Race Lineup

The official 2022 Andy's Frozen Custard 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series race lineup, determined by qualifying results, shows the starting positions of all drivers at Texas Motor Speedway.

Andy's Frozen Custard 300

Saturday, September 24th, 2022

Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, TX

  • 27 Chevrolet
  • 6 Toyota
  • 5 Ford

  • Texas Motor Speedway
  • 18th Annual Andy's Frozen Custard 300
  • Pole Winner: Brandon Jones
  • Age: 25
  • Team : No. 19 - Menards/Pelonis Toyota
  • Owner: Joe Gibbs
  • Crew Chief: Jeff Meendering
  • Brandon Jones won the Pole Award for the 18th Annual Andy's Frozen Custard 300 with a lap of 29.089 seconds, 185.637 mph.
  • This is his seventh pole in 230 NASCAR Xfinity Series races.
  • This is his fourth pole and 17th top-10 start in 2022.
  • This is his first pole in 14 races at Texas Motor Speedway.
  • Noah Gragson (second) posted his 22nd top-10 start of 2022 and his sixth in eight races at Texas Motor Speedway.
  • Daniel Hemric (third) posted his sixth top-10 start at Texas Motor Speedway. It is his 16th in 27 races this season.
  • Austin Hill (ninth) was the fastest qualifying rookie.

  • Saturday, September 24th, 2022
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Noah Gragson drives to Victory Lane at Texas, ties NASCAR Xfinity Series record with fourth consecutive win

Noah Gragson parked his No. 9 JR Motorsports Chevrolet at the finish line, emerged through his car's roof flap and raised his arms in triumph taking in the loud cheers from the Texas Motor Speedway grandstands as he celebrated a historic fourth consecutive NASCAR Xfinity Series victory Saturday afternoon in the Andy's Frozen Custard 300.

It was a series best and career-high seventh win on the season for the 24-year old Las Vegas native and automatically reserves his spot in the next round of the NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoffs. That fourth consecutive victory is significant historically as well - tying one of the longstanding records- set in 1983 - by Sam Ard.

Although it was a tumultuous Playoff opener for many of the championship contenders, Gragson was out front often and ultimately when he needed to be. He didn't win a Stage, but led a race best 85-of-200 laps and held off fellow 2022 Playoff contenders Austin Hill and Ty Gibbs by 1.238-seconds to earn the big trophy - and even more momentum at just the right time of the calendar.

"This No. 9 team, man, they're on fire and all you fans, you keep us motivated,'' Gragson told the cheering grandstands. "We're gonna come back and win more races for you. You guys are awesome and we appreciate you. Thanks for coming out.

"Just this team, I mean the pit crew's done awesome and our car was as fast as Xfinity internet all day and I'm just so thankful for the opportunity"

"Such a relief,'' he continued. "We lost this race back in 2020 and just executed a great race [today],'' he continued.

Eight Playoff cars finished in the Top-10. Stewart-Haas Racing's Riley Herbst was fifth, followed by Playoff driver Josh Berry (JR Motorsports), Sheldon Creed, Playoff drivers Sam Mayer (JR Motorsports) and Ryan Sieg (Ryan Sieg Racing). C.J. McLaughlin was 10th – the first Top-10 of his career.

Compared to his closest competitors, Gragson's day was more a matter of holding court. Several other race contenders and Playoff competitors had busier days of survival and the power of positive thinking.

Both Gibbs, who finished third and regular season champion A.J. Allmendinger, who finished fourth, had to rally to those finishing positions. Gibbs started the race from the rear of the field after failing technical inspection. And the two-time regular season champion Allmendinger? He just had a hectic afternoon overcoming race setbacks.

Two multi-car accidents on mid-race restarts eliminated the winning opportunity for several Playoff drivers and now place them in catch-up mode only one race into the Playoff push.

Eight cars were involved in a crash on Lap 110, including regular season champion Allmendinger, whose No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet – only a few laps removed from the Stage 2 victory - was damaged. Quick repairs returned him to the track and the positions he lost during the pit stop actually proved to be advantageous as he missed the next accident up front after returning to the race.

It was a similar scene on the ensuing restart, only this time the accident started at the front. John Hunter Nemechek, who had led a race best 60 laps – at that point - got loose at the front of the pack, his Toyota colliding with Justin Allgaier's Chevy.

