Race Lineup

The official 2022 Nalley Cars 250 NASCAR XFINITY Series race lineup, determined by qualifying results, shows the starting positions of all drivers at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Nalley Cars 250

Saturday, March 19th, 2022

Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton, GA

  • 27 Chevrolet
  • 6 Ford
  • 5 Toyota

  • Saturday, March 19th, 2022
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Reid Spencer
Dramatic overtime pass gives Ty Gibbs second NASCAR Xfinity win of 2022

With a brilliant move to the inside of leader Ryan Sieg on the final lap of a second overtime, Ty Gibbs seized control of Saturday's Nalley Cars 250 at Atlanta Motor Speedway and won by .178 seconds over runner-up Austin Hill.

Overcoming a mistake on pit road, where he overshot his stall, Gibbs rallied to run near the front as the race reached the end of regulation and moved into overtime.

In the second extra period, which pushed the event nine laps past its scheduled distance of 163 laps, Gibbs lined up in the outside lane behind Sieg, developed a huge run off Turn 4 and steered to the inside to take the top spot as the cars approached Turn 1 for the final time.

The last lap was the only one Gibbs would lead, but it propelled him to his second victory in five starts this season and his sixth in 23 NASCAR Xfinity Series races.

"What the heck? Oh, my gosh! I didn't expect this at all," said Gibbs, who at age 19 already is building a formidable legacy. "That's one where I learned a big lesson-just never give up… Now I'm going to go party with the boys-let's go!"

On a 1.54-mile track that raced like a superspeedway, in a race that produced an event-record-tying 10 cautions for 56 laps, Hill salvaged second place after surrendering the lead to Sieg on the first attempt at overtime.

"RCR (Richard Childress Racing) built a very fast race car," said Hill, who won the season-opening race at Daytona. "They gave me everything I needed to win the race. I think the biggest difference was when we had that other restart, the 39 (Sieg) inched me out.

"The yellow came out. I think that was the biggest difference, because I think if we could have kept the lead there and controlled it, I think we had a fast enough car to get the job done. But hats off to the 54 guys. They did a good job today. He made the right moves at the right time, and we'll have to go on to the next one. It stings, but we've got to hold our heads up."

AJ Allmendinger ran third, followed by Riley Herbst and Landon Cassill. Mason Massey, Brandon Jones, Kyle Weatherman, Sheldon Creed and Sieg completed the top 10.

Two significant streaks came to an end in Saturday's race. Noah Gragson was collected in a wreck on the backstretch on Lap 153, stopping a string of four straight top-three finishes to start the season. In the same wreck, Justin Allgaier nosed into the outside wall and fell out of the race in 34th place, ending a streak of 16 straight top-10 results.

Josh Berry stole the first stage from JR motorsports teammate Gragson, grabbing the top spot on the final lap. Working with a new pit crew, Gragson restarted 21st after a slow stop under the stage break caution and compounded the error by scraping the Turn 2 wall four laps later.

Gragson lost a lap in the pits under green but took a wave-around to regain the lead lap during the break after the second stage, won by AJ Allmendinger. Gragson got the caution he needed on Lap 106 when the Chevrolet of Jade Buford spun sideways and collected Jeremy Clements' Chevy in the process.

But as he was gaining ground late in the race, Gragson fell victim to the multicar wreck on Lap 153, when Trevor Bayne, who led 38 laps, slid up in front of Allmendinger, who led a race-high 41.

  • Drivers Entered: 38
  • Laps Scheduled: 163
  • Laps Actual: 172 - NASCAR OVERTIME!
  • Margin of Victory: 0.178 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 2 Hours 36 Minutes 39 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 101.454
  • Cautions: 10 for 56 laps
  • Lead Changes: 11
  • Green Flag Passes: 3,126 (26.9 passes per green flag lap)

