The official 2022 Call 811 Before You Dig 250 NASCAR XFINITY Series entry list features top NASCAR drivers set to compete at Martinsville Speedway, highlighting the full lineup of race participants and teams.
Friday, April 8th, 2022
Martinsville Speedway, Ridgeway, VA
On older tires, Brandon Jones stole an Xfinity Series win from the scion of the owner of his race team on Saturday night at Martinsville Speedway.
Jones dived to the inside of Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Ty Gibbs as the Call 811 Before You Dig 250 went to a second overtime. Jones cleared Gibbs on the second circuit (Lap 261) and got to the finish line .677 seconds ahead of Landon Cassill, as Sam Mayer bumped Gibbs’s Toyota and squeezed it into the outside wall off the final corner.
While Mayer and Gibbs tangled, AJ Allmendinger took third and the $100,000 Xfinity Dash 4 Cash bonus that goes to the highest finisher among four eligible drivers, a group that also included Mayer and Gibbs.
Gibbs led 198 of the 261 laps in a race that was scheduled for 250. Jones led 28. But Gibbs was too busy fighting Mayer on pit road after the race to worry about the lap count.
While Jones was performing a celebratory burnout on the frontstretch, Gibbs strode to Mayer’s car, and heated words soon led to punches—Mayer with helmet off, Gibbs with helmet still on.
“I tried to talk to him, and he got in my face, and that’s when I had to start fighting,” Gibbs said.
“The only thing I’m mad about is that he (Mayer) wasn’t going to get by the 16 (Allmendinger), and I got hit in the left rear. It’s just frustrating, but I was on the other side of it last week (moving John Hunter Nemechek for a win at Richmond), so that’s just part of it.”
The dust-up on pit road did nothing to dampen the elation of Jones, who picked up his first Xfinity Series win since 2020 and the fifth of his career.
“It’s fun to beat him (Gibbs),” Jones said. “He’s hot right now.”
If Gibbs was hot, in another figurative sense, Mayer was unapologetic after the incident, which left him with a swollen left eye.
“With a hundred grand on the line, I put the bumper to him—that’s what short-track racing’s all about,” Mayer told FoxSports’ Bob Pockrass. “He got upset… he threw a couple of punches that were weak… But I just put the bumper to him for a hundred grand, and he got upset, but he’s been doing that to everyone else every week so far.”
Long before the chaotic ending, the race got off to a rocky start. Rain began falling right after the command was given to start engines and the green flag was delayed until a small storm cell left the area.
And before the field could complete a lap, the engine in Brennan Poole’s No. 47 Chevrolet exploded, sending a plume of smoke into the cool night air and dropping a trail of oil on the track.
The smoke was an appropriate metaphor. For the rest of Stage 1, Gibbs smoked the rest of the field, leading 59 of the 60 laps.
By pitting early under caution on Lap 42, Noah Gragson inherited the lead when Gibbs brought his No. 54 Toyota to pit road at the Stage 1 conclusion, but it didn’t take Gibbs long to prevail on new tires. (Gragson’s winning chances would evaporate in a wild multicar wreck that stopped the first attempt at overtime almost before it started.)
On Lap 88, the 19-year-old Gibbs passed Gragson for the top spot and began to pull away until Stefan Parsons’ spin in Turn 2 on Lap 101 caused the fifth caution.
Undeterred, Gibbs maintained his advantage, but the restart on Lap 108 gave Jones the opportunity to slip past Gragson for second. Gibbs elected to pit under caution on Lap 117 after contact from Anthony Alfredo’s Chevrolet turned the Toyota of Derek Griffith in Turn 1, causing the sixth caution.
That handed the stage win to Jones, who surrendered the lead to Parsons—with Gibbs running fourth—by pitting during the stage break, along with other drivers who had stayed out to collect stage points.
It took Gibbs fewer than two circuits to regain the lead after a restart on Lap 129. But at that point, barely past halfway, there were still nine cautions, two overtimes and a fistfight to go.
