Whereas Kyle Larson dominated many of the race, it was Justin Allgaier who gained Saturday’s NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Components Sequence race. It was his second win of the 2026 season and the thirtieth of his profession.
“All of those guys proper right here,” mentioned Allgaier, gesturing his staff when he requested how he pulled off this newest victory. “We have now not been one of the best on pit highway all yr, however these guys have by no means give up. They’ve gone to work and by no means given up, they usually have been on prime of all of it day on pit highway. Big thanks to those guys and Andrew Overstreet (crew chief), and this whole #7 staff … We undoubtedly weren’t the all day. Kyle was clearly superb, he had us coated. Andrew advised me on that final restart to ‘by no means quit, if we will get the lead we obtained clear air and we will win this factor,’ and we did.”
Brandon Jones completed second, Christopher Bell third, Larson fourth, and Carson Kvapil fifth. Corey Day, Sheldon Creed, Parker Retzlaff, Sammy Smith, and Sam Mayer crammed out the rest of the highest ten.
Larson had gained each phases, and led 107 of 147 laps earlier than a sluggish pit cease denied him a shot on the win.
Levels 1 and a pair 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.
Larson dominated the whole stage, profitable Stage 1 forward of Bell, Kvapil, B. Jones, Allgaier, Retzlaff, Love, Sawalich, Alfredo, and Chastain.
Throughout the stage break, each Jeremy Clements and Kyle Sieg 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 highway, 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 gained Stage 2, over 5 seconds away from Kvapil, B. Jones, Allgaier, Retzlaff, Chastain, Alfredo, Day, Bell, Sawalich.
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 certainly one of his personal tire, leading to an end-of-line penalty.
B. Jones really gained the race off pit highway, and restarted with the lead. Larson gave up the entrance row, restarting immediately behind Jones and placing Allgaier on the entrance row. The previous collection champion made probably the most of that, surging forward and taking management of the race.
He then needed to struggle off a hard-charging Larson within the ultimate 50 laps of the race. With 33 laps to go, Larson lower underneath Allgaier and took the lead again.
The primary pure warning of the race was with 25 laps to go, as Kyle Sieg and Austin Hill crashed on the backstretch. Alex Labbe and Lavar Scott then obtained tangled collectively whereas attempting to keep away from, crashing as nicely. Making issues worse, Labbe then really obtained hit by his personal jack whereas strolling across the broken automobile again within the pits.
Justin Allgaier, No. 7 JR Motorsports Chevrolet
Photograph by: David Jensen / Getty Photographs
The complete 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.
However as soon as once more, Allgaier made the surface work on the restart, powering into the lead by means of Turns 1 and a pair of and by no means wanting again.
Darlington NASCAR O’Reilly Outcomes
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