{"id":7127,"date":"2026-03-14T03:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/?p=7127"},"modified":"2026-03-14T03:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:19:23","slug":"nascar-las-vegas-sunday-march-8-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/nascar-las-vegas-sunday-march-8-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Las Vegas Sunday, March 8, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong><strong><strong>LAS VEGAS<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Joey Logano<\/strong> is tied with Jimmie Johnson for the most wins all-time at Las Vegas with 4.&nbsp; Last year in this race, <strong>Josh Berry<\/strong> driving for Wood Brothers Racing scored his first career NASCAR Cup Series victory.&nbsp; <strong>Denny Hamlin<\/strong> launched himself into the Championship race with his win at Las Vegas last fall.&nbsp; It was the 60th career win for Hamlin tying him with Kevin Harvick for 10th most wins all-time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">37th Las Vegas NASCAR Cup Series race \u2013 First race: 1998 (28 Years ago)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First of 9 races on mile and a half tracks this season<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">19 Different winners in 36 NASCAR Cup Series Las Vegas races (11 Champions)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alex Bowman, Kyle Larson &amp; Ryan Preece finished top 10 both Las Vegas races last season<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Las Vegas record 32 lead changes in this race last season<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Champion drivers won 17 of last 22 Las Vegas races<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Las Vegas winner went on to win championship in same season 9 times<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only 2 Las Vegas winners after winning pole \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kyle Busch (2009) \u2013 Started from the rear (Engine change) &amp; Denny Hamlin (10\/25)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kyle Larson led most laps 4 of last 5 Las Vegas races \u2013 2 Wins<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kyle Larson failed to win both Las Vegas races last season after leading most laps<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">190 Laps led last season \u2013 Next: William Byron 65 laps led<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defending series champion won Las Vegas 6 times \u2013 Last: Joey Logano (2018 Champ &amp; 3\/19 winner)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Best Las Vegas finish by Rookie of the Year contender: 2nd \u2013 Kasey Kahne (2004) &amp; Kyle Busch (2005)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No driver leading first lap won Las Vegas NASCAR Cup Series race<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last 3 Las Vegas winners didn\u2019t lead for first time until lap 173 or later<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">10 To go leader failed to win 5 of last 8 Las Vegas races<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2 Las Vegas NASCAR Cup Series races settled by last lap pass<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Closest Las Vegas margin-of-victory: .045 Seconds Jimmie Johnson over Matt Kenseth (2006)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hendrick Motorsports: 10 Las Vegas wins \u2013 Leads all teams<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">13 of top 14 Las Vegas finishers in 1998 were Fords \u2013 Dale Earnhardt finished 8th in Chevrolet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hendrick Motorsports swept top 3 finishing positions 3\/23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS Joey Logano is tied with Jimmie Johnson for the most wins all-time at Las Vegas with 4.&nbsp; Last year in this race, Josh Berry driving for Wood Brothers Racing scored his first career NASCAR Cup Series victory.&nbsp; Denny Hamlin launched himself into the Championship race with his win at Las Vegas last fall.&nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17,18,6,7,8,9,19],"class_list":["post-7127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","tag-17","tag-broadcasting","tag-chris-myers","tag-chris-myers-sports","tag-fox-sports","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}