s recent struggles, cynics can’t charge Toyota’s success only to him. Hamlin, Bell, Reddick, Briscoe and Gibbs could all contend for a title with no surprise, and Wallace is also due for some good luck and a run of consistency. Those six will likely make up 37.5% of the Chase field.

Good luck, everyone else.

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JOLIET, ILLINOIS – JULY 05: A general view of the drivers meeting prior to the NASCAR Cup Series eero 400 at Chicagoland Speedway on July 05, 2026 in Joliet, Illinois. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images)

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Winner: Alex Bowman

Alex Bowman was the last Cup Series winner at Chicagoland, earning his first career victory at the 2019 event that was the last Cup race at the 1.5-miler until this race, seven years later.

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The Cup car is much different than in 2019, but Bowman found good success in what has continued to be a trying season.

The No. 48 surged into the top 10 during the early stages of the final 100 laps, then preserved a fifth-place finish despite Toyota’s long-run speed around him.

Bowman has recorded back-to-back top-10s, and he usually excels during the summer schedule.

Whatever the internal expectations may be for Bowman at Hendrick for the final four months of the season, the No. 48 should be competitive consistently. Chicagoland was a good reminder that Bowman can be that.

Loser: Tyler Reddick

Tyler Reddick is finding trouble and bad luck as of late, as evidenced by a radiator issue while running in the top 10 halfway through the race at Chicagoland.

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Reddick’s radiator was punctured, and a stream of fluid poured from the No. 45 Toyota onto the race and all over the right side of the race car.

The No. 45 team was allowed to replace the radiator, but Reddick re-joined the race in 36th, 29 laps down.

Reddick left Chicagoland with a 44-point deficit to Denny Hamlin after finishing in 36th. There’s still time for Reddick to make a charge at Hamlin, but the No. 11 has been excellent overall. Don’t count on Hamlin coming back to the field. Of course, many would have said the same about Reddick six weeks ago.

Loser: Kyle Larson

Kyle Larson had a top-five car at Chicagoland, but his winless streak extended to 43 races anyway.

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Larson qualified second and was fast enough to stay in the top five for the majority of the first 93 laps before spinning on his own from 3rd off of turn 4.

Larson spun into the wet grass on the frontstretch and was stuck with flat tires. After getting helped out of the grass, Larson drug the underbody a full lap around on flat tires before making a stop.

The No. 5 suffered damage to the diffuser and underbody, losing two laps in the process.

Larson never got his two laps back before the end of the race, finishing in 34th.

Larson is in good shape, points wise, among the top six, but he’ll have to win at some point this season to defend his Cup title.

This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Tyler Reddick’s slide continues, more NASCAR Chicagoland race winners, losers

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