April 5, 2026, 11:24 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
The NASCAR O’Reilly Series competed at Rockingham Speedway, and it was a thrilling event. Corey Day and the No. 17 team for Hendrick Motorsports swept the first two stages; however, poor pit stops took them out of contention. Instead, it was a Joe Gibbs Racing driver who earned their first career O’Reilly Series victory.<\/p>\n
William Sawalich and the No. 18 team for Joe Gibbs Racing won the North Carolina Education Lottery 250 at Rockingham, earning their first victory of the 2026 O’Reilly Series season. Sawalich held off a hard-charging Brandon Jones after taking the lead on the final restarts.<\/p>\n
Brent Crews was in control of the race, but a baffling two-tire pit stop and a flat tire took him out of contention for his first NASCAR victory. Instead, Sawalich was perfect in the Final Stage, leading to the first of many victories for the No. 18 team throughout the 2026 NASCAR season.<\/p>\n
NASCAR results: O’Reilly Series race at Rockingham Speedway (April 2026)No. 18 William SawalichNo. 20 Brandon JonesNo. 7 Justin AllgaierNo. 88 Rajah CaruthNo. 1 Carson KvapilNo. 00 Sheldon CreedNo. 54 Taylor GrayNo. 99 Parker RetzlaffNo. 39 Ryan SiegNo. 17 Corey DayNo. 21 Austin HillNo. 8 Sammy SmithNo. 24 Harrison BurtonNo. 44 Brennan PooleNo. 45 Lavar ScottNo. 42 Nathan ByrdNo. 27 Jeb BurtonNo. 91 Alex LabbeNo. 92 Josh WilliamsNo. 5 J.J. YeleyNo. 32 Andrew PattersonNo. 02 Ryan EllisNo. 31 Blaine PerkinsNo. 96 Anthony AlfredoNo. 51 Jeremy ClementsNo. 19 Brent CrewsNo. 2 Jesse LoveNo. 26 Dean ThompsonNo. 0 Garrett SmithleeyNo. 55 Blake LothianNo. 35 Joey GaseNo. 33 Cleetus McFarlandNo. 87 Austin GreenNo. 48 Patrick StaropoliNo. 74 Dawson CramNo. 07 Josh BilickiNo. 28 Kyle SiegNo. 41 Sam MayerNeed a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 5, 2026, 11:24 p.m. ET The NASCAR O’Reilly Series competed at Rockingham Speedway, and it was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[159202,49,48,634,43461,82,161408,160874,160875,160878,159095,223590,159090,159089,159085],"class_list":{"0":"post-585366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-nascar","12":"tag-nc","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-sstssportsmotornascar","15":"tag-sstsnnascar","16":"tag-tagauto-racing","17":"tag-tagnascar","18":"tag-tagoverall-positive","19":"tag-tagrockingham","20":"tag-tagsport-scores-statistics","21":"tag-tagsports-news","22":"tag-typestory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585366","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=585366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}