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 | 88 | Dale Earnhardt Jr | Kannapolis, NC | Oct 10, 1974 | 47 | Chevrolet | Hellmann's Fridge Hunters | JR Motorsports | Jason Stockert |
3 | 66 | JJ Yeley | Phoenix, AZ | Oct 5, 1976 | 45 | Ford | Work Pro Tools | Motorsports Business Management | George Church |
4 | 10 | Landon Cassill | Cedar Rapids, IA | Jul 7, 1989 | 32 | Chevrolet | Chevy Trucks | Kaulig Racing | Jason Trinchere |
5 | 08 | David Starr | Houston, TX | Nov 11, 1967 | 54 | Ford | TicketSmarter | SS-GLR w/Jeff Lefcourt | Jason Miller |
6 | 18 | Ryan Truex | Mayetta, NJ | Mar 18, 1992 | 30 | Toyota | ShopUSAPickleball.com | Joe Gibbs Racing | Jason Ratcliff |
7 | 7 | Justin Allgaier | Riverton, IL | Jun 6, 1986 | 35 | Chevrolet | BRANDT | JR Motorsports | Jason Burdett |
8 | 02 | Brett Moffitt | Grimes, IA | Aug 7, 1992 | 29 | Chevrolet | Half Off Wholesale | Our Motorsports | Kris Bowen |
9 | 27 | Jeb Burton | Halifax, VA | Aug 6, 1992 | 29 | Chevrolet | Gods Pit Crew / Puryear Tank | Our Motorsports | Chad Walter |
10 | 45 | Ryan Ellis | Torrence, CA | Nov 29, 1989 | 32 | Chevrolet | KeenParts.com | Alpha Prime Racing | Kevin Eagle |
11 | 39 | Ryan Sieg | Tucker, GA | Jun 20, 1987 | 34 | Ford | CMRroofing.com / A-game | RSS Racing | Kevin Starland |
12 | 34 | Kyle Weatherman | Wentzville, MO | Aug 28, 1997 | 24 | Chevrolet | eRacing Association | Jesse Iwuji Motorsports | Jason Houghtaling |
13 | 11 | Daniel Hemric | Kannapolis, NC | Jan 27, 1991 | 31 | Chevrolet | Cirkul - Water Your Way | Kaulig Racing | Alex Yontz |
14 | 47 | Brennan Poole | Sacramento, CA | Apr 11, 1991 | 30 | Chevrolet | Save22.vet | Mike Harmon Racing | Ryan Bell |
15 | 52 | Harrison Rhodes | High Point, NC | Jul 15, 1993 | 28 | Chevrolet | American Dream | Means Motorsports | Tim Brown |
16 | 13 | Chad Finchum | Knoxville, TN | Sep 22, 1994 | 27 | Toyota | Garrison Homes / Units Storage | Motorsports Business Management | Carl Long |
17 | 4 | Bayley Currey | Driftwood, TX | Oct 29, 1996 | 25 | Chevrolet | JD Motorsports | JD Motorsports | Wayne Carroll Jr |
18 | 36 | Alex Labbe | Saint-Albert, Canada | Apr 29, 1993 | 28 | Chevrolet | Larue Industrial Snowblowers | DGM Racing | Nathan Kennedy |
19 | 21 | Austin Hill | Winston, GA | Apr 21, 1994 | 27 | Chevrolet | Bennett Transportation and Logistics | Richard Childress Racing | Andy Street |
20 | 68 | Brandon Brown | Woodbridge, VA | Sep 14, 1993 | 28 | Chevrolet | Solid Rock Carriers | Brandonbilt Motorsports | Doug Randolph |
21 | 19 | Brandon Jones | Atlanta, GA | Feb 18, 1997 | 25 | Toyota | Menards / Lyons | Joe Gibbs Racing | Jeff Meendering |
22 | 51 | Jeremy Clements | Spartanburg, SC | Jan 16, 1985 | 37 | Chevrolet | First Pacific Funding | Jeremy Clements Racing | Mark Setzer |
