Ty Gibbs won the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Martinsville Speedway after bumping his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Brandon Jones on the last lap of triple overtime in Saturday’s (Oct. 29) race.
Gibbs, who locked himself into the Championship 4 on points during the race, exited from his car to a showering of boos from the fans. Gibbs’ contact with Jones sent the No. 19 Toyota hard into the outside wall, where it sat in turn 1 as the race ended under the caution flag.
It’s Gibbs’ sixth win on the year and the 10th of his Xfinity career.
He’ll race for the championship in Phoenix Raceway against the JR Motorsports drivers of Noah Gragson, Justin Allgaier and Josh Berry.
In the race itself, Sheldon Creed was second, Riley Herbst was third, Gragson was fourth and Allgaier took home fifth.
It was another typical Martinsville affair with contact and short track spins littering the event. Early in stage one, Patrick Emerling and Joe Graf Jr. spun and crashed in turn 2, with both cars suffering damage. Graf’s No. 07 had rear-end problems the rest of the race, while Emerling’s nose was hurt. Just as the caution came out for this incident, Kris Wright also got in the wall after some contact from another car.
With about three laps to go in stage one, Bayley Currey appeared to cut a tire and hit the wall hard. The caution didn’t come out, though, and he went to the garage with a damaged right front suspension.
Jones went on to win stage one. However, he didn’t restart out front, as Gragson had pitted earlier and assumed the top spot on lap 71.
Gibbs got by Gragson about 20 laps before the next caution came out for Landon Cassill. On lap 106, the No. 10 wheel hopped in turn 3 and hit the wall in a similar spot as Currey.
“Just wheel-hopped into [turn] 3, same way Daniel [Hemric] did in practice,” Cassill told Frontstretch’s Michael Massie afterward. “My fault.”
Cassill added that he’s “still not over this one, I had this race circled.”
I caught up with a disappointed @landoncassill after a wheel hop took him out of the race.
He said he had this race circled. #NASCAR pic.twitter.com/uDukkmztOe
— Michael Massie (@m_massie22) October 29, 2022
Jones pitted during this yellow-flag period while several others stayed out.
On the next restart, Gibbs briefly lost the lead to Allgaier but took it back on lap 113 when the No. 7 got loose. The No. 54 Toyota went on to win stage two.
Gibbs and others pitted during this break,…
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