Josh Berry, JR Motorsports crush Charlotte competition

JR Motorsports had never won at Charlotte Motor Speedway on oval nor Roval in the NASCAR Xfinity Series since the team’s début in 2006. On Saturday, JRM finally slayed those demons in dominating fashion as Justin Allgaier, Josh Berry, Noah Gragson, and Sam Mayer combined to lead 190 of 200 laps, with Berry having eighty-nine en route to his second win of the 2022 season.

Berry and Allgaier turned Charlotte into their personal playground with eighty-nine and sixty-three laps led, respectively, and winning the first two stages. Unfortunately for Allgaier, a late flat tyre eliminated him from the race win, though he salvaged a top ten out of it. With Allgaier out of the picture, Berry coasted to an 18.039-second win over runner-up Ty Gibbs, which TobyChristie.com’s Joseph Srigley pointed out is the widest margin of victory in the Xfinity Series since Jeff Burton was 19.493 seconds ahead of Michael Waltrip in the 2002 fall Charlotte event.

Mayer and Gragson placed third and fourth after respectively having two and thirty-six laps in front. Ryan Preece, who is running all three national series races at Charlotte, is the only non-JRM driver to lead laps with ten, though only one was under Green. Preece’s nine circuits in first came after a wreck that collected multiple drivers like Anthony Alfredo, Austin Dillon, Joe Graf Jr., Stefan Parsons, and Ryan Sieg.

For the second time this weekend, post-race frustrations appeared when Jeb Burton and Gragson had a vocal, expletive-laden discussion on pit road about the other’s driving conduct. Burton subsequently tweeted, “And like I said to his face the only reason he’s in the car is bc of the check. I’ve been in the same stuff and out ran him almost every race go look at the stats.”

Race results

Finish	Start	Number	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Status
1	4	8	Josh Berry	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	200	Running
2	36	54	Ty Gibbs	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	200	Running
3	1	1	Sam Mayer	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	200	Running
4	7	9	Noah Gragson	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	200	Running
5	3	5	Ryan Preece*	B.J. McLeod Motorsports	Ford	200	Running
6	10	11	Daniel Hemric	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	200	Running
7	2	7	Justin Allgaier	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	199	Running
8	18	2	Sheldon Creed	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	199	Running
9	6	18	Trevor Bayne	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	199	Running
10	33	31	Myatt Snider	Jordan Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	199	Running
11	14	02	Brett Moffitt	Our Motorsports	Chevrolet	199	Running
12	15	27	Jeb Burton	Our Motorsports	Chevrolet	199	Running
13	29	44	Ryan Ellis	Alpha Prime Racing	Chevrolet	199	Running
14	20	21	Austin Hill	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	199	Running
15	25	4	Bayley Currey	JD Motorsports	Chevrolet	198	Running
16	5	19	Brandon Jones	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	198	Running
17	32	68	Brandon Brown	Brandonbilt Motorsports	Chevrolet	198	Running
18	16	66	J.J. Yeley	MBM Motorsports	Ford	198	Running
19	8	16	A.J. Allmendinger	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	198	Running
20	27	55	Matt Mills	B.J. McLeod Motorsports	Chevrolet	198	Running
21	34	36	Garrett Smithley	DGM Racing	Chevrolet	197	Running
22	23	51	Jeremy Clements	Jeremy Clements Racing	Chevrolet	197	Running
23	35	38	C.J. McLaughlin	RSS Racing	Ford	196	Running
24	28	35	Shane Lee	Emerling-Gase Motorsports	Toyota	196	Running
25	37	98	Riley Herbst	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford	196	Running
26	17	6	Ryan Vargas	JD Motorsports	Chevrolet	187	Running
27	26	78	Josh Williams	B.J. McLeod Motorsports	Chevrolet	175	Suspension
28	31	99	Nick Sanchez	B.J. McLeod Motorsports	Chevrolet	173	Ignition
29	12	10	Landon Cassill	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	131	Running
30	11	45	Stefan Parsons	Alpha Prime Racing	Chevrolet	119	Accident
31	13	48	Austin Dillon*	Big Machine Racing Team	Chevrolet	109	Accident
32	22	39	Ryan Sieg	RSS Racing	Ford	109	Accident
33	30	23	Anthony Alfredo	Our Motorsports	Chevrolet	109	Accident
34	24	07	Joe Graf Jr.	SS-Green Light Racing	Ford	109	Accident
35	19	47	Brennan Poole*	Mike Harmon Racing	Chevrolet	71	Brakes
36	21	34	Kyle Weatherman	Jesse Iwuji Motorsports	Chevrolet	41	Accident
37	38	26	Jeffrey Earnhardt	Sam Hunt Racing	Toyota	41	Accident
38	9	13	Timmy Hill*	MBM Motorsports	Toyota	25	Accident