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NASCAR Xfinity Series

Dead On Tools 250

Martinsville Speedway

October 30th, 2021

Race #32 of the 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 250
- Extended to 257 laps
Miles Raced : 135.2
Time of Race : 02 Hours 10 minutes 48 seconds
Average Speed: 62.010 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.064 seconds
Cautions: 13
Caution Laps: 75
Lead Changes: 13

Noah Gragson celebrates — Martinsville, Virginia - October 30th, 2021: Noah Gragson, driver of the #9 Bass Pro Shops/TrueTimber/BRCC Chevrolet, celebrates with a burnout after winning the NASCAR Xfinity Series Dead on Tools 250 at Martinsville Speedway. Photo by Brian Lawdermilk | Getty Images

Driver	ST	50%	10%	FIN	HI	LW	AVG	PC D	Pass	Passed	PS D	Q PASS	Fast	%T15	TOT Led	Laps	Rating	TOT PTS
Noah Gragson	9	1	1	1	1	25	3.6	+8	32	16	+16	30	26	97.3%	153	257	143.1	54
Austin Cindric	1	4	3	2	1	20	4.6	-1	33	16	+17	27	34	97.3%	64	257	127.4	51
Daniel Hemric	7	6	2	3	1	23	5.6	+4	39	21	+18	39	25	97.7%	18	257	118.5	48
Sam Mayer	11	33	6	4	3	38	22.4	+7	41	22	+19	27	16	40.1%	0	257	103.5	33
Justin Allgaier	5	11	4	5	1	20	7.6	+0	38	29	+9	30	11	93.4%	0	257	103.0	40
Brandon Jones	8	9	5	6	4	30	10.5	+2	55	46	+9	44	3	89.1%	0	257	93.5	31
AJ Allmendinger	3	8	7	7	1	25	7.2	-4	47	28	+19	40	13	94.6%	0	257	108.8	41
Alex Labbe	25	16	12	8	8	33	16.8	+17	42	41	+1	11	0	34.2%	0	257	77.5	29
Jeremy Clements	18	13	10	9	4	36	11.9	+9	49	42	+7	25	0	72.8%	0	257	88.0	30
Riley Herbst	16	7	9	10	5	32	11.8	+6	48	45	+3	40	4	85.2%	0	257	87.2	30
Josh Williams	22	15	14	11	7	32	15.8	+11	48	49	-1	19	0	58.0%	0	257	75.8	26
Landon Cassill	23	22	11	12	8	29	19.1	+11	23	33	-10	6	0	31.9%	0	257	69.7	25
Myatt Snider	12	10	15	13	4	30	16.0	-1	61	45	+16	18	0	42.0%	0	257	78.3	25
Colin Garrett	30	29	19	14	14	38	28.4	+16	62	54	+8	0	0	0.4%	0	257	56.0	23
Joe Graf Jr	32	30	17	15	14	38	26.8	+17	52	46	+6	6	0	5.1%	0	257	59.3	22
JJ Yeley	28	28	13	16	8	38	22.0	+12	48	43	+5	8	0	18.7%	0	257	64.3	23
Jade Buford	31	17	21	17	11	34	21.8	+14	49	45	+4	3	0	4.7%	0	257	62.3	20
Preston Pardus	38	21	18	18	3	39	21.3	+20	41	50	-9	3	0	17.5%	0	257	61.3	19
Brett Moffitt	13	19	16	19	1	26	17.2	-6	50	56	-6	11	0	23.7%	0	257	68.2	19
Harrison Burton	10	2	22	20	1	27	9.5	-10	39	29	+10	16	19	72.4%	2	257	94.7	26
Stephen Leicht	37	31	25	21	16	39	28.4	+16	43	34	+9	0	0	0.0%	0	257	50.7	16
Jeffrey Earnhardt	27	23	20	22	11	33	22.8	+5	36	35	+1	5	0	15.2%	0	257	56.2	15
Ryan Ellis	34	35	24	23	13	38	29.0	+11	40	64	-24	4	0	1.2%	0	257	43.5	14
David Starr	36	25	23	24	14	38	26.7	+12	37	58	-21	1	0	2.3%	0	257	49.0	13
Natalie Decker	26	26	26	25	16	39	28.0	+1	38	58	-20	0	0	0.0%	0	257	39.5	12
Akinori Ogata	33	32	27	26	17	39	31.9	+7	14	38	-24	0	0	0.0%	0	257	33.5	0
Ty Gibbs	2	3	28	27	1	29	9.0	-25	17	17	+0	17	8	76.3%	16	257	99.2	18
Josh Berry	29	18	8	28	4	30	13.8	+1	57	35	+22	24	3	56.8%	0	256	73.0	15
Matt Mills	35	34	29	29	12	37	31.6	+6	28	43	-15	4	0	2.3%	0	255	40.3	8
Spencer Boyd	39	27	30	30	1	39	29.4	+9	17	30	-13	0	0	5.1%	4	254	32.5	0
Ryan Sieg	14	20	31	31	6	35	18.3	-17	45	18	+27	27	0	53.7%	0	253	72.5	11
Ryan Vargas	21	37	32	32	17	37	32.7	-11	12	36	-24	0	0	0.0%	0	249	32.3	5
Justin Haley	4	36	33	33	4	37	23.4	-29	20	26	-6	3	1	38.1%	0	222	71.6	4
Kyle Weatherman	24	38	35	34	13	38	32.9	-10	18	42	-24	1	0	2.0%	0	221	44.8	3
Bayley Currey	20	24	38	35	20	38	32.2	-15	24	36	-12	0	0	0.0%	0	212	34.8	0
Brandon Brown	17	14	34	36	7	34	19.8	-19	32	29	+3	24	0	48.6%	0	204	60.0	1
Jeb Burton	15	5	36	37	3	33	15.3	-22	34	28	+6	24	0	67.3%	0	194	79.3	8
Michael Annett	6	12	37	38	5	25	18.6	-32	36	30	+6	27	3	55.3%	0	192	66.2	4
Tommy Joe Martins	19	40	40	40	18	39	37.1	-21	8	25	-17	0	0	0.0%	0	36	32.8	1