23 | 07 | Joe Graf Jr | Mahwah, NJ | Jul 12, 1998 | 23 | Ford | Bucked Up LFG BURN | SS-GLR w/Jeff Lefcourt | Joe Williams |
24 | 78 | Josh Williams | Port Charlotte, FL | Aug 3, 1993 | 28 | Chevrolet | Alloy Employment Services | BJ McLeod Motorsports | Adam Brooks |
25 | 5 | Matt Mills | Lynchburg, VA | Nov 14, 1996 | 25 | Chevrolet | J.F. Electric | BJ McLeod Motorsports | David Ingram |
26 | 31 | Myatt Snider | Charlotte, NC | Dec 30, 1994 | 27 | Chevrolet | TaxSlayer | Jordan Anderson Racing | Shane Whitbeck |
27 | 9 | Noah Gragson | Las Vegas, NV | Jul 15, 1998 | 23 | Chevrolet | Bass Pro Shops TrueTimber BRCC | JR Motorsports | Luke Lambert |
28 | 98 | Riley Herbst | Las Vegas, NV | Feb 24, 1999 | 23 | Ford | Monster Energy | Stewart-Haas Racing | Richard Boswell |
29 | 91 | Mason Massey | Douglasville, GA | Jan 24, 1997 | 25 | Chevrolet | Anderson Power Services | DGM Racing | Mario Gosselin |
30 | 23 | Anthony Alfredo | Ridgefield, CT | Mar 1, 1999 | 23 | Chevrolet | Sim Seats | Our Motorsports | Pat Tryson |
31 | 77 | Dillon Bassett | Winston-Salem, NC | Apr 2, 1997 | 25 | Chevrolet | Honest Amish | Bassett Racing | Ronnie Bassett Jr |
32 | 48 | Jade Buford | Brentwood, TN | Feb 15, 1988 | 34 | Chevrolet | Big Machine Vodka - Spiked Coolers | Big Machine Racing | Patrick Donahue |
33 | 6 | Ryan Vargas | La Miranda, CA | Sep 23, 2000 | 21 | Chevrolet | JD Motorsports | JD Motorsports | Kase Kallenbach |
34 | 99 | Stefan Parsons | Cornelius, NC | Jun 15, 1998 | 23 | Chevrolet | Sokal | BJ McLeod Motorsports | Mike Tyska |
35 | 35 | Shane Lee | Newton, NC | Jul 4, 1993 | 28 | Toyota | Kitty Kat Coin | Emerling Gase Motorsports | Rick Bourgeois |
36 | 2 | Sheldon Creed | Alpine, CA | Sep 30, 1997 | 24 | Chevrolet | Whelen | Richard Childress Racing | Jeff Stankiewicz |
37 | 8 | Josh Berry | Hendersonville, TN | Oct 22, 1990 | 31 | Chevrolet | Harrison's USA | JR Motorsports | Mike Bumgarner |
38 | 54 | Ty Gibbs | Charlotte, NC | Oct 4, 2002 | 19 | Toyota | Monster Energy | Joe Gibbs Racing | Chris Gayle |
39 | 28 | Natalie Decker | Eagle River, WI | Jun 25, 1997 | 24 | Ford | Nerd Focus | RSS Racing | Clifford Turner |
40 | 1 | Sam Mayer | Franklin, WI | Jun 26, 2003 | 18 | Chevrolet | Accelerate Pros Talent | JR Motorsports | Taylor Moyer |
41 | 26 | Derek Griffith | Hudson, NH | Feb 9, 1997 | 25 | Toyota | Toyota Racing | Sam Hunt Racing | Allen Hart |
42 | 44 | Howie Disavino III | Chesterfield, VA | Apr 10, 2001 | 20 | Chevrolet | Alpha Prime / Richard Green | Alpha Prime Racing | Frank Kerr |
43 | 38 | Parker Retzlaff | Rhinelander, WI | May 21, 2003 | 18 | Toyota | Ponsse | RSS Racing | Steve Addington |