The hard contact sent them both hard into the wall and caused another chain-reaction accident that ended up collecting nine cars in all – including Playoff drivers Brandon Jones, the race polesitter, and 2021 series champion Daniel Hemric (who won Stage 1) in addition to Allgaier.

As with that Playoff trio, It was the end of the day for Nemechek, a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship driver who was driving the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota at Texas as part of the owner's championship chase.

"The 7 (Allgaier) chose the top behind me, and I haven't seen the replay of it, but the 7 chose the top behind me and started pushing,'' Nemechek said. "The 21 (Austin Hill) made it three-wide on the 9 (Gragson) and I was three-wide at the top being able to be in the race and I think we ended up four-wide at one point which doesn't really work aero-wide in the pack. The resin was up there as well and I don't know. It sucks.

"I thought we were going to have a shot to win the race and repeat from last year. It didn't work out. I'm looking forward to seeing what the future holds.”

With two more races remaining in this opening Playoff round – at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway and the Charlotte ROVAL road course – Gragson's win is an automatic berth into the next Playoff round. Allmendinger and Gibbs are second and third in the standings, 26 and 27 points – respectively behind Allmendinger.

Eight of the 12 Playoff drivers will advance following the ROVAL race.

Riley Herbst (-1), Hemric (-8), Jones (-13) and Jeremy Clements (-29) whose car retired early with an engine issue, now find themselves in the bottom four of the Playoff standings going to Talladega.

  • Drivers Entered: 38
  • Laps Scheduled: 200
  • Margin of Victory: 01.238 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 2 Hours 38 Minutes 21 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 113.672
  • Cautions: 9 for 52 laps
  • Lead Changes: 14
  • Green Flag Passes: 1,517 (10.3 passes per green flag lap)

