Taylor Gray wins eventful O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race at Kansas: The early bird got the victory on Saturday night. The first of the frontrunners to pit during the final 95-lap green-flag run in the Kansas Lottery 300, Taylor Gray grabbed the lead during the cycle and held off charging Sheldon Creed to score the second NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series victory of his career.(Read more)(4-18-2026)

By leading the final 48 laps, #54-Taylor Gray won the Kansas Lottery 300 O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race at Kansas Speedway. The win is his second career victory and his first at an intermediate venue.
#00-Sheldon Creed finished runner-up, but was best of the Dash 4 Cash drivers to earn a $100,000 bonus. #7-Justin Allgaier placed third, notching his seventh consecutive top-five finish. #2-Jesse Love and #19-Brent Crews rounded out the top five.
#88-William Byron placed sixth, with #0-Cole Custer, #20-Brandon Jones, #41-Sam Mayer and #39-Ryan Sieg completing the top 10.
#20-Jones won the first two stages and led a race-high 67 laps but had an uncontrolled tire during the final cycle of pit stops and lost track position.
There were 11 lead changes among eight drivers and seven cautions for 37 yellow flag laps.
The average speed of the race was: 116.946 mph.
See race details at: Race Results, Driver Points Standings, Owner Points Standings, Cumulative Report, Penalty Report.

Kansas Paint Schemes

Race Fast Facts – Kansas Speedway:
Taylor Gray won the Kansas Lottery 300, his second victory in 56 O’Reilly Series races.
This is his first victory and fourth top-10 finish in 2026.
This is his first victory and second top-10 finish in three races at Kansas Speedway.
Sheldon Creed (second) posted his fourth top-10 finish in five races at Kansas Speedway. It is his eighth top-10 finish in 2026.
Justin Allgaier (third) posted his 11th top-10 finish in 17 races at Kansas Speedway.
Brent Crews (fifth) was the highest finishing rookie.
Justin Allgaier leads the point standings by 131 points over Sheldon Creed.

O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Chase Standings after Kansas (Race 10 of 33):
1)#7-Justin Allgaier 520, +291
2)#00-Sheldon Creed 389, +160
3)#2-Jesse Love 371, +142
4)#17-Corey Day 344, +115
5)#20-Brandon Jones 324, +95
6)#8-Sammy Smith 310, +81
7)#1-Carson Kvapil 301, +72
8)#21-Austin Hill 296, +67
9)#54-Taylor Gray 294, +65
10)#18-William Sawalich 271, +42
11)#99-Parker Retzlaff 258, +29
12)#32-Rajah Caruth 254, +25
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13)#39-Ryan Sieg 229, -25
14)#41-Sam Mayer 225, -29
15)#44-Brennan Poole 199, -55
16)#19-Brent Crews 190, -64
See the Driver Points Standings and Owner Points Standings.

