Race Lineup

The official 2022 Ag-Pro 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series race lineup, determined by qualifying results, shows the starting positions of all drivers at Talladega Superspeedway.

Ag-Pro 300

Saturday, April 23rd, 2022

Talladega Superspeedway, Lincoln, AL

  • 27 Chevrolet
  • 7 Ford
  • 7 Toyota

  • Talladega Superspeedway
  • 31st Annual Ag-Pro 300
  • Pole Winner: Jeffrey Earnhardt
  • Age: 32
  • Team: No. 3 - ForeverLawn Chevrolet
  • Owner: Richard Childress Racing
  • Crew Chief: Larry McReynolds
  • Jeffrey Earnhardt won the Pole Award for the 31st Annual Ag-Pro 300 with a lap of 52.454 seconds, 182.560 mph.
  • This is his first pole in 136 NASCAR Xfinity Series races.
  • This is his first pole and first top-10 start in 2022.
  • This is his first pole in ten races at Talladega Superspeedway.
  • Austin Hill (second) posted his fifth top-10 start of 2022 and his first in two races at Talladega Superspeedway.
  • Ty Gibbs (third) posted his first top-10 start at Talladega Superspeedway. It is his sixth in nine races this season.
  • Austin Hill (second) was the fastest qualifying rookie.

  • Saturday, April 23rd, 2022
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Reid Spencer
Noah Gragson triumphs at Talladega in three-overtime thriller

It was an Earnhardt Saturday in Earnhardt country.

Grabbing the lead on a restart in the third overtime, Noah Gragson - driving for Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s JR Motorsports - won the Ag-Pro 300 NASCAR Xfinity Series at Talladega Superspeedway.

Gragson beat Jeffrey Earnhardt, grandson of seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Dale Earnhardt Sr., who was driving a black No. 3 Chevrolet in a special appearance for Richard Childress Racing, which fielded Dale Sr.’s car during his heyday.

On the mammoth 2.66-mile track where Dale Sr. won a record 10 times and Dale Jr. added another six, Jeffrey Earnhardt crossed the finish line .131 seconds behind Gragson, who won for the first time at Talladega, the second time this season and the seventh time in his career.

Gragson grabbed the lead when JR Motorsports teammate Justin Allgaier ran out of fuel as he led the field to the third-overtime restart on Lap 123. The driver of the No. 9 Chevrolet held the top spot the rest of the way as Earnhardt worked his way forward from his eighth-place restarting position.

Moments after the race, Gragson was already planning his celebration in the notorious Talladega infield.

“This team at Jr. Motorsports, they never quit,” Gragson said. “We’ve had a kind of a rough last month, just not getting the finishes that we wanted...I couldn’t make moves on the top there very much at the beginning of the race, so I just kept running the bottom - running the bottom - and we’d get shuffled back and keep moving back up.

“I’ve got to run in the Cup race (on Sunday), but the Talladaga Boulevard looks a lot more enchanting right now and inviting, so I might have to go out there and then throw some beads.”

On the second of the two overtime laps, Earnhardt slipped past AJ Allmendinger for second but couldn’t catch Gragson through the tri-oval.

“I’m living the dream here—I’m just so thankful to get this opportunity,” said Earnhardt, whose crew chief, FOX Sports broadcaster Larry McReynolds, was serving his first stint on a pit box since 2000. “Thanks to RCR for building this amazing race car. We were fast all weekend long.

“We just fell a little short there, but congrats to Noah. He’s good at plate races.”

Allmendinger had led on the second overtime restart and appeared to have control of the race when Jeremy Clements’ Chevrolet stalled in Turn 2 to cause the 10th and final caution of the race. With his third-place result, however, Allmendinger claimed the $100,000 Xfinity Dash 4 Cash bonus available to the top finisher among four eligible drivers.

“I thought I crashed about seven times on the last lap,” Allmendinger said. “I really appreciate what Xfinity and Comcast do to allow us to race for 100 grand at these four races. I didn’t realize that the 7 (Allgaier) started laying back, and you can’t take off before him. I was really checking up when he ran out of fuel.

