Ryan Blaney held off a fast-closing Tyler Reddick to win Sunday’s Quaker State 400 at Atlanta, converting pole position into his second Cup Series win of the season for Team Penske.
According to NASCAR’s official race results, Blaney led the No. 12 Ford home over 260 laps of the 1.54-mile EchoPark Speedway quad-oval, the 20th points race of the 2026 Cup Series campaign and the third of five rounds in this year’s In-Season Challenge. Reddick’s No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota chased hard in the closing stages but could not find a way past, crossing the line second.
Bubba Wallace Storms Into The Top Ten As Reddick’s Points Push Continues
Kyle Larson completed the podium for Hendrick Motorsports, with Joey Logano and Austin Cindric giving Team Penske two more cars inside the top five. Bubba Wallace brought the second 23XI Racing Toyota home in tenth, a solid points day that keeps the popular North Carolinian firmly in the playoff conversation as the summer stretch builds toward the postseason.
Reddick’s runner-up finish continues a run of consistency that has kept him near the top of the standings, a storyline ReadMotorsport tracked through his radiator scare at Chicagoland earlier this month. Blaney, meanwhile, arrives at Atlanta in form after a summer that has already included a fresh digital push away from the cockpit.
With two rounds of the In-Season Challenge still to run, Sunday’s result at Atlanta sets up a tight fight between Blaney, Reddick and Wallace’s 23XI team heading into the next race weekend.
