100-lap-old tires, no problem.
Noah Gragson stayed out under the final caution of the Food City 300 and took the lead with 25 laps to go. Despite being the only car on the lead lap with used tires, Gragson held off a last-minute charge from Brandon Jones — his successor in the No. 9 car for 2023 — to score his sixth win of the 2022 season and his third in a row.
It was Gragson’s second win at Bristol Motor Speedway after an earlier triumph in 2020, and it gave JR Motorsports its 12th win of the season.
Austin Hill had a strong run at the end of the race to finish third, while Sam Mayer recorded his first top-five finish since June with a fourth despite a spin from second place towards the end of stage two. Riley Herbst recovered from a lap 19 spin to finish fifth, while AJ Allmendinger finished sixth and took home the Xfinity Series regular season championship along with the 15 playoff points that come with it.
Josh Berry finished seventh, while Stefan Parsons recorded the first top-10 finish of his career in eighth. Justin Allgaier led 148 laps but finished ninth after a late speeding penalty, while Ryan Sieg rounded out the top 10 to clinch the final playoff spot by four points after Landon Cassill went behind the wall for a mechanical failure.
The Xfinity Series playoffs will begin on Saturday, Sept. 24 at Texas Motor Speedway, as the cars will hit the track at 3:30 p.m. ET for the Andy’s Frozen Custard 300. USA Network will provide TV coverage of the race.
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