The O’Reilly Series’ concrete king delivers again: Justin Allgaier wins Nashville

LEBANON, TENN. — Justin Allgaier wins the Sports Illustrated Resorts 250 at Nashville Superspeedway as he continues his concrete dominance in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series.

This is his fourth win of the season and his third total at the track. He now has 32 career series victories which gives him sole possession of sixth all-time in the O’Reilly Series.

The only driver in the field to win at the track in the series gets it done again in a race where the only yellow flags that flew were for the stage cautions.

For Justin, this is the earliest he has reached four wins in a season in his career. Even with his new crew chief, Andrew Overstreet, they have not missed a beat and so has the organization. This marks the tenth win of the season for JR Motorsports in only the 16th race of their season.

Now, seven of his 32 career wins come on concrete. Allgaier turns 40 in a week, but his racecraft has aged like fine wine.

He started 17th and climbed into the top ten by the end of the firs stage. Allgaier later went on to pass Jesse Love in the closing laps of the second stage for yet another stage win. He ended the longest run of the day by reeling rookie Brent Crews in and passing him for the win.

The regular season championship leader led 50 laps in his successful defense of his Nashville win.

This time, the predominantly red guitar he won will be his after he gave his daughters his previous two.

Top Ten Rundown

Brent Crews ran a great race but missed out on his maiden O’Reilly Series win in the Music City.

He led the third most laps, 45, after failing short in his competition with the adjustments the No. 7 team made on the final green flag stops.

From his first start this season until now, it feels like its only a matter of time before the teenager claims his first series win.

His teammate who claimed his own first series win at Rockingham a few weeks ago finished right behind him. William Sawalich continued to stack the points and extended his top five streak to three in his third-placed finish.

Sam Mayer finished fourth, and like his finish, he now has four straight top ten finishes at Nashville.

Brandon Jones bounced back after a disappointing Charlotte race in fifth as he claimed his best result at the track.

Corey Day returned to the concreate and placed sixth. Then Carson Kvapil returned to the No. 1 car for seventh.

Kyle Larson was the lone Cup Series competitor in the field and he looked rather human in the event. He ran in the backside of the top ten the entire race and finished eighth after he and crew chief Mardy Lindley could not figure the car out today.

Finally, Taylor Gray came home ninth and Sammy Smith rounded out the top ten in tenth. Both their finishes completed an all top ten event for their respective organizations.

Notable Events

Jesse Love looked like the driver to beat for much of the race. He led wire to wire in the first stage to win it from the pole.

He maintained his lead after the stage break and barely lost the stage sweep to Justin Allgaier late in the run.

Love returned to the lead after the final caution of the race but his day quickly turned sour from there. After leading a race-high 86 laps, Love ran into issues with the rear of his Richard Childress Racing No. 2.

He stretched his early final stage lead over Brent Crews to around two seconds before the times came tumbling down. He made an unscheduled final pit stop from fourth-place to add spacers to each of the rear tires which relegated his potential win to 16th.

His RCR teammates also suffered hardships during the Sports Illustrated Resorts 250. Austin Hill started alongside Love on the front row but lacked pure pace to maintain himself inside the top ten.

Hill and Kyle Larson got into a scuffle in the middle of the race and the handling of the No. 21 did not improve. He finished 11th.

Finally, Cleetus McFarland returned to the series for his second career O’Reilly Series start at Nashville. He started in the back from 38th and climbed inside the top 30 before going a lap down at the end of the first stage.

Cleetus tried his hardest to race Logan Bearden for the free pass position as they came around to take the white and green checkered flag. Ultimately, he lost out after sliding into the grass for his first spin of the event.

While McFarland ran mid-20 lap times during the stretch-runs he failed to climb higher than his car number in 33rd. He would spin one more time as he wheel-hopped his car into the pits during the lone green flag pit cycle and finished six laps down in 35th.

Below is the full results of the Sports Illustrated Resorts 250.

Full Results