Starting from 14th place Car 9 Ross Chastain Carolina Carports Chevrolet won the Charbroil 300, his 3rd win in 220 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series races. This is his 1st win & 5th Top 10 finish in 2026. This is his 1st win & 2nd Top 10 finish in 12 races at Charlotte Motor Speedway. 2nd Place Car 2 Jesse Love Whelen Chevrolet, started from 17th place posted his 1st Top 10 finish in 3 races at Charlotte Motor Speedway. It is his 10th Top 10 finish in 2026. 3rd Place Car 21 Austin Hill Global Industrial Chevrolet, started from 6th place posted his 3rd Top 10 finish in 6 races at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
4th Place Car 18 William Sawalich Starkey Toyota, started from 7th place followed by 5th place Car 17 Corey Day HendrickCars.com Chevrolet, started from 2nd place. 6th Place Car 1 Connor Zilisch Registix Chevrolet, started from 5th place followed by 7th place Car 39 Ryan Sieg SciAps Chevrolet, started from 9th place. 8th Place Car 0 Cole Custer Sysco Chevrolet, started from 29th place followed by 9th place Car 91 Carson Kvapil Clarience Technologies Chevrolet, started from 24th place. Lastly in the Top 10 was Car 88 Rajah Caruth HendrickCars.com Chevrolet, in 10th place, started from 10th place. Lavar Scott (17th) was the highest finishing rookie. Justin Allgaier leads the point standings by 145 points over Jesse Love.
The race had 6 Cautions for 54 Laps: 1st Caution on lap 3 for #24 spin turn 4. 2nd Caution on lap 27 for Competition caution [Red Flag: Lap 34, 4:21:59]. 3rd Caution on lap 47 for Stage 1 Completion. 4th Caution on lap 53 for #19, 20, 24 Crash in turn 2. 5th Caution on lap 62 for #41 Crash in turn 2. 6th Caution on lap 74 for Possible fluid on the track.
The race had 14 Lead Changes among 7 drivers; J. Allgaier 1; S. Mayer 2-13; J. Allgaier 14-39; C. Zilisch(i) 40; J. Allgaier 41; C. Zilisch(i) 42-47; J. Allgaier 48; B. Perkins 49-51; J. Allgaier 52-58; A. Hill 59; R. Chastain(i) 60-66; J. Love 67-68; R. Chastain(i) 69; J. Love 70-71; R. Chastain(i) 72-91.
Stages:
Stage 1 Top 10: 1, 7, 9, 17, 41, 2, 20, 88, 19, 00
Stage 2 Top 10: 9, 2, 21, 18, 17, 1, 39, 0, 91, 88