Kyle Larson wins NASCAR O'Reilly race at Las Vegas, extending JRM streak

Shane van Gisbergen took JR Motorsports to Victory Lane at COTA, driving the #9. One week later, Justin Allgaier in the #7 earned JRM a win at Phoenix, and a week after that, two-time NASCAR Cup champion Kyle Larson drove the #88 to Victory Lane for the Earnhardt-owned team.

This is Larson’s 18th career victory in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series (NOAPS), coming in his first start of the 2026 season.

“I finally remembered what he (son Cooper) told me and decided to go faster,” said Larson after climbing from the car. My car was not handling the best, at all. I was just super tight, loaded, and I couldn’t get any speed through the corners and I was just getting ate up on restarts, or really, the whole run. But that last restart, we had some guys stay out and I had a good launch, was able to get to the middle with some clean air … I was a bit nervous. I knew the #00 [Creed] and Briscoe were ripping the top. I tried it in (Turns) 1 and 2 once and I didn’t feel good out there at all. Glad we were able to pick our way through traffic.”

He beat another Cup regular to the checkered flag, finishing a couple of seconds ahead of Chase Briscoe in the #19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. Sheldon Creed, Justin Allgaier, and Sammy Smith filled out the rest of the top five. The remainder of the top ten featured Jesse Love, Connor Zilisch, Corey Day, William Sawalich, and Austin Hill.

Stages 1 and 2

Mayer led the race from pole position, while Larson quickly lost several spots from the front row due to a slow start.

The first caution flew on Lap 2 as Zilisch got up into Clements in a two-car incident. There was another early-race incident in the middle of the field that soon followed, but the rest of the stage after that ran green.

Mayer remained in control, but Allgaier eventually ran him down and took the race lead. He went on to win Stage 2, followed by Mayer, Briscoe, Tay. Gray, Creed, Love, Larson, Day, Custer, B. Jones.

Briscoe had made an impressive charge through the field after starting 23rd, running far higher than most of the field.

During the stage break, Mayer’s car suddenly lost power and he needed to be pushed back to the pits with a fuel pickup issue. He lost six laps while the #41 Haas team worked on the car.

Love won the race off pit road and led the way for the start of Stage 2, but Allgaier soon regained control of the race. He eventually had to deal with a charging Briscoe, who was now running right against the wall, but ran out of time.

Allgaier swept the stages, and at the end of Stage 2, he was followed by Briscoe, Tay. Gray, Love, Larson, Creed, Day, Zilisch, A. Hill, Kvapil

Stage 3

Once again, Love took the lead on pit road with an impressively quick stop.

Briscoe got into the outside wall, and fell off the pace. He lost a lot of track position as he desperately tried to get back to pit road, initially missing it.

At the front, Allgaier and Love swapped the lead back-and-forth with Love ultimately prevailing.

A caution for an incident in the back of the field resulted in the entire pack come back down pit road for fresh tires and a full load of fuel. However, this stop would prove costly for Love, as his actual crew chief (Danny Stockman) fell over the pit wall trying to grab a tire, resulting in an end-of-line penalty.

It was now Gray leading the race, with Zilisch back up to second. Unfortunately, he smacked the wall on the restart, falling back a few spots before the next caution for a two-car spin on the frontstretch.

It was a split decision to pit, and Love was among those who came down pit road. He did save his final set of tires, but the fuel ensured he could make it to the finish without issue. Others did opt to take their final set, including Briscoe.

With 60 to go, Gray lost the lead to rookie driver Day, but he wasn’t able to get away. Gray tried to get back to his inside a few laps later, but a bump on corner entry from Creed sent Gray spinning up the track and slamming the wall. He was livid, and drove his wounded #54 JGR Toyota back up to Creed under caution, showing his displeasure.

On the restart, a small group of cars led by Alfredo and Jones stayed out. Larson quickly surged into the race lead, followed by his protege, Day. Smith eventually moved up to second, but he was unable to challenge Larson for the lead as laps ticked away.

