Joe Passero

Blaney wins the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway in a THRILLING finish! #SeasonFinale400 #TheChase #NASCAR

Blaney takes the lead coming to the white flag! #SeasonFinale400 #TheChase #NASCAR

Byron and Blaney are hounding the No. 45! Blaney is Clear of Byron, Blaney has two more laps to make a pass! #SeasonFinale400 #TheChase #NASCAR

Hamlin in the wall! He drops to P6. Blaney just ran the fastest lap of the race, but has only four laps to pass Byron and Reddick #SeasonFinale400 #TheChase #NASCAR

Reddick to the lead on the bottom. Byron and Hamlin continue to press Reddick. #SeasonFinale400 #TheChase #NASCAR

Green flag is out - 8 laps to go in 2026. Byron leads. The outside doesn’t get a jump. It’s 24-11-45 off turn 2. #SeasonFinale400 #TheChase #NASCAR

Off pit road: 24-11-45-12-23-20-48-2-21-5 #SeasonFinale400 #TheChase #NASCAR

Suarez spins out! Gragson washed up the track into Suarez, bringing out the caution. #SeasonFinale400 #TheChase #NASCAR

Byron has added cushion to his gap back to Reddick - he’s now up 1.15 seconds on the No. 45 #SeasonFinale400 #TheChase #NASCAR

Byron leads, but Reddick and Hamlin in P2-3 are closing in. They’re just a few car lengths back. 39 to go in 2026. #SeasonFinale400 #TheChase #NASCAR

Blaney now pits. He’ll lose about 10 seconds in the cycle of stops due to how long they stayed out. #SeasonFinale400 #TheChase #NASCAR

Props to NBC - they were about to go to commercial and they came back for the leaders pitting before they ever cut away. Good job production team. #SeasonFinale400 #TheChase #NASCAR

Hamlin and Reddick pit, Blaney stays out on track. #SeasonFinale400 #TheChase #NASCAR

WOW! Reddick just made an amazing pass by taking Hamlin and Blaney three-wide for the lead! #SeasonFinale400 #TheChase #NASCAR

Bell makes what should be his final pitch stop of the day, starting the cycle of green flag stops. #SeasonFinale400 #TheChase #NASCAR

Blaney is ALL over Hamlin for the lead. Reddick has made up about half a second in the last handful of laps, but is still 1.5 seconds back. #SeasonFinale400 #TheChase #NASCAR

For those of you saying today’s title battle was anticlimactic: if you had a full-season points system, the battle would have been over before today’s race even started, and if you had the Playoffs, at least 25-50% you would call the championship illegitimate. #TheChase #NASCAR

Green flag is out. Hamlin leads, but big gains in the restart by Blaney, Byron, and Suarez, who are now P2-4, respectively. #SeasonFinale400 #TheChase #NASCAR

Off pit road: 11-45-20-24-2-12-48-9 #SeasonFinale400 #TheChase #NASCAR

#NASCAR Cup Series points after stage 2 at Homestead. Hamlin gets his 6th stage win of 2026, and gets the final stage win of the year. Top-10: 11-20-45-2-12-24-48-9-38-7 #SeasonFinale400 #TheChase