Overview
- Gray’s No. 54 Toyota won at Kansas on Saturday, his first 2026 victory and second career, by 0.718 seconds over Sheldon Creed.
- Crew chief Jason Ratcliff short-pitted on Lap 143 during a 95-lap green run, giving Gray fresher tires and clean air as the field later cycled through stops.
- With few cautions to reshuffle the order, the quicker laps on new tires let Gray build a gap that Creed could not erase in the closing laps.
- Brandon Jones swept both stages and led the most laps before a pit-road penalty on the final stops dropped him to eighth at the finish.
- Creed earned the Dash 4 Cash prize, a midseason bonus program, as Justin Allgaier, Jesse Love and Brent Crews rounded out the top five, and Joe Gibbs Racing’s strong day capped a broader Toyota sweep that included an ARCA win.