TALLADEGA, Ala. — Corey Day claimed the primary NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Elements Sequence victory of his profession Saturday afternoon, driving to the yellow and checkered flags within the Ag-Professional 300 at Talladega Superspeedway – his No. 17 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet main solely the final lap to earn his first trophy in his first full-time season.
The 20-year outdated Californian dash automotive driver delivered the multi-time NASCAR Cup Sequence championship Hendrick crew its first O’Reilly Auto Elements Sequence victory at Talladega and this weekend earned a win for a particular “visitor” crew member, former NFL nice Jason Kelce who dressed out in Hendrick blue and helped transport tires for the crew on pit highway Saturday.
“I positive as heck didn’t suppose it [first win] could be at a superspeedway,’’ stated a grinning Day, who additionally gained a dash automotive race in Nebraska earlier this week. “My 17 guys simply constructed a rocket ship.
“I really feel like we’ve been shut, had a great day at Rockingham (N.C. race) and had a pair different good days and simply didn’t end it off, so that is tremendous cool.’’
Rookie Brent Crews completed a profession greatest runner-up within the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota with Haas Manufacturing unit Group driver Sheldon Creed scored third in a typical picture finish-type conclusion on the two.66-mile Talladega excessive banks. Creed’s work was ok to say the $100,000 Sprint 4 Money incentive prize for his effort – the second straight week he did so.
“Onerous to be too mad at second right here when a lot occurs and really simply might have been in a kind of crashes on the finish. Attending to take residence the Sprint 4 Money is basically particular and thank the blokes within the store for that.’’
JR Motorsports driver Sammy Smith was fourth within the No. 8 Chevrolet extending a top-10 streak for the crew to 68 races, second greatest all-time within the collection. Proprietor-driver Jeremy Clements was fifth within the South Carolina-based No. 51 Jeremy Clements Racing crew Chevrolet, incomes the impartial crew’s greatest displaying since 2022.
Dean Thompson, Jesse Love, Brandon Jones, Parker Retzlaff and Austin Inexperienced rounded out the top-10 with J.J. Yeley incomes the one Ford within the 38-car area a formidable eleventh place end.
Love began on pole place within the No. 2 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet, led probably the most laps (37) and was out entrance late earlier than getting shuffled backwards with six laps remaining. The sector break up his automotive excessive and low on monitor with Creed transferring into the lead with 5 laps remaining.
Creed’s Haas Manufacturing unit Group teammate Sam Mayer, who had been spectacular all through the afternoon, was scored the chief with two laps to go in a three-wide entrance row additionally that includes Creed and Day.
After which as so typically occurs at Talladega, contact through the last frantic laps of competitors shuffled the entrance pack, slammed Mayer’s No. 41 Chevy and two-time former winner Jeb Burton’s No. 27 Jordan Anderson Chevrolet into the surface wall.
Creed settled for twenty fifth regardless of main 3 times for eight laps on the day. Burton, a photo-finish runner-up final 12 months within the race, settled for twenty sixth.
JR Motorsports teammates Carson Kvapil (stage one) and Justin Allgaier (stage two) claimed the 2 wins however each had been unable to get well from a mid-race inexperienced flag penalty for “impeding” vehicles on monitor through the last stage of racing.
The 4 warning intervals was the fewest since 2022. The 38 lead modifications had been probably the most on the monitor since 2013.
Regardless of recording the bottom end of the season (twenty third), Allgaier retains the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Elements Sequence championship lead by 105 factors over Creed.
Day, Crews, Creed and Smith shall be eligible for the $100,000 Sprint 4 Money award subsequent week.
NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Elements Sequence Race – AG-PRO 300
1. (3) Corey Day, Chevrolet, 113.
2. (18) Brent Crews #, Toyota, 113.
3. (5) Sheldon Creed, Chevrolet, 113.
4. (13) Sammy Smith, Chevrolet, 113.
5. (15) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 113.
6. (17) Dean Thompson, Toyota, 113.
7. (1) Jesse Love, Chevrolet, 113.
8. (22) Brandon Jones, Toyota, 113.
9. (19) Parker Retzlaff, Chevrolet, 113.
10. (31) Austin Inexperienced, Chevrolet, 113.
11. (25) JJ Yeley, Ford, 113.
12. (23) Blaine Perkins, Chevrolet, 113.
13. (6) Austin Hill, Chevrolet, 113.
14. (35) Josh Bilicki, Chevrolet, 113.
15. (34) Brennan Poole, Chevrolet, 113.
16. (27) Patrick Emerling(i), Chevrolet, 113.
17. (10) Mason Maggio, Chevrolet, 113.
18. (28) Kyle Sieg, Chevrolet, 113.
19. (29) Joey Gase, Chevrolet, 113.
20. (37) Garrett Smithley, Chevrolet, 113.
21. (12) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, 113.
22. (8) Carson Kvapil, Chevrolet, 113.
23. (11) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 113.
24. (32) Lavar Scott #, Chevrolet, 113.
25. (2) Sam Mayer, Chevrolet, Accident, 112.
26. (24) Jeb Burton, Chevrolet, Accident, 112.
27. (30) Harrison Burton, Toyota, Accident, 112.
28. (16) William Sawalich, Toyota, 112.
29. (26) Taylor Grey, Toyota, 112.
30. (7) Rajah Caruth, Chevrolet, 112.
31. (9) Anthony Alfredo, Chevrolet, 112.
32. (33) Tyler Ankrum(i), Chevrolet, 112.
33. (36) Natalie Decker, Chevrolet, 112.
34. (38) Dawson Cram, Chevrolet, 112.
35. (4) Josh Williams, Chevrolet, 112.
36. (21) Ryan Ellis, Chevrolet, 111.
37. (14) Patrick Staropoli #, Chevrolet, 105.
38. (20) David Starr, Chevrolet, Overheating, 14.
