The 2026 Penzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube

     We head not far north to Sin City, where we have the intermediate oval track of Las Vegas, a track that has been dominated by many of the greats, but mostly Joey Logano over the pass few years. Like most of the intermediate tracks, the entertainment will come in spins and tight racing. Let's see what Nevada has to offer today

     The first lap was almost chaos, after SVG made contact with Chase Briscoe in turn 4. Luckily, that was avoided and nothing much more happened except for pit stops, Justin Allgaier receiving a speeding penalty, and Christopher Bell passing the leader Denny Hamlin to win the stage.

     Hamlin and Ty Gibbs were penalized for speeding on pit road during the stage break, and when we restarted, it was an all-out fight between Bell and Kyle Larson. More pit stops occurred, and so did more penalties, this time being issued to Josh Berry and Noah Gragson. William Byron made the pass on Kyle Larson and was rewarded with the stage 2 win.

Denny Hamlin got the lead back shortly after the restart, and finally we got our first caution for an incident on lap 211 when Connor Zilisch spun with some possible from Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Denny Hamlin started to pull away after the restart, with Chase Elliott in second.

With only a few laps to go, Hamlin was still leading the pack, but Elliott was closing in. With about to laps to go, Elliott was very close to the 11 car, but he won't quite be going to victory lane today, Denny Hamlin will.

Man, if these races keep getting this boring, I'm going have two paragraph articles! Well, it does makes it a little bit easier on me.