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NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series at Talladega Superspeedway

annual spring auto race at Talladega, Alabama

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ303028 ↗
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Stock car racing events in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series have been held at Talladega Superspeedway, in Lincoln, Alabama during numerous seasons and times of year since 1992.

April race

The Ag-Pro 300 is a NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series race at Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Alabama that has been held since 1992. The race is held on the weekend of the NASCAR Cup Series' Jack Link's 500. Corey Day is the defending race winner.

History

From its inception in 1992 through 1996, the race was held in the summer, as a support race to the Alabama 500. When that race moved to the fall, this race moved to the spring as a support race to the corresponding Cup race. The fall Talladega date regained a companion second-tier date from 2020 (originally due to COVID-19 rescheduling) to 2022, and again in 2024.

Large wrecks involving 20 or more cars have occurred a number of times in the history of the event, most notably in 2002, when 31 cars were involved in an accident on the backstretch on lap 14, with 19 of them knocked out at that point. The remainder of the race, following a long red-flag period, had little resemblance to typical restrictor plate racing as only two cars were within short distance at the checkered flag and only three finished on the lead lap.

Unique race distance

At its inception, the event debuted as a 117-lap, 500.86-kilometer (311.22 mi) event, the longest race on the Busch Series schedule.

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This entry incorporates text from “NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series at Talladega Superspeedway” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.