O'Reilly Auto Parts Series StatChat 2026 - Las Vegas
- 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 Las Vegas, Nevada for The LiUNA! at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Las Vegas is a 1.5-mile tri-oval speedway. It opened in 1971, though O’Reilly Auto Parts Series races didn’t start taking place there until 1997. Jeff Green won the first race there in this series. Justin Allgaier won this race last year in the spring, and Aric Almirola won the one in the fall.
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.
This year, the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series has run 548 laps, for 904.16 miles so far. Only 4 cars have completed 100% of all laps.
Top 5 Career Average Finishers at Las Vegas:
Corey Day | 4.00 over 1 race |
Justin Allgaier | 6.78 over 23 races (1 win) |
Jesse Love | 8.00 over 4 races |
Harrison Burton | 9.17 over 6 races |
Austin Hill | 10.00 over 9 races (1 win) |
Bottom 5 Career Average Finishers at Las Vegas:
William Sawalich | 37.00 over 2 races |
Austin Green | 33.50 over 2 races |
Dean Thompson | 31.50 over 2 races |
Josh Bilicki | 30.60 over 5 races |
Blaine Perkins | 28.29 over 7 races |
Las Vegas is an Intermediate Track
Top 5 Career Average Finishers at Intermediate Tracks:
Corey Day | 7.00 over 4 races |
Austin Hill | 9.72 over 65 races (8 wins) |
Jesse Love | 10.32 over 27 races |
Justin Allgaier | 11.34 over 231 races (13 wins) |
Harrison Burton | 11.49 over 45 races (3 wins) |
Bottom 5 Career Average Finishers at Intermediate Tracks:
Blaine Perkins | 27.68 over 44 races |
Josh Bilicki | 26.59 over 44 races |
Ryan Ellis | 25.61 over 71 races |
William Sawalich | 24.61 over 14 races |
Dean Thompson | 22.65 over 14 races |
Mark Martin is the winningest driver in this series at Las Vegas, with four wins. Jeff Burton is just behind him with three, followed by a group of five drivers who all have two each.
Drivers who ran their first O’Reilly’s Series race at Las Vegas:
Brennan Poole | 2015 – P9 |
Drivers who WON their first O’Reilly’s Series race at Las Vegas:
Nobody | N/A |
Drivers whose most recent O’Reilly Series Victory was at Las Vegas:
Nobody | N/A |
Notable drivers who have not won at Las Vegas:
Sam Mayer | (has won at 6 other tracks) |
Brandon Jones | (has won at 4 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 Las Vegas 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
Austin Hill | +387 pts |
Jesse Love | +380 pts |
Sheldon Creed | +296 pts |
Justin Allgaier | +254 pts |
Sammy Smith | +193 pts |
Drivers Faring Worse than in 2025
Harrison Burton | -540 pts |
Nick Sanchez | -401 pts |
Dean Thompson | -269 pts |
Brandon Jones | -198 pts |
Sam Mayer | -180 pts |
Next, let’s look at who’s having their best and worst career year by Average Finish:
Best Career Year
Jesse Love | 5.00 |
Austin Hill | 6.75 |
Sheldon Creed | 10.00 |
Sammy Smith | 11.00 |
Parker Retzlaff | 15.00 |
Anthony Alfredo | 17.25 |
Blaine Perkins | 22.25 |
William Sawalich | 23.25 |
Dean Thompson | 24.25 |
Worst Career Year
Cole Custer | 23.54 |
Carson Hocevar | 21.40 |
Zane Smith | 20.86 |
Rookie of the Year Battle
Patrick Staropoli | 71 |
Lavar Scott | 49 |
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 | 220 |
Toyota | 92 |
Ford | 77 |
Here is the same formula, but used on a team-vs-team basis:
Chartered Team Standings
JR Motorsports | 174 |
RCR | 157 |
Haas Factory | 127 |
Jordan Anderson | 122 |
Hendrick | 103 |
Viking | 99 |
Joe Gibbs | 92 |
Alpha Prime | 80 |
RSS Racing | 76 |
SS-Green Light | 75 |
Big Machine | 71 |
Young’s | 60 |
Sam Hunt | 57 |
Peterson | 50 |
AM Racing | 49 |
Hettinger | 47 |
Jeremy Clements | 44 |
DGM | 37 |
Barrett-Cope | 28 |
Joey Gase | 7 |
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 30th Career Win |
Jesse Love | Looking for his 20th Career Top 5 |
Taylor Gray | Looking for his 10th Career Top 5 |
Austin Hill | Looking for his 90th Career Top 10 |
Jeb Burton | Looking for his 50th Career Top 10 |
Harrison Burton | Looking for his 60th Career Top 10 |
Taylor Gray | Looking for his 20th Career Top 10 |
Here are the top 10 longest active winless streaks:
Winless Streaks
Jeremy Clements | 113 races |
Jeb Burton | 94 races |
Harrison Burton | 71 races |
Sammy Smith | 27 races |
Nick Sanchez | 20 races |
Sam Mayer | 15 races |
Brandon Jones | 9 races |
Taylor Gray | 5 races |
Jesse Love | 4 races |
Austin Hill | 3 races |
The race begins Saturday, March 14th at 5:30 pm EST (2:30 pm PST) – Enjoy the race everyone!
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