Thirty-seven cars, two crashes, and the field sandbagging on purpose. The O'Reilly San Diego practice read — who's fast, who's hiding, and who's already in a backup.
Intercepted Audio “ ” Thirty-seven cars, two crashes, and almost nobody driving the wheels off it. After watching the Truck Series stuff sixteen trucks into the wall a few hours earlier, the O’Reilly regulars treated practice like a recon mission. Austin Green topped the sheet — and the names that should scare you ran mid-pack on purpose.
San Diego Street Course · Driven to Serve 250 · June 2026 · By PitByNumbers Staff · 7 min read The practice sheet is a trap, and that’s the whole story. Austin Green, Brent Crews and Austin Hill were genuinely fast — but Green and Hill are road specialists still chasing a first road win, and Crews is a rookie. Meanwhile the names with the best road résumés in the field — Sam Mayer (four road wins) and Justin Allgaier (five wins this year, the title favorite) — sat mid-pack on purpose, or banked recon laps in an EV the night before.
Only two cars hit the wall, and that restraint is the point: these drivers watched sixteen trucks crash in the same corners hours earlier and decided practice wasn’t worth a backup car. The real pecking order doesn’t show up until somebody has to set a time for real. Qualifying is tomorrow at 1 p.m.
ET — that’s when the sandbaggers have to show their hand. The full bet card drops tomorrow once we see it. Watch the Odds Board , see how we read the same track in the trucks , and check back for the card.
One session in, trust almost nothing on the sheet. Green, Crews and Hill have real speed; Mayer and Allgaier have real résumés and ran nowhere near the limit; Jones and Day are digging out of backups. The track is treacherous, the field played it smart, and the actual order arrives with qualifying tomorrow.
Card to follow. Check back.