Race Lineup

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.

Call 811 Before You Dig 250

Friday, April 8th, 2022

Martinsville Speedway, Ridgeway, VA

  • 30 Chevrolet
  • 6 Ford
  • 7 Toyota

  • Martinsville Speedway
  • 2nd Annual Call 811 Before You Dig 250 Powered by Call811.com
  • Pole Winner: Ty Gibbs
  • Age: 19
  • Team : No. 54 - Monster Energy Toyota
  • Owner: Coy Gibbs
  • Crew Chief: Chris Gayle
  • Ty Gibbs won the Pole Award for the 2nd Annual Call 811 Before You Dig 250 Powered by Call811.com with a lap of 19.728 seconds, 95.985 mph.
  • This is his fourth pole in 26 NASCAR Xfinity Series races.
  • This is his third pole and fifth top-10 start in 2022.
  • This is his first pole in three races at Martinsville Speedway.
  • Justin Allgaier (second) posted his third top-10 start of 2022 and his fourth in four races at Martinsville Speedway.
  • Noah Gragson (third) posted his fourth top-10 start at Martinsville Speedway. It is his sixth in eight races this season.
  • Sheldon Creed (fifth) was the fastest qualifying rookie.

  • Friday, April 8th, 2022
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Brandon Jones snatches victory from Ty Gibbs in Martinsville brawl

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.

  • Drivers Entered: 43 (5 drivers will not make the race)
  • Laps Scheduled: 250
  • Laps Actual: 261 - NASCAR OVERTIME!
  • Margin of Victory: 0.677 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 2 Hours 26 Minutes 50 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 56.099
  • Cautions: 16 for 100 laps
  • Lead Changes: 12
  • Green Flag Passes: 1,497 (9.3 passes per green flag lap)

  • Martinsville Speedway
  • 2nd Annual Call 811 Before You Dig 250 Powered by Call811.com
  • Race Winner: Brandon Jones
  • Age: 25
  • Team : No. 19 - Menards/Lyons Toyota
  • Owner: Joe Gibbs
  • Crew Chief: Jeff Meendering
  • Brandon Jones won the 2nd Annual Call 811 Before You Dig 250 Powered by Call811.com, his fifth victory in 211 Xfinity Series races.
  • This is his first victory and fourth top-10 finish in 2022.
  • This is his first victory and fourth top-10 finish in four races at Martinsville Speedway.
  • Landon Cassill (second) posted his first top-10 finish in three races at Martinsville Speedway. It is his fourth top-10 finish in 2022.
  • AJ Allmendinger (third) posted his second top-10 finish in four races at Martinsville Speedway.
  • Austin Hill (fourth) was the highest finishing rookie.
  • AJ Allmendinger leads the point standings by 20 points over Ty Gibbs.
Dale Earnhardt Jr drives during practice
Martinsville, Virginia - April 7, 2022 : Dale Earnhardt Jr, driver of the #88 Hellmann's Fridge Hunters Chevrolet, drives during practice for the NASCAR Xfinity Series Call 811 Before You Dig 250 powered by Call 811.com at Martinsville Speedway.
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Race lineup for the Call 811 Before You Dig 250 at Martinsville Speedway
ST # DRIVER MAKE SPD TIME BHND SPONSOR TEAM CREW CHIEF
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