  • Texas Motor Speedway
  • 18th Annual Andy's Frozen Custard 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 18th Annual Andy's Frozen Custard 300, his 12th victory in 129 Xfinity Series races.
  • This is his seventh victory and 20th top-10 finish in 2022.
  • This is his first victory and fourth top-10 finish in eight races at Texas Motor Speedway.
  • Austin Hill (second) posted his second top-10 finish in four races at Texas Motor Speedway. It is his 17th top-10 finish in 2022.
  • Ty Gibbs (third) posted his first top-10 finish in two races at Texas Motor Speedway.
  • Austin Hill (second) was the highest finishing rookie.
  • Noah Gragson leads the point standings by 26 points over AJ Allmendinger.
Brandon Jones leads the field to the green flag
Fort Worth, Texas - September 24, 2022 : Brandon Jones, driver of the #19 Menards/Pelonis Toyota, leads the field to the green flag to start the NASCAR Xfinity Series Andy's Frozen Custard 300 at Texas Motor Speedway.
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Race lineup for the Andy's Frozen Custard 300 at Texas Motor Speedway
ST # DRIVER MAKE SPD TIME BHND SPONSOR TEAM CREW CHIEF
1 19 Brandon Jones Toyota 185.637 29.089 0.000 Menards\Pelonis Joe Gibbs Racing Jeff Meendering
2 9 Noah Gragson Chevrolet 185.363 29.132 0.043 Bass Pro Shops TrueTimber BRCC Jr Motorsports Luke Lambert
3 11 Daniel Hemric Chevrolet 185.331 29.137 0.048 DaaBIN Store Kaulig Racing Jason Trinchere
4 18 John Hunter Nemechek Toyota 185.319 29.139 0.050 Romco Equipment Joe Gibbs Racing Jason Ratcliff
5 1 Sam Mayer Chevrolet 185.160 29.164 0.075 Accelerate Pros Talent Jr Motorsports Taylor Moyer
6 7 Justin Allgaier Chevrolet 185.027 29.185 0.096 BRANDT Jr Motorsports Jason Burdett
7 16 AJ Allmendinger Chevrolet 184.906 29.204 0.115 Andy's Frozen Custard Kaulig Racing Bruce Schlicker
8 54 Ty Gibbs Toyota 184.856 29.212 0.123 Interstate Batteries Joe Gibbs Racing Chris Gayle
9 21 Austin Hill Chevrolet 184.426 29.280 0.191 Bennett Transportation and Logistic… Richard Childress Racing Andy Street
10 51 Jeremy Clements Chevrolet 183.748 29.388 0.299 Straitline Nitro Jeremy Clements Racing Mark Setzer
11 98 Riley Herbst Ford 183.630 29.407 0.318 Monster Energy Stewart-haas Racing Richard Boswell
12 10 Landon Cassill Chevrolet 182.543 29.582 0.493 USIO Kaulig Racing Alex Yontz
13 2 Sheldon Creed Chevrolet 182.414 29.603 0.514 Whelen Richard Childress Racing Jeff Stankiewicz
14 39 Ryan Sieg Ford 182.352 29.613 0.524 CMRroofing.com\ A-game Rss Racing Kevin Starland
15 34 Kyle Weatherman Chevrolet 182.192 29.639 0.550 Equity Prime Mortgage Jesse Iwuji Motorsports Dan Stillman
16 8 Josh Berry Chevrolet 181.965 29.676 0.587 Open Joist/U.S. Lumber Jr Motorsports Mike Bumgarner
17 27 Jeb Burton Chevrolet 181.458 29.759 0.670 Jon Wayne Service Company Our Motorsports Chad Walter
18 4 Bayley Currey Chevrolet 181.391 29.770 0.681 Hy-Vee Jd Motorsports Wayne Carroll Jr
19 07 Joe Graf Jr Ford 181.305 29.784 0.695 Bucked Up Energy Rocket Pop Ss-glr W/jeff Lefcourt Joe Williams
20 48 Nicholas Sanchez Chevrolet 181.020 29.831 0.742 Big Machine Racing Spiked Big Machine Racing Patrick Donahue
21 6 Brennan Poole Chevrolet 180.777 29.871 0.782 Macc Door Systems Jd Motorsports Kase Kallenbach
22 68 Brandon Brown Chevrolet 180.487 29.919 0.830 CAT Trailer Sales Brandonbilt Motorsports Doug Randolph
23 02 Parker Retzlaff Chevrolet 180.481 29.920 0.831 Funkaway Our Motorsports Kris Bowen
24 45 Stefan Parsons Chevrolet 180.084 29.986 0.897 Broken Bow Cabin Lodging Alpha Prime Racing Frank Kerr
25 23 Anthony Alfredo Chevrolet 179.928 30.012 0.923 First Phase Our Motorsports Pat Tryson
26 92 Alex Labbe Chevrolet 179.271 30.122 1.033 Live To Be Happy Dgm Racing Ryan London
27 26 Jeffrey Earnhardt Toyota 179.009 30.166 1.077 YesWay / ForeverLawn Sam Hunt Racing Allen Hart
28 66 JJ Yeley Toyota 178.778 30.205 1.116 Precision Construction & Roofing Motorsports Business Management George Church
29 44 Tommy Joe Martins Chevrolet 178.371 30.274 1.185 Market Rebellion Alpha Prime Racing Michael Brandt
30 36 Josh Williams Chevrolet 178.112 30.318 1.229 Alloy Employer Services Dgm Racing Nathan Kennedy
31 31 Myatt Snider Chevrolet 177.918 30.351 1.262 Tree Top Jordan Anderson Racing Shane Whitbeck
32 5 Matt Mills Chevrolet 177.620 30.402 1.313 J.F. Electric Bj Mcleod Motorsports David Ingram
33 91 Mason Massey Chevrolet 177.404 30.439 1.350 Apollo Energy / Power Center Dgm Racing Mario Gosselin
34 08 David Starr Ford 177.334 30.451 1.362 TicketSmarter/Special Report Ss-glr W/jeff Lefcourt Jason Miller
35 38 CJ McLaughlin Ford 176.476 30.599 1.510 SciAps Rss Racing Steve Addington
36 35 Joey Gase Chevrolet 176.102 30.664 1.575 Donate Life Texas Emerling Gase Motorsports Rick Bourgeois
37 78 Garrett Smithley Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 29.089 Trophy Tractor Bj Mcleod Motorsports Mike Tyska
38 13 Akinori Ogata Toyota 0.000 0.000 29.089 Mooneyes Motorsports Business Management Jason Houghtaling