The official 2022 Alsco Uniforms 250 NASCAR XFINITY Series entry list features top NASCAR drivers set to compete at Atlanta Motor Speedway, highlighting the full lineup of race participants and teams.
Saturday, July 9th, 2022
Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton, GA
Radio trouble prevented driver Austin Hill from being able to speak to his Richard Childress Racing crew during the Alsco Uniforms 250 NASCAR Xfinity Series race Saturday afternoon at Atlanta Motor Speedway, but he sure understood the final hand signal.
Number one.
The Georgia native, 28, won at his hometown track for the first time in his NASCAR career – holding off JR Motorsports driver Josh Berry by a mere .111-second –the closest Xfinity Series race finish in track history and another fitting number nod to Hill’s finish.
His 73 laps led in the No. 21 RCR Chevrolet was most on the day and the most of his young NASCAR Xfinity Series career.
“Man, look at this crowd, I love the fans’’ a smiling Hill said looking toward the loud and enthusiastic grandstands. “What a car. Man, RCR has been working their ever-loving tails off to give me a car that will race really fast.’’
Hill was so impressed and appreciative of the work of his crew, particularly to win on a day it had to overcome a major challenge. He came down pit road on the pace laps once the team realized his radio didn’t work. Hill could hear the crew, but they could not hear him.
Even a new helmet didn’t solve the problem so he spent all of the often eventful 163 laps around the 1.54-mile speedway listening only. They worked out hand signals for adjustments he wanted during the pit stops.
There were 17 lead changes in the race, but Hill took the lead for good on a restart with 48 laps remaining and held off Berry, Ryan Truex, Daniel Hemric and Tyler Reddick – sure that they would try to pass him in the final lap. The frontrunners got dicey as expected, but Hill was able to pull away and was never challenged heading to the checkered flag to take his second series victory in 2022.
Truex finished third, followed by Reddick – who became a first-time NASCAR Cup Series winner last week – and reigning Xfinity Series champion Daniel Hemric.
Noah Gragson and his JR Motorsports teammate Justin Allgaier were sixth and seventh, followed by Landon Cassill, Riley Herbst and A.J. Allmendinger
That 10th place finish marked a solid comeback for Kaulig Racing’s Allmendinger, who led the championship standings by a mere nine points going into the Atlanta race. A tire problem and slow pit stop put him down two laps in Stage 2, and it proved to be a long, challenging day for Allmendinger who methodically worked his way forward.
At one point, he briefly lost the championship lead to Ty Gibbs. But Gibbs, Saturday’s polesitter, had his own problems. Racing hard with Herbst at the front on a restart for the final stage, Gibbs’ No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota hit the wall hard and suffered enough damage for him to take a DNF.
A four-race winner, Gibbs went into the race trailing Allmendinger by only nine points, but now he’ll go to New Hampshire for next week’s race 29 points out of the championship lead.
“We had a very fast Supra, we had a good car,’’ Gibbs told PRN Radio. “The 98 [Herbst] slid up and wasn’t clear and hooked us in the left front. It was hard racing and I just came home on the wrong side of it.’’
The Xfinity Series moves to New England next week with the Crayon 200 on Saturday at the one-mile New Hampshire Motor Speedway (2:30 p.m. ET, USA Network, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). NASCAR Cup Series driver Christopher Bell has won the last three New Hampshire Xfinity races.
ENTRY | # | DRIVER | HOMETOWN | DOB | AGE | MAKE | SPONSOR | TEAM | CREW CHIEF |
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1 | 16 | AJ Allmendinger | Los Gatos, CA | Dec 16, 1981 | 40 | Chevrolet | Action Industries | Kaulig Racing | Bruce Schlicker |
2 | 66 | JJ Yeley | Phoenix, AZ | Oct 5, 1976 | 45 | Toyota | Wild Willies | Motorsports Business Management | George Church |
3 | 10 | Landon Cassill | Cedar Rapids, IA | Jul 7, 1989 | 33 | Chevrolet | Carnomaly | Kaulig Racing | Jason Trinchere |
4 | 08 | David Starr | Houston, TX | Nov 11, 1967 | 54 | Ford | Special Report with Brett | SS-GLR w/Jeff Lefcourt | Jason Miller |
