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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