  • Atlanta Motor Speedway
  • 31st Annual Nalley Cars 250
  • Race Winner: Ty Gibbs
  • Age: 19
  • Team : No. 54 - Sport Clips Haircuts Toyota
  • Owner: Coy Gibbs
  • Crew Chief: Chris Gayle
  • Ty Gibbs won the 31st Annual Nalley Cars 250, his sixth victory in 23 Xfinity Series races.
  • This is his second victory and third top-10 finish in 2022.
  • This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in one race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
  • Austin Hill (second) posted his first top-10 finish in one race at Atlanta Motor Speedway. It is his second top-10 finish in 2022.
  • AJ Allmendinger (third) posted his third top-10 finish in four races at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
  • Austin Hill (second) was the highest finishing rookie.
  • Noah Gragson leads the point standings by 19 points over Ty Gibbs.
Noah Gragson and Josh Berry lead the field to the green flag
Hampton, Georgia - March 19, 2022 : Noah Gragson, driver of the #9 Bass Pro Shops/TrueTimber/BRCC Chevrolet, and Josh Berry, driver of the #8 Harrison's USA Chevrolet, lead the field to the green flag to start the NASCAR Xfinity Series Nalley Cars 250 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
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Race lineup for the Nalley Cars 250 at Atlanta Motor Speedway
ST # DRIVER MAKE SPD TIME BHND SPONSOR TEAM CREW CHIEF
1 9 Noah Gragson Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 Bass Pro Shops TrueTimber BRCC Jr Motorsports Luke Lambert
2 8 Josh Berry Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 Harrison's USA Jr Motorsports Mike Bumgarner
3 19 Brandon Jones Toyota 0.000 0.000 0.000 Menards / Pentair Joe Gibbs Racing Jeff Meendering
4 54 Ty Gibbs Toyota 0.000 0.000 0.000 Sport Clips Haircuts Joe Gibbs Racing Chris Gayle
5 18 Trevor Bayne Toyota 0.000 0.000 0.000 Devotion Nutrition Joe Gibbs Racing Jason Ratcliff
6 7 Justin Allgaier Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 Axalta Nalley Clicklane Jr Motorsports Jason Burdett
7 16 AJ Allmendinger Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 Action Industries Kaulig Racing Bruce Schlicker
8 11 Daniel Hemric Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 AG1 - Athletic Greens Kaulig Racing Alex Yontz
9 39 Ryan Sieg Ford 0.000 0.000 0.000 CMRroofing.com\ A-game Rss Racing Kevin Starland
10 10 Landon Cassill Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 Voyager: Crypto for All Kaulig Racing Jason Trinchere
11 68 Brandon Brown Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 Zero FG Energy Drink Brandonbilt Motorsports Doug Randolph
12 27 Jeb Burton Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 Int'l Championship Boxing Our Motorsports Chad Walter
13 2 Sheldon Creed Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 Whelen Richard Childress Racing Jeff Stankiewicz
14 21 Austin Hill Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 Bennett Transportation and Logistic… Richard Childress Racing Andy Street
15 1 Sam Mayer Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 Accelerate Pros Talent Jr Motorsports Taylor Moyer
16 02 Brett Moffitt Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 Hometown Lenders Our Motorsports Kris Bowen
17 36 Alex Labbe Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 Studio Fore / Pork Missile Dgm Racing Corey Cashman
18 51 Jeremy Clements Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 Fly and Form Structures Jeremy Clements Racing Mark Setzer
19 26 Jeffrey Earnhardt Toyota 0.000 0.000 0.000 ForeverLawn Sam Hunt Racing Allen Hart
20 4 Bayley Currey Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 KSDT CPA Jd Motorsports Wayne Carroll Jr
21 66 JJ Yeley Ford 0.000 0.000 0.000 Work Pro Tools Motorsports Business Management George Church
22 31 Myatt Snider Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 TaxSlayer Jordan Anderson Racing Shane Whitbeck
23 07 Joe Graf Jr Ford 0.000 0.000 0.000 GTECHNIQ Ss-glr W/jeff Lefcourt Joe Williams
24 98 Riley Herbst Ford 0.000 0.000 0.000 Monster Energy Stewart-haas Racing Richard Boswell
25 99 Stefan Parsons Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 SOKAL Bj Mcleod Motorsports Mike Tyska
26 91 Mason Massey Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 Anderson Power Services Dgm Racing Mario Gosselin
27 23 Anthony Alfredo Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 Digital Allly Companies Our Motorsports Pat Tryson
28 92 Kyle Weatherman Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 LS Tractor Dgm Racing Nathan Kennedy
29 44 Sage Karam Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 The Driveway Company Alpha Prime Racing Dan Stillman
30 48 Jade Buford Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 Big Machine Spiked Coolers Big Machine Racing Patrick Donahue
31 28 Kyle Sieg Ford 0.000 0.000 0.000 A-Game Rss Racing Steve Addington
32 6 Ryan Vargas Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 TeamJDMotorsports.com Jd Motorsports Kase Kallenbach
33 5 Matt Mills Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 J.F. Electric Bj Mcleod Motorsports David Ingram
34 38 Loris Hezemans Ford 0.000 0.000 0.000 Hezeberg Systems Rss Racing Andrew May
35 35 Shane Lee Toyota 0.000 0.000 0.000 Kitty Kat Coin Emerling Gase Motorsports Rick Bourgeois
36 78 Josh Williams Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 COOLRAY Bj Mcleod Motorsports Daniel Johnson
37 45 Tommy Joe Martins Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 AP Regimen Legacy Series Alpha Prime Racing Paul Clapprood
38 34 Jesse Iwuji Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 0.000 Equity Prime Mortgage Jesse Iwuji Motorsports Jason Houghtaling