Heim's Coronado upset, Watkins Glen reload, and Sonoma week: Week 27
22/6/2026 · 20:11

Heim's Coronado upset, Watkins Glen reload, and Sonoma week: Week 27

Corey Heim's first Cup win at Coronado reset the road-course stretch, while Reddick's points lead shrank and the Sonoma/Watkins Glen weekend brings Cup, ARCA, IMSA and club-racing action into one packed schedule.

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Corey Heim's first Cup win did not touch the playoff grid because he is ineligible for Cup driver points, but it still changed the feel of the road-course stretch. He beat 23XI teammate Bubba Wallace by 10.365 seconds at the first Cup race on Naval Base Coronado, while Tyler Reddick's late tire problem cut his points lead over Denny Hamlin to eight heading into Sonoma. 1

Coronado in one table

The Anduril 250 finished with a Toyota 1-2 for 23XI, three road-course specialists or near-specialists in the top five, and a long list of contenders buried by the Lap 32 Turn 1 crash. The finishing order below is the useful snapshot; the race itself had seven cautions for 11 laps and 20 lead changes among 13 drivers. 2
FinishDriverStartWhat mattered
1Corey Heim13First Cup win, in a part-time/ineligible points entry. 2
2Bubba Wallace12Came back from a two-lap wheel-loss penalty to complete 23XI's first Cup 1-2. 1
3Kyle Larson14Led 11 laps and banked a road-course podium. 2
4Zane Smith4Best Front Row finish of the day after running near the front early. 2
5AJ Allmendinger15Took another top-five swing at a road/street-course points day. 2
6Chris Buescher16Led seven laps and stayed seventh in the standings. 2
7Ross Chastain23Salvaged a top 10 from a lower-grid start. 2
8Riley Herbst24Led laps in Stage 2 before fading from the lead group. 2
9Ryan Blaney3Won Stage 1 and led a race-high 12 laps. 2
10Michael McDowell9Kept himself in the points conversation before another road-course week. 2
Corey Heim's San Diego win celebration
Corey Heim reached his first Cup win in his 13th series start, passing Tyler Reddick after Reddick slipped in Turn 2 with three laps left. 1
The biggest damage came on Lap 32. Contact exiting Turn 1 triggered a multicar crash that collected Connor Zilisch, Austin Hill, pole-sitter Shane van Gisbergen and others; Zilisch finished 37th, van Gisbergen 38th, and Austin Hill 36th. 1 Brent Crews also had a strange almost-debut: he subbed into the No. 20 Toyota for Christopher Bell, who is recovering from a fractured wrist, but the car later went to the garage with a mechanical issue and finished 39th. 1
The penalty sheet explains why Wallace's runner-up finish was odd. NASCAR assessed the No. 23 a two-lap penalty after the right-front wheel came off, then Wallace still drove back to second. Kevin Magnussen's Project 91 entry also took a stop-and-go for shortcutting the course at Turn 12 and finished 27th. 3

Points picture: Reddick still leads, but the bubble tightened

Reddick left San Diego with 716 points. Hamlin is second with 708, while Ryan Blaney is a distant third on 583. 4 The more stressful part is the cutline. Ryan Preece now holds 16th with 367 points, five ahead of van Gisbergen, 10 ahead of Joey Logano and 13 ahead of Brad Keselowski. 4
That makes Sonoma less of a normal road-course stop and more of a sorting race. Van Gisbergen's pole speed at Coronado looked real before the crash, Allmendinger just finished fifth, and McDowell took a top 10; the drivers just outside the cutline will not be waiting for ovals to rescue them. 2

IMSA shifts from Le Mans carryover to Watkins Glen math

IMSA's main action this week is setup, not a race result. The Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen runs June 28 at Watkins Glen with 54 WeatherTech Championship cars across GTP, LMP2, GTD PRO and GTD. In UTC terms, flag-to-flag Peacock coverage starts at 16:00 and the race is scheduled for 16:10. 5
IMSA cars preparing for Watkins Glen
Watkins Glen is the third of five IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup rounds and the midpoint weekend of the WeatherTech season. 5
The notebook has enough championship tension to watch even before qualifying. The LMP2 leaders are separated by three points, GTD PRO's top four are covered by 31, and three different brands have already won in GTP this season. 5 Conquest Racing also added Fran Rueda to the No. 34 Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo for Watkins Glen alongside Albert Costa and Lorenzo Patrese. 6

