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The O'Reilly Auto Parts Series: Complete Guide to NASCAR's Second-Tier National Series

Grand National Today’s guide to the 2026 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series, including the 33-race schedule, Daytona field and nine-race Chase.

What Is the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series?

The NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series is NASCAR’s second-tier national touring series. It carried the Xfinity Series name through 2025 and adopted the O’Reilly Auto Parts title in 2026.

The series combines full-time championship teams, developing drivers, veteran series regulars and event-specific entries. A driver can compete for more than one organization during a season, so Grand National Today stores team/car assignments separately rather than forcing one team onto a driver’s entire year.

2026 Championship Structure

The 2026 season contains 33 races:

  • Races 1–24: regular season
  • Race 24: Daytona International Speedway on August 28
  • Races 25–33: the nine-race Chase
  • Chase field: 12 drivers, frozen from the official post-Daytona driver-points source
  • Championship finale: Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 7

The Daytona preliminary entry list verifies 39 entries, including 38 named drivers and one TBA driver in the Young’s Motorsports No. 42. Entry-list participation does not by itself establish Chase eligibility.

Chase Tracks

The Chase visits Darlington Raceway, World Wide Technology Raceway, Bristol Motor Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Phoenix Raceway, Talladega Superspeedway, Martinsville Speedway and Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Charlotte Motor Speedway’s current event information places the 2026 O’Reilly race on the 1.5-mile oval. Older NASCAR schedule material still carries a Roval label, so the current track announcement controls the configuration while the title discrepancy remains documented for monitoring.

Data Standards

Grand National Today uses:

  • Official NASCAR Statistics entry lists, results and driver-points documents
  • Event-specific team/car assignments
  • Canonical driver, team and venue entities
  • Reciprocal page relationships for every displayed driver/team link
  • Dynamic standings and results instead of copied point totals in profile prose

Track Guides

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Ace Speedway: Track Guide

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Anderson Motor Speedway: Track Guide

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Bristol Motor Speedway: Track Guide

The Last Great Colosseum: a 0.533-mile concrete oval cut into the hills of northeast Tennessee, h...

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Caraway Speedway: Track Guide

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Charlotte Motor Speedway: Track Guide

Charlotte Motor Speedway guide for the 2026 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Chase, with race sc...

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Darlington Raceway: Track Guide

Darlington Raceway guide for the 2026 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Chase, with race schedule...

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Daytona International Speedway Track Guide

Daytona International Speedway: the 2.5-mile, 31-degree-banked World Center of Racing. History, t...

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Dominion Raceway: Track Guide

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Dover Motor Speedway: Track Guide

The Monster Mile: a one-mile concrete oval in Dover, Delaware, host to Cup racing every year sinc...

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Florence Motor Speedway: Track Guide

The Diamond of the Southeast: a 0.4-mile bullring in Timmonsville, South Carolina, fifteen miles ...

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Hickory Motor Speedway: Track Guide

Hickory Motor Speedway track guide, 0.363-mile paved oval, CARS Tour 2026 Throwback Classic detai...

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Homestead-Miami Speedway: Track Guide

Homestead-Miami Speedway guide for the 2026 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Chase, with race sc...

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Langley Speedway: Track Guide

Complete guide to Langley Speedway in Hampton, Virginia. Two-degree banking, Visit Hampton 125, a...

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Las Vegas Motor Speedway: Track Guide

Las Vegas Motor Speedway guide for the 2026 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Chase, with race sc...

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Martinsville Speedway: Track Guide

Complete guide to Martinsville Speedway, NASCAR's shortest and oldest track. ValleyStar 300, trai...

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Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway: Track Guide

Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway track guide, 0.596-mile paved oval, CARS Tour 2026 race details, a...

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Newport Speedway: Track Guide

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North Wilkesboro Speedway: Track Guide

North Wilkesboro Speedway track guide, 0.625-mile historic oval, 2026 Cup Series return and CARS ...

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Phoenix Raceway: Track Guide

Phoenix Raceway guide for the 2026 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Chase, with race schedule, l...

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South Boston Speedway: Track Guide

Complete guide to South Boston Speedway in Halifax County, Virginia. 200-lap features, Saturday n...

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Southern National Motorsports Park: Track Guide

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Talladega Superspeedway: Track Guide

Talladega Superspeedway guide for the 2026 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Chase, with race sch...

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Tri-County Speedway: Track Guide

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Wake County Speedway: Track Guide

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World Wide Technology Raceway: Track Guide

World Wide Technology Raceway guide for the 2026 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Chase, with ra...