After nine races in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series so far this season, it’s clear that JR Motorsports is keeping the pressure on other teams for the driver and manufacturer championships.
In the first nine races of the season, JRM has won six of them. Half of those wins came from Justin Allgaier and the No. 7 team, at Phoenix, Darlington and Martinsville. Shane van Gisbergen got it started by winning at Circuit of the Americas for Phillip Bell’s No. 9 team, while Kyle Larson did the trick at Las Vegas in the No. 88 for Mardy Lindley. Connor Zilisch dominated late in the race the last time out at Bristol in the No. 1, giving crew chief Rodney Childers his first NOAPS series win after a championship career in the NASCAR Cup Series.
As an aside, the order of finish at Bristol was JRM-heavy as well: behind Zilisch came Larson in second, Allgaier in fourth, Carson Kvapil in fifth and Sammy Smith 13th.
That’s a lot of winning after nine races, and there are still 24 events remaining in the 2026 season. Last year, the team combined to win 12 of the first 25 races, the benchmark so far for wins in a single season.
Allgaier, working with new crew chief Andrew Overstreet, has made the most hay among the JRM contingent, both by winning the three races and taking his eighth $100,000 Dash 4 Cash bonus last week at Bristol. That’s the most all-time in the series, and Allgaier is aiming at rounding that figure up to a cool $1 million by the time he’s done. He’ll have the chance to get $100,000 closer this weekend, and Kvapil will also get an opportunity to bank his first D4C bonus.
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