O'Reilly Auto Parts Series StatChat 2026 - Kansas
- Adam Carabine
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By Adam Carabine
Happy weekend everyone, it’s time for another edition of O’Reilly Stats Friday. This weekend the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series travels to Kansas City, Kansas for the Kansas Lottery 300 at Kansas Speedway.
Kansas is a 1.5-mile tri-oval speedway, built in 2001. Jeff Green won the first O’Reilly Series race there that same year. Brandon Jones won the most recent race at Kansas last year.
Tomorrow’s race will be 200 laps long (for a total of 300 miles), with stage breaks occurring at 45 – 90 – 200. Pit road speed is 45 mph, and the caution vehicle runs at 55 mph. The fuel window is 59-64 laps.
This year, the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series has run 1,695 laps, for 1,931.36 miles so far. No driver has completed 100% of all laps, but Jesse Love and Brennan Poole are each 2 laps down.
Top 5 Career Average Finishers at Kansas:
Sheldon Creed | 6.00 over 4 races |
Austin Hill | 6.40 over 5 races |
Jesse Love | 8.00 over 2 races |
Nick Sanchez | 8.00 over 1 race |
Brandon Jones | 8.18 over 11 races (3 wins) |
Bottom 5 Career Average Finishers at Kansas:
Blaine Perkins | 32.33 over 3 races |
William Sawalich | 31.00 over 1 race |
Austin Green | 29.00 over 1 race |
Ryan Ellis | 26.40 over 5 races |
Dean Thompson | 26.00 over 1 race |
Kansas is an Intermediate Track.
Top 5 Career Average Finishers at Intermediate Tracks:
Corey Day | 7.17 over 6 races |
Austin Hill | 9.95 over 67 races (8 wins) |
Jesse Love | 10.34 over 29 races |
Justin Allgaier | 11.31 over 233 races (14 wins) |
Harrison Burton | 11.73 over 47 races (3 wins) |
Bottom 5 Career Average Finishers at Intermediate Tracks:
Blaine Perkins | 27.60 over 46 races |
Josh Bilicki | 26.43 over 46 races |
Ryan Ellis | 25.66 over 73 races |
William Sawalich | 23.21 over 16 races |
Austin Green | 22.94 over 7 races |
Kyle Busch is the winningest driver in this series at Kansas, having scored 4 wins. Brandon Jones is next with 3 wins, then you have Joey Logano and John Hunter Nemechek who each have 2.
Drivers who ran their first O’Reilly’s Series race at Kansas:
No one | -- |
Drivers who earned their first O’Reilly’s Series win at Kansas:
Brandon Jones | 133rd Career O’Reilly’s Start |
Drivers whose most recent O’Reilly Series Victory was at Kansas:
Brandon Jones | 2025 |
Notable drivers who have not won at Kansas:
Justin Allgaier | (has won at 20 other tracks) |
Austin Hill | (has won at 7 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) |
Based on average finish, no driver lists Kansas 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 | +459 pts |
Sheldon Creed | +363 pts |
William Sawalich | +254 pts |
Sammy Smith | +145 pts |
Jesse Love | +75 pts |
Drivers Faring Worse than in 2025
Nick Sanchez | -485 pts |
Sam Mayer | -372 pts |
Harrison Burton | -346 pts |
Dean Thompson | -232 pts |
Kyle Sieg | -136 pts |
Next, let’s look at who’s having their best and worst career year by Average Finish:
Best Career Year
Justin Allgaier | 6.33 |
Sheldon Creed | 7.33 |
Sammy Smith | 9.56 |
Jesse Love | 9.78 |
Parker Retzlaff | 12.00 |
William Sawalich | 16.33 |
Blaine Perkins | 22.56 |
Dean Thompson | 23.11 |
Worst Career Year
Ryan Ellis | 27.78 |
Kyle Sieg | 27.56 |
Nick Sanchez | 26.57 |
Jeremy Clements | 24.89 |
Harrison Burton | 23.44 |
Sam Mayer | 20.33 |
Rookie of the Year Battle
Patrick Staropoli | 129 |
Lavar Scott | 103 |
The Manufacturer Standings are calculated by awarding points to the highest finisher for each manufacturer according to their finishing position. (40 for 1st, 35 for 2nd, 34 for 3rd, etc.) No stage points or playoff points count.
Manufacturer Standings
Chevrolet | 474 |
Toyota | 281 |
Ford | 131 |
Here is the same formula, but used on a team-vs-team basis:
Chartered Team Standings
JR Motorsports | 428 |
RCR | 296 |
Haas Factory | 286 |
Joe Gibbs | 278 |
Hendrick | 254 |
Viking | 236 |
Jordan Anderson | 217 |
RSS Racing | 205 |
Alpha Prime | 181 |
Sam Hunt | 167 |
SS-Green Light | 143 |
Big Machine | 129 |
DGM | 127 |
Young’s | 116 |
Jeremy Clements | 110 |
Hettinger | 89 |
Peterson | 85 |
AM Racing | 75 |
Barrett-Cope | 50 |
Joey Gase | 16 |
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
Sheldon Creed | Looking for his 40th Career Top 5 |
Jesse Love | Looking for his 20th Career Top 5 |
Taylor Gray | Looking for his 10th Career Top 5 |
Jeb Burton | Looking for his 50th Career Top 10 |
Harrison Burton | Looking for his 60th Career Top 10 |
Brennan Poole | This will be his 200th Career Start in this series |
Here are the top 10 longest active winless streaks:
Winless Streaks
Jeremy Clements | 118 races |
Jeb Burton | 99 races |
Harrison Burton | 76 races |
Sammy Smith | 32 races |
Nick Sanchez | 23 races |
Sam Mayer | 20 races |
Brandon Jones | 14 races |
Taylor Gray | 10 races |
Jesse Love | 9 races |
Austin Hill | 8 races |
The race begins Saturday, April 18th at 7:00 pm EST (4:00 pm PST) – Enjoy the race everyone!
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