“At that point, the 9 (Gragson) had such a run. This Chevy handled really well. We just lacked kind of the top-end speed, so they could get to my bumper, then basically boot me out of the way. I was just hanging on there. Jeffrey did a good job to make the move (for second place).”

Austin Hill, winner of the season opener at Daytona, led a race-high 67 laps and was out front with fewer than four laps left when Sam Mayer lost control of his Chevrolet in the outside lane and knocked Hill’s Chevy into the infield wall. Both cars were damaged too severely to continue.

Ryan Sieg and Landon Cassill finished fourth and fifth behind Allmendinger, with Cassill scoring his second straight top-five result. Anthony Alfredo, Riley Herbst, Joe Graf Jr., Myatt Snider and Brett Moffitt completed the top 10.

  • Drivers Entered: 41 (3 drivers will not make the race)
  • Laps Scheduled: 113
  • Laps Actual: 124 - NASCAR OVERTIME!
  • Margin of Victory: 0.131 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 2 Hours 40 Minutes 52 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 123.024
  • Cautions: 10 for 39 laps
  • Lead Changes: 25
  • Green Flag Passes: 6,611 (77.8 passes per green flag lap)

  • Talladega Superspeedway
  • 31st Annual Ag-Pro 300
  • Race Winner: Noah Gragson
  • Age: 23
  • Team: No. 9 - Bass Pro Shops/TrueTimber/BRCC Chevrolet
  • Owner: JR Motorsports
  • Crew Chief: Lucas Lambert
  • Noah Gragson won the 31st Annual Ag-Pro 300, his seventh victory in 111 Xfinity Series races.
  • This is his second victory and sixth top-10 finish in 2022.
  • This is his first victory and fifth top-10 finish in seven races at Talladega Superspeedway.
  • Jeffrey Earnhardt (second) posted his first top-10 finish in ten races at Talladega Superspeedway. It is his first top-10 finish in 2022.
  • AJ Allmendinger (third) posted his third top-10 finish in five races at Talladega Superspeedway.
  • Kyle Sieg (18th) was the highest finishing rookie.
  • AJ Allmendinger won the Xfinity Dash 4 Cash.
Team owner Richard Childress congratulates Jeffrey Earnhardt
Talladega, Alabama - April 22, 2022 : Team owner Richard Childress (L) congratulates Jeffrey Earnhardt, driver of the #3 ForeverLawn Chevrolet, after winning the pole award during qualifying for the NASCAR Xfinity Series Ag-Pro 300 at Talladega Superspeedway.
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Race lineup for the Ag-Pro 300 at Talladega Superspeedway
ST # DRIVER MAKE SPD TIME BHND SPONSOR TEAM CREW CHIEF
1 3 Jeffrey Earnhardt Chevrolet 182.560 52.454 0.000 ForeverLawn Richard Childress Racing Larry McReynolds
2 21 Austin Hill Chevrolet 182.351 52.514 0.060 Bennett Transportation and Logistic… Richard Childress Racing Andy Street
3 54 Ty Gibbs Toyota 182.223 52.551 0.097 Monster Energy Joe Gibbs Racing Chris Gayle
4 2 Sheldon Creed Chevrolet 182.091 52.589 0.135 Whelen Richard Childress Racing Jim Pohlman
5 11 Daniel Hemric Chevrolet 181.711 52.699 0.245 Cirkul - Water Your Way Kaulig Racing Alex Yontz
6 10 Landon Cassill Chevrolet 181.677 52.709 0.255 Voyager Crypto Debit Card Kaulig Racing Jason Trinchere
