The NASCAR Cup Series heads to the 1.5-mile oval of Las Vegas Motor Speedway this weekend for the fifth race of the 2026 regular season.

Last Sunday at Phoenix Raceway, Kaulig Racing drivers AJ Allmendinger and Ty Dillon finished 19th and 26th, respectively, but the results only told part of the story. Allmendinger, who raced as high as ninth, ran in 12th and Dillon, who made the third most green flag passes in the race, 19th with 43 laps to go. But a lack of fresh tires for Allmendinger and an accident caused by another driver that collected Dillon hindered the finishes.

Allmendinger is now 13th in the standings, and Dillon 21st. That’s especially impressive since Kaulig Racing is the only organization competing in NASCAR’s premier series without technical support or an alliance with another Cup Series team.

The Las Vegas race marks Camper’s Inn RV’s debut as a primary sponsor on Dillon’s No. 10 car, and it is the first race U-Save colors will adorn the No. 16 entry for Allmendinger.

FS1 will broadcast the Las Vegas race at 4 p.m. ET on Sunday.

Las Vegas 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Results: In October, Allmendinger started 20th and finished 19th at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. In March, he started 18th and finished 8th.

Las Vegas Career: In 15 NASCAR Cup Series starts at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Allmendinger has three top-10 finishes and his best finish is sixth (3/8/2015). In the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series, he has two wins (3/6/2021 and 10/19/2024), two pole awards, two top-five and five top-10 finishes at the 1.5-mile tri-oval.

Season so Far: Allmendinger finished 19th in the most recent NASCAR Cup Series race at Phoenix Raceway. At Circuit of the Americas, Allmendinger posted a 9th-place finish; his best finish of the season. He finished 12th at EchoPark Speedway in Hampton, Ga. and 19th in the Daytona 500.

AJ at Kaulig Racing: AJ Allmendinger began his 18th full-time season in the NASCAR Cup Series at Daytona International Speedway. It marks his fifth season with Kaulig Racing’s NASCAR Cup Series program.

Career: Allmendinger is a three-time NASCAR Cup Series winner and owns 22 top-five, 88 top-10 finishes and five pole awards in the division. This year he will make his 500th NASCAR Cup Series start at Sonoma Raceway. He is an 18-time winner in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series.

Crew Chief: Trent Owens joined Kaulig Racing in January 2022. The Darlington, S.C., native became Allmendinger’s NASCAR Cup Series crew chief in 2025. Owens has 20 years of experience in NASCAR and has won in all three of NASCAR’s top series in a crew chief role.

Kaulig Racing: The Matt Kaulig team owns two NASCAR Cup Series victories and 27 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series victories.

AJ Allmendinger:

You have a pair of wins in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and have ran well there in the NASCAR Cup Series. What are your expectations heading into this weekend?

“I think Las Vegas Motor Speedway has probably always been our best mile-and-a-half racetrack, along with Homestead-Miami Speedway. It’s a really fast track. In Turns 1 and 2, you’ve got to get through the bumps, and in Turns 3 and 4, depending on how warm it is, it can get really slick. It’s a track where we have good notes and a setup we can rely on from the past. Hopefully, we can go there and, as always, unload super quick, only have to make small adjustments, and put together another solid race.”

Do you think you got off to a good start this season?

“This time last year, I think I had a 41st, a 14th, and a 30th-place finish with no stage points, and we were around 30th in points. So at least this year we got off to a good start. There’s still a long way to go. We headed into Phoenix last weekend with a lot of positive energy, but we knew it’s our worst racetrack. We’ll find out what we really have over the next five or six weeks and where we’re truly at as an organization. When it comes to the points, sometimes you just have to race smart.”

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Season so Far: Dillon finished 14th in the Daytona 500, 16th at Atlanta, 16th at COTA – a career best at the track – and 26th at Phoenix. He is 21st in points.

Las Vegas 2025 & Career: Dillon finished 21st in the spring race and 37th in the Fall race. He finished 10th in 2020 on the 1.5-mile tri-oval.

NASCAR Career: Dillon owns a career-best third-place finish at Talladega Superspeedway in the fall 2020 race. He has three truck series wins (Atlanta in 2012, Kentucky and Texas in 2013) and a NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series victory at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2014.

Crew Chief: Andrew Dickeson, 43, a native of Melbourne, Australia, joined Kaulig Racing before the 2025 season after years in Australian racing and as an engineer at Richard Childress Racing.

2025 NASCAR In-Season Challenge: Dillon authored one of the greatest “Cinderella” stories in NASCAR history last year. He entered the 32-driver bracket as the No. 32 seed — the lowest possible — and went on a miraculous run, defeating Denny Hamlin, Brad Keselowski, Alex Bowman and John Hunter Nemechek before falling to Ty Gibbs in the championship round, just short of the $1 million prize. Throughout the competition on social media, Dillon jokingly called out fans of the drivers he beat, posting: “I beat your favorite driver.”

The 2026 NASCAR In-Season Tournament seeds lock in after the June 14 race at Pocono Raceway, with competition featuring the TNT-broadcast races at Sonoma, Chicagoland, Atlanta, North Wilkesboro and Indianapolis.

Ty Dillon:

Thoughts on Las Vegas Motor Speedway?

“First of all, Las Vegas Motor Speedway is one of my favorite places to race. I’ve had some ups and downs. I had some really good runs there, and some days I wish we hadn’t even gone to the racetrack. So, it’s one of those places that I wouldn’t say I’ve had the most consistent results. But you know, I feel like in the Spring last year we had a good day, but the Fall wasn’t really what we wanted. So, hopefully, we find the right balance, but we’ve got great momentum going there this year, and I feel like (teammate) AJ (Allmendinger) is really strong there, so I’m going to rely a little bit on AJ’s feel and notes, and lean on my teammate for that one, and hopefully, we continue with this hot start.”

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