Corey Heim won the last Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday, July 26, 2026, beating Christopher Bell by 0.287 seconds. The next Brickyard Weekend is July 23 to 25, 2027, according to the speedway’s own future schedule, and no odds for that race are quoted here.
This page keeps the 2026 race as the record and will carry the 2027 entry list and prices once they can be sourced. For the race on this weekend’s NASCAR schedule, see our NASCAR picks this week.
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The 2026 Brickyard 400 top 10
Heim started seventh, led 58 of the 160 laps and made his winning pass on the last restart. Only three drivers in the top 10 had started ahead of him.
| Finish | Driver | Started |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Corey Heim | 7 |
| 2 | Christopher Bell | 23 |
| 3 | Joey Logano | 19 |
| 4 | Chase Briscoe | 11 |
| 5 | Denny Hamlin | 5 |
| 6 | Brad Keselowski | 16 |
| 7 | Josh Berry | 26 |
| 8 | Ryan Preece | 34 |
| 9 | Carson Hocevar | 1 |
| 10 | Tyler Reddick | 3 |
Ty Gibbs led 46 laps and pole sitter Hocevar led 31, and neither won. Gibbs won a stage and finished 12th, which clinched him a playoff spot, ESPN reported.
How Heim won it
Heim went around the outside of Hamlin on the final restart with 35 laps to go, then held off Bell and Logano over the last 34 laps with no more cautions. Logano finished 0.972 seconds behind him.
Hamlin, a co-owner of Heim’s team, dropped from first to fifth after that restart and blamed a mistimed push from Bell. It was Hamlin’s 18th start at Indianapolis without a win. The win was Heim’s second in the Cup Series, and ESPN reported that he is the first driver since A.J. Foyt in 1965 to win twice in his first 15 Cup starts.
The rest of the race
Kyle Larson, the defending Cup champion, was the first car out: a flat left rear tire put him into the wall in the first stage, and he finished 39th after 43 laps. Ryan Blaney was caught in a nine-car crash with 41 laps to go and finished 26th.
That crash decided NASCAR’s In-Season Challenge. Todd Gilliland of Front Row Motorsports finished 24th, two places ahead of Blaney, to win the final round and its $1 million prize.
Recent Indianapolis Cup winners
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Corey Heim |
| 2025 | Bubba Wallace |
| 2024 | Kyle Larson |
Three different winners in three years, and none of them won it twice. That is the record the 2027 board will be priced against.
Reading Brickyard 400 odds when they go up
The 2026 race had 39 starters, so even the favorite in an outright market carries a long price. Read each one as a chance: +300 implies 25%, +1000 implies 9.1% and +4500 implies 2.2%.
A bet is worth making only when you rate a driver’s chance higher than the price does. Top-five, top-10 and head-to-head markets settle on finishing position, so a driver like Bell, who started 23rd in 2026 and finished second, can pay in those markets without winning.
Where to go next
Every Cup result this season is on our NASCAR race results page, and our NASCAR articles cover each race as it comes up. The Cup Series went from Indianapolis to Iowa on August 9, which our Iowa Corn 350 odds page covers.
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