Race Lineup

The official 2023 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

Saturday, April 15th, 2023

Martinsville Speedway, Ridgeway, VA

  • 6 Toyota
  • 25 Chevrolet
  • 8 Ford

  • Martinsville Speedway
  • Call811.com Before You Dig. 250
  • Pole Winner: Cole Custer
  • Age: 25
  • Team : No. 00 - Haas Automation Ford
  • Owner: Stewart-Haas Racing
  • Crew Chief: Jonathan Toney
  • Cole Custer won the Pole Award for the Call811.com Before You Dig. 250 with a lap of 20.057 seconds, 94.411 mph.
  • This is his 14th pole in 118 NASCAR Xfinity Series races.
  • This is his second pole and seventh top-10 start in 2023.
  • This is his first pole in one races at Martinsville Speedway.
  • John Hunter Nemechek (second) posted his eighth top-10 start of 2023 and his first in one race at Martinsville Speedway.
  • Sheldon Creed (third) posted his third top-10 start at Martinsville Speedway. It is his sixth in eight races this season.
  • Parker Retzlaff (fourth) was the fastest qualifying rookie.

  • Saturday, April 15th, 2023
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Holly Cain
John Hunter Nemechek Wins with Dominating Performance in Martinsville

John Hunter Nemechek led a dominating 198 of 250 laps to win Saturday night's Call811.com Before You Dig 250 – besting his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Sammy Smith by 1.518-seconds to earn his second NASCAR Xfinity Series victory of the 2023 season and first win in his first series-start at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway.

The 25-year-old Nemechek, of Mooresville, N.C., took the lead for good on a race restart with 32 laps remaining after winning the first two stages of the race. He, Smith and third place finisher Cole Custer were easily the class of the field all night running some version of 1-2-3 for most of the race.

Smith was able to nudge his way past Custer on the final lap for that runner-up showing.

As Nemechek took his No. 20 JGR Toyota to the front stretch to do a traditional burnout celebration, he literally set the track on fire briefly – perhaps a fitting finale to his hot night behind the wheel. Not only did he win the race, he won the $100,000 Dash 4 Cash incentive prize awarded by series sponsor Xfinity.

"I can't say enough about this whole team, if you would have asked me yesterday if we would have won, I thought we were a 10th place car in practice," said Nemechek, whose car was ironically sponsored by a fire extinguisher company (Pye Barker Fire & Safety). "Just grateful the guys made the right adjustments.

"Let's celebrate."

While Nemechek's car was so good on the night, there was still a lot of compelling wheel-to-wheel competition behind him. Fourth place finisher Josh Berry, for example, led the next highest number of laps (27) – his No. 8 JR Motorsport Chevrolet looking especially strong until a tire situation forced a long pit stop midway through the race. He rallied back through the field, however, to take his seventh-consecutive top-10 finish on the year tying the the longest stretch of his career.

Berry's JR Motorsports teammate Brandon Jones finished fifth – his first top 10 of the season in the No. 9 JRM Chevrolet – followed by another teammate, Justin Allgaier, who was able to keep his No. 7 JRM Chevy in the lead group of cars despite not feeling well himself and finishing the race on much older tires than the rest of the lead group.

Nemechek – who swept both stage wins – Smith, Custer and Berry are now eligible for the next installment of the Xfinity Dash 4 Cash $100,000 award – next week at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway. The top finishing driver from among that four gets the big check.

"Congrats to them, they were the best car all night," Smith said.

Kaulig Racing teammates Daniel Hemric and Derek Kraus, AM Racing's Brett Moffitt and Kaulig's Chandler Smith rounded out the top 10.

Austin Hill – who leads all drivers with three wins this season – finished 16th and with Nemechek's win the second-generation driver takes over the points lead by 21 points over Hill.

  • Drivers Entered: 39 (1 drivers will not make the race)
  • Laps Scheduled: 250
  • Margin of Victory: N/A Seconds
  • Time of Race: 2 Hours 12 Minutes 50 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 59.398
  • Cautions: 10 for 82 laps
  • Lead Changes: 7
  • Green Flag Passes: 1,497 (8.9 passes per green flag lap)

