Justin Allgaier earns NASCAR O’Reilly win at Pocono over Brent Crews

Justin Allgaier claimed his fifth victory of the 2026 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Elements Sequence season at Pocono Raceway, additional cementing himself atop the championship standings as the 2 drivers closest to him crashed on the opening lap.

That is the thirty third win of Allgaier’s profession, and he now has an enormous 250-point lead within the championship.

“To start with, big thanks to William Byron,” stated Allgaier after climbing from the No. 7 JR Motorsports Chevrolet. “With out his shove on the finish of the race, it was most likely recreation over … simply so pleased with this race workforce.”

Brent Crews completed second, William Byron third, Sam Mayer fourth, and Sheldon Creed fifth.

Anthony Alfredo, Rajah Caruth, Brandon Jones, Connor Zilisch, and Carson Kvapil stuffed out the rest of the highest ten.

Stage 1

The race was messy from the beginning, with Corey Day spinning on the exit of Flip 1 on the opening lap. As he spun down the monitor, he collected Jesse Love, ending each of their days.

Quickly after, Ryan Sieg obtained changed into the frontstretch wall after a stackup, and Nathan Byrd crashed concurrently in a separate incident. Each drivers have been lifting after pushing excessive and obtained hit from behind. Sieg had entered this race simply exterior the Chase subject, with the crash sending him additional down the championship order.

The subsequent warning was for Natalie Decker, who suffered a mechanical failure. That set-up a mad sprint to the top of Stage 1, with Grey passing Mayer simply because the stage-ending warning flew for an incident involving Connor Zilisch and William Sawalich.

Grey gained Stage 1 over Mayer, Byron, Allgaier, B. Jones, Creed, S. Smith, Crews, Kvapil, A. Hill.

Stage 2

The flurry of yellows continued into Stage 2, together with an incident the place each Leland Honeyman and Patrick Staropoli spun into the wall after contact from Brennan Poole.

Patrick Emerling then went for a spin, and there have been a number of totally different methods unfolding due to this. Small teams of vehicles have been pitting beneath every yellow, however this yellow compelled Allgaier to pit from the lead, and a lot of the subject got here with him.

Crews and Retzlaff now managed the race, with Crews finally clearing Retzlaff in a five-lap run to the top of Stage 2.

Kyle Sieg went for a spin within the again and Nick Sanchez reduce a tire, however NASCAR saved the race inexperienced. 

Crews went on to win Stage 2 over Allgaier, Retzlaff, Caruth, Byron, Zilisch, Mayer, Clements, Alfredo, Kvapil.

Stage 3

Allgaier led the primary a part of the ultimate stage, with various gas masses all through the sector. After a spirited battle with Mayer, the 2 drivers pitted beneath inexperienced with round 30 laps to go.

A number of vehicles have been operating lengthy, and with 18 laps to go, the warning flew once more as Emerling spun off the nostril of Crews, slamming the within wall.

H. Burton was main the race, however Mayer was the chief amongst those that had pitted beneath inexperienced.

Allgaier obtained forward on the restart, however Mayer fought again by way of Flip 1 and cleared him for the highest spot…just for one other wreck to interrupt out mid-pack.

Each Grey and Smith spun in separate incidents in the identical nook. Byron slid up into Grey, whereas Smith obtained free whereas beneath one other automobile.

The race went again inexperienced with eight laps to go. This time, Mayer had the higher begin, however Allgaier surged forward from the skin and cleared him.

One other crash adopted quickly after, with Lavar Scott, Dexter Bean, and Jeb Burton all wrecking on the exit of Flip 4. Burton spun sideways and took out the opposite two vehicles as his No. 27 slid again down the monitor.

That was the tenth warning of the race, and resulted in a purple flag with 5 laps to go. The raced changed into a two-lap shootout for the win.