Race Updates:
Lap 200: #54-Gray holds on to win at Kansas. #00-Creed, #7-Allgaier, #2-Love, #19-Crews, #88-Byron, #0-Custer, #20-Jones, #41-Mayer and #39-Sieg round out the top 10.
Lap 195: #54-Gray holds the lead by .445 seconds with five laps remaining. #7-Allgaier is 1.2 seconds back in third.
Lap 193: #54-Gray is struggling to get by #44-Poole, allowing #00-Creed to get closer.
Lap 186: #00-Creed gained half a second last lap, cutting the lead to one-second. #7-Allgaier is under two seconds off the lead.
Lap 180: #00-Creed has chopped the deficit to 1.8 seconds behind #54-Gray. #7-Allgaier remains in third, 2.9 seconds off the race lead.
Lap 170: #7-Allgaier is the quickest car on the track in third position, over four seconds behind race leader #54-Gray.
Lap 164: #17-Day makes an unscheduled pit stop after pancaking the outside wall.
Lap 156: #54-Gray cycles to the lead, with a three-second lead on #00-Creed, who has four-lap fresher tires.
Lap 153: #39-Sieg spins onto pit road. #20-Jones makes a pass-through penalty for an uncontrolled tire.
Lap 150: #17-Day drops to pit road from the race lead.
Lap 148: #19-Crews, #0-Custer and #41-Mayer all hit pit road.
Lap 147: The two leaders of #00-Creed and #20-Jones pit for the final scheduled time.
Lap 146: #88-Byron and #51-Clements hit pit road.
Lap 145: #7-Allgaier pits for service as this green-flag cycle is in full swing. #18-Sawalich and #45-Scott are also on pit road.
Lap 144: #2-Love and #26-Thompson are the next cars to pit.
Lap 143: #54-Gray is the first of the leaders to pit from third position.
Lap 142: #28-Sieg dives to pit road after being out of fuel.
Lap 141: #17-Day has raced to seventh position, passing #88-Larson.
Lap 138: #20-Jones dives to the bottom of #54-Gray to take the runner-up spot, 1.4 seconds behind #00-Creed.
Lap 131: #17-Day has driven to ninth position after restarting in 28th place, last car on the lead lap.
Lap 127: #20-Jones takes third position from #7-Allgaier, 2.2 seconds behind race leader #00-Creed.
Lap 123: #39-Sieg has raced back to the top 10 after restarting outside the top 25.
Lap 113: #19-Crews has cracked the top five, passing #2-Love. Three Joe Gibbs Racing cars are inside the top five.
Lap 110: #00-Creed has jumped out to a lead of nearly one second. #54-Gray is driving away from #7-Allgaier and #20-Jones. #2-Love round out the top five. #28-Sieg has raced to eighth position.
Lap 105: #00-Creed gets shoved out to the lead on the restart. #54-Gray takes second spot. #20-Jones has slipped to fourth.
Lap 100: #17-Day got #8-Smith loose off Turn 2 and the two cars come together and spin down the backstretch. #39-Sieg got on the brakes hard and also spun to the inside.
Lap 98: #00-Creed takes the lead on the restart, squeezing through the middle of #20-Jones and #54-Gray.
Lap 94: #2-Love gained one position on pit road, with #54-Gray jumping two spots. #7-Allgaier dropped one spot to fourth.
Lap 90: #20-Jones wins Stage 2, his second stage victory of the season. #00-Creed, #7-Allgaier, #2-Love, #17-Day, #8-Smith, #54-Gray, #24-Burton, #41-Mayer and #26-Thompson earns stage points.
Lap 87: #88-Byron scraped the wall, allowing #8-Smith, #17-Day, #54-Gray and #24-Burton to get by for position.
Lap 84: #2-Love slides into third position, passing #88-Byron. #7-Allgaier is challenging both cars later in this run.
Lap 80: #00-Creed has gained two more positions, passing #2-Love and #88-Byron to move into second, 2.5 seconds behind #20-Jones.
Lap 77: #00-Creed has made a couple of passes in the last few laps to take fourth position. #7-Allgaier, #17-Day and #54-Gray are battling hard for sixth.
Lap 70: #20-Jones clears #2-Love for the race lead on the restart. #88-Byron gets to the inside of Love to take the runner-up spot. #8-Smith and #54-Gray round out the top five.
Lap 65: #96-Alfredo blew another right-front tire under caution while getting up to speed. The team is assessing damage to the right front.
Lap 64: Caution is out for #96-Alfredo blowing a right-front tire in the tri-oval of the frontstretch. #87-Green has brought his car to pit road and hopped out. #35-Lothian was off the pace with a brake rotor issue.
Lap 57: #20-Jones passes #88-Byron for the lead after on fresher tires. #2-Love, #54-Gray and #96-Alfredo round out the top five. #7-Allgaier is closing in on Alfredo.
Lap 55: #88-Byron takes the lead from #96-Alfredo with #20-Jones following through.
Lap 54: #96-Alfredo gets pushed to the lead by #88-Byron, while battling #27-Burton Both #2-Love and #20-Jones are dicing through the field quickly on fresh tires.
Lap 49: #96-Alfredo, #27-Burton, #88-Byron, #51-Clements, #0-Custer, #44-Poole, #24-Burton and #31-Perkins stay out to get track position. #2-Love wins the race off pit road with two tires. #20-Jones is the first car on four fresh tires. #54-Gray merged into #7-Allgaier off pit road.
Lap 45: #20-Jones wins Stage 1, his first stage victory of the season. #17-Day, #7-Allgaier, #2-Love, #96-Alfredo, #54-Gray, #00-Creed, #19-Creews, #27-Burton and #88-Byron earn stage points.
Lap 42: #20-Jones maintains the lead on the restart. #17-Day, #7-Allgaier and #54-Gray go three-wide for the runner-up spot.
Lap 40: Split strategy on pit road led by #2-Love in sixth position. #96-Alfredo, #88-Byron, #27-Burton also pit from inside the top 15.
Lap 37: #21-Hill spun while battling #2-Love for sixth position. #18-Sawalich clobbered Hill in the left-rear quarter panel.
Lap 27: #20-Jones keeps the lead on the front row. #54-Gray cycles into second position. #7-Allgaier, #17-Day and #19-Crews complete the top five.
Lap 23: #20-Jones takes the lead off pit road. #2-Allgaier dropped two spots to fourth. #18-Sawalich jumped six spots to sixth.
Lap 20: The scheduled competition caution is out. #17-Day leads #7-Allgaier, #20-Jones, #54-Gray, #2-Love, #39-Sieg, #41-Mayer, #88-Byron, #19-Crews and #21-Hill.
Lap 17: #17-Day slapped the outside wall while #7-Allgaier is closing in for the battle for the lead.
Lap 16: #20-Jones continues charging forward, taking third position from #54-Gray. #2-Love has cracked the top five, passing #39-Sieg.
Lap 13: #20-Jones takes fourth position from #39-Sieg. Jones has gained 10 positions since the start of the race.
Lap 10: #41-Mayer has jumped to seventh in the running order after taking the initial green flag in 19th position.
Lap 8: #17-Day holds the lead, gapping #7-Allgaier by a quarter of a second. #54-Gray, #39-Sieg and #20-Jones round out the top five.
Lap 5: #17-Day keeps the lead on the restart. #88-Byron was shuffled outside the top five.
After the safety crew flipped the car over, #1-Kvapil climbed out under his own power.
Lap 2: #88-Byron got into the left-rear quarter panel of #1-Kvapil off Turn 2 and was clipped by #99-Retzlaff, sending Kvapil tumbling down the backstretch. #5-Baldwin also got into the rear of #07-Bilicki who spun to the inside.
Lap 1: #17-Day jumps to the outside of #1-Kvapil through Turns 1 and 2 to take the lead from fourth starting position.
Prior the race going green, #0-Custer dipped to pit road with power steering issues.

