2025 Coke Zero Sugar 400 results: Ryan Blaney wins with last-lap pass at Daytona in thrilling four-wide finish

In a end that places even a number of the biggest final laps ever at Daytona to disgrace, Ryan Blaney gained the Coke Zero Sugar 400 in unimaginable style, surging forward on the final lap to beat Daniel Suarez, Justin Haley and Cole Custer because the 4 leaders crossed the end line almost utterly 4 abreast. Blaney, who simply nosed forward as the sphere entered the trioval for the ultimate time, wound out successful out over Suarez by .031 seconds.

Blaney’s win is his second of the 2025 season, his second in Daytona’s summertime race after additionally successful in 2021, and it wound up preserving the established order of the NASCAR playoffs grid. With Blaney’s victory within the regular-season finale denying a possible new winner entry into the playoffs, Tyler Reddick and Alex Bowman had been in a position to safe the ultimate two seeds in NASCAR’s 16-driver race for the championship.

Blaney had been operating thirteenth with two laps to go when the pack break up Ryan Preece and compelled him into the center, making a sortie that led to an enormous quantity of momentum for the highest groove led by Cole Custer with Blaney pushing. Blaney was in a position to push Custer to the lead, then capitalized when Custer dove to the within of Justin Haley taking place the backstretch on the ultimate lap, creating a chance for Blaney to move each on the highest groove with a push from Daniel Suarez. Blaney then sidedrafted Custer whereas additionally protecting Suarez up high and Haley within the center, permitting him to get again to the end line forward of all three.

Erik Jones, Kyle Larson, Chris Buescher, Ty Gibbs, Josh Berry and Chase Elliott would make up the remainder of the highest 10.

“What a wild final couple laps, truthfully,” Blaney informed NBC Sports activities. “I used to be with Cole, I sort of requested him on the restart, ‘for those who go to the highest I am going with you.’ We sort of simply waited and waited after which the chance got here and he made a superb transfer to get to the highest, and we had been in a position to actually get good exhibits.

“A pair good guys behind us after which it sort of cleared the best way for us when the 7 and 41 received racing, and I used to be in a position to clear on the highest and simply barely maintain out for the win. … It is cool to win right here once more. I gained right here just a few years in the past, and good to be again.”

Each Reddick and Bowman confronted main adversity of their pursuit of playoff spots, with each being concerned in crashes early. Catastrophe appeared to strike early for Reddick, as he suffered intensive entrance finish injury when he nosed into the within wall after sliding up into Todd Gilliland and sending each vehicles spinning on the exit of Flip 4. However Bowman’s issues could be far worse: Coming to Lap 28, The Massive One struck when Bubba Wallace, Joey Logano and Kyle Busch all made contact getting into the trioval, triggering a multi-car pileup that collected Bowman, ending his night time and leaving him helpless as he might solely watch to see if a brand new winner would knock him out of the playoffs.

The vary of potential situations fluctuated wildly all through the race, with everybody from regular-season champion William Byron to Cody Ware at thirty sixth within the standings hung out main laps (Ware, in truth, led a career-high 4 occasions for 23 laps). However with Blaney taking the checkered flag, the main target turned from the drama on the lower line to what’s now at hand over the ultimate 10 races of the season.

Kyle Larson and William Byron will now start the Spherical of 16 tied for the highest spot within the playoff standings at 26 factors above the lower line, adopted by Denny Hamlin (+23), Ryan Blaney (+20), Christopher Bell (+17), Shane van Gisbergen (+16), Chase Elliott (+7), Chase Briscoe (+4), Bubba Wallace (+2), Austin Cindric (+2), Ross Chastain (+1) and Joey Logano (+1) above the lower line. Beneath the lower line to start the Spherical of 16 can be Josh Berry (-1), Tyler Reddick (-1), Austin Dillon (-2) and Alex Bowman (-5).

The playoffs start subsequent week with the Southern 500 at Darlington, with World Huge Know-how Raceway and the Bristol Night time Race making up the remaining races within the opening spherical of the playoffs.

Coke Zero Sugar 400 outcomes

1. #12 – Ryan Blaney
2. #99 – Daniel Suarez
3. #7 – Justin Haley
4. #41 – Cole Custer
5. #43 – Erik Jones
6. #5 – Kyle Larson
7. #17 – Chris Buescher
8. #54 – Ty Gibbs
9. #21 – Josh Berry
10. #9 – Chase Elliott
11. #34 – Todd Gilliland
12. #71 – Michael McDowell
13. #20 – Christopher Bell
14. #60 – Ryan Preece
15. #1 – Ross Chastain
16. #88 – Shane van Gisbergen (R)
17. #42 – John Hunter Nemechek
18. #6 – Brad Keselowski
19. #24 – William Byron
20. #51 – Cody Ware
21. #45 – Tyler Reddick
22. #10 – Ty Dillon
23. #19 – Chase Briscoe
24. #3 – Austin Dillon
25. #11 – Denny Hamlin
26. #16 – A.J. Allmendinger
27. #22 – Joey Logano
28. #44 – Joey Gase
29. #66 – Casey Mears
30. #33 – Austin Hill
31. #38 – Zane Smith
32. #78 – B.J. McLeod
33. #8 – Kyle Busch
34. #77 – Carson Hocevar
35. #47 – Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
36. #48 – Alex Bowman
37. #23 – Bubba Wallace
38. #4 – Noah Gragson
39. #2 – Austin Cindric
40. #35 – Riley Herbst (R)