Race recap
Austin Hill controls the O'Reilly opener at Daytona
How Austin Hill won the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series at Daytona
Austin Hill won the first O'Reilly Auto Parts Series points race of 2026 from pole, sweeping both stages, leading 78 of 120 laps and beating Justin Allgaier by 0.081 seconds.
The decisive moment
After falling to 12th during the final pit sequence, Hill used the middle lane to recover and survived three restarts in the last 12 laps, blocking Allgaier on the final two-lap run.
What the result means
It was Hill's fourth Daytona season-opener win in five years, his 15th series victory and his 11th on a drafting track; Richard Childress Racing won the event for a fifth straight year.
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