Justin Allgaier left Pocono Raceway with his fifth win of the year in the O'Reilly Auto Parts Series and a 250‑point margin over second‑place Jesse Love, who retired on the opening lap after a multi‑car crash. The MillerTech 250, held Saturday on the triangular Pennsylvania oval, featured 10 caution flags, four of them in the opening 25‑lap stage alone, and a seven‑minute red‑flag stoppage.

Allgaier started fourth, led 35 of the 100 laps and sealed the race on a restart with two laps to go. William Byron, his teammate at JR Motorsports, pushed the Chevrolet number 7 forward and gave him the margin needed to cross the finish line 607 thousandths ahead of Brent Crews from Joe Gibbs Racing. Crews passed Byron on the last corner of the last lap and relegated him to third.

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Sam Mayer of Haas Factory Team was the most persistent challenger during the second half of the race. He shared the front row with Allgaier on the three final restarts, and a three‑wide attempt with Sheldon Creed cost him momentum on the final restart. Mayer finished fourth and Creed fifth. Anthony Alfredo, Rajah Caruth, Brandon Jones, Connor Zilisch and Carson Kvapil completed the top ten. Caruth advanced 19 positions from 26th on the grid.

Taylor Gray won the first stage and Crews took the second, but the final part was a direct duel between Allgaier and Mayer, who swapped the lead several times within a single lap. The high number of interruptions prevented anyone from establishing a sustained pace.

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Love was caught in the first incident of the day and completed only one lap. His retirement leaves the standings with a margin that no other competitor had achieved at this point in the season over the past three years. Allgaier has 842 points to Love's 592. Corey Day, with two wins, is third with 575.

The win at Pocono was a long‑awaited one. Allgaier now has victories at 21 different tracks and equals his personal best of five wins in a single year, the same total he achieved in 2024 when he won the championship.

Jeremy Clements led one lap and finished 16th, tying Kenny Wallace for the most starts in the history of the category with 547. Next week in San Diego, Clements will become the sole holder of that record.

MillerTech Battery 250 2026

Pos	Nº	driver	team	brand	gap
1	#7	Justin Allgaier	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	-
2	#19	Brent Crews #	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	+0.61s
3	#88	William Byron(i)	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	+0.65s
4	#41	Sam Mayer	Haas Factory Team	Chevrolet	+1.81s
5	#00	Sheldon Creed	Haas Factory Team	Chevrolet	+2.74s
6	#96	Anthony Alfredo	Viking Motorsports	Chevrolet	+2.91s
7	#32	Rajah Caruth	Jordan Anderson Racing Bommarito Autosport	Chevrolet	+3.12s
8	#20	Brandon Jones	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	+3.31s
9	#1	Connor Zilisch(i)	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	+3.57s
10	#9	Carson Kvapil	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	+4.56s
11	#24	Harrison Burton	Sam Hunt Racing	Toyota	+4.71s
12	#0	Cole Custer(i)	SS GreenLight Racing	Chevrolet	+4.79s
13	#26	Dean Thompson	Sam Hunt Racing	Toyota	+4.86s
14	#21	Austin Hill	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	+4.97s
15	#99	Parker Retzlaff	Viking Motorsports	Chevrolet	+5.07s
16	#51	Jeremy Clements	Jeremy Clements Racing	Chevrolet	+5.15s
17	#54	Taylor Gray	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	+5.18s
18	#44	Brennan Poole	Alpha Prime Racing	Chevrolet	+5.20s
19	#8	Sammy Smith	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	+5.32s
20	#31	Blaine Perkins	Jordan Anderson Racing Bommarito Autosport	Chevrolet	+6.01s
21	#18	William Sawalich	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	+6.21s
22	#07	Josh Bilicki	SS GreenLight Racing	Chevrolet	+6.24s
23	#87	Nick Sanchez	Peterson Racing Group	Chevrolet	+6.37s
24	#02	Ryan Ellis	Young's Motorsports	Chevrolet	+6.57s
25	#48	Patrick Staropoli #	Big Machine Racing	Chevrolet	+6.73s
26	#39	Ryan Sieg	RSS Racing	Chevrolet	+6.85s
27	#35	Carson Ware	Joey Gase Motorsports	Chevrolet	+13.37s
28	#27	Jeb Burton	Jordan Anderson Racing Bommarito Autosport	Chevrolet	+7 vueltas
29	#45	Lavar Scott #	Alpha Prime Racing	Chevrolet	+7 vueltas
30	#91	Dexter Bean	DGM Racing x JIM	Chevrolet	+7 vueltas
31	#38	Patrick Emerling(i)	RSS Racing	Chevrolet	+19 vueltas
32	#28	Kyle Sieg	RSS Racing	Chevrolet	+50 vueltas
33	#92	Leland Honeyman Jr.(i)	DGM Racing x JIM	Chevrolet	+64 vueltas
34	#53	Natalie Decker(i)	Joey Gase Motorsports	Toyota	+83 vueltas
35	#42	Nathan Byrd	Young's Motorsports	Chevrolet	+93 vueltas
36	#55	Joey Gase	Joey Gase Motorsports	Ford	+97 vueltas
37	#2	Jesse Love	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	+99 vueltas
38	#17	Corey Day	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	+100 vueltas