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! rowspan=”40” | [[Chevrolet]]

! rowspan=”” | [[Chevrolet]]

| rowspan=2 style=”text-align: center;” | ”'[[Alpha Prime Racing]]”’

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| [[Brennan Poole]]

| Frankie Kerr

| TBA

| <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.jayski.com/2025/11/18/brennan-poole-returning-to-alpha-prime-racing-in-2026/ |title=Brennan Poole returning to Alpha Prime Racing in 2026 |website=[[Jayski’s Silly Season Site]] |publisher=NASCAR Digital Media |date=November 18, 2025 |access-date=November 18, 2025}}</ref>

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| [[Lavar Scott]] ”'(R)”’

| Kase Kallenbach

| TBA

| <ref name=”LavarScott”>{{Cite web |url=https://www.jayski.com/2025/12/08/lavar-scott-running-full-time-for-alpha-prime-racing-in-2026/ |title=Lavar Scott running full time for Alpha Prime Racing in 2026 |website=[[Jayski’s Silly Season Site]] |publisher=NASCAR Digital Media |date=December 8, 2025 |access-date=December 8, 2025}}</ref>

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| [[Patrick Staropoli]] ”'(R)”’

| Patrick Donahue

| TBA

| <ref name=”Sanchez”>{{Cite web |url=https://www.jayski.com/2025/12/08/nick-sanchez-not-returning-to-big-machine-racing-in-2026/ |title=Nick Sanchez not returning to Big Machine Racing in 2026 |website=[[Jayski’s Silly Season Site]] |publisher=NASCAR Digital Media |date=December 8, 2025 |access-date=December 8, 2025}}</ref><ref name=”Staropoli”>{{Cite web |last=Albino |first=Dustin |date=December 23, 2024 |title=Patrick Staropoli competing full time for Big Machine Racing in 2026 |url=https://www.jayski.com/2025/12/23/patrick-staropoli-competing-full-time-for-big-machine-racing-in-2026/ |access-date=December 23, 2025 |website=[[Jayski’s Silly Season Site]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

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| [[Austin Green]]

| Jody Measamer

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| <ref name=”AGreenPeterson”>{{Cite web |last=Rutherford |first=Kevin |url=https://frontstretch.com/2025/12/05/austin-green-running-full-oreilly-season-2026/ |title=Austin Green Running Full O’Reilly Season in 2026 |website=Frontstretch |date=December 5, 2025 |access-date=December 5, 2025}}</ref>

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| [[Jesse Love]]

| Danny Stockman Jr.

| TBA

| <ref name=”Love”>{{Cite web |date=October 24, 2025 |title=Jesse Love returning to Richard Childress Racing in 2026 |url=https://www.jayski.com/2025/10/24/jesse-love-returning-to-richard-childress-racing-in-2026/ |access-date=October 24, 2025 |website=[[Jayski’s Silly Season Site]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

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| [[Josh Bilicki]]

| Paul Clapprood

| TBA

| <ref name=”Bilicki”>{{Cite web |date=November 29, 2025 |title=Josh Bilicki driving full time for SS GreenLight Racing in 2026 |url=https://www.jayski.com/2025/11/29/josh-bilicki-driving-full-time-for-ss-greenlight-racing-in-2026/ |access-date=November 29, 2025 |website=[[Jayski’s Silly Season Site]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

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| [[Garrett Smithley]] {{Tooltip|23|1–2, 4, 6–9, 11–12, 14, 16, 21–28, 30–33}}

| rowspan=4| ~~TBA~~

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| rowspan=4| <ref name=”Smithley0″>{{Cite web |last=Christie |first=Toby |date=December 10, 2025 |title=Garrett Smithley Returns to SSGLR in 2026 as Primary Driver of No. 0 |url=https://tobychristie.com/nascar/garrett-smithley-returns-to-ssglr-in-2026-as-primary-driver-of-no-0/ |access-date=December 10, 2025 |website=TobyChristie.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Srigley |first=Joseph |date=2026-01-02 |title=Alex Labbe Tapped for Road Course Events in SSGLR No. 0 |url=https://tobychristie.com/nascar/alex-labbe-tapped-for-road-course-events-in-ssglr-no-0/ |access-date=2026-01-02 |website=TobyChristie.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Srigley |first=Joseph |date=2026-01-16 |title=Cole Custer Joins SS-GreenLight Racing for Five-Race O’Reilly Series Schedule |url=https://tobychristie.com/nascar/cole-custer-joins-ss-greenlight-racing-for-five-race-oreilly-series-schedule/ |access-date=2026-01-16 |website=TobyChristie.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

