2022 Nalley Cars 250

Race details
Race 5 of 33 of the 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series
Date	March 19, 2022
Official name	31st Annual Nalley Cars 250
Location	Hampton, Georgia, Atlanta Motor Speedway
Course	Permanent racing facility 1.54 mi (2.48 km)
Distance	172 laps, 264.88 mi ( km)
Scheduled Distance	163 laps, 251.02 mi (403.98 km)
Average speed	101.454 mph (163.274 km/h)
Pole position
Driver	Noah Gragson	JR Motorsports
Time	Set by NASCAR rulebook
Most laps led
Driver	A. J. Allmendinger	Kaulig Racing
Laps	41
Winner
No. 54	Ty Gibbs	Joe Gibbs Racing
Television in the United States
Network	Fox Sports 1
Announcers	Adam Alexander, Brad Keselowski, Joey Logano
Radio in the United States
Radio	Performance Racing Network

The 2022 Nalley Cars 250 was the fifth stock car race of the 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series and the 31st iteration of the event. The race was held on Saturday, March 19, 2022, in Hampton, Georgia at Atlanta Motor Speedway, a 1.54 miles (2.48 km) permanent quad-oval racetrack. The race was run over 172 laps due to several overtime finishes. Ty Gibbs of Joe Gibbs Racing would win the race after taking the lead on the final lap. This was Gibbs' sixth career Xfinity Series win, and his second of the season. To fill out the podium, Austin Hill of Richard Childress Racing and A. J. Allmendinger of Kaulig Racing would finish 2nd and 3rd, respectably.

Background

Atlanta Motor Speedway (formerly Atlanta International Raceway) is a 1.54-mile race track in Hampton, Georgia, United States, 20 miles (32 km) south of Atlanta. It has annually hosted NASCAR Cup Series stock car races since its inauguration in 1960.

The venue was bought by Speedway Motorsports in 1990. In 1994, 46 condominiums were built over the northeastern side of the track. In 1997, to standardize the track with Speedway Motorsports' other two intermediate ovals, the entire track was almost completely rebuilt. The frontstretch and backstretch were swapped, and the configuration of the track was changed from oval to quad-oval, with a new official length of 1.54-mile (2.48 km) where before it was 1.522-mile (2.449 km). The project made the track one of the fastest on the NASCAR circuit. In July 2021 NASCAR announced that the track would be reprofiled for the 2022 season to have 28 degrees of banking and would be narrowed from 55 to 40 feet which the track claims will turn racing at the track similar to restrictor plate superspeedways. Despite the reprofiling being criticized by drivers, construction began in August 2021 and wrapped up in December 2021.^[1][2] The track has seating capacity of 71,000 to 125,000 people depending on the tracks configuration.

Entry list

Practice

Friday's 50-minute practice session was cancelled due to inclement weather. Practice will replace qualifying on Saturday.^[3] Jeb Burton of Our Motorsports would set the fastest time in the session, with a time of 30.993 seconds and a speed of 178.879 mph (287.878 km/h).

Qualifying

Qualifying will be cancelled because of a need to add additional practice to the reconfigured circuit. Starting lineup was based on the NASCAR rulebook. Noah Gragson would get the pole for the race.

Race results

Stage 1 Laps: 40

Stage 2 Laps: 40

Stage 3 Laps: 83

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Noah Gragson 223 2 Ty Gibbs 204 (-19) 3 A. J. Allmendinger 204 (–19) 4 Justin Allgaier 172 (–51) 5 Josh Berry 164 (–59) 6 Brandon Jones 153 (–70) 7 Daniel Hemric 146 (–77) 8 Austin Hill 137 (–86) 9 Riley Herbst 128 (–95) 10 Ryan Sieg 125 (–98) 11 Landon Cassill 122 (–101) 12 Sheldon Creed 122 (–101) Official driver's standings Note: Only the first 12 positions are included for the driver standings.