Brandon Jones wins O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 at Homestead; Allgaier Champion

HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Brandon Jones wins the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 from Homestead-Miami Speedway.

This is his second win of the season and his ninth of his career.

Jones is known for his speed on intermediates. Now over half of his career wins have occurred on track type including his other victory earlier this season at Chicagoland.

The No. 20 team ran inside the top ten throughout the race, but it was a caution that occurred during the final pit cycle that propelled him to the front.

After a ten minute red flag, Jones restarted as the leader and was uickly passed by title-hopeful Carson Kvapil.

Jones never gave up. He allowed his tires to equalize with the leader and eventually found his way around the struggling Kvapil with 14 laps remaining to leave 2026 a winner once more.

Allgaier’s Best 7th Ever

Justin Allgaer entered the O’Reilly Series season finale as the Chase leader ahead of four other eligible drivers. His 22-point cushion proved to be comfortable enough as Allgaier never out-drove his equipment.

Allgaier started the race from 11th and found himself inside the top ten in the opening few laps. From there he was able to outlast a tire going flat with two laps remaining in the stage for seventh.

The first true scare to his championship lead tonight was over but not done.

In the second stage, Allgaier found more speed to jump to fourth. With a potential victory for Jesse Love, the No. 7 team still had to compete.

Midway through the run, another scary moment was dealt to them. Just before the final green flag pit cycle, another right-rear tire went flat. That forced him to pit a few laps earlier than the team wanted to.

But, yet again, another scare that was dealt with before it became a disaster. His early pit forced counter pits from the other championship eligible drivers but the aforementioned red flag shuffled the field.

Allgaier would pit under the following caution period for fresh tires. He restarted well and ran as high as fourth before the regular season champion nursed the car home to his best ever seventh-placed result.

In doing so, He won his second personal and owners championship.

Words from the Champion

“Means more than you’ll ever know,” Allgaier opened his remarks with.

“It’s obviously not the finish we wanted tonight. Wanted to be in victory lane. But this team never quits. The effort, the time they put in. The pit crew, phenomenal job.”

“The first one was for me. The first one I really enjoyed. This one is for all these men and women standing back here. They have worked their tail off.”

“These two (his two daughters), my wife, my parents, everybody you mentioned, it means so much. Congrats to Kaden last night, obviously he did a great job. Congrats to all the guys in the Chase this year. It was super fun.”

Tonight also marked the fifth championship for JRM as well and Allgaier gave some love to his crew.

“Really proud of our whole team. Everybody knows Brandt and our culture at Chevrolet. Andrew Overstreet, first championship as a crew chief. That’s really cool for him. Just all of our partners.”

The 40-year-old becomes the tenth driver with multiple titles in the series and the oldest champion since 1988 when Tommy Ellis won at 41-years-old.

The Top Ten

Carson Kvapil came just short of his fourth win of the season in South Florida. Kvapil led late but was unable to save enough rubber on his tires to hold off Jones in the closing laps for the win.

He finishes the season third in the chase after his second-place result.

Brent Crews wins the Sunoco Rookie of the Year award after he crossed the finish line in third. Crews just missed out on the drivers Chase but was in the Owners Chase with his No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota team.

Jesse Love comes up three positions short of his defending his title. He closes out his full-time O’Reilly Series career with fourth at the intermediate.

Parker Retzlaff had top ten speed all day and surged late to secure his career-best fifth top-five finish of the season in fifth.

Then, Sheldon Creed led a race-high 99 laps and had the fastest lap of the event. He entered the race eligible for the title and finishes sixth with a blown tire right at the finish line which truly embodied his feelings late in the event.

Champion Justin Allgaier finished seventh with Austin Hill behind in eighth.

Sam Mayer earned his tenth and 11th career stage victories in his first career stage sweep. The dominant car of the day was forced to pit with 12 laps remaining in the race with a tire down to finish ninth.

Finally, William Sawalich rounded out the top ten from tenth for the final race of the season.

Notable Results

Corey Day entered the race with a chance at the title, but he would barely have a true chance to win it.

On lap 8, an incident with Rajah Caruth resulted in heavy contact with the right side on the wall. Day cleared himself over Caruth heading into turn three on the backstretch and made an unforced error a driver just cannot make in a title race.

He rejoined later in the stage, 17 laps down to finish 25 laps down in 34th.

Andrew Patterson was the driver that spun during the final pit cycle with 57 laps remaining which gave the whole field its first truly dramatic moment of the night.

The huge wreck left barrel fragments and sand everywhere which threw out the red flag. Patterson would make repairs and finish five laps down in 31st.

Below is the full results and final Chase standings after the O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 from Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Full Results & Final Chase Standings