  • Martinsville Speedway
  • Call811.com Before You Dig. 250
  • Race Winner: John Hunter Nemechek
  • Age: 25
  • Team : No. 20 - Pye Barker Fire & Safety Toyota
  • Owner: Joe Gibbs Racing
  • Crew Chief: Ben Beshore
  • John Hunter Nemechek won the Call811.com Before You Dig. 250, his fourth victory in 75 Xfinity Series races.
  • This is his second victory and seventh top-10 finish in 2023.
  • This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in one race at Martinsville Speedway.
  • Sammy Smith (second) posted his first top-10 finish in two races at Martinsville Speedway. It is his third top-10 finish in 2023.
  • Cole Custer (third) posted his first top-10 finish in one race at Martinsville Speedway.
  • Sammy Smith (second) was the highest finishing rookie.
  • John Hunter Nemechek won the Xfinity Dash 4 Cash at Martinsville. Nemechek, Cole Custer, Sammy Smith and Jsoh Berry have qualified for the Xfinity Dash 4 Cash at Talladega Superspeedway.
Cole Custer leads the field to the green flag
Martinsville, Virginia - April 15, 2023 : Cole Custer, driver of the #00 Haas Automation Ford, leads the field to the green flag to start the NASCAR Xfinity SeriesCall811.com Before You Dig. 250 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 00 Cole Custer Ford 94.411 20.057 0.000 Haas Automation Stewart-haas Racing Jonathan Toney
2 20 John Hunter Nemechek Toyota 94.331 20.074 0.017 Pye Barker Fire & Safety Joe Gibbs Racing Ben Beshore
3 2 Sheldon Creed Chevrolet 94.237 20.094 0.037 Whelen Richard Childress Racing Jeff Stankiewicz
4 31 Parker Retzlaff Chevrolet 94.041 20.136 0.079 FUNKAWAY Jordan Anderson Racing Joshua Graham
5 1 Sam Mayer Chevrolet 93.808 20.186 0.129 Accelerate Pros Talent Jr Motorsports Mardy Lindley
6 8 Josh Berry Chevrolet 93.784 20.191 0.134 Bass Pro Shops/TRACKER Boats Jr Motorsports Taylor Moyer
7 18 Sammy Smith Toyota 93.756 20.197 0.140 Pilot Flying J Joe Gibbs Racing Jeff Meendering
8 7 Justin Allgaier Chevrolet 93.752 20.198 0.141 Chevy Truck Season Jr Motorsports Jim Pohlman
9 98 Riley Herbst Ford 93.710 20.207 0.150 Monster Energy Stewart-haas Racing Richard Boswell
10 9 Brandon Jones Chevrolet 93.692 20.211 0.154 Menards / Atlas Roofing Jr Motorsports Jason Burdett
11 16 Chandler Smith Chevrolet 93.636 20.223 0.166 Quick Tie Products, Inc. Kaulig Racing Bruce Schlicker
12 10 Derek Kraus Chevrolet 93.410 20.272 0.215 Intl. Order of T. Roosevelt Kaulig Racing Alex Yontz
13 11 Daniel Hemric Chevrolet 93.368 20.281 0.224 AG1 by Athletic Greens Kaulig Racing Jason Trinchere
14 19 Ryan Truex Toyota 93.327 20.290 0.233 Toyota Outfitters Joe Gibbs Racing Jason Ratcliff
15 21 Austin Hill Chevrolet 93.299 20.296 0.239 Bennett Transportation Richard Childress Racing Andy Street
16 25 Brett Moffitt Ford 93.239 20.309 0.252 AM Technical Solutions Am Racing Joe Williams
17 39 Ryan Sieg Ford 93.129 20.333 0.276 CMRroofing.com Rss Racing Mike Scearce
18 24 Connor Mosack Toyota 92.965 20.369 0.312 Toyota Racing Development Sam Hunt Racing Kris Bowen
19 26 Kaz Grala Toyota 92.814 20.402 0.345 Island Coastal Lager Sam Hunt Racing Allen Hart
20 92 Josh Williams Chevrolet 92.646 20.439 0.382 Call 811 / Alloy Employer Dgm Racing Bryan Berry
21 48 Parker Kligerman Chevrolet 92.588 20.452 0.395 Big Machine Racing Spiked Big Machine Racing Patrick Donahue
22 51 Jeremy Clements Chevrolet 92.285 20.519 0.462 First Pacific Funding Jeremy Clements Racing Mark Setzer
23 02 Blaine Perkins Chevrolet 92.222 20.533 0.476 Ollie's Bargain Outlet Our Motorsports Dan Stillman
24 91 Alex Labbe Chevrolet 92.106 20.559 0.502 Parking Guidance Systems Dgm Racing Mario Gosselin
25 44 Jeffrey Earnhardt Chevrolet 92.025 20.577 0.520 SQRL / Gas POS Alpha Prime Racing TBA
26 53 Matt Mills Ford 92.021 20.578 0.521 J.F. Electric Emerling Gase Motorsports Rick Bourgeois
27 96 Kyle Weatherman Chevrolet 91.936 20.597 0.540 Fanttik/BrewHaha Frs Racing Matt Weber
28 28 Kyle Sieg Ford 91.922 20.600 0.543 Night Owl Rss Racing Brad Parrott
29 Dawson Cram 91.647 20.662 0.605
30 45 Leland Honeyman Jr Chevrolet 91.633 20.665 0.608 Eighth Order Alpha Prime Racing Frank Kerr
31 27 Jeb Burton Chevrolet 91.629 20.666 0.609 J.E. Burton Construction Jordan Anderson Racing Shane Whitbeck
32 6 Brennan Poole Chevrolet 91.540 20.686 0.629 JD Motorsports Jd Motorsports Kase Kallenbach
33 74 Kaden Honeycutt Chevrolet 91.536 20.687 0.630 Service Master Restore Chk Racing Ryan Bell
34 38 Joe Graf Jr Ford 91.421 20.713 0.656 Lefcourt Brothers Rss Racing Steve Addington
35 43 Ryan Ellis Chevrolet 91.390 20.720 0.663 Costa Oil Alpha Prime Racing Michael Brandt
36 35 Patrick Emerling Toyota 90.659 20.887 0.830 Emerling Gase Motorsports Emerling Gase Motorsports Paul Clapprood
37 08 Gray Gaulding Ford 89.279 21.210 1.153 Panini NFT Ss-green Light Racing Jason Miller
38 78 Anthony Alfredo Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 20.057 DUDE WIPES Bj Mcleod Motorsports Pat Tryson
*39 4 Garrett Smithley Chevrolet 91.223 20.758 0.701 Morooka USA / Black Draft Jd Motorsports Wayne Carroll Jr
*40 Chad Finchum 91.205 20.762 0.705

* Did Not Qualify (DNQ) for race.