Brandon Jones disqualified after Las Vegas pileup
NXTbets Pro | Published On: October 4, 2026
Jones disqualification
Brandon Jones was disqualified from Saturday’s NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway after his No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota was found with four or more loose lug nuts. The ruling closed out a rough afternoon for Jones, who lost control of his car on lap 55 just after a restart to begin Stage 2. The penalty changed his finish in a race that had already unraveled during the second stage.
Jones was initially scored 34th before the disqualification. Once NASCAR applied the penalty, he dropped to 36th and last. That result put an official end to a race that had already turned chaotic when the car snapped out of control and headed into the outside wall.
Allgaier wreck
Jones’s car veered toward the outside wall and collected Justin Allgaier’s No. 7 JR Motorsports Chevrolet in the process. The contact came just after the restart to begin Stage 2 and turned the incident into a two-car wreck with immediate consequences for both drivers. Once Jones slid into Allgaier, the two cars ended up wedged against the barrier. Both machines were destroyed in the wreck, leaving neither driver with much to salvage from the collision itself.
Allgaier briefly returned to the race for two slow laps after the crash. That short return did little to change the scale of the damage from the incident.
Championship standings
The disqualification slightly changed the championship standings, and the gaps at the front remained tight after the incident. Carson Kvapil stayed 19 points behind Sheldon Creed, while Jesse Love sat 22 points back. Allgaier was 31 points behind Creed after the race, a margin that kept him in range but still behind the leader. Allgaier had entered the race 11 points behind championship leader Sheldon Creed, so the weekend moved the standings a bit without creating a major shakeup at the top.
Jones’s penalty mattered because it came in a race that already had title implications for several drivers. The field left Las Vegas with the championship picture still tight. Allgaier’s points situation changed after the crash and the disqualification, but the standings remained clustered enough to keep the championship race alive. Jones’s fall to last added another twist to the event, but the larger title picture stayed centered on Creed, Kvapil, Love and Allgaier as the series moved on.
