Ty Gibbs wins Xfinity race at Atlanta after making a move during overtime

Ty Gibbs won the Xfinity Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Saturday night, passing Ryan Sieg on the final lap of double overtime.

After a tumultuous NASCAR Xfinity Series race at the newly reconfigured Atlanta Motor Speedway, Ty Gibbs has once again emerged victorious after taking the lead on the final lap marking his second win of the season and his sixth overall.

Austin Hill, the winner at Daytona, was second, followed by AJ Allmendinger, Riley Herbst, and Landon Cassill in that order. Mason Massey placed sixth, which was his highest finish of the season. In the previous 26 Xfinity races, he had finished 17th. Seventh place went to Brandon Jones. Kyle Weatherman tied