The official 2022 Call 811 Before You Dig 250 NASCAR XFINITY Series race lineup, determined by qualifying results, shows the starting positions of all drivers at Martinsville Speedway.
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.
ST | # | DRIVER | MAKE | SPD | TIME | BHND | SPONSOR | TEAM | CREW CHIEF |
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1 | 54 | Ty Gibbs | Toyota | 95.985 | 19.728 | 0.000 | Monster Energy | Joe Gibbs Racing | Chris Gayle |
2 | 7 | Justin Allgaier | Chevrolet | 95.496 | 19.829 | 0.101 | BRANDT | Jr Motorsports | Jason Burdett |
3 | 9 | Noah Gragson | Chevrolet | 95.347 | 19.860 | 0.132 | Bass Pro Shops TrueTimber BRCC | Jr Motorsports | Luke Lambert |
4 | 18 | Ryan Truex | Toyota | 95.041 | 19.924 | 0.196 | ShopUSAPickleball.com | Joe Gibbs Racing | Jason Ratcliff |
5 | 2 | Sheldon Creed | Chevrolet | 94.979 | 19.937 | 0.209 | Whelen | Richard Childress Racing | Jeff Stankiewicz |
6 | 02 | Brett Moffitt | Chevrolet | 94.917 | 19.950 | 0.222 | Half Off Wholesale | Our Motorsports | Kris Bowen |
7 | 10 | Landon Cassill | Chevrolet | 94.860 | 19.962 | 0.234 | Chevy Trucks | Kaulig Racing | Jason Trinchere |
8 | 39 | Ryan Sieg | Ford | 94.727 | 19.990 | 0.262 | CMRroofing.com / A-game | Rss Racing | Kevin Starland |
9 | 11 | Daniel Hemric | Chevrolet | 94.637 | 20.009 | 0.281 | Cirkul - Water Your Way | Kaulig Racing | Alex Yontz |
10 | 8 | Josh Berry | Chevrolet | 94.515 | 20.035 | 0.307 | Harrison's USA | Jr Motorsports | Mike Bumgarner |
11 | 98 | Riley Herbst | Ford | 94.331 | 20.074 | 0.346 | Monster Energy | Stewart-haas Racing | Richard Boswell |
12 | 19 | Brandon Jones | Toyota | 94.317 | 20.077 | 0.349 | Menards / Lyons | Joe Gibbs Racing | Jeff Meendering |
13 | 16 | AJ Allmendinger | Chevrolet | 94.275 | 20.086 | 0.358 | Action Industries | Kaulig Racing | Bruce Schlicker |
14 | 21 | Austin Hill | Chevrolet | 94.186 | 20.105 | 0.377 | Bennett Transportation and Logistic… | Richard Childress Racing | Andy Street |
15 | 51 | Jeremy Clements | Chevrolet | 94.176 | 20.107 | 0.379 | First Pacific Funding | Jeremy Clements Racing | Mark Setzer |
16 | 23 | Anthony Alfredo | Chevrolet | 94.064 | 20.131 | 0.403 | Sim Seats | Our Motorsports | Pat Tryson |
17 | 68 | Brandon Brown | Chevrolet | 93.999 | 20.145 | 0.417 | Solid Rock Carriers | Brandonbilt Motorsports | Doug Randolph |
18 | 36 | Alex Labbe | Chevrolet | 93.980 | 20.149 | 0.421 | Larue Industrial Snowblowers | Dgm Racing | Nathan Kennedy |
19 | 31 | Myatt Snider | Chevrolet | 93.952 | 20.155 | 0.427 | TaxSlayer | Jordan Anderson Racing | Shane Whitbeck |
20 | 38 | Parker Retzlaff | Toyota | 93.933 | 20.159 | 0.431 | Ponsse | Rss Racing | Steve Addington |
21 | 1 | Sam Mayer | Chevrolet | 93.919 | 20.162 | 0.434 | Accelerate Pros Talent | Jr Motorsports | Taylor Moyer |
22 | 44 | Howie Disavino III | Chevrolet | 93.766 | 20.195 | 0.467 | Alpha Prime / Richard Green | Alpha Prime Racing | Frank Kerr |
23 | 99 | Stefan Parsons | Chevrolet | 93.373 | 20.280 | 0.552 | Sokal | Bj Mcleod Motorsports | Mike Tyska |
24 | 07 | Joe Graf Jr | Ford | 93.244 | 20.308 | 0.580 | Bucked Up LFG BURN | Ss-glr W/jeff Lefcourt | Joe Williams |
25 | 27 | Jeb Burton | Chevrolet | 93.134 | 20.332 | 0.604 | Gods Pit Crew / Puryear Tank | Our Motorsports | Chad Walter |
26 | 91 | Mason Massey | Chevrolet | 93.020 | 20.357 | 0.629 | Anderson Power Services | Dgm Racing | Mario Gosselin |
27 | 34 | Kyle Weatherman | Chevrolet | 92.992 | 20.363 | 0.635 | eRacing Association | Jesse Iwuji Motorsports | Jason Houghtaling |
28 | 35 | Shane Lee | Toyota | 92.860 | 20.392 | 0.664 | Kitty Kat Coin | Emerling Gase Motorsports | Rick Bourgeois |
29 | 4 | Bayley Currey | Chevrolet | 92.833 | 20.398 | 0.670 | JD Motorsports | Jd Motorsports | Wayne Carroll Jr |
30 | 88 | Dale Earnhardt Jr | Chevrolet | 92.792 | 20.407 | 0.679 | Hellmann's Fridge Hunters | Jr Motorsports | Jason Stockert |
31 | 48 | Jade Buford | Chevrolet | 92.783 | 20.409 | 0.681 | Big Machine Vodka - Spiked Coolers | Big Machine Racing | Patrick Donahue |
32 | 47 | Brennan Poole | Chevrolet | 92.733 | 20.420 | 0.692 | Save22.vet | Mike Harmon Racing | Ryan Bell |
33 | 66 | JJ Yeley | Ford | 92.624 | 20.444 | 0.716 | Work Pro Tools | Motorsports Business Management | George Church |
34 | 6 | Ryan Vargas | Chevrolet | 92.592 | 0.000 | 19.728 | JD Motorsports | Jd Motorsports | Kase Kallenbach |
35 | 08 | David Starr | Ford | 92.465 | 0.000 | 19.728 | TicketSmarter | Ss-glr W/jeff Lefcourt | Jason Miller |
36 | 26 | Derek Griffith | Toyota | 92.065 | 0.000 | 19.728 | Toyota Racing | Sam Hunt Racing | Allen Hart |
37 | 5 | Matt Mills | Chevrolet | 91.505 | 0.000 | 19.728 | J.F. Electric | Bj Mcleod Motorsports | David Ingram |
38 | 28 | Natalie Decker | Ford | 90.227 | 0.000 | 19.728 | Nerd Focus | Rss Racing | Clifford Turner |