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| <ref name=”Retzlaff”>{{Cite web |last=Albino |first=Dustin |date=November 7, 2025 |title=Parker Retzlaff joining Viking Motorsports for 2026 season |url=https://www.jayski.com/2025/11/07/parker-retzlaff-joining-viking-motorsports-for-2026-season/ |access-date=November 7, 2025 |website=[[Jayski’s Silly Season Site]] |publisher=NASCAR Digital Media}}</ref>

| rowspan=”2” style=”text-align: center;” | ”'[[Young’s Motorsports]]”’

| rowspan=”” style=”text-align: center;” | ”'[[Young’s Motorsports]]”’

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| [[Ryan Ellis (racing driver)|Ryan Ellis]]

| Eddie Traconis

| TBA

| <ref>{{Cite web |last=Albino |first=Dustin |date=November 10, 2025 |title=Ryan Ellis joining Young’s Motorsports for 2026 O’Reilly Auto Parts Series season |url=https://www.jayski.com/2025/11/10/ryan-ellis-joining-youngs-motorsports-for-2026-oreilly-auto-parts-series-season/ |access-date=November 10, 2025 |website=[[Jayski’s Silly Season Site]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

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| [[Carson Hocevar]] {{Tooltip|1|1}}

| TBA

| rowspan=2| Andrew Abbott

| TBA

| <ref name=”Youngs2cars”>{{cite web|url=https://www.motorsport.com/nascar-truck/news/youngs-motorsports-expands-nascar-oreilly-team-signs-ryan-ellis-for-2026/10775820/|title=Young’s Motorsports expands NASCAR O’Reilly team, signs Ryan Ellis |work=Motorsport.com|access-date=November 10, 2025}}</ref>

| TBA {{Tooltip|32|2-33}}

! rowspan=”3″ |[[Ford Motor Company|Ford]]

| style=”text-align: center;” |”'[[AM Racing]]”’

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|[[Nick Sanchez]]

|TBA

|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Christie |first=Toby |date=2026-02-09 |title=AM Racing Names Nick Sanchez As Full-Time NASCAR O’Reilly Series Driver |url=https://tobychristie.com/nascar/oreilly-series/am-racing-names-nick-sanchez-as-full-time-nascar-oreilly-series-driver/ |access-date=2026-02-09 |website=TobyChristie.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

| rowspan=”2″ style=”text-align:center;” | ”'[[Hettinger Racing]]”’

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| [[William Sawalich]]

| Jeff Meendering

| TBA

| <ref name=”GraySawalich”>{{Cite web |last=Albino |first=Dustin |date=January 6, 2026 |title=Taylor Gray, William Sawalich return to Joe Gibbs Racing in 2026 |url=https://www.jayski.com/2026/01/06/taylor-gray-william-sawalich-return-to-joe-gibbs-racing-in-2026/ |access-date=January 6, 2026 |website=[[Jayski’s Silly Season Site]] |publisher=NASCAR Digital Media}}</ref>

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| [[Brandon Jones (racing driver)|Brandon Jones]]

| Sam McAulay

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| <ref name=”2026 team/driver chart” />

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| [[Taylor Gray (racing driver)|Taylor Gray]]

| Jason Ratcliff

| TBA

| <ref name=”GraySawalich” />

45th season of the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series

The 2026 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series will be the 45th season of the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series, a stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR in the United States. The season will start on February 14 with the United Rentals 300 at Daytona International Speedway and will end with the Hard Rock Bet 300 at Homestead–Miami Speedway on November 7.

Jesse Love of Richard Childress Racing enters the season as the 2025 NASCAR Xfinity Series champion.^[1]

This will be the first year under the new title sponsor, as Xfinity did not extend their sponsorship.^[2] On August 18, 2025, it was announced that O’Reilly Auto Parts will serve as the series sponsor in 2026.^[3]

