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Austin Hill

2026 Season: NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series

● Playoff eligible
6th
Position
2114
Points
2
Wins
4
Top 5
7
Top 10
26
Starts

Through September 12, 2026 · 61 pts behind leader

Austin Hill

Born: April 21, 1994 · Winston, Georgia Car: No. 21 Chevrolet · Richard Childress Racing · NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series Crew Chief: Chad Haney Sponsor: Bennett Transportation & Logistics

⚠️ Cup substitution, May 21, 2026: Hill will drive Richard Childress Racing's No. 8 Chevrolet in the NASCAR Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 (Sunday, May 24), filling in for Kyle Busch, who is out for the weekend due to an unspecified health matter, RCR announced May 21. Hill continues in his full-time No. 21 O'Reilly Auto Parts Series ride.

2026 Season

Austin Hill drives the Richard Childress Racing No. 21 Chevrolet in the 2026 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series. Current points and Chase status are shown in the live stats on this page as official results are loaded.

Career

Hill's résumé is that of a proven national-series front-runner. He won the O'Reilly regular-season championship in 2023, reached the Championship 4 in 2024, and has won races in every full-time season with RCR. He also won the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series regular-season title in 2020, making him one of the few active O'Reilly Series drivers with multi-series championships on his ledger.

The frame that follows Hill, "superspeedway specialist", is outdated. He's a full-field contender whose highest concentration of wins happens to include drafting tracks. The 2026 story is whether he can make the title picture revolve around him at every venue type.

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Coverage (12 articles)

Two Drivers Made the Playoff at Daytona. Between Them They Led 11 Laps.

John Speedway·

Ryan Preece led five laps of the Coke Zero Sugar 400 and won it. Austin Cindric led six and finished sixth. Both are in the Cup Series playoff and Shane Van Gisbergen, who won the opening stage, is out. Twelve drivers led more laps than the winner, and one of them cracked the top ten.

Brandon Jones Started 29th and Led 12 Laps at Chicagoland. He Also Won.

Jack Beckett·

Brandon Jones started 29th at Chicagoland, led 12 of 201 laps, and won the Cuervo 300 in overtime, the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series' first extra-lap finish of 2026. Chase Elliott and Connor Zilisch led 126 laps and won both stages between them. They left with zero points.

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