The official 2022 Wawa 250 Powered by Coca-Cola NASCAR XFINITY Series race lineup, determined by qualifying results, shows the starting positions of all drivers at Daytona International Speedway.
Friday, August 26th, 2022
Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, FL
Friday night's bizarre, attrition-filled, rain-delayed NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Daytona International Speedway produced an appropriately unexpected outcome when Jeremy Clements took the checkered flag under caution at the end of the third attempt at overtime.
Clements' victory in the Wawa 250, a race that started roughly three hours late and ended shortly before 1:30 a.m. on Saturday, was his first at Daytona and the second of his career. Both of Clements victories have come on August 27, his first at Road America on Aug. 27, 2017.
"I'm speechless, man - I don't even know what to say," said Clements, who grabbed a Playoff spot with the victory and shoved Ryan Sieg into 13th place in the standings, 12 points below the cut line. "We survived that big wreck back there (in the first overtime). It was like a 'Days of Thunder' wreck.
"Then I was like, 'If we can just keep up with these guys, it'll be a good day - top five and bring this car home in one piece.' But, wow! This is incredible."
As race leader Austin Hill lost electrical power and steered his Chevrolet to the apron, Clements got a push from Sage Karam on the third overtime restart on Lap 117 and was out front on the final lap when NASCAR called the 11th caution for Riley Herbst's spin on the backstretch. Timmy Hill finished second, followed by AJ Allmendinger, Brandon Brown and Karam, who posted his career-best finish.
Eighteen of the 38 cars that started the race were already in the garage when Clements took the checkered flag.
A massive multicar wreck on Lap 98 of a scheduled 100 sent the race to overtime. First, Landon Cassill's Chevrolet slapped the outside wall and collided with Jeb Burton's Camaro.
Then, at the front of the field, Daniel Hemric moved down the track and turned off the nose of Noah Gragson Chevrolet, igniting a melee that involved eight cars.
But that was just the appetizer before a feast of crumpled chassis that followed the restart for the first attempt at overtime. On Lap 104, Brown's Chevrolet got loose on the backstretch in front of Riley Herbst's Ford.
Brown spun, and 13 cars were damaged in the ensuing chaos. But the hardest hit of the night came on overtime attempt No. 2.
Chain reaction contact between the cars of Clements, Allmendinger and Noah Gragson turned Gragson into the path of Landon Cassill's Chevrolet. The impact from Cassill's car spun Gragson around 360 degrees and tore the body off the front clip.
Gragson had led a race-high 54 laps at that point.
A multicar accident on Lap 83 put a dent in Sheldon Creed's Playoff hopes and destroyed his No. 2 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet.
John Hunter Nemechek's No. 26 Toyota got loose off Turn 2 and spun off the front bumper of Brown's Chevy.
"All of a sudden, I was looking at the inside wall," Nemechek said. "I'm not sure what happened, but I felt like I was hooked in the left rear."
Creed's Camaro hit Nemechek's car and spun to the inside and shot back across the track into traffic, demolishing Joe Graf Jr.'s Ford. The wreck kept Creed below the Playoff cut line, 55 points behind Cassill for the last spot, with three races left before the Playoff field is set.
