SAWALICH SCORES SECOND TOP-FIVE OF THE SEASON AT DOVER
Jones continues strong performance with fifth straight top-10
DOVER, Del (May 16, 2026) – Rockingham winner William Sawalich had another strong run at Dover as the Minnesota-native led 15 laps and finished fourth to lead Team Toyota in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race at Dover Motor Speedway on Saturday evening.
Brandon Jones won the first stage but had to overcome a slow pit stop after his stage victory. He bounced back to finish sixth – his fifth straight top-10 run – to continue to hold down a top-five points position.
TOYOTA RACING Post-Race Recap
NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series (NOAPS)
Dover Motor Speedway
Race 14 of 33 – 200 miles, 200 laps
TOYOTA FINISHING POSITIONS
1st, Corey Day*
2nd, Justin Allgaier*
3rd, Sam Mayer*
4th, WILLIAM SAWALICH
5th, Austin Hill*
6th, BRANDON JONES
16th, HARRISON BURTON
20th, DEAN THOMPSON
22nd, BRENT CREWS
26th, BLAKE LOTHIAN
32nd, TAYLOR GRAY
*non-Toyota driver
TOYOTA QUOTES
WILLIAM SAWALICH, No. 18 Starkey Toyota GR Supra, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finishing Position: 4th
Solid run, but I’m sure you wanted more.
“Absolutely, we came up a little short on that last restart, and the second-to-last restart. We just kept getting a little bit too tight, but when we were out front in clean air, our Starkey GR Supra was really good today. We just needed more there at the end. We were too tight to run the top, and a little too snug to run the bottom. Just fell short.”
BRANDON JONES, No. 20 Menards/DAP Toyota GR Supra, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finishing Position: 6th
Sixth yesterday, and sixth today. Really strong start and then had to overcome the slow pit stop. How was your race?
“That was a little unfortunate. It is certainly not like those guys, and it is not like they meant to do it. I think I heard that their gun switch on them on that first stop. That is unfortunate. It is all about track position here. We knew that coming into it, so when you go from running in first and tuning your balance for first, you get back to seventh and eighth – I knew it was going to be pretty difficult to work our way back, but we missed a lot of wrecks and just continued to slowly pick guys off one by one. I was hoping I could have gotten a few more than we did there. We have a little bit of work, I think, coming back here. All weekend long it was like we didn’t have quite the right feel in the car to go win, and capitalize today, but we did a lot of other things right today as well. Still a good points day for our Menards Toyota with the stage win and a sixth-place, so I will take it and we will figure out how to be better when we come back.”
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