{"id":576556,"date":"2026-04-02T03:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/576556\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T03:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:33:08","slug":"nascar-oreilly-series-media-advance-rockingham-speedway-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/576556\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Series Media Advance: Rockingham &#8211; Speedway Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>17 COREY DAY<\/p>\n<p>Age: 20 (Nov.\u00a028, 2005)<br \/>Hometown: Clovis, California<br \/>Last Finish: 2nd (Martinsville)<br \/>Crew Chief: Adam Wall<br \/>Standings: 7th<\/p>\n<p>Corey Day earned the best finish of his NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Series career last weekend, finishing second at Martinsville Speedway.\u00a0The Clovis, California, native currently holds the longest active top-10 streak in the NOAPS this season with six.\u00a0Through seven races, the three drivers with the most top-10 finishes, including Day, all compete with Hendrick Motorsports engines.\u00a0The 20-year old\u2019s current average finish of 8.7 ranks second all-time among full-time Hendrick Motorsports drivers in the NOAPS\u00a0through the first seven races of a season behind only Jack Sprague in 2002 (7.3).\u00a0Day will make his first NOAPS\u00a0start at Rockingham Speedway\u00a0this Saturday after participating in a pair of tests, one in February 2026 and the other in January 2025. He also made a Rockingham start in the\u00a0CRAFTSMAN Truck Series last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Corey Day, driver of the No. 17 Chevrolet, on momentum heading into Rockingham Speedway:\u00a0\u201cRockingham will be an exciting track for me, especially following my run at Martinsville. I ran in [the CRAFTSMAN Truck Series]\u00a0there last year and in the [NASCAR] O\u2019Reilly [Series]\u00a0car for a test, so I feel like I have a good understanding of the track. Really happy with the way we\u2019ve been running and looking forward to keeping it up this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hendrick Motorsports PR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"17 COREY DAY Age: 20 (Nov.\u00a028, 2005)Hometown: Clovis, CaliforniaLast Finish: 2nd (Martinsville)Crew Chief: Adam WallStandings: 7th Corey Day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,7574,718,20827,4384,26793,12716,634,721,722,82],"class_list":["post-576556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chevrolet","tag-craftsman-truck-series","tag-crew-chief","tag-hendrick-motorsports","tag-martinsville-speedway","tag-motorsports","tag-nascar","tag-series","tag-speedway","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}