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

In a finish that even shame the latest rounds in Daytona, Ryan Blaney won the Coke Zero Sugar 400 in an incredible way, ahead of the last lap to beat Daniel Suarez, Justin Haley and Cole Custer while the four leaders crossed the finish line almost entirely four beyond. Blaney, who has just complained about the advance while the terrain entered the triovale for the last time, ended by winning Suarez by 0.031 seconds.

Blaney’s victory is his second in the 2025 season, his second in the Daytona summer race after also won in 2021, and he ended up preserving the status quo of the Nascar Playoffs Grid. With Blaney’s victory in the regular season final, denying a new potential winner entry into the playoffs, Tyler Reddick and Alex Bowman were able to obtain the last two series in the 16 Nascar pilots for the championship.

Blaney had run 13th with two laps to do when the pack divided Ryan Preece and forced it in the middle, creating a outing which led to a massive quantity of impetus for the upper groove led by Cole Custer with Blaney Pushing. Blaney was able to pushed a custer to the head, then capitalized when Custer plunged inside Justin Haley by descending on the last round, creating an opportunity for Blaney to pass the two on the upper groove with a push by Daniel Suarez. Blaney then dumbfounded the Custer while covering Suarez at the top and Haley in the middle, allowing him to return to the finish line before the three.

Erik Jones, Kyle Larson, Chris Buescher, Ty Gibbs, Josh Berry and Chase Elliott would constitute the rest of the Top 10.

“What the last last wild hits are honestly affect,” Blaney told NBC Sports. “I was with Cole, I sort of asked him for the restart:” If you go to the top, I go with you. “We sort of waited and expected, then the opportunity came and he took a good step to reach the summit, and we were really able to obtain good shows.

“Some good guys behind us, then it somehow opened the way for us when the 7 and 41 raced, and I was able to clean up on top and just hold the victory. … It’s cool to win again. I won here a few years ago, and pleasant to be back.”

Reddick and Bowman had to face the major adversity in their quest for places in the playoffs, the two being involved in accidents early. A catastrophe seemed to strike early for Reddick, because he suffered many damage before when he placed the inner wall after slipping into Todd Gilliland and sending the two cars that were running at the exit of turn 4. But Bowman problems would be much worse: coming to 28, contacting him when hitting the trioval, Trioval, Trighe, Trighin Bowman, ending his night and leaving him helpless because he could only look to see if a new winner would make him out of the playoffs.

The range of potential scenarios has fluctuated wildly throughout the race, everyone, from the champion of the regular season William Byron to Cody Ware in the 36th in the ranking, spent time leaving tricks (Ware, in fact, led a summit in career four times for 23 laps). But with Blaney taking the checkered flag, the emphasis went from drama to the cut line until now at hand over the last 10 races of the season.

Kyle Larson and William byron Will Now Begin the Round of 16 Tied for the Top Spot in the Playoff Stands at 26 points Above the Cut Line, Followed 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 cutting line. Below the cutting line to start, the round of 16 will be Josh Berry (-1), Tyler Reddick (-1), Austin Dillon (-2) and Alex Bowman (-5).

The playoffs start next week with the Southern 500 in Darlington, with World Wide Technology Raceway and the Bristol night race constituting the remaining races when opening the playoffs.

Cuke Zero Sugar 400 results

1. # 12 – Ryan Blaney
2. # 99 – Daniel Suarez
3. # 7 – Justin Haley
4. # 41 – CUSTER COLE
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 – AJ ALLMENDINGER
27. # 22 – Joey Logano
28. # 44 – Joey Gase
29. # 66 – Casey Mears
30. # 33 – Austin Hill
31. # 38 – Zane Smith
32. # 78 – BJ 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)