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Who won the NASCAR race today? COTA road course makes run at history

Story byTyler Reddick Christopher BellBilly HeyenSun, March 1, 2026 at 11:52 PM UTC·1 min readWho won the NASCAR race today? COTA road course makes run at history originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The NASCAR Cup Series took to the road course at Circuit of the Americas on Sunday. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAlways a different experience than the more traditional ovals, Tyler Reddick and Shane van Gisbergen did their best to put on a show. Reddick has won the first two races of the season, both the Daytona 500 two weeks ago and then the Autotrader 400 a week ago in Atlanta. No driver has ever won the first three races of the season in the Cup Series. Entering the day, van Gisbergen had won the last five road course races in the Cup Series, and he won on Saturday at COTA, too. This was a chance at history. Who won the NASCAR race today?Tyler Reddick is three for three.

Who won the NASCAR race today? COTA road course makes run at history

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  • He won at COTA, and he has now won all three races to begin the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season.
  • He's the first to ever do that. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe 96-lap race featured a variety of movements up and down, but in the end, it came down to about what everyone expected. Reddick, on an absolute heater, was leading out of the last caution. Van Gisbergen, the road course wizard, was trying to keep his streak going. Only one of them could pull out the victory. Reddick was the one who got it done. And while it isn't the same kind of finishing drama as an oval, COTA provided plenty of road course thrill down the stretch of a competitive race, and Reddick brought the history. MORE: There was a mid-race replacement driver for the first time since 2020.
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