ST | # | DRIVER | MAKE | SPD | TIME | BHND | SPONSOR | TEAM | CREW CHIEF |
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1 | 16 | AJ Allmendinger | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Action Industries | Kaulig Racing | Bruce Schlicker |
2 | 9 | Noah Gragson | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Bass Pro Shops TrueTimber BRCC | Jr Motorsports | Luke Lambert |
3 | 18 | Sammy Smith | Toyota | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Pilot Flying J | Joe Gibbs Racing | Jason Ratcliff |
4 | 1 | Sam Mayer | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Accelerate Pros Talent | Jr Motorsports | Taylor Moyer |
5 | 8 | Josh Berry | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Tire Pros Summer for Heroes | Jr Motorsports | Mike Bumgarner |
6 | 98 | Riley Herbst | Ford | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Monster Energy | Stewart-haas Racing | Richard Boswell |
7 | 2 | Sheldon Creed | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Whelen | Richard Childress Racing | Jeff Stankiewicz |
8 | 54 | Ty Gibbs | Toyota | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Monster Energy | Joe Gibbs Racing | Chris Gayle |
9 | 51 | Jeremy Clements | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | One Stop / ASE | Jeremy Clements Racing | Mark Setzer |
10 | 10 | Landon Cassill | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Voyager: Crypto for All | Kaulig Racing | Jason Trinchere |
11 | 39 | Ryan Sieg | Ford | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | A-GAME | Rss Racing | Kevin Starland |
12 | 19 | Brandon Jones | Toyota | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Menards\Patriot Lighting | Joe Gibbs Racing | Jeff Meendering |
13 | 23 | Anthony Alfredo | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Pit Boss Grills | Our Motorsports | Pat Tryson |
14 | 21 | Austin Hill | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | United Rentals | Richard Childress Racing | Andy Street |
15 | 7 | Justin Allgaier | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | hellowater | Jr Motorsports | Jason Burdett |
16 | 11 | Daniel Hemric | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Cirkul - Water Your Way | Kaulig Racing | Alex Yontz |
17 | 48 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Big Machine Spiked Coolers | Big Machine Racing | Patrick Donahue |
18 | 2 | Blaine Perkins | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Hometown Lenders | Our Motorsports | Kris Bowen |
19 | 26 | John Hunter Nemechek | Toyota | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Freedom 13 | Sam Hunt Racing | Allen Hart |
20 | 7 | Joe Graf Jr | Ford | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | GTECHNIQ | Ss-glr W/jeff Lefcourt | Joe Williams |
21 | 36 | Alex Labbe | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Can-Am | Dgm Racing | Nathan Kennedy |
22 | 31 | Myatt Snider | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | TaxSlayer | Jordan Anderson Racing | Shane Whitbeck |
23 | 4 | Bayley Currey | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Alka-Seltzer | Jd Motorsports | Wayne Carroll Jr |
24 | 44 | Sage Karam | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Clermont Lakes/Alt-Tab Capital | Alpha Prime Racing | Frank Kerr |
25 | 68 | Brandon Brown | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Brandonbilt Motorsports | Brandonbilt Motorsports | Doug Randolph |
26 | 08 | David Starr | Ford | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | EVERFI / Special Report | Ss-glr W/jeff Lefcourt | Jason Miller |
27 | 91 | Mason Massey | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | BRUNT Workwear | Dgm Racing | Mario Gosselin |
28 | 66 | JJ Yeley | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | IEC My Electric Career | Motorsports Business Management | George Church |
29 | 27 | Jeb Burton | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Alliance Aviation | Our Motorsports | Chad Walter |
30 | 45 | Caesar Bacarella | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Clear Cryptos | Alpha Prime Racing | Michael Brandt |
31 | 35 | Joey Gase | Toyota | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | NCPC.ORG | Emerling Gase Motorsports | Rick Bourgeois |
32 | 38 | Kyle Sieg | Ford | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Trouble spirits/Mafe | Rss Racing | Andrew May |
33 | 78 | Matt Mills | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | J.F. Electric | Bj Mcleod Motorsports | Mike Tyska |
34 | 34 | Jesse Iwuji | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Coca-Cola Zero Sugar | Jesse Iwuji Motorsports | Dan Stillman |
35 | Patrick Emerling | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |||||
36 | 6 | Ryan Vargas | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | National Metering Services | Jd Motorsports | Kase Kallenbach |
37 | 13 | Timmy Hill | Toyota | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Coble Enterprises / VSI Racing | Motorsports Business Management | Jason Houghtaling |
38 | 14 | Justin Haley | Chevrolet | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | DaaBIN Store | Kaulig Racing | Justin Cox |