Atlanta's Final 12 Laps Ends in Chaos | 2026 NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series

Oh, that's actually not a bad thing for the 88 to get in front of Austin Hill right there. Maybe get that middle lane going. I think Sammy Smith's in a tough position now. Oh, there's a crash. Brent Crews around. Sheldon Creed, the spring winner. Jesse Love, the reigning champ. Jordan Anderson, Dean Thompson. The 11th caution of the evening. Yeah, he's four wide. And he's the one that made the decision to go four wide. I always if you're four wide, I always wonder who's the last guy in. That's who's fault it was. Who's the last guy that made that decision? And it looks like he hit that line down there is out of bounds. I mean, you get below the white and yellow line, you're out of bounds. He wasn't quite there. But that's another thing you got to be thinking about in those situations. It's just it's not leaving a lot of room for error. And especially when you know that that line is essentially a wall that you cannot cross. It just puts it puts everyone on top in a really, really tough spot. Whoever's going to get clear. It's going to be it's going to be the third car's responsibility to get their third line going. All guy are in charge. Seven to go. Well, they're all organized really well right there. But look at Sammy Smith all over the back. Oh, Raja moves up just a little bit as he's given that seven the push he needs. Yeah. So look at Austin Hill. He's the third car. Now the top lane is going to go because the eighty seven was laid back on the eighty eight there. Oh, Sammy makes a move to the inside. Eight drives to the inside of his teammate, Sammy Smith, winless this year, but he has won in the draft. Waffle not going away outside. Six laps to go this time around. Raja, the big loser on that restart. You see, fell back to fifth. Did a nice job getting back up into the outside line. I love Sammy Smith going for it. Justin Allgaier got an issue. Now we talked about the potential problems prior to the restart. Seven is fading. Problems for the 19 of Brent Cruz, who was involved in the earlier accident. I'm going to be five to go this time. Austin Hill is right there. So is Raja. Carruth is the top to go at it side by side. Quapel and Smith and Austin Hill is going to have to protect his outside. The 88's been really looking hard, trying to get to that right rear quarter. Quapel does a great job of defending on the blue and white. Twenty one right there. Tell you, if Austin Hill runs high like that again, the 88 will be to his inside. Leave yourself so vulnerable. Sanchez now hung on the bottom. Oh, just a little kiss. Not bad. Not bad. Sammy Smith just made a move on Quapel. I'm surprised he didn't stay behind him there. Look at this. This is what Dale did not want to see. Austin Hill making a three wide down low. Here comes the veteran from Winston, Georgia. Three wide for the lead. And Jeremy Clements, you said it right there in line as well. Nick Sanchez painting that line. The bottom's pretty organized. Sanchez giving a huge shove. We talked about the alliance of RCR. Oh, look at Austin Hill up the track. Guys into the wall and there goes Austin Hill around. I tell you, he was out. He was out of shape a lap or two before that. Hadn't had an overtime all year. We're going to get extra racing two weeks in a row. They're going to get organized down the backstretch. Sanchez gets to the inside of Jeremy Clements. Gives Austin Hill big shove down here. Then watch. I think there's even no, there's contact right there from the 80s, right on his bumper, though, maybe got him a little arrow loose up the racetrack. I just am really surprised Sammy Smith did not stay behind Quapel. Like, I hear you, but that's what caused all this chaos and essentially kind of took out two junior motorsports cars was that, you know, they ended up in a three wide situation because, you know, they were clear, you know, your second. That's actually the optimum spot to be in these cars at the end of the race. And just he took the run three wide and then here we go. A two lap shootout. Quapel Sanchez on the front row. Ready, ready, green. Oh, that's second row, Jeremy Clements. Clements is turned. We get a crash. We get a caution. That was anticlimactic. And 13th caution of the night. Get a good view here from the aerial shot. Yeah, there's the 20 laying back. I saw that. I just think the seven got a hold of him and he just never could let him go. Yeah, the seven at that time, the seven's already, you know, he's getting pushed by the 20 because the 20 caught up. So just a chain reaction of once the 51 breaks traction here, it's your everyone's getting shoved. So there's just no getting off of him at that point. You mentioned about junior motorsports. Dale better hope Carson pulls this off because they just keep slowly eliminating themselves. Green, green. See if we can finish it this time. See, you got a line. Oh, that's a lot of fuel. Right. Wow. Look at that. Nick Sanchez, big push, low lane from Brennan Pool. All Geyer. All Geyer's dragging something right there, maybe contacting that wreck earlier. Look at Retzlaff coming through. Look at Brennan Pool to the lead. Brennan Pool pushing through. Inside lane 44 for Alpha Prime. Wow. All Geyer helps him go through. They're both going to clear Sanchez. It looks right here. Tommy Joe Martin's going to be losing his mind as we come back to the white flag. And once we get the white flag, the next flag will end at Brennan Pool. Brennan's got to defend right here from Sanchez. Oh, Sanchez to the inside. There's contact. Sanchez into the wall. All Geyer is leading. We stay green for now. Look at all Geyer's car dragging all the way around the track. That's Parker Retzlaff behind him. Yeah, I'd love to get his first career victory. Yeah, without some help, I don't see Parker getting there. But Carson is coming with a big run here. Here's all Geyer coming off the corner, trying to get his second Atlanta win. Quapel is there. But it's all Geyer who delivers his sixth victory of the campaign. Oh, my goodness. Wow. Carson Quapel with Sieg running out of fuel. It just crushed that outside lane. I did not see the seven win in that based on the restart before.