Only five lead changes, none for on-track racing, occurred during Saturday’s NASCAR Cup race at Martinsville as William Byron became 2022’s first repeat race winner.
Brandon Jones’ first win of the 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series season came in wild fashion as he held off team-mate Ty Gibbs, but it was overshadowed by Gibbs brawling with Sam Mayer over contact coming to the finish.
William Byron led the final 84 laps at Martinsville to win his 8th career NASCAR Truck race and first for Spire Motorsports at that level.
A contractual disagreement involving G2G Racing and Matt Jaskol, as well as his sponsor 4Less Group, has resulted in Jaskol leaving the team. In his place, Kaden Honeycutt will make his NASCAR Truck Series début tonight at Martinsville.
The 100-point penalty for RFK Racing’s #6 car of Brad Keselowski, which was concerning a body part modification, will not be dropped by NASCAR. The team will not appeal.
Alongside the full-time #1 of Hailie Deegan and #15 of Tanner Gray, as well as the #17 for multiple drivers including Harrison Burton, David Gilliland Racing will field the #54 for Joey Logano at the Bristol Dirt Race.
William Byron, who dominated the 2016 NASCAR Truck Series, will make another one-off in 2022 as he enters Thursday’s Martinsville race for Spire Motorsports.
Harrison Burton will run his first NASCAR Truck Series race since 2019 as he enters 16 April’s Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt race for David Gilliland Racing.
Late model racer and former Drive for Diversity Youth Driver member Blake Lothian will run his maiden NASCAR Truck Series race this Thursday at Martinsville Speedway, driving the #43 for Reaume Brothers Racing.
Denny Hamlin chased down William Byron and led the final five laps to win at his home track Richmond for the fifth time in his NASCAR Cup Series career.
2021 NASCAR Weekly Series national champion Peyton Sellers will run the Superstar Racing Experience round at South Boston Speedway on 25 June. He is a 5× SoBo track champion.
An aggressive push in the final turn gave Ty Gibbs the win at Richmond over Joe Gibbs Racing team-mate John Hunter Nemechek.
Jesse Iwuji Motorsports will field the #34 for Kyle Weatherman at Richmond. The team’s eponymous owner was the car’s primary driver.
Michael “Buddy” Kofoid, the 2021 USAC National Midget Champion, will make his NASCAR début in the Truck dirt race at Bristol. He will drive the #51 for Kyle Busch Motorsports.
Air Force veteran Keith McGee, who ran five NASCAR Truck Series races in 2021, will make his 2022 début in the Bristol Dirt Race for Reaume Brothers Racing.
SQR Development was initially going to run a part-time NASCAR Xfinity schedule with Raphaël Lessard beginning this Saturday at Richmond, but those plans have been abandoned due to an “unfortunate personal matter” involving owner J.C. Stout.
Jessica Friesen will once again run the NASCAR Truck Series dirt races at Bristol and Knoxville alongside her husband Stewart.
