{"id":7209,"date":"2026-05-12T07:14:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/?p=7209"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:14:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:14:42","slug":"nascar-texas-sunday-april-26-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/nascar-texas-sunday-april-26-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Texas Sunday, April 26, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><br><strong><br><strong><br><strong>TEXAS<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Joey Logano<\/strong> was shut out of victory lane for more than a decade before finally winning at Texas in 2025.&nbsp; It was the lone victory for Logano last season.&nbsp; The previous year, <strong>Chase Elliott<\/strong> scored his only win of the season at Texas.&nbsp; Hendrick Motorsports 300th victory came at Texas in 2023 when <strong>William Byron<\/strong> raced to the win.&nbsp; It was the first Texas victory for 4 of the last 5 Texas winners &amp; there have been 9 different winners in the last 9 races at Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kevin Harvick (3 Texas wins) won Texas for first time in 30th try \u2013 Most of all drivers before first win<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kevin Harvick age at Texas wins: 41, 42 &amp; 43<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">46th Texas NASCAR Cup Series race \u2013 First race: 1997 (29 Years ago)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">24 Different winners in 45 NASCAR Cup Series Texas races<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">10 Different winners in 13 races on reconfigured Texas track<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">9 Different winners last 9 Texas races \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, Austin Dillon, Kyle Busch, Kyle Larson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tyler Reddick, William Byron, Chase Elliott &amp; Joey Logano<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joey Logano: 2 Texas wins \u2013 4\/14 (4th career win) &amp; 5\/25 (37th career win)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joey Logano age at Texas wins: 23 &amp; 34<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last to win consecutive Texas races: Jimmie Johnson (11\/14, 4\/15 &amp; 11\/15) \u2013 Joey Logano won last Texas race<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">16 Scored first win of season at Texas including last 2 \u2013 Chase Elliott 2024 &amp; Joey Logano 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2 Won first career race at Texas \u2013 Jeff Burton 1997 &amp; Dale Earnhardt, Jr. 2000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dale Earnhardt, Jr. only Rookie of the Year contender to win Texas \u2013 2000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5 Texas races won from first starting position<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">33 of 45 Texas winners came from top 10 starting position<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3 Texas winners started rear of field \u2013 Kenseth (2002), Biffle (4\/05) &amp; Johnson (4\/17)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stage 1 winner failed to win last 7 Texas races \u2013 Finished 21st or worse last 3 Texas races<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ryan Blaney Texas Stage 2 winner 3 times \u2013 Failed to win all 3 races<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2 Texas races settled by last lap pass \u2013 Jeff Burton won 4\/07 &amp; Joey Logano won 4\/14<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hendrick Motorsports: 12 Texas wins \u2013 Most all-time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEXAS Joey Logano was shut out of victory lane for more than a decade before finally winning at Texas in 2025.&nbsp; It was the lone victory for Logano last season.&nbsp; The previous year, Chase Elliott scored his only win of the season at Texas.&nbsp; Hendrick Motorsports 300th victory came at Texas in 2023 when William&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-7209","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\/7209","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=7209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}