7 6 Ryan Vargas Chevrolet 181.663 52.713 0.259 Hempvana Pain Relief Cream Jd Motorsports Kase Kallenbach
8 48 Kaz Grala Chevrolet 181.371 52.798 0.344 Big Machine Racing Spiked Big Machine Racing Patrick Donahue
9 18 Drew Dollar Toyota 181.340 52.807 0.353 Lynx Capital Joe Gibbs Racing Jason Ratcliff
10 38 Ryan Sieg Toyota 180.703 52.993 0.539 A-GAME Rss Racing Kevin Starland
11 7 Justin Allgaier Chevrolet 180.980 52.912 0.458 Fight Hunger Spark Change Jr Motorsports Jason Burdett
12 23 Anthony Alfredo Chevrolet 180.980 52.912 0.458 Dude Wipes Our Motorsports Pat Tryson
13 16 AJ Allmendinger Chevrolet 180.826 52.957 0.503 Nutrien Ag Solutions Kaulig Racing Bruce Schlicker
14 1 Sam Mayer Chevrolet 180.751 52.979 0.525 Accelerate Pros Talent Jr Motorsports Taylor Moyer
15 19 Brandon Jones Toyota 180.720 52.988 0.534 Menards\Atlas Joe Gibbs Racing Jeff Meendering
16 8 Josh Berry Chevrolet 180.700 52.994 0.540 PUBG MOBILE Jr Motorsports Mike Bumgarner
17 68 Brandon Brown Chevrolet 180.676 53.001 0.547 Trade The Chain Brandonbilt Motorsports Doug Randolph
18 02 Brett Moffitt Chevrolet 180.669 53.003 0.549 Hometown Lenders Our Motorsports Kris Bowen
19 9 Noah Gragson Chevrolet 180.383 53.087 0.633 Bass Pro Shops TrueTimber BRCC Jr Motorsports Luke Lambert
20 98 Riley Herbst Ford 180.254 53.125 0.671 Monster Energy Stewart-haas Racing Richard Boswell
21 36 Alex Labbe Chevrolet 180.213 53.137 0.683 Larue Industrial Snowblowers Dgm Racing Nathan Kennedy
22 27 Jeb Burton Chevrolet 180.024 53.193 0.739 Rocky Boots Our Motorsports Chad Walter
23 45 Caesar Bacarella Chevrolet 179.959 53.212 0.758 Lilly Finance Alpha Prime Racing Frank Kerr
24 07 Joe Graf Jr Ford 179.858 53.242 0.788 Bucked Up Energy Drink Ss-glr W/jeff Lefcourt Joe Williams
25 91 Mason Massey Chevrolet 179.804 53.258 0.804 Anderson Power Services Dgm Racing Mario Gosselin
26 78 Josh Williams Chevrolet 179.659 53.301 0.847 Alloy Employer Servies Bj Mcleod Motorsports Mike Tyska
27 5 Matt Mills Chevrolet 179.447 53.364 0.910 J.F. Electric Bj Mcleod Motorsports David Ingram
28 66 JJ Yeley Ford 179.048 53.483 1.029 RHS USA / Coble Enterprises Motorsports Business Management George Church
29 4 Bayley Currey Chevrolet 179.004 53.496 1.042 Habana Brisa Jd Motorsports Wayne Carroll Jr
30 26 Chandler Smith Toyota 178.900 53.527 1.073 ChargeMe / VITAL Sam Hunt Racing Allen Hart
31 31 Myatt Snider Chevrolet 178.563 53.628 1.174 TaxSlayer Jordan Anderson Racing Shane Whitbeck
32 53 Shane Lee Ford 178.557 53.630 1.176 Kitty Kat Coin Emerling Gase Motorsports Mark Hillman
33 Gray Gaulding 178.520 53.641 1.187
34 51 Jeremy Clements Chevrolet 178.354 0.000 52.454 One Stop / ASE Jeremy Clements Racing Mark Setzer
35 08 David Starr Ford 178.234 0.000 52.454 TicketSmarter/Special Report Ss-glr W/jeff Lefcourt Jason Miller
36 35 Joey Gase Toyota 178.234 0.000 52.454 Kitty Kat Coin Emerling Gase Motorsports Rick Bourgeois
37 39 Kyle Sieg Ford 178.161 0.000 52.454 TA Services/ C2 Freight Rss Racing Andrew May
38 44 Ryan Ellis Chevrolet 178.108 0.000 52.454 Heartbeat Hot Sauce Alpha Prime Racing Michael Brandt