Corey Day captures his first NASCAR O’Reilly Sequence victory at Talladega Superspeedway on Saturday within the Ag-Professional 300. ‘
TALLADEGA, Ala. — Corey Day claimed the primary NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Components Sequence victory of his profession Saturday afternoon, driving to the yellow and checkered flags within the Ag-Professional 300 at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway – his No. 17 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet main solely the final lap to earn his first trophy in his first full-time season.
Corey Day: Victory at Talladega
The 20-year-old Californian dash automobile driver delivered the multi-time NASCAR Cup Sequence championship Hendrick group its first O’Reilly Auto Components 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 group on pit street Saturday.
“I certain as heck didn’t assume it [first win] could be at a superspeedway,’’ mentioned a grinning Day, who additionally gained a dash automobile race in Nebraska earlier this week. “My 17 guys simply constructed a rocket ship.
“I really feel like we’ve been shut, had 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.’’
Sheldon Creed Earns Sprint 4 Money Bonus
Rookie Brent Crews completed a career-best runner-up within the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, with Haas Manufacturing unit Staff driver Sheldon Creed scoring third in a typical picture finish-type conclusion on the two.66-mile Talladega excessive banks. Creed’s work was adequate 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 may have been in a type of crashes on the finish. Attending to take dwelling the Sprint 4 Money is actually particular, and thank the blokes within the store for that.’’
JR Motorsports driver Sammy Smith was fourth within the No. 8 Chevrolet, extending the group’s top-ten streak to 68 races, second-best all-time within the sequence. Proprietor-driver Jeremy Clements was fifth within the South Carolina-based No. 51 Chevrolet for the Jeremy Clements Racing group, incomes the impartial group’s finest displaying since 2022.
Dean Thompson, Jesse Love, Brandon Jones, Parker Retzlaff, and Austin Inexperienced rounded out the highest ten, with J.J. Yeley incomes the one Ford within the 38-car discipline a formidable Eleventh-place end.
Ag-Professional 300 Excessive and Low Lights
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 sphere cut up his automobile excessive and low on observe, with Creed shifting into the lead with 5 laps remaining.
Creed’s Haas Manufacturing unit Staff 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 in the course of the remaining frantic laps of competitors shuffled the entrance pack, slamming Mayer’s No. 41 Chevy and two-time former winner Jeb Burton’s No. 27 Jordan Anderson Chevrolet into the surface wall.
Mayer settled for twenty fifth regardless of main thrice 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 have been unable to recuperate from a mid-race inexperienced flag penalty for “impeding” automobiles on observe in the course of the remaining stage of racing.
The 4 warning intervals have been the fewest since 2022. The 38 lead adjustments have been probably the most on the observe since 2013.
Regardless of recording the bottom end of the season (twenty third), Allgaier retains the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Components Sequence championship lead by 105 factors over Creed.
Jesse Love is third within the standings, adopted by Corey Day and Brandon Jones to spherical out the highest 5.
Subsequent Up
The sequence strikes to Texas Motor Speedway for subsequent Saturday’s race. The Andy’s Frozen Custard 340 begins at 3:30 p.m. ET on the CW, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. Reigning NASCAR Cup Sequence champion Kyle Larson is the defending race winner.
Day, Crews, Creed and Smith shall be eligible for the $100,000 Sprint 4 Money award subsequent week at Texas Motor Speedway.
