With 17 races remaining in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series season, JR Motorsports has a lot of work yet to do before a champion is crowned.
What the team has done in the first 16 races this season, however, is a very good start.
In those opening 16 events, JRM has won 10 of them (a .625 winning percentage) with five different drivers, and the victory total at the nominal halfway point of 2026 ranks third all-time on the list of most wins in a season by the team.
Justin Allgaier, the 2024 series champion and JRM’s all-time winningest driver with 29 victories, leads the way with four wins (Phoenix, Darlington, Martinsville and Nashville). Kyle Larson and Connor Zilisch have won twice each, while Shane Van Gisbergen and Ross Chastain have won once each during the streak.
Allgaier, in his 11th season with the team, has won at least one race every season since 2017. His best season, 2018, saw the Illinois driver win five times. With 17 races remaining, Allgaier is in excellent position to reset that mark as well.
Last year, JRM as a group won a team-record 17 races, but the 10th victory did not come until the 19th race of the season (July 12 at Sonoma). This season’s pace is more than a month ahead of the best season in company history.
Allgaier’s performance, alongside crew chief Andrew Overstreet and the No. 7 BRANDT Professional Agriculture team, has been dominant so far this season. In addition to the four wins, Allgaier has been running at the end of all but one race, notching 11 top-five and 13 top-10 finishes in the season’s first 16 races. He was involved in a late-race crash at Atlanta in the second race of the season and did not finish.
Carson Kvapil has had a solid season for JRM, splitting time in the No. 1 with Zilisch and running the No. 9 Chevrolet for the team as well. He has yet to score his first series victory, but with veteran crew chief Rodney Childers on the pit box, that could soon change.
The No. 88 HendrickCars.com team, which features Rajah Caruth as the main driver for crew chief Mardy Lindley as well as Hendrick Motorsports drivers Kyle Larson and William Byron, has contributed two wins (by Larson at Las Vegas and Texas) to the total.
Sammy Smith’s No. 8 Pilot Chevrolet has been solid with crew chief Cory Shea, posting five top-five and four top-10 finishes in the first 16 races while challenging for victories on a regular basis. Smith has posted third-place finishes at both COTA and Martinsville so far this season.
The No. 9 team, headed by crew chief Philip Bell, has made nine starts in the first 16 races, winning the team’s first start of the season at Circuit of the Americas with Shane van Gisbergen and the final race before the break with Ross Chastain at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
In the current point standings, Allgaier leads the way by a whopping 179 points over second place, with Kvapil seventh in the standings and only 19 short of fifth after 16 races. Smith sits eighth, 11 points behind Kvapil and 30 out of the top five. Caruth ranks 13th in the standings heading to the second half of the season, which is slated for June 11 at Pocono Raceway.