The 2025 Goodyear 400 is finally done and dusted. The eighth race of the season started at 3 pm ET and lasted for three hours, 21 minutes, and 14 seconds at Darlington Raceway, with 38 entries.

This year’s Goodyear 400 saw four lead changes among four different drivers and witnessed eight caution flags.

Who won the NASCAR race today?

Denny Hamlin, driving the #11 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing, won his second consecutive race of the 2025 NASCAR Cup season, the Goodyear 400, after a quick late pit stop at Darlington.

During the final late-race caution on Lap 292, when all lead-lap cars pit including Hamlin it was #11 driver who emerges as the leader off pit road with brilliant effort from his pit crew, jumping from third to first on the pit stop. He then kept himself up front on the ensuing restart and held off the charge of William Byron on the final lap to claim the Darlington throwback victory.

The 44-year-old Tampa, Florida, native led 10 laps and crossed the finish line by a close margin of 0.597 seconds ahead of the race’s most dominant driver, Byron, to take the checkered flag. The win also marked the 56th of his Cup Series career and fifth at historic Darlington.

William Byron, who led a race-best 243 of the 297 laps, finished as runner-up, followed by Christopher Bell, Tyler Reddick, and Ryan Blaney in the top five. Chris Buescher, Ross Chastain, Chase Elliott, Ty Gibbs, and Kyle Busch completed the top 10.

Joey Logano, the defending series champion, finished 13th on Sunday.

2025 Goodyear 400 final results

Here are the final results of NASCAR’s 2025 Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway:

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

Catch the NASCAR teams and drivers next at Bristol Motor Speedway for the season’s ninth race on April 13, 2025.

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