Corey Day: Driver Profile
Car: No. 17 | Team: Hendrick Motorsports | Manufacturer: Chevrolet Crew Chief: Adam Wall | Sponsor: HendrickCars.com Status: Full-time | Hometown: Clovis, California | Age: 20
2026 Season
Corey Day is entered in the Hendrick Motorsports No. 17 Chevrolet for Daytona, Race 24 of the 2026 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series. Current points and Chase standing are shown in the stats on this page, updated as results are loaded.
Career
Day is part of Hendrick Motorsports' first full O'Reilly Series program since 2006, a significant organizational commitment. He came up through the Hendrick pipeline and enters 2026 as the clearest test case of what a fully supported HMS O'Reilly program can produce at the national level.
The Story
Day is leading laps, qualifying near the front, and finishing in the top 10 at a high rate, but hasn't converted that pace into a win. For a 20-year-old rookie with 164 laps led and a Martinsville runner-up already on the résumé, that's a story of remarkable promise. The win is coming. The question is when, and whether it arrives in time to matter in the playoff picture.
Related Pages
- Hendrick Motorsports, Team Profile
- O'Reilly Auto Parts Series Guide
- 2026 O'Reilly Series Schedule
- Driver Directory
Recent Race: Dover, May 16, 2026 (BetRivers 200)
Day won his second career O'Reilly Series race in his first Dover start, passing Justin Allgaier with four laps left by running up against the outside wall and splitting Blake Lothian's lapped car. Margin: 0.461 sec. "This one feels really, really good. The Talladega one was unexpected at a superspeedway, but we earned this one."