Corey Day outduels Kvapil to win Focused Health 302
NXTbets Pro | Published On: October 4, 2026
Corey Day wins
Corey Day won the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Focused Health 302 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday night. Day started on the pole, turned the fastest lap in qualifying at 29.858 seconds and 180.856 mph, then finished with a 0.287-second edge over Carson Kvapil. It was Day’s third victory of the season. Sheldon Creed qualified second and Brandon Jones qualified third, and the race was scheduled for 201 laps. Day took the lead on lap 9 and went on to win the race.
Las Vegas stages
Day won Stage 1. Sam Mayer took Stage 2, and that segment featured the race’s biggest incident when Brandon Jones and Justin Allgaier were involved in a crash on lap 55. Jesse Love finished in the top three with a third-place run. Allgaier wound up 34th and Jones finished 35th after the lap 55 crash. Day won the race, with Kvapil finishing second and Love third.
Standings and Charlotte
The result also moved the championship picture. Day climbed to fifth in the standings and left Las Vegas 41 points behind leader Sheldon Creed. Kvapil’s runner-up finish pushed him to second in the standings, 19 points back of Creed. Love moved up to third, and Allgaier slid to fourth while sitting 31 points behind the leader. The series next races at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Day won the pole, Stage 1 and the race at Las Vegas, while Kvapil finished second and Creed remained the points leader.