5 | 18 | Ryan Truex | Mayetta, NJ | Mar 18, 1992 | 30 | Toyota | Auto-Owners Insurance | Joe Gibbs Racing | Jason Ratcliff |
6 | 7 | Justin Allgaier | Riverton, IL | Jun 6, 1986 | 36 | Chevrolet | BRANDT | JR Motorsports | Jason Burdett |
7 | 02 | Brett Moffitt | Grimes, IA | Aug 7, 1992 | 29 | Chevrolet | RED / Half Off Wholesale | Our Motorsports | Kris Bowen |
8 | 35 | Joey Gase | Cedar Rapids, IA | Feb 8, 1993 | 29 | Chevrolet | Donate Life GA/ Kitty Kat Coin | Emerling Gase Motorsports | Rick Bourgeois |
9 | 27 | Jeb Burton | Halifax, VA | Aug 6, 1992 | 29 | Chevrolet | Alsco Uniforms | Our Motorsports | Chad Walter |
10 | 26 | Jeffrey Earnhardt | Mooresville, NC | Jun 22, 1989 | 33 | Toyota | ForeverLawn | Sam Hunt Racing | Allen Hart |
11 | 39 | Ryan Sieg | Tucker, GA | Jun 20, 1987 | 35 | Ford | CMRroofing.com\ A-game | RSS Racing | Kevin Starland |
12 | 11 | Daniel Hemric | Kannapolis, NC | Jan 27, 1991 | 31 | Chevrolet | AG1 - Athletic Greens | Kaulig Racing | Alex Yontz |
13 | 47 | Brennan Poole | Sacramento, CA | Apr 11, 1991 | 31 | Chevrolet | Mike Harmon Racing | Mike Harmon Racing | Ryan Bell |
14 | 48 | Tyler Reddick | Corning, CA | Jan 11, 1996 | 26 | Chevrolet | Big Machine Spiked Coolers | Big Machine Racing | Patrick Donahue |
15 | 4 | Bayley Currey | Driftwood, TX | Oct 29, 1996 | 25 | Chevrolet | TeamJDMotorsports.com | JD Motorsports | Wayne Carroll Jr |
16 | 36 | Alex Labbe | Saint-Albert, Canada | Apr 29, 1993 | 29 | Chevrolet | DGM Racing | DGM Racing | Nathan Kennedy |
17 | 21 | Austin Hill | Winston, GA | Apr 21, 1994 | 28 | Chevrolet | Bennett Transportation and Logistics | Richard Childress Racing | Andy Street |
18 | 68 | Brandon Brown | Woodbridge, VA | Sep 14, 1993 | 28 | Chevrolet | Brandonbilt Foundations | Brandonbilt Motorsports | Doug Randolph |
19 | 19 | Brandon Jones | Atlanta, GA | Feb 18, 1997 | 25 | Toyota | Menards\Pennington Seed | Joe Gibbs Racing | Jeff Meendering |
20 | 45 | Caesar Bacarella | Parkland, FL | Dec 18, 1975 | 46 | Chevrolet | Skyview Partners | Alpha Prime Racing | Frank Kerr |
21 | 51 | Jeremy Clements | Spartanburg, SC | Jan 16, 1985 | 37 | Chevrolet | All South Electric | Jeremy Clements Racing | Mark Setzer |
22 | 07 | Joe Graf Jr | Mahwah, NJ | Jul 12, 1998 | 23 | Ford | CoverSeal | SS-GLR w/Jeff Lefcourt | Joe Williams |
23 | 78 | Josh Williams | Port Charlotte, FL | Aug 3, 1993 | 28 | Chevrolet | COOLRAY | BJ McLeod Motorsports | Mike Tyska |
24 | 5 | Matt Mills | Lynchburg, VA | Nov 14, 1996 | 25 | Ford | J.F. Electric | BJ McLeod Motorsports | David Ingram |
25 | 31 | Myatt Snider | Charlotte, NC | Dec 30, 1994 | 27 | Chevrolet | Bommarito Automotive Group | Jordan Anderson Racing | Shane Whitbeck |
26 | 9 | Noah Gragson | Las Vegas, NV | Jul 15, 1998 | 23 | Chevrolet | Bass Pro Shops TrueTimber BRCC | JR Motorsports | Luke Lambert |
27 | 98 | Riley Herbst | Las Vegas, NV | Feb 24, 1999 | 23 | Ford | Monster Energy | Stewart-Haas Racing | Richard Boswell |
28 | 91 | Mason Massey | Douglasville, GA | Jan 24, 1997 | 25 | Chevrolet | A-Z Companies/Anderson Power | DGM Racing | Mario Gosselin |
29 | 23 | Anthony Alfredo | Ridgefield, CT | Mar 1, 1999 | 23 | Chevrolet | Dude Wipes | Our Motorsports | Pat Tryson |
30 | 34 | Jesse Iwuji | Carrollton, TX | Aug 12, 1987 | 34 | Chevrolet | Equity Prime Mortgage | Jesse Iwuji Motorsports | Dan Stillman |
31 | 6 | Ryan Vargas | La Miranda, CA | Sep 23, 2000 | 21 | Chevrolet | Swann Security / BrandsMart | JD Motorsports | Alex Bird |
32 | 2 | Sheldon Creed | Alpine, CA | Sep 30, 1997 | 24 | Chevrolet | Whelen | Richard Childress Racing | Jeff Stankiewicz |
33 | 8 | Josh Berry | Hendersonville, TN | Oct 22, 1990 | 31 | Chevrolet | Harrison's USA | JR Motorsports | Mike Bumgarner |
34 | 54 | Ty Gibbs | Charlotte, NC | Oct 4, 2002 | 19 | Toyota | Monster Energy | Joe Gibbs Racing | Chris Gayle |
35 | 13 | Natalie Decker | Eagle River, WI | Jun 25, 1997 | 25 | Toyota | Nerd Focus | Motorsports Business Management | Jason Houghtaling |
36 | 38 | Kyle Sieg | Tucker, GA | Apr 16, 2001 | 21 | Ford | Cedar Ridge Landscaping | RSS Racing | Steve Addington |
37 | 1 | Sam Mayer | Franklin, WI | Jun 26, 2003 | 19 | Chevrolet | Accelerate Pros Talent | JR Motorsports | Taylor Moyer |
38 | 44 | Sage Karam | Nazareth, PA | Mar 5, 1995 | 27 | Chevrolet | Peachwood Floor Coverings | Alpha Prime Racing | Michael Brandt |