Race Lineup

The official 2022 Contender Boats 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series race lineup, determined by qualifying results, shows the starting positions of all drivers at Homestead Miami Speedway.

Contender Boats 300

Saturday, October 22nd, 2022

Homestead Miami Speedway, Homestead, FL

  • 27 Chevrolet
  • 7 Toyota
  • 6 Ford

  • Homestead-Miami Speedway
  • 28th Annual Contender Boats 300
  • Pole Winner: Trevor Bayne
  • Age: 31
  • Team : No. 18 - Devotion Nutrition Toyota
  • Owner: Coy Gibbs
  • Crew Chief: Jason Ratcliff
  • Trevor Bayne won the Pole Award for the 28th Annual Contender Boats 300 with a lap of 32.4 seconds, 166.667 mph.
  • This is his ninth pole in 161 NASCAR Xfinity Series races.
  • This is his second pole and eighth top-10 start in 2022.
  • This is his first pole in five races at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
  • Noah Gragson (second) posted his 25th top-10 start of 2022 and his third in five races at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
  • Ty Gibbs (third) posted his first top-10 start at Homestead-Miami Speedway. It is his 26th in 31 races this season.
  • Sheldon Creed (seventh) was the fastest qualifying rookie.

  • Saturday, October 22nd, 2022
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Holly Cain
Noah Gragson punches ticket to Championship 4 with win at Homestead

Noah Gragson has led plenty of laps at Homestead-Miami Speedway with three Top-10 finishes in his four starts before this weekend. And Saturday night - at long last - Gragson earned the Xfinity Series winner's trophy to go with all his statistical success at the South Florida track.

The 23-year-old Las Vegas native led a dominating 127 of the 200 laps - at one point his No. 9 JR Motorsports Chevy was out front by more than 9-seconds. Ultimately it took a strong restart with five laps remaining for Gragson to ensure the victory - .550-seconds over fellow NASCAR Xfinity Series championship challenger Ty Gibbs.

The win is Gragson's automatic ticket to the Championship 4 at Phoenix Raceway in two weeks - a fitting placement for the young driver who leads the series with eight wins, more than doubling his previous career high single-season win tally.

"I wanted this one so bad," Gragson said, raising his hand in celebration with the cheering crowd. "The last three years. ... Words can't describe how thankful I am for everybody at JR Motorsports."

The Xfinity Series race wrapped up a huge NASCAR doubleheader Saturday with the dominating Gragson victory. He won both stages giving him 16 stage wins on the season - more than twice as many as any other driver.

Gragson now joins his JR Motorsports teammate Josh Berry - last week's winner - with the automatic Championship 4 berth with two positions still to be decided.

Gibbs' runner-up finish places him third in the championship standings. He's a healthy 30 points ahead of fourth place, Kaulig Racing's A.J. Allmendinger with next week's Martinsville (Va.) Speedway race settling which four drivers will be racing for the title at Phoenix on Nov. 4.

"We were just battling our race car all day, we made great adjustments and my guys never gave up," said the 20-year old Gibbs who was making his Homestead-Miami Speedway debut.

"We'll move on to Martinsville. I feel like that's a place we were really fast at earlier this year and probably had a shot to win it so I'm excited to back there.

JR Motorsports driver Justin Allgaier, who had an eventful day, finished 10th coming back from being a lap down. He now trails Allmendinger by only five points for that final Playoff berth. Richard Childress Racing's Austin Hill sits seven points below the cutoff line with a ninth-place Homestead finish.

JR Motorsports driver Sam Mayer, who finished fifth Saturday is now 28 points behind Allmendinger and Joe Gibbs Racing's Brandon Jones is 28 points back after finishing 15th.

Gibbs and Allmendinger were among the seven race leaders on the day. But if not for that late race caution, it looked like a sure Gragson runaway.

Allmendinger finished third with his Kaulig Racing teammate Daniel Hemric fourth. Mayer was fifth. Trevor Bayne finished sixth - his 47 laps led in the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota second only to Gragson's high mark.

Chandler Smith, who hours earlier at Homestead earned a Championship 4 position in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, finished seventh. Riley Herbst, Hill and Allgaier rounded out the Top-10.

The Xfinity Series will set its four-driver Championship grid next Saturday in the Dead On Tools 250 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway (3 p.m. ET, NBC, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Gragson is the defending winner of this Playoff race. Jones won at Martinsville this Spring.

  • Drivers Entered: 40 (2 drivers will not make the race)
  • Laps Scheduled: 167
  • Laps Actual: 200 - NASCAR OVERTIME!
  • Margin of Victory: 0.550 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 2 Hours 24 Minutes 28 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 124.884
  • Cautions: 4 for 24 laps
  • Lead Changes: 13
  • Green Flag Passes: 1,815 (10.3 passes per green flag lap)