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Race Fast Facts

Martinsville Speedway
2nd Annual Dead On Tools 250
Race Winner: Noah Gragson
Age: 23
Team : No. 9 - Bass Pro Shops/TrueTimber BRCC Chevrolet
Owner: JR Motorsports
Crew Chief: David Elenz
Noah Gragson won the 2nd Annual Dead On Tools 250, his fifth victory in 101 NASCAR Xfinity Series races.
This is his third victory and 20th top-10 finish in 2021.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in three races at Martinsville Speedway.
Austin Cindric (second) posted his third top-10 finish in three races at Martinsville Speedway. It is his 25th top-10 finish in 2021.
Daniel Hemric (third) posted his second top-10 finish in two races at Martinsville Speedway.
Sam Mayer (fourth) was the highest finishing rookie.
Austin Cindric, AJ Allmendinger, Daniel Hemric and Noah Gragson have advanced to the 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship 4 Round.

Race Recap

Noah Gragson snags Championship 4 spot with dramatic Martinsville victory

October 30th, 2021

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

To get to the Championship 4, you have to drive like a champion.

That's what Noah Gragson did on Saturday night in the NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoff race Dead On Tools 250 at Martinsville Speedway.

Faced with the necessity of winning the race to keep his NASCAR Xfinity Series title hopes alive, Gragson did just that, pulling off a dramatic pass of Daniel Hemric from the outside lane in the first attempt at overtime and holding off series leader Austin Cindric in the second extra period.

With Cindric's Ford to his inside, Gragson won a drag race off Turn 4 to the finish line by .064 seconds, the closest Xfinity Series finish ever at Martinsville Speedway.

Gragson, who led a race-high 153 of 207 laps, got the lead after a restart on Lap 201, when he spun then-race-leader Ty Gibbs in a chain-reaction collision in Turn 4. After surrendering the top spot to Hemric on Lap 232, Gragson took advantage of a Lap 243 caution to regain the lead on the first overtime restart.

"This team, this Bass Pro Shops team," said Gragson, who won for the third time this season and the fifth time in his career. "It's been a rough, rough season. We had a couple of wins there, at Darlington and Richmond. After that deal last weekend (crashing out in 35th place at Kansas), I was pretty fired up. I told my guys we still have an opportunity. We're still in it.

"I'm just so thankful. It's just such an awesome opportunity. My second win here at Martinsville (his first came in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series). Get to take home another clock…This team is unbelievable. How about these badass fans out here?

"After the contact with the 54 (Gibbs) - I didn't mean to get into him, I got hit in the back by the 22 (Cindric) - it was just a bad deal."

Gragson's victory was bittersweet for JR Motorsports. Though Gragson clinched a spot in next Saturday's Championship 4 race at Phoenix, his victory simultaneously eliminated teammate Justin Allgaier, ending a string of three straight appearances in the final four.

"We played the safe strategy," said Allgaier, who finished fifth and would have advanced if Cindric or Hemric had won the race. "We talked about it before the race and thought that was the smart strategy… Hats off to the 9 guys—same shop—so at least we've got one car going to the Playoff."

Hemric came home third to earn the final Championship 4 berth by six points over Allgaier. Regular Season Champion AJ Allmendinger ran seventh, qualified on points and will race against defending series champion Cindric, Gragson and Hemric for the title.

Eliminated from the Playoff along with Allgaier were Brandon Jones (sixth), Harrison Burton (who suffered damage in a wreck with Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Gibbs and finished 20th), and Justin Haley (who fell out of the race with brake problems after completing 222 laps).

Burton's waterloo came in the same Lap 201 incident when Gragson inadvertently turned Gibbs. With no way to avoid his teammate, Burton ran into Gibbs's Toyota and severely damaged the nose and front-left quarter panel of his Supra.

"We had a winning car today," Burton said. "Just so many things have to go right in racing to win that it makes it challenging to do on the drop of a dime. We just had a couple things go wrong. It's just a bummer deal that we didn't get to show our speed at the end.

"Wish we could have won this thing. I felt like we were definitely capable of it. Our times were better than the 9 (Gragson) and he won. We just needed to show it."