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NASCAR Xfinity Series

Ag-Pro 300

Talladega Superspeedway

April 23rd, 2022

Race #9 of the 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series Season

Laps Scheduled: 113
- Extended to 124 laps
Miles Raced : 329.8
Time of Race : 02 Hours 40 minutes 52 seconds
Average Speed: 123.024 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.131 seconds
Cautions: 10
Caution Laps: 39
Lead Changes: 25

Noah Gragson, Brett Moffitt and Sam Mayer race — Talladega, Alabama - April 23rd, 2022: Noah Gragson, driver of the #9 Bass Pro Shops/TrueTimber/BRCC Chevrolet, Brett Moffitt, driver of the #02 Hometown Lenders Chevrolet, and Sam Mayer, driver of the #1 Accelerate Pros Talent Chevrolet, race during the NASCAR Xfinity Series Ag-Pro 300 at Talladega Superspeedway. Photo by James Gilbert | 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	19	7	9	1	1	29	8.8	+18	204	190	+14	137	1	87.1%	7	124	110.6	44
Jeffrey Earnhardt	1	13	10	2	1	32	10.6	-1	228	233	-5	149	4	77.4%	10	124	97.4	38
AJ Allmendinger	13	8	2	3	1	27	8.9	+10	194	181	+13	122	4	76.6%	6	124	95.6	42
Landon Cassill	6	10	5	4	2	25	10.7	+2	213	212	+1	185	0	80.7%	0	124	91.3	39
Ryan Sieg	10	6	7	5	2	23	10.1	+5	266	266	+0	180	0	81.5%	0	124	94.0	33
Anthony Alfredo	12	22	8	6	1	30	11.9	+6	287	282	+5	178	0	75.8%	3	124	87.9	34
Riley Herbst	20	5	6	7	2	31	9.1	+13	287	272	+15	245	2	92.7%	0	124	101.7	30
Joe Graf Jr	24	27	19	8	8	37	24.3	+16	112	142	-30	16	2	8.1%	0	124	60.7	29
Myatt Snider	31	16	24	9	4	32	15.5	+22	274	262	+12	141	2	50.8%	0	124	82.5	30
Brett Moffitt	18	21	11	10	1	33	14.1	+8	292	293	-1	180	3	63.7%	0	124	90.4	28
Josh Berry	16	35	23	11	1	36	22.1	+5	178	160	+18	115	3	30.7%	5	124	67.2	36
Alex Labbe	21	25	13	12	5	34	21.2	+9	131	151	-20	37	5	28.2%	0	124	66.9	25
Drew Dollar	9	17	22	13	1	37	20.1	-4	257	242	+15	91	2	24.2%	1	124	63.2	29
Shane Lee	32	24	15	14	3	37	23.7	+18	125	106	+19	21	1	18.6%	0	124	57.7	23
Jeb Burton	22	11	4	15	2	26	10.2	+7	277	280	-3	208	0	83.1%	0	124	84.8	23
Joey Gase	36	23	18	16	12	36	24.7	+20	99	103	-4	11	6	6.5%	0	124	58.5	21
Bayley Currey	29	31	17	17	2	37	27.1	+12	79	85	-6	2	4	7.3%	0	124	51.3	20
Kyle Sieg	37	33	21	18	13	37	25.9	+19	75	108	-33	1	1	2.4%	0	124	50.4	19
Josh Williams	26	29	20	19	7	38	29.3	+7	59	52	+7	0	3	0.8%	0	124	40.4	18
Ryan Vargas	7	30	25	20	3	37	27.0	-13	78	128	-50	4	3	3.2%	0	124	49.9	17
Justin Allgaier	11	4	1	22	1	27	8.1	-11	239	192	+47	173	2	82.3%	13	122	95.8	30
Jeremy Clements	34	9	16	23	6	38	23.3	+11	139	156	-17	39	3	19.4%	0	122	53.9	14
Sheldon Creed	4	3	3	24	1	24	8.7	-20	180	202	-22	124	1	79.8%	1	113	90.5	13
Caesar Bacarella	23	34	12	25	9	38	27.0	-2	108	127	-19	30	0	19.4%	0	113	36.5	12
Brandon Jones	15	14	26	26	2	32	19.4	-11	232	197	+35	127	3	40.3%	0	110	77.3	18
Austin Hill	2	1	27	27	1	27	5.3	-25	90	86	+4	84	0	87.9%	67	110	106.9	24
Sam Mayer	14	19	28	28	1	31	12.6	-14	268	254	+14	184	0	64.5%	2	109	79.0	20
Kaz Grala	8	15	29	29	5	29	19.3	-21	226	258	-32	104	0	29.8%	0	103	60.2	0
Brandon Brown	17	18	30	30	1	33	16.9	-13	284	261	+23	152	3	51.6%	1	103	75.8	11
Matt Mills	27	32	31	31	4	38	31.4	-4	37	22	+15	0	1	2.4%	0	96	34.1	6
Ryan Ellis	38	28	32	32	14	38	31.4	+6	84	79	+5	5	4	0.0%	0	84	35.9	5
David Starr	35	26	33	33	1	35	29.7	+2	55	47	+8	0	5	1.6%	1	83	38.0	4
Daniel Hemric	5	12	34	34	5	34	24.4	-29	151	174	-23	76	0	26.6%	0	79	53.8	3
Ty Gibbs	3	2	35	35	1	24	17.6	-32	159	184	-25	103	1	54.0%	5	76	94.5	17
JJ Yeley	28	36	36	36	1	36	28.1	-8	157	168	-11	68	0	15.3%	2	51	47.6	1
Mason Massey	25	37	37	37	3	30	30.7	-12	118	138	-20	34	1	8.1%	0	47	39.7	1
Chandler Smith	30	38	38	38	6	34	30.9	-8	142	125	+17	51	2	8.9%	0	47	43.0	0

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Race Fast Facts

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.

Race Recap

Noah Gragson triumphs at Talladega in three-overtime thriller

April 23rd, 2022

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

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.