William Byron retained the NASCAR Cup Series regular-season points lead after Sunday's race at Martinsville despite a below-average finish. Byron and two other Hendrick Motorsports drivers, Kyle Larson and Chase Elliott,

Denny Hamlin earned his 55th career NASCAR Cup Series victory, moving into a tie with Rusty Wallace for 11th on the all-time win list in NASCAR’s premier series. With his first victory in just over 10 years at the 0.526-mile oval, Hamlin snapped a 31-race winless skid that dated to April 2024 at Dover.

Driving the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, Hamlin ended a 19-race winless streak, per NBC Sports. This victory marks his first at Martinsville since March 29, 2015, and extends his lead as the active driver with the most wins at the track with six.

Denny Hamlin earned a dominant victory in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville. There were 10 cautions throughout the Cook Out 400, most of which came during the first three-quarters of the race.

It felt,” Denny Hamlin was saying about an hour after his light blue-and-white Toyota took the checkered flag at Martinsville Speedway, “like the old, old days.” Old can mean so much around Hamlin, who at age 44 was the oldest winner at NASCAR’s oldest track since a 47-year-old Rusty Wallace won for the final time in his Cup career in 2004.

RIDGEWAY, Va. Denny Hamlin is a NASCAR Cup Series winner for the first time in nearly a year. The 44-year-old Joe Gibbs Racing veteran dominated the Cook Out 400 at Martinsville S