Regional and club track notes

The short-track and club-racing side of the week had a different rhythm: one six-figure dirt sprint-car finish, one SCCA road-racing weekend, and one Modified Tour rainout.
  • Brad Sweet led all 40 laps from the pole to win the 54th Jim Raper Memorial Dirt Cup at Skagit Speedway, taking the $100,026.26 victory by 0.135 seconds over Brent Marks. 7
  • SCCA's Hoosier Super Tour ran June 19-21 at Watkins Glen, the eighth of nine events on the 2026 schedule; Sunday's program covered eight run groups and 22 classes. 8
  • Fred McConnell won H Production in a new MG Midget tribute car, while SCCA listed Sunday winners across classes including Daniel Richardson in American Sedan, Jeremy Hill in Formula Atlantic, Tony Ave in GT-2 and Francisco Barroso in Spec Miata. 8
  • NASCAR postponed the Whelen Modified Tour's Thunder in the Mountains 200 at White Mountain Motorsports Park from June 20 to July 18 because of the forecast for North Woodstock, New Hampshire. 9

This week: Sonoma and Watkins Glen overlap

All times below are shown in UTC, converted from the official listings.
DateSeriesEventVenueWatch
June 26, 22:30ARCA Menards Series WestGeneral Tire 150Sonoma RacewayFloRacing / NASCAR Channel 10
June 27, 17:00IMSA Michelin Pilot ChallengeLP Building Solutions 120Watkins GlenPeacock 11
June 27, 18:00NASCAR CupSonoma practiceSonoma RacewaytruTV 12
June 27, 19:10NASCAR CupSonoma qualifyingSonoma RacewaytruTV 12
June 27, 19:30IMSA WeatherTechWatkins Glen qualifyingWatkins GlenPeacock 11
June 27, 21:30NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts SeriesPit Boss/FoodMaxx 250Sonoma RacewayThe CW 12
June 28, 16:00IMSA WeatherTechSahlen's Six Hours of The Glen coverageWatkins GlenPeacock 11
June 28, 19:30NASCAR CupToyota/Save Mart 350Sonoma RacewayTNT Sports 12
Sonoma Raceway grandstands and road course
Sonoma starts the West Series road-course mini-run on Friday and then becomes the Cup Series' next playoff-pressure stop on Sunday. 10
The West Series preview is worth keeping open because Sonoma is only one of two road-course races on that 2026 schedule. Trevor Huddleston brings a 24-point lead to the weekend, and the entered names include Hailie Deegan, Mason Massey, Andrew Ranger, Sam Corry, Todd Souza, Patrick Staropoli, Taylor Mayhew, Sage Karam and Jeff Anton. 10

Garage notes

Wood Brothers Racing made the week's clearest long-range Cup move: Jesse Love will take over the No. 21 Ford in 2027, beginning with the Daytona 500. The team said Love is the 2025 O'Reilly Auto Parts Series champion, has seven Cup starts, and currently sits second in that series' standings. 13
That announcement closes one question and opens several more. Fox's updated silly-season tracker has Alex Bowman, Austin Cindric, Ryan Preece, Daniel Suarez, Michael McDowell, AJ Allmendinger, Ty Dillon and several lower-table seats still unresolved or unclear for 2027. 14 For this week, though, the immediate test is simpler: Sonoma can turn the Cup cutline again before the series leaves California.

Fuentes de referencia

  1. 1NASCAR race recap
  2. 2NASCAR race results PDF via Jayski
  3. 3NASCAR infraction report PDF via Jayski
  4. 4NASCAR driver points PDF via Jayski
  5. 5IMSA Watkins Glen entry list notebook
  6. 6Conquest Racing and Fran Rueda announcement
  7. 7FloRacing Super Dirt Cup results
  8. 8SCCA Watkins Glen Super Tour report
  9. 9NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour postponement
  10. 10ARCA Sonoma preview
  11. 11NASCAR weekly TV guide
  12. 12NASCAR Sonoma weekend schedule
  13. 13Wood Brothers Racing announcement
  14. 14FOX Sports NASCAR silly-season tracker

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