Creed went three-wide for the lead and each Haas vehicles misplaced out as he slid up in Flip 1. It was trying good for Allgaier, who had little strain as he claimed victory. Crews nosed forward of Byron for second-place, proper on the checkered flag.

1	J. Allgaier JR Motorsports	7		Chevrolet	100			5	72
2	B. Crews Joe Gibbs Racing	19		Toyota	100		0.607	6	48
3	W. Byron JR Motorsports	88		Chevrolet	100		0.040	6
4	S. Mayer Haas Manufacturing facility Group	41		Chevrolet	100		1.162	6	46
5	S. Creed Haas Manufacturing facility Group	00		Chevrolet	100		0.929	6	37
6	A. Alfredo Viking Motorsports	96		Chevrolet	100		0.170	6	33
7	R. Caruth Jordan Anderson Racing	32		Chevrolet	100		0.215	6	37
8	B. Jones Joe Gibbs Racing	20		Toyota	100		0.192	6	35
9	C. Zilisch JR Motorsports	1		Chevrolet	100		0.251	7
10	C. Kvapil JR Motorsports	9		Chevrolet	100		0.990	6	30
11	H. Burton Sam Hunt Racing	24		Toyota	100		0.159	6	26
12	C. Custer SS-Inexperienced Gentle Racing	0		Chevrolet	100		0.074	10
13	D. Thompson Sam Hunt Racing	26		Toyota	100		0.072	6	24
14	A. Hill Richard Childress Racing	21		Chevrolet	100		0.113	6	24
15	P. Retzlaff Viking Motorsports	99		Chevrolet	100		0.095	7	30
16	J. Clements Jeremy Clements Racing	51		Chevrolet	100		0.078	7	24
17	T. Grey Joe Gibbs Racing	54		Toyota	100		0.030	8	30
18	B. Poole Alpha Prime Racing	44		Chevrolet	100		0.019	8	19
19	S. Smith JR Motorsports	8		Chevrolet	100		0.121	7	22
20	B. Perkins Jordan Anderson Racing	31		Chevrolet	100		0.697	7	17
21	W. Sawalich Joe Gibbs Racing	18		Toyota	100		0.201	11	16
22	J. Bilicki SS-Inexperienced Gentle Racing	07		Chevrolet	100		0.027	8	15
23	N. Sanchez Peterson Racing Group	87		Chevrolet	100		0.132	11	14
24	R. Ellis Younger’s Motorsports	02		Chevrolet	100		0.192	8	13
25	P. Staropoli Large Machine Racing Group	48		Chevrolet	100		0.166	10	12
26	R. Sieg RSS Racing	39		Chevrolet	100		0.118	14	11
27	C. Ware Joey Gase Motorsports	35		Chevrolet	100		6.516	9	10
28	J. Burton Jordan Anderson Racing	27		Chevrolet	93		7 Laps	8	9	Accident
29	L. Scott Alpha Prime Racing	45		Chevrolet	93		1.567	9	8	Accident
30	D. Bean DGM Racing with Jesse Iwuji Motorsports	91		Chevrolet	93		0.516	10	7	Accident
31	E. Patrick RSS Racing	38		Chevrolet	81		12 Laps	7		Accident
32	Ok. Sieg RSS Racing	28		Chevrolet	50		31 Laps	5	5	DVP
33	L. Honeyman Jr. DGM Racing with Jesse Iwuji Motorsports	92		Chevrolet	36		14 Laps	3		Accident
34	N. Decker Joey Gase Motorsports	53		Toyota	17		19 Laps	2		Engine
35	N. Byrd Younger’s Motorsports	42		Chevrolet	7		10 Laps	2	2	Accident
36	J. Gase Joey Gase Motorsports	55		Ford	3		4 Laps	8	1	Engine
37	J. Love Richard Childress Racing	2		Chevrolet	1		2 Laps	5	1	Accident
38	C. Day Hendrick Motorsports	17		Chevrolet	0		1 Lap	2	1	Accident

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