Engines are fired!
Wet tires on. Running in the rain!
Rolling off pit road now.
So much spray. This is going to be fun.
2:20 pm/et: We're not even going yet and Hocevar has already spun.
2:21 pm/et: Cars back on pit road.
77 ruins a fun start.
2:51 pm/et: Cars rolled of pit road for the second time a few minutes ago.
3:07pm/et: We're green!
Lap 1: I was going to say pretty clean racing to start, but Tyler Reddick spins from the lead!
Very minor damage for the 45. Hamlin involved as well. Also with little damage.
Bad luck for Reddick continues.
Lap 7: Restart!
Lap 9: Pretty clean... for now.
Lap 11: Byron holds his lead.
Lap 12: Bell looking to go to the lead.
Lap 15: 3rd lane becoming dry.
Lap 19: Byron with over a second lead.
Lap 22: A fight for second begins as the 40 of Nemechek spins around. No caution.
Lap 26: SVG passes Byron for the lead.
Byron in second!
That indeed.
Lap 36: Halfway to the end of the first stage.
Lap 38: Caution will come out on lap 40 to give teams the option to change to slicks as Chastain has smoke off of the right front tire.
Lap 41: Competition caution is out.
Lap 42: Currently working on the 40 car on pit road.
Lap 43: The 1 car has the hood up.
Slicks on. Time to go racing.
Lap 48: The 1 is done for the day with a drivetrain issue.
Lap 50: We're green again in Loudon!
Lap 51: The 97 stays in front.
Lap 52: Ricky Stenhouse Jr brings the caution out after getting loose and spinning into the outside wall.
The 47 incurred some rear damage.
Preece also scraped the wall.
Lap 56: Green with 15 to go in the stage!
Lap 57: Larson to the lead.
Lap 58: 3 wide! The 97 is falling back.
Lap 70: Final lap of stage 1!
Lap 71: Kyle Larson takes home the first stage.
Traffic jam on pit road! Christopher Bell dragged his tire carrier with him, and William Byron took the adjustment wrench with him as well!
Oh my word! What a mess!
Byron’s 2026 issues continue.
Lap 78: Bell came back down pit road.
Lap 79: Restart!
Ryan Preece in the lead.
I suppose he didn't pit or only took two tires.
Lap 84: Huge wreck on the front straightaway! Hocevar made contact with Zilisch and collected A Dillon, Logano, and others!
A few cars come down pit road, including William Byron.
Lap 90: Restart!
Lap 92: Berry still in the lead.
Lap 95: Wallace lets the 12 by for 3rd place.
Lap 107: Fairly clean for now.
Lap 120: Berry leads with Blaney close behind as Elliott kicks off green flag pit stops.
Hocevar and Zilisch casually ticking each other off.
Lap 124: 48, 71 on pit road.
88 pits
35, 33 on pit road
Lap 132: More pit stops
Lap 133: Berry pits from the lead, Blaney comes as well.
Berry leaves ahead of the 12.
Lap 142: Berry cycled back to the lead, but Blaney is still on his tail.
Lap 149: Blaney to the lead!
Lap 168: Still the 12 in the lead.
Lap 175: Your top ten: Blaney Berry Wallace Preece Buescher Larson Keselowski Gibbs Hamlin Bell
Ryan Blaney wins stage 2!
A few of the leaders come down pit road.
Wallace wins the race off of pit road as Blaney had a slow pit stop.
Lap 194: We're green!
Berry drives into the lead.
Lap 197: Very close racing here in Loudon.
Lap 203: Hocevar brings out the caution again.
Bell wins race off pit road by taking 2 tires, as Denny Hamlin lost multiple spots.
Lap 209: Restart!
Lap 210: Wallace to the lead.
80 to go: Berry punts Wallace up the track! They continue to fight!
77 to go: Yellow is out as Riley Herbst spins into the wall and then gets SLAMMED by the 88. Chaos.
Everyone pits
Blaney with two tires comes off first.
70 to go: Green again!
68 to go: Byron hard in the wall!
63 to go: Blaney leads them to green!
51 laps to go: Blaney still leads.
48 to go: Erik Jones is slow. He makes it back to the pits. No caution.
36 to go: Nothing much has changed. The 12 leads.
15 to go: 12 leads
5 to go: Blaney in the lead with Wallace trying to catch.
5 to go: Wallace locks up the brakes!
The 23 still isn't far behind.
1 to go! Blaney leads.
Ryan Blaney wins in New Hampshire for the second year in a row!