Race Info:
Kansas Lottery 300
Broadcast: CW, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio
Distance: 200 laps / 300 miles
Stages: 45 / 90 / 200
Average time of race: 2:31:22
Pit road speed: 45 mph
Caution car speed: 55 mph
Fuel window: 62 laps

Cars to the rear: #00-Sheldon Creed (No. 00 – pre-event inspection penalty).

Pit-Stall Selections

All on-track activity for the Kansas Lottery 300 O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race at Kansas Speedway have been canceled with heavy weather in the area. The lineup will be set per the rulebook.
#1-Carson Kvapil will lead the field to the green flag, with #88-William Byron alongside on the front row. #7-Justin Allgaier, #00-Sheldon Creed and #19-Brent Crews are the rest of the top five.
#17-Corey Day, #18-William Sawalich, #99-Parker Retzlaff, #2-Jesse Love and #54-Taylor Gray fill out the rest of the top 10.
See the complete Kansas Starting Lineup.

Qualifying Order

Crew Rosters

Goodyear Tire Notes: Teams in both the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series will run familiar Goodyear Racing Eagle tire setups at Kansas Speedway this weekend. Goodyear introduced new right-side tires for both series at last year’s fall Kansas race, featuring construction changes aimed at increasing strategy options. The same tire setups return for this weekend’s event, and were more recently used by both series at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in March.

There are 37 drivers/teams on the entry list for the Kansas Lottery 300 O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race at Kansas Speedway. No cars will miss the race.
Notables: #5-Luke Baldwin, #32-Rajah Caruth, #35-Blake Lothian, #42-Nathan Byrd, #55-Joey Gase, #74-Dawson Cram, #88-William Byron, #91-Mason Maggio.
See the full Kansas Entry List.

Kansas At-Track Schedule

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Race rules and information: (Will be updated for 2026 as needed).

• Inspection Penalty Protocol
• Pit Road Penalties
• Pit Road Speeds
• Points Explanation
• Qualifying Procedures