Justin Allgaier wins Darlington O’Reilly race as unhealthy pit cease derails Larson

Whereas dominated a lot of the race, it was who received Saturday’s NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Components Collection race. It was his second win of the 2026 season and the thirtieth of his profession.

“All of those guys proper right here,” stated Allgaier, gesturing his workforce when he requested how he pulled off this newest victory.  “We’ve not been the very best on pit street all yr, however these guys have by no means give up. They’ve gone to work and by no means given up, and so they have been on prime of all of it day on pit street. Enormous thanks to those guys and Andrew Overstreet (crew chief), and this whole #7 workforce … We positively weren’t the all day. Kyle was clearly wonderful, he had us lined. Andrew advised me on that final restart to ‘by no means quit, if we are able to get the lead we obtained clear air and we will win this factor,’ and we did.”

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completed second, third, Larson fourth, and fifth. Corey Day, , , , and stuffed out the rest of the highest ten.

Larson had received each levels, and led 107 of 147 laps earlier than a sluggish pit cease denied him a shot on the win.

Phases 1 and a couple of

Larson led the race from pole place, and A. Hill discovered the wall early. He later needed to make an unscheduled pit cease as a result of a flat tire.

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Larson dominated the complete stage, successful Stage 1 forward of Bell, Kvapil, B. Jones, Allgaier, Retzlaff, Love, Sawalich, Alfredo, and Chastain.

In the course of the stage break, each and had a difficulty and wanted to be pushed into their stall.

Making an attempt to get into his stall, Love obtained hit from behind and spun out on pit street, sending him to the again in a rocky begin for Richard Childress Racing.

The stage that adopted was very similar to the opening run of the race, with Larson dominating. He received Stage 2, over 5 seconds away from Kvapil, B. Jones, Allgaier, Retzlaff, Chastain, Alfredo, Day, Bell, Sawalich.

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Stage 3

Throughout pit stops, Chastain obtained bumped from behind by Alfredo and spun into his field, very similar to Love earlier within the race. Nonetheless, he additionally hit one among his personal tire, leading to an end-of-line penalty.

B. Jones really received the race off pit street, and restarted with the lead. Larson gave up the entrance row, restarting straight behind Jones and placing Allgaier on the entrance row. The previous sequence champion made probably the most of that, surging forward and taking management of the race.

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He then needed to battle off a hard-charging Larson within the last 50 laps of the race. With 33 laps to go, Larson minimize beneath Allgaier and took the lead again.

The primary pure warning of the race was with 25 laps to go, as Kyle Sieg and crashed on the backstretch. Alex Labbe and Lavar Scott then obtained tangled collectively whereas making an attempt to keep away from, crashing as properly. Making issues worse, Labbe then really obtained hit by his personal jack whereas strolling across the broken automotive again within the pits.

Justin Allgaier, No. 7 JR Motorsports Chevrolet

Justin Allgaier, No. 7 JR Motorsports Chevrolet

The whole area pitted for contemporary tires, and Larson had a sluggish cease, dropping all the way down to fifth as Jones reclaimed the lead, as soon as once more because of his pit crew.

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However as soon as once more, Allgaier made the surface work on the restart, powering into the lead by Turns 1 and a couple of and by no means trying again.

Darlington NASCAR O’Reilly Outcomes

1

7

Justin Allgaier

Chevrolet

147

1:47’09.089

 

31

2

20

Brandon Jones

Toyota

147

1:47’09.667

0.578

9

3

19

Christopher Bell

Toyota

147

1:47’11.342

2.253

 

4

88

Kyle Larson

Chevrolet

147

1:47’11.857

2.768

107

5

1

Carson Kvapil

Chevrolet

147

1:47’11.883

2.794

 

6

17

Corey Day

Chevrolet

147

1:47’14.159

5.070

 

7

00

Sheldon Creed

Chevrolet

147

1:47’14.472

5.383

 

8

99

Parker Retzlaff

Chevrolet

147

1:47’14.507

5.418

 

9

8

Sammy Smith

Chevrolet

147

1:47’16.651

7.562

 

10

41

Sam Mayer

Chevrolet

147

1:47’16.986

7.897

 

11

2

Chevrolet

147

1:47’17.198

8.109

 

12

96

Anthony Alfredo

Chevrolet

147

1:47’17.628

8.539

 

13

39

Chevrolet

147

1:47’20.414

11.325

 

14

9

Chevrolet

147

1:47’21.871

12.782

 

15

54

Toyota

147

1:47’22.259

13.170

 

16

25

Nicholas Sanchez

Ford

147

1:47’22.486

13.397

 

17

18

Toyota

147

1:47’23.279

14.190

 

18

44

Chevrolet

147

1:47’23.366

14.277

 

19

51

Jeremy Clements

Chevrolet

147

1:47’23.605

14.516

 

20

07

Chevrolet

147

1:47’24.574

15.485

 

21

26

Toyota

147

1:47’24.983

15.894

 

22

24

Toyota

147

1:47’25.152

16.063

 

23

32

Rajah Caruth

Chevrolet

147

1:47’25.467

16.378

 

24

92

Chevrolet

147

1:47’26.275

17.186

 

25

5

Ford

147

1:47’27.189

18.100

 

26

27

Chevrolet

147

1:47’42.685

33.596

 

27

0

Chevrolet

147

1:47’43.714

34.625

 

28

87

Austin Inexperienced

Chevrolet

146

1:47’25.735

1 Lap

 

29

48

Patrick Staropoli

Chevrolet

146

1:47’27.614

1 Lap

 

30

31

Chevrolet

146

1:47’43.144

1 Lap

 

31

55

Chevrolet

145

1:47’15.589

2 Laps

 

32

02

Chevrolet

145

1:47’17.747

2 Laps

 

33

30

Chevrolet

145

1:47’28.019

2 Laps

 

34

42

Nathan Byrd

Chevrolet

145

1:47’33.809

2 Laps

 

35

21

Austin Hill

Chevrolet

142

1:47’29.784

5 Laps

 

36

45

Lavar Scott

Chevrolet

123

1:30’48.088

24 Laps

 

37

28

Kyle Sieg

Chevrolet

121

1:28’54.982

26 Laps

 

38

91

Alex Labbe

Chevrolet

120

1:23’49.134

27 Laps

 

 

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