  • Homestead-Miami Speedway
  • 28th Annual Contender Boats 300
  • Race Winner: Noah Gragson
  • Age: 24
  • Team : No. 9 - Bass Pro Shops/TrueTimber/BRCC Chevrolet
  • Owner: Rick Hendrick
  • Crew Chief: Lucas Lambert
  • Noah Gragson won the 28th Annual Contender Boats 300, his 13th victory in 133 Xfinity Series races.
  • This is his eighth victory and 24th top-10 finish in 2022.
  • This is his first victory and fourth top-10 finish in five races at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
  • Ty Gibbs (second) posted his first top-10 finish in one race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. It is his 21st top-10 finish in 2022.
  • AJ Allmendinger (third) posted his second top-10 finish in four races at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
  • Austin Hill (ninth) was the highest finishing rookie.
  • Noah Gragson leads the point standings by 31 points over Ty Gibbs.
Trevor Bayne poses for photos after winning the pole award
Homestead, Florida - October 21, 2022 : Trevor Bayne, driver of the #18 Devotion Nutrition Toyota, poses for photos after winning the pole award for the NASCAR Xfinity Series Contender Boats 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
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Race lineup for the Contender Boats 300 at Homestead Miami Speedway
ST # DRIVER MAKE SPD TIME BHND SPONSOR TEAM CREW CHIEF
1 18 Trevor Bayne Toyota 166.667 32.400 0.000 Devotion Nutrition Joe Gibbs Racing Jason Ratcliff
2 9 Noah Gragson Chevrolet 165.731 32.583 0.183 Bass Pro Shops TrueTimber BRCC Jr Motorsports Luke Lambert
3 54 Ty Gibbs Toyota 165.269 32.674 0.274 Monster Energy Joe Gibbs Racing Chris Gayle
4 11 Daniel Hemric Chevrolet 164.770 32.773 0.373 AG1 - Athletic Greens Kaulig Racing Jason Trinchere
5 19 Brandon Jones Toyota 164.494 32.828 0.428 Menards\Jeld-Wen Joe Gibbs Racing Jeff Meendering
6 1 Sam Mayer Chevrolet 164.359 32.855 0.455 Accelerate Pros Talent Jr Motorsports Taylor Moyer
7 2 Sheldon Creed Chevrolet 164.284 32.870 0.470 Whelen Richard Childress Racing Jeff Stankiewicz
8 34 Kyle Weatherman Chevrolet 164.204 32.886 0.486 SELE Foundation Jesse Iwuji Motorsports Dan Stillman
9 26 Chandler Smith Toyota 164.109 32.905 0.505 WearMe / ChargeMe Sam Hunt Racing Allen Hart
10 21 Austin Hill Chevrolet 164.094 32.908 0.508 United Rentals Richard Childress Racing Andy Street
11 48 Nicholas Sanchez Chevrolet 164.034 32.920 0.520 Big Machine Racing Spiked Big Machine Racing Patrick Donahue
12 8 Josh Berry Chevrolet 163.979 32.931 0.531 High Rock Vodka Jr Motorsports Mike Bumgarner
13 16 AJ Allmendinger Chevrolet 163.954 32.936 0.536 Action Industries Kaulig Racing Bruce Schlicker
14 66 JJ Yeley Toyota 163.865 32.954 0.554 WorkPro Breast Cancer Aware Motorsports Business Management George Church
15 98 Riley Herbst Ford 162.975 33.134 0.734 Monster Energy Stewart-haas Racing Richard Boswell
16 10 Landon Cassill Chevrolet 162.950 33.139 0.739 Voyager: Crypto for All Kaulig Racing Alex Yontz
17 07 Joe Graf Jr Ford 162.837 33.162 0.762 Bucked Up Energy Ss-glr W/jeff Lefcourt Joe Williams
18 45 Stefan Parsons Chevrolet 162.641 33.202 0.802 Clear Cryptos Alpha Prime Racing Frank Kerr
19 31 Myatt Snider Chevrolet 162.636 33.203 0.803 TaxSlayer Jordan Anderson Racing Shane Whitbeck
20 7 Justin Allgaier Chevrolet 161.914 33.351 0.951 The BRANDT Foundation Jr Motorsports Jason Burdett
21 27 Jeb Burton Chevrolet 161.672 33.401 1.001 Larry's Lemonade Beach Bash Our Motorsports Chad Walter
22 13 Timmy Hill Toyota 161.652 33.405 1.005 Generx Generators Motorsports Business Management Jason Houghtaling
23 4 Bayley Currey Chevrolet 161.561 33.424 1.024 KSDT CPA Jd Motorsports Wayne Carroll Jr
24 6 Brennan Poole Chevrolet 161.401 33.457 1.057 Macc Door Systems Jd Motorsports Kase Kallenbach
25 39 Ryan Sieg Ford 161.271 33.484 1.084 CMRroofing.com\ A-game Rss Racing Kevin Starland
26 51 Jeremy Clements Chevrolet 160.963 33.548 1.148 Fly & Form Concrete Structures Jeremy Clements Racing Mark Setzer
27 78 BJ McLeod Chevrolet 160.949 33.551 1.151 B.J. McLeod Motorsports Bj Mcleod Motorsports Mike Tyska
28 91 Mason Massey Chevrolet 160.944 33.552 1.152 Anderson Power Services Dgm Racing Mario Gosselin
29 02 Parker Retzlaff Chevrolet 160.714 33.600 1.200 Funkaway Our Motorsports Kris Bowen
30 35 Patrick Emerling Toyota 160.662 33.611 1.211 Emerling Gase Motorsports Emerling Gase Motorsports Rick Bourgeois
31 08 David Starr Ford 160.600 33.624 1.224 TicketSmarter/Special Report Ss-glr W/jeff Lefcourt Jason Miller
32 36 Josh Williams Chevrolet 160.199 33.708 1.308 Star Tron / Alloy Dgm Racing Nathan Kennedy
33 28 Kyle Sieg Ford 160.066 33.736 1.336 CMRroofing.com Rss Racing Andrew May
34 68 Kris Wright Chevrolet 159.934 0.000 32.400 iHeart Radio Brandonbilt Motorsports Doug Randolph
35 23 Anthony Alfredo Chevrolet 159.830 0.000 32.400 Dude Wipes Our Motorsports Pat Tryson
36 5 Matt Mills Chevrolet 159.584 0.000 32.400 J.F. Electric Bj Mcleod Motorsports David Ingram
37 44 Julia Landauer Chevrolet 158.646 0.000 32.400 Atem Car Club Alpha Prime Racing Michael Brandt
38 38 CJ McLaughlin Ford 157.379 0.000 32.400 SciAps Rss Racing Steve Addington