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Who will lasso a Texas win?

Texas Motor Speedway has had its fair share of ever-changing variables over the years, and with nine winners in the last nine races there, more unpredictability could be in store for the NASCAR Cup Series when drivers tackle the 1.5-mile track on Sunday (3:30 p.m. ET, FS1, HBO Max, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

Hendrick Motorsports drivers have won three of the last five Texas races — Kyle Larson in 2021, William Byron in 2023 and Chase Elliott in 2024 — but Team Penske enters Sunday as the team with the defending winner, with Joey Logano taking the 2025 honors.

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Will a powerhouse organization find Victory Lane at the facility once again, or will a wild card emerge to tame the Lone Star State? View the full projected results, courtesy of Racing Insights, for the 267-lap contest.

DRIVERS TO WATCH

JOEY LOGANO: The defending Texas winner gets a nod here for obvious reasons. But it’s worth noting that the No. 22 Team Penske Ford driver has had an up-and-down stretch as of late. Logano’s last five races have included two top 10s and three finishes of 30th or worse. That said, Texas has been kind to the three-time Cup Series champion at times, with Logano tallying two wins, 13 top fives and 16 top 10s in 30 Texas starts.

CARSON HOCEVAR: Coming off his first career Cup Series triumph at Talladega Superspeedway, the 23-year-old now heads to a track where he started on the pole last season — and he did it again Saturday. While the No. 77 Spire Motorsports driver has a best finish of 24th here, momentum is at an all-time high, even banking a win in Friday night’s Truck Series race. Hocevar collected a top-15 finish at Kansas last month, another 1.5-mile facility that could signal better things to come at these venues for the blossoming star.

TY GIBBS: Though a 34th-place result at Talladega snapped a seven-race top-10 streak, Gibbs’ 2026 has been a breakout, with the No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing driver earning his first career Cup win at Bristol Motor Speedway in April. In four Texas Cup starts, Gibbs’ best finish is 13th (2024). That said, two of his six top 10s on 1.5-mile tracks have come this season. Similar to Hocevar, momentum could be the young star’s biggest ally.

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FULL PROJECTED RESULTS FOR WÜRTH 400 PRESENTED BY LIQUI MOLY (3:30 p.m. ET, FS1)

FINISH CAR NUMBER DRIVER
1 5 Kyle Larson
2 45 Tyler Reddick
3 11 Denny Hamlin
4 9 Chase Elliott
5 24 William Byron
6 20 Christopher Bell
7 17 Chris Buescher
8 19 Chase Briscoe
9 77 Carson Hocevar
10 54 Ty Gibbs
11 12 Ryan Blaney
12 6 Brad Keselowski
13 22 Joey Logano
14 7 Daniel Suárez
15 2 Austin Cindric
16 60 Ryan Preece
17 23 Bubba Wallace
18 1 Ross Chastain
19 8 Kyle Busch
20 43 Erik Jones
21 48 Alex Bowman
22 71 Michael McDowell
23 47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
24 35 Riley Herbst
25 3 Austin Dillon
26 16 AJ Allmendinger
27 38 Zane Smith
28 4 Noah Gragson
29 21 Josh Berry
30 97 Shane van Gisbergen
31 67 Corey Heim
32 42 John Hunter Nemechek
33 34 Todd Gilliland
34 10 Ty Dillon
35 41 Cole Custer
36 88 Connor Zilisch
37 51 Cody Ware
38 66 Chad Finchum