Creed eventually moved into second, and then Briscoe passed him, but while they battled, Larson drove away. Briscoe tried his best to run down his fellow Cup driver, but couldn’t make a dent in Larson’s multi-second lead as the race reached its conclusion.

Las Vegas NOAPS Results

1	88	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	200	2:34’04.908			47
2	19	Chase Briscoe	Toyota	200	2:34’07.465	2.557	2.557	2
3	00	Sheldon Creed	Chevrolet	200	2:34’11.063	6.155	3.598	1
4	7	Justin Allgaier	Chevrolet	200	2:34’11.272	6.364	0.209	48
5	8	Sammy Smith	Chevrolet	200	2:34’14.032	9.124	2.760
6	2	Jesse Love	Chevrolet	200	2:34’14.588	9.680	0.556	36
7	1	Connor Zilisch	Chevrolet	200	2:34’15.392	10.484	0.804
8	17	Corey Day	Chevrolet	200	2:34’16.966	12.058	1.574	9
9	18	William Sawalich	Toyota	200	2:34’17.854	12.946	0.888
10	21	Austin Hill	Chevrolet	200	2:34’19.877	14.969	2.023
11	9	Carson Kvapil	Chevrolet	200	2:34’22.139	17.231	2.262
12	99	Parker Retzlaff	Chevrolet	200	2:34’25.004	20.096	2.865
13	20	Brandon Jones	Toyota	200	2:34’26.651	21.743	1.647	4
14	28	Kyle Sieg	Chevrolet	200	2:34’27.636	22.728	0.985
15	52	Daniel Dye	Ford	200	2:34’30.686	25.778	3.050
16	92	Josh Williams	Chevrolet	200	2:34’31.645	26.737	0.959
17	24	Harrison Burton	Toyota	200	2:34’32.033	27.125	0.388
18	0	Cole Custer	Chevrolet	200	2:34’34.910	30.002	2.877
19	32	Rajah Caruth	Chevrolet	200	2:34’36.170	31.262	1.260
20	44	Brennan Poole	Chevrolet	199	2:34’05.366	1 Lap	1 Lap
21	48	Patrick Staropoli	Chevrolet	199	2:34’10.721	1 Lap	5.355
22	31	Blaine Perkins	Chevrolet	199	2:34’13.643	1 Lap	2.922
23	07	Josh Bilicki	Chevrolet	199	2:34’17.598	1 Lap	3.955
24	51	Jeremy Clements	Chevrolet	199	2:34’19.234	1 Lap	1.636
25	87	Austin Green	Chevrolet	199	2:34’19.588	1 Lap	0.354
26	45	Lavar Scott	Chevrolet	199	2:34’23.697	1 Lap	4.109
27	27	Jeb Burton	Chevrolet	199	2:34’28.981	1 Lap	5.284
28	91	Mason Maggio	Chevrolet	199	2:34’34.171	1 Lap	5.190
29	55	Joey Gase	Chevrolet	199	2:34’37.791	1 Lap	3.620
30	02	Ryan Ellis	Chevrolet	198	2:34’07.633	2 Laps	1 Lap
31	26	Dean Thompson	Toyota	198	2:34’12.775	2 Laps	5.142
32	42	Nathan Byrd	Chevrolet	198	2:34’13.472	2 Laps	0.697
33	39	Ryan Sieg	Chevrolet	197	2:34’38.145	3 Laps	1 Lap
34	96	Anthony Alfredo	Chevrolet	197	2:37’32.917	3 Laps	2’54.772
35	41	Sam Mayer	Chevrolet	196	2:34’28.248	4 Laps	1 Lap	32
36	5	Chandler Smith	Ford	184	2:26’11.599	16 Laps	12 Laps		Ignition
37	54	Taylor Gray	Toyota	148	2:00’36.016	52 Laps	36 Laps	21	Accident
38	25	Nicholas Sanchez	Ford	141	2:13’30.279	59 Laps	7 Laps		Fuel pump