Teams and drivers

Full-time teams

Part-time teams

Team changes

Kaulig Racing is pausing their Xfinity Series program for the 2026 season.^[68]
Sam Hunt Racing will field two full-time cars in 2026 with the No. 24 car expanding from being fielded part-time to full-time.^[56]
Young’s Motorsports will expand to two full-time cars with the addition of the No. 02 driven by Ryan Ellis.^[48]
ARCA Menards Series team Sigma Performance Services announced the acquisition of AM Racing. The team, renamed to SPS Racing, planned to field an entry in the series but did not specify whether it wwould be full-time or part-time.^[69] However, it was later revealed that the purchase was not finalized, and SPS would return to the ARCA Menards Series with AM continuing its O’Reilly Series operations.^[70]
Cope Family Racing will partner with Stanton Barrett Motorsports, a team returning to NASCAR for the first time since 2015 and the series for the first time since 2008, in 2026 and the team’s car will switch from the No. 70 to the No. 30, a number SBM ran in their previous stint in the series from 2007 to 2008.^[7] On January 5, 2026, Barrett–Cope Racing was announced as the merged team’s new name.^[8]
Viking Motorsports will field two full-time cars in 2026 with Anthony Alfredo driving the No. 96 car.^[45]
After collaborating with Jordan Anderson Racing for two years to jointly field Austin Green‘s entries with them part-time, Peterson Racing will split from JAR and field their No. 87 car on their own in 2026 with Green and the team running full-time in the series for the first time.^[71]
SS-Green Light Racing with BRK Racing renumbered their No. 14 car to the No. 0 for 2026. Garrett Smithley, who drove that car in the majority of the races in 2025 and will again in 2026, is synonymous with that number from when he drove it for JD Motorsports from 2016 to 2019.^[42]
Jordan Anderson Racing will expand into a three-car operation.^[72]

Driver changes

Rookies

Moving between series

Moving teams

Moving to part-time schedule

Crew chief changes

Rodney Childers, a longtime Cup Series crew chief who most notably worked with Kevin Harvick at Stewart–Haas Racing for several years as a crew chief in the series, will join JRM in 2026 as the crew chief of the No. 1 car in which Kvapil and Zilisch will share.^[26]
Jim Pohlman, who was the crew chief for JRM’s No. 7 car driven by Justin Allgaier, moved up to the Cup Series to crew chief the No. 8 Richard Childress Racing car driven by Kyle Busch.^[30]
Danny Efland, who was the crew chief of the AM Racing No. 25 car in 2025, will move to Viking Motorsports where he will crew chief their No. 99 car in 2026. He replaces Pat Tryson, who became the head of the team’s shop operations.^[46]
With JRM hiring Rodney Childers to crew chief the No. 1 car, former No. 1 car crew chief Andrew Overstreet will move to their No. 7 car to replace Jim Pohlman who left the team to crew chief for RCR in the Cup Series.^[31]
JRM crew chiefs Phillip Bell and Cory Shea switched cars for 2026, with Bell moving from the full-time No. 8 to the part-time No. 9 and Shea moving from the part-time No. 9 to the full-time No. 8.^[31]
Aeden McHugh moved from the No. 70 with Cope Family Racing to the No. 28 with RSS Racing.^[84] George Church will replace McHugh as crew chief for the renumbered No. 30 car for CFR in their new partnership with Stanton Barrett Motorsports.^[7]
Joshua Graham, who previously crew chiefed for McAnally-Hilgemann Racing in the Truck Series in 2025, will be the crew chief for Viking Motorsports‘ new No. 96 car driven by Anthony Alfredo. The two of them worked together in the series in 2024 at Our Motorsports in their No. 5 car.^[45]
Joe Williams Jr, who crew chiefed the Alpha Prime Racing No. 4 car in 2025, will crew chief the new Hettinger Racing No. 5 car in 2026.^[50]
Matt Weber, who was previously an engineer and crew chief for Our Motorsports, which closed down during the 2025 season, will be the new crew chief for Jeremy Clements‘ No. 51 car in 2026, replacing Kase Kallenbach.^[18]

Manufacturer changes

Rule changes

NASCAR Cup Series drivers with three or more years of experience can participate in ten (up from five) regular season races. They are still prohibited from participating in The Chase and the championship race.^[87]
The minimum age to participate in an O’Reilly Auto Parts Series event is lowered to 17 years of age. The new rule applies, as in the case of the Truck Series minimum age rule, to short tracks and road courses only which account for 15 races at 12 tracks. Nashville Superspeedway, at 1.33 miles, and longer circuits still require drivers to be 18 years of age.^[88]
Similar to the Cup Series, NASCAR changed the playoff format for the first time since the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series adapted the playoffs in 2016, the format changed on January 12, 2026.^[89] The amount of races in the Chase increased from 7 to 9. The win-and-you’re-in, as well as the playoff point after a driver won a stage has been removed.^[89]
On January 16, 2026, NASCAR announced that drivers who enter the garage during a race will no longer be eligible for the “Xfinity Fastest Lap Award”. However, the driver’s fastest lap before they entered the garage will still stand.^[90]

Schedule

The 2026 schedule was released on August 20, 2025.

Notes: Race names and title sponsors are subject to change. Not all title sponsors/names of races have been announced for 2026. For the races where a 2026 name and title sponsor has yet to be announced, the title sponsors/names of those races in 2025 are listed.

Bolded races indicate Dash 4 Cash race.

O Oval track

R Road course

S Street course

No	Race title^[91]	Track	Location	Date	Time (ET)	TV	Radio
1	United Rentals 300	O Daytona International Speedway	Daytona Beach, Florida	February 14	5 pm	CW	MRN
2	Bennett Transportation & Logistics 250	O Atlanta Motor Speedway	Hampton, Georgia	February 21	5 pm		PRN
3	Focused Health 250	R Circuit of the Americas	Austin, Texas	February 28	3 pm		PRN
4	GOVX 200	O Phoenix Raceway	Avondale, Arizona	March 7	7:30 pm		MRN
5	The LiUNA!	O Las Vegas Motor Speedway	Las Vegas, Nevada	March 14	5:30 pm		PRN
6	Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200	O Darlington Raceway	Darlington, South Carolina	March 21	5:30 pm		MRN
7	NFPA 250^[92]	O Martinsville Speedway	Ridgeway, Virginia	March 28	3:30 pm
8	North Carolina Education Lottery 250	O Rockingham Speedway	Rockingham, North Carolina	April 4	2:30 pm
9	SciAps 300	O Bristol Motor Speedway	Bristol, Tennessee	April 11	7:30 pm		PRN
10	Kansas Lottery 300	O Kansas Speedway	Kansas City, Kansas	April 18	7 pm		MRN
11	Ag-Pro 300	O Talladega Superspeedway	Lincoln, Alabama	April 25	4 pm		MRN
12	Andy’s Frozen Custard 340	O Texas Motor Speedway	Fort Worth, Texas	May 2	3:30 pm		PRN
13	Mission 200 at The Glen	R Watkins Glen International	Watkins Glen, New York	May 9	4 pm		MRN
14	BetRivers 200	O Dover Motor Speedway	Dover, Delaware	May 16	4 pm		PRN
15	BetMGM 300	O Charlotte Motor Speedway	Concord, North Carolina	May 23	5 pm
16	Tennessee Lottery 250	O Nashville Superspeedway	Lebanon, Tennessee	May 30	7:30 pm
17	MillerTech Battery 250^[93]	O Pocono Raceway	Long Pond, Pennsylvania	June 13	4 pm		MRN
18	TBA	S Coronado Street Course	San Diego, California	June 20	5 pm		MRN
19	Sonoma 250^[94]	R Sonoma Raceway	Sonoma, California	June 27	5:30 pm		PRN
20	TBA	O Chicagoland Speedway	Joliet, Illinois	July 4	5:30 pm		MRN
21	Focused Health 250	O EchoPark Speedway	Hampton, Georgia	July 11	7 pm		PRN
22	Pennzoil 250	O Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	July 25	4 pm		PRN
23	Hy-Vee PERKS 250	O Iowa Speedway	Newton, Iowa	August 8	5 pm		MRN
24	Wawa 250	O Daytona International Speedway	Daytona Beach, Florida	August 28	7:30 pm		MRN
The Chase^[89]
25	TBA	O Darlington Raceway	Darlington, South Carolina	September 5	7:30 pm	CW	MRN
26	Nu Way 225^[95]	O World Wide Technology Raceway	Madison, Illinois	September 12			MRN
27	Food City 300	O Bristol Motor Speedway	Bristol, Tennessee	September 18			PRN
28	Focused Health 302	O Las Vegas Motor Speedway	Las Vegas, Nevada	October 3
29	Blue Cross NC 250^[96]	O Charlotte Motor Speedway	Concord, North Carolina	October 10	4 pm
30	TBA	O Phoenix Raceway	Avondale, Arizona	October 17	7:30 pm		MRN
31	TPG 250^[97]	O Talladega Superspeedway	Lincoln, Alabama	October 24	3:30 pm
32	IAA and Ritchie Bros. 250	O Martinsville Speedway	Ridgeway, Virginia	October 31	4 pm
33	Hard Rock Bet 300	O Homestead–Miami Speedway	Homestead, Florida	November 7	5 pm

Schedule changes

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