O'Reilly Auto Parts Series StatChat 2026 - Daytona
- Adam Carabine
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By Adam Carabine
Happy weekend everyone, it’s time for another edition of O’Reilly Stats Friday, this time on a Thursday. This weekend the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series travels to Daytona Beach, Florida for the Winn Dixie 250 at Daytona International Speedway.
Daytona is a 2.5-mile Super Speedway oval, with high banking and a tri-oval at the start-finish line. The track was opened in 1959, and the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series started racing there in 1982. Dale Earnhardt Sr. was the first driver to win in this series that same year. Austin Hill won the race at Daytona earlier this year, while Connor Zilisch won it in the late summer last year.
Friday’s race will be 100 laps long (for a total of 250 miles), with stage breaks occurring at 30 – 60 – 100. Pit road speed is 55 mph, and the caution vehicle runs at 70 mph. The fuel window is 39-41 laps.
This year, the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series has run 3,741 laps, for 5,275.36 miles so far. No driver has completed 100% of all laps, but Brennan Poole is 3 laps down.
Top 5 Career Average Finishers at Daytona:
Harrison Burton | 10.00 over 7 races |
Jesse Love | 11.00 over 5 races (1 win) |
Justin Allgaier | 14.32 over 31 races (1 win) |
Lavar Scott | 16.00 over 1 race |
Jeb Burton | 16.21 over 14 races |
Bottom 5 Career Average Finishers at Daytona:
Corey Day | 27.00 over 1 race |
William Sawalich | 24.33 over 3 races |
Jeremy Clements | 23.09 over 32 races (1 win) |
Dean Thompson | 23.00 over 3 races |
Josh Bilicki | 22.67 over 9 races |
Daytona is a Super Speedway.
Top 5 Career Average Finishers at Super Speedways:
Brent Crews | 2.00 over 1 race |
Jesse Love | 8.20 over 10 races (2 wins) |
Jeb Burton | 13.19 over 26 races (2 wins) |
Corey Day | 14.00 over 2 races (1 win) |
Sheldon Creed | 14.18 over 18 races |
Bottom 5 Career Average Finishers at Super Speedways:
Patrick Staropoli | 27.50 over 2 races |
Sam Mayer | 24.23 over 19 races |
William Sawalich | 24.17 over 6 races |
Ryan Ellis | 23.49 over 17 races |
Jeremy Clements | 22.93 over 53 races (1 win) |
Dale Earnhardt and Tony Stewart are the winningest driver in this series at Daytona, having each won 7 races here. Dale Earnhardt Jr. has 6 wins. Of the current crop of drivers, Austin Hill is the winningest with 4 wins at Daytona.
Drivers who ran their first O’Reilly’s Series race at Daytona:
Jesse Love | 2024 – P20 |
Drivers who earned their first O’Reilly’s Series win at Daytona:
Austin Hill | 16th Start |
Drivers whose most recent O’Reilly Series Victory was at Daytona:
Jeremy Clements | 2022 |
Notable drivers who have not won at Daytona:
Sam Mayer | (has won at 6 other tracks) |
Brandon Jones | (has won at 5 other tracks) |
Harrison Burton | (has won at 4 other tracks) |
Sammy Smith | (has won at 3 other tracks) |
Taylor Gray | (has won at 2 other tracks) |
Based on average finish, no driver lists Daytona 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
Justin Allgaier | +240 pts |
Sheldon Creed | +238 pts |
William Sawalich | +189 pts |
Sammy Smith | +97 pts |
Jeremy Clements | +47 pts |
Drivers Faring Worse than in 2025
Harrison Burton | -279 pts |
Jeb Burton | -220 pts |
Sam Mayer | -203 pts |
Dean Thompson | -90 pts |
Ryan Ellis | -82 pts |
Next, let’s look at who’s having their best and worst career year by Average Finish:
Best Career Year
Sammy Smith | 11.61 |
Brandon Jones | 12.48 |
Parker Retzlaff | 12.83 |
William Sawalich | 16.00 |
Dean Thompson | 19.70 |
Blaine Perkins | 23.04 |
Worst Career Year
Ryan Ellis | 26.87 |
Kyle Sieg | 25.48 |
Jeb Burton | 22.61 |
Harrison Burton | 21.74 |
Jesse Love | 12.30 |
Rookie of the Year Battle
Patrick Staropoli | 329 |
Lavar Scott | 255 |
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 | 1,204 |
Toyota | 796 |
Ford | 159 |
Here is the same formula, but used on a team-vs-team basis:
Chartered Team Standings
JR Motorsports | 1,069 |
Joe Gibbs | 794 |
RCR | 725 |
Haas Factory | 683 |
Viking | 611 |
Hendrick | 587 |
RSS | 511 |
Jordan Anderson | 510 |
Sam Hunt | 498 |
Alpha Prime | 435 |
SS-Green Light | 414 |
DGM | 379 |
Peterson | 359 |
Jeremy Clements | 340 |
Big Machine | 329 |
Young’s | 294 |
Joey Gase | 132 |
Hettinger | 117 |
AM Racing | 75 |
Barrett-Cope | 50 |
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
Justin Allgaier | Looking for his 320th Career Top 10 |
Jeb Burton | Looking for his 50th Career Top 10 |
Here are the top 10 longest active winless streaks:
Winless Streaks
Jeremy Clements | 132 races |
Jeb Burton | 113 races |
Harrison Burton | 90 races |
Sammy Smith | 46 races |
Sam Mayer | 34 races |
Jesse Love | 23 races |
Sheldon Creed | 21 races |
William Sawalich | 15 races |
Taylor Gray | 13 races |
Corey Day | 9 races |
The race begins Friday, August 28th at 7:30 pm EST (4:30 pm PST) – Enjoy the race everyone!
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