O'Reilly Auto Parts Series StatChat 2026 - Darlington
- Adam Carabine
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By Adam Carabine
Happy weekend everyone, it’s time for another edition of O’Reilly Stats. Here we break down the upcoming race and let you know who to watch for. This weekend the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series travels to Darlington, SC for the Fleetio 200 at Darlington Raceway.
Darlington is one of the oldest tracks on the NASCAR schedule, opening in 1950. It’s known for its unique egg-shaped 1.366-mile oval, with sharper corners in turns 3 and 4. Geoffrey Bodine won the first race in this series at Darlington in 1982. Justin Allgaier won at Darlington earlier this year.
Saturday’s race will be 147 laps long (for a total of 200.80 miles), with stage breaks occurring at 45 – 90 – 147. Pit road speed is 45 mph, and the caution vehicle runs at 50 mph. The fuel window is 66-71 laps.
This year, the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series has run 3,846 laps, for 5,575.86 miles so far. No driver has completed 100% of all laps, but Brennan Poole is 3 laps down.
Top 5 Career Average Finishers at Darlington:
Brent Crews | 3.00 over 1 race |
Corey Day | 6.00 over 1 race |
Justin Allgaier | 7.33 over 21 races (4 wins) |
Jesse Love | 9.00 over 4 races |
Harrison Burton | 10.50 over 6 races |
Bottom 5 Career Average Finishers at Darlington:
Lavar Scott | 36.00 over 1 race |
Blaine Perkins | 31.67 over 6 races |
Kyle Sieg | 30.13 over 8 races |
Ryan Ellis | 29.18 over 11 races |
Josh Bilicki | 24.40 over 5 races |
Darlington is an Intermediate track.
Top 5 Career Average Finishers at Intermediates:
Brent Crews | 8.70 over 9 races |
Austin Hill | 9.78 over 75 races (8 wins) |
Jesse Love | 10.49 over 37 races |
Justin Allgaier | 11.03 over 241 races (17 wins) |
Sam Mayer | 11.92 over 72 races (2 wins) |
Bottom 5 Career Average Finishers at Intermediates:
Blaine Perkins | 27.09 over 54 races |
Josh Bilicki | 26.55 over 54 races |
Ryan Ellis | 25.48 over 81 races |
Lavar Scott | 23.23 over 11 races |
Kyle Sieg | 21.25 over 65 races |
Mark Martin is the winningest driver in this series at Darlington. He has won eight times here. Denny Hamlin has six wins in this series. Justin Allgaier has four wins.
Drivers who ran their first O’Reilly’s Series race at Darlington:
No One | -- |
Drivers who earned their first O’Reilly’s Series win at Darlington:
No One | -- |
Drivers whose most recent O’Reilly Series Victory was at Darlington:
No One | -- |
Notable drivers who have not won at Darlington:
Austin Hill | (has won at 8 other tracks) |
Sam Mayer | (has won at 6 other tracks) |
Harrison Burton | (has won at 4 other tracks) |
Sammy Smith | (has won at 3 other tracks) |
Jesse Love | (has won at 3 other tracks) |
Based on average finish, no driver lists Darlington as their BEST or WORST track.
Based on their point pace, let’s have a look at how this season is comparing to last season for drivers:
Drivers Faring Better than in 2025
Sheldon Creed | +235 pts |
Justin Allgaier | +235 pts |
William Sawalich | +158 pts |
Sammy Smith | +65 pts |
Ryan Sieg | +64 pts |
Drivers Faring Worse than in 2025
Harrison Burton | -254 pts |
Sam Mayer | -217 pts |
Jeb Burton | -194 pts |
Dean Thompson | -102 pts |
Taylor Gray | -78 pts |
Next, let’s look at who’s having their best and worst career year by Average Finish:
Best Career Year
Brandon Jones | 12.17 |
Sammy Smith | 12.63 |
Parker Retzlaff | 12.88 |
William Sawalich | 16.88 |
Dean Thompson | 20.00 |
Blaine Perkins | 22.71 |
Worst Career Year
Ryan Ellis | 26.46 |
Kyle Sieg | 25.29 |
Jeb Burton | 22.04 |
Harrison Burton | 21.17 |
Jesse Love | 12.63 |
Rookie of the Year Battle
Patrick Staropoli | 332 |
Lavar Scott | 274 |
The Manufacturer Standings are calculated by awarding points to the highest finisher for each manufacturer according to their finishing position. (55 for 1st, 35 for 2nd, 34 for 3rd, etc.) No stage points or playoff points count.
Manufacturer Standings
Chevrolet | 1,259 |
Toyota | 829 |
Ford | 159 |
Here is the same formula, but used on a team-vs-team basis:
Chartered Team Standings
JR Motorsports | 1,103 |
Joe Gibbs | 826 |
RCR | 760 |
Haas Factory | 710 |
Viking | 644 |
Hendrick | 595 |
RSS | 566 |
Jordan Anderson | 538 |
Sam Hunt | 527 |
Alpha Prime | 465 |
SS-Green Light | 439 |
DGM | 405 |
Peterson | 380 |
Jeremy Clements | 344 |
Big Machine | 332 |
Young’s | 314 |
Joey Gase | 145 |
At each stage break, the Top 10 drivers are awarded points based on their finishing positions. Here are the leaders this year:
Stage Point Leaders
Milestone Watch
Austin Hill | Looking for his 60th Career Top 5 |
Anthony Alfredo | Looking for his 30th Career Top 10 |
Here are the top 10 longest active winless streaks:
Winless Streaks
Jeremy Clements | 133 races |
Jeb Burton | 114 races |
Harrison Burton | 91 races |
Sammy Smith | 47 races |
Sam Mayer | 35 races |
Jesse Love | 24 races |
Sheldon Creed | 22 races |
William Sawalich | 16 races |
Taylor Gray | 14 races |
Corey Day | 10 races |
The race begins Saturday, September 5th at 7:30 pm EST (4:30 pm PST) – Enjoy the race everyone!
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