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Results and Finishing Order of the NASCAR Cup Series Cracker at Nashville (Barrel 400)
On Sunday night, the Cracker Barrel 400 was held at Nashville Superspeedway. The NASCAR Cup Series was there, and Ryan Blaney put on a show to win his first race of 2025. Before Nashville’s win, Rajah Caruth wasn’t feeling playoff pressure. -00:59
The events that took place at Nashville Superspeedway during the Cracker Barrel 400
Joe Gibbs Racing’s Chase Briscoe led the field to the green for the second week in a row. Once the race got underway, AJ Allmendinger served his stop-and-go penalty after his inspection penalty on Saturday.
Briscoe led much of the opening stage, but could not hold off a hard-charging Denny Hamlin, who made the pass for the lead on Lap 83 and won the caution-free opening stage.
After starting in 15th place and not being able to move up in the first stage, Ryan Blaney stayed out for about 30 laps longer than the leads and decided to pit on Lap 70.
After a two-tire call during the first caution, that gave him the lead to start Stage 2. In contrast to the first stage, Stage 2 had a lot of stops.
The first was when Ricky Stenhouse Jr. spun after Carson Hocevar hit him on Lap 106.
On Lap 114, not long after the next restart, Alex Bowman got loose under Noah Gragson and sent both of them into the outside wall. Around the Lap 119 restart, things went pretty much the same way.
Erik Jones crashed into Christopher Bell while the two were racing for fifth place.
There was a thrilling fight for the lead between Blaney, Hamlin, and William Byron, which went three wide. On Lap 169, Blaney took the lead on the inside and won Stage 2 in Music City. On Lap 194, Ryan Preece spun and made light touch with the outside wall in Turns 1 and.
There was one last planned pit stop left in the last 100 laps.
After extending his lead to nearly four seconds over Hamlin prior to green-flag stops in the final stage, Blaney had a good sequence when he hit pit road on Lap 248 and never looked back en route to his first win of the 2025 season, his first at Nashville and the 14th of his career.
Blaney led a race-high 139 of the 300 laps and won by a comfortable 2.83 seconds over Hocevar, who equaled his career-best finish of second.
Bubba Wallace rallied from a pit road speeding penalty on Lap 44 to finish sixth. Kyle Larson overcame a 28th-place starting position and a near-miss in the Lap 114 incident between Bowman and Gragson to finish eighth.
| Cracker Barrel 400 finishing position | Driver | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Winner | Ryan Blaney | 54 |
| 2nd | Carson Hocevar | 39 |
| 3rd | Denny Hamlin | 53 |
| 4th | Joey Logano | 42 |
| 5th | William Byron | 48 |
| 6th | Bubba Wallace | 31 |
| 7th | Erik Jones | 36 |
| 8th | Kyle Larson | 29 |
| 9th | Tyler Reddick | 37 |
| 10th | Christopher Bell | 34 |
| 11th | Ross Chastain | 27 |
| 12th | Kyle Busch | 25 |
| 13th | Zane Smith | 27 |
| 14th | Chris Buescher | 23 |
| 15th | Chase Elliott | 27 |
| 16th | Daniel Suarez | 21 |
| 17th | Chase Briscoe | 28 |
| 18th | Austin Cindric | 24 |
| 19th | Cole Custer | 18 |
| 20th | AJ Allmendinger | 17 |
| 21st | Michael McDowell | 19 |
| 22nd | Todd Gilliland | 15 |
| 23rd | Brad Keselowski | 14 |
| 24th | Riley Herbst | 13 |
| 25th | Shane van Gisbergen | 12 |
| 26th | Ty Dillon | 11 |
| 27th | John Hunter Nemechek | 10 |
| 28th | Ryan Preece | 9 |
| 29th | Austin Dillon | 8 |
| 30th | Josh Berry | 9 |
| 31st | Ty Gibbs | 6 |
| 32nd | Justin Haley | 5 |
| 33rd | Cody Ware | 4 |
| 34th | JJ Yeley | 0 |
| 35th | Chad Finchum | 2 |
| 36th | Alex Bowman | 1 |
| 37th | Corey Heim | 0 |
| 38th | Noah Gragson | 1 |
| 39th | Ricky Stenhouse Jr. | 1
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