Corey Day grabs one other NASCAR O’Reilly Sequence victory at Dover Motor Speedway on Saturday afternoon within the BetRivers 200.
DOVER, Del. – Twenty-year-old Californian Corey Day took the lead from veteran Justin Allgaier with 4 laps remaining to assert his second profession NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Components Sequence victory Saturday within the BetRivers 200 in his first Dover (Del.) Motor Speedway begin.
Corey Day Victory at Dover
Allgaier, a three-time winner already this season and the present championship chief, regarded poised so as to add one more trophy at Dover’s famed Monster Mile. Nonetheless, in the end Day was capable of run up excessive in opposition to the skin wall – he and Allgaier splitting Blake Lothian’s lapped automotive – with Day pulling forward of the three automobiles and driving away from Allgaier.
It was sufficient momentum to propel Day’s No. 17 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet to a 0.461-second victory over Allgaier, who led a race-high 71 of the 200 laps, and it solutions Day’s career-first victory on the collection’ largest monitor, Talladega (Ala.). Superspeedway got here solely three weeks in the past.
“Man, I hoped that’s how it might play out, I saved so laborious there early within the final run as soon as we placed on tires and the yellow got here out and I believed, awe, that is simply going to be a warning fest and it was all for nothing, however oh man, all of it simply labored out good,” stated an elated Day, who screamed congratulations to his crew on the cool-down lap. His “mentor” reigning NASCAR Cup Sequence champion Kyle Larson, sitting within the pit stand, was all smiles watching the end result.
“This one feels actually, actually good,” Day stated. “The Talladega one [win] was sudden at a superspeedway, however we earned this one.”
Allgaier acknowledged he was upset – maybe pissed off – with a lapped automotive enjoying such a vital position in deciding Saturday’s final result.
“Good educating second,” Allgaier stated after talking with Lothian on pit highway. “He type of made a transfer to inside, then again outdoors, and I simply didn’t know which lane he was going to go in. And sadly, it allowed the 17 (Day) to get to my outdoors.
“However hats off to Corey and that complete 17 crew. He was working me down there on the finish. Happy with our crew. It wasn’t the day we wished early on, however the crew labored actually laborious all day lengthy.
“Simply upset to stroll out of right here with a second after main that many laps on the finish, however hats off to Corey and everybody on that crew.”
The race featured 9 warning durations and loads of short-run technique.
Creed’s Haas teammate Sam Mayer completed third. Joe Gibbs Racing’s William Sawalich was fourth and Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Hill claimed fifth place – the perennial championship contender’s finest end since a runner-up displaying on the Austin highway course again in March.
JGR’s Brendan Jones gained the primary stage, and NASCAR Cup Sequence common Ross Chastain gained the second stage after pacing the sphere 4 totally different instances for a mixed 68 laps. His shot at a trophy ended simply previous the race’s midpoint when he and JGR’s Taylor Grey collided and spun out.
JR Motorsports’ Carson Kvapil completed sixth and prolonged the crew’s prime ten streak to an incredible 71 races. Ryan Sieg, Sammy Smith, and Anthony Alfredo rounded out the highest ten.
Already a series-best three-race winner this season, Allgaier’s effort Saturday boosted his championship factors benefit to an incredible 175 factors over Haas Manufacturing unit Staff’s Sheldon Creed, who completed 18th.
Up Subsequent
The O’Reilly Auto Components Sequence strikes to the 1.5-mile Charlotte Motor Speedway for the subsequent race. Saturday’s Charbroil 300 begins at 5 p.m. ET on the CW, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. NASCAR Cup Sequence full-time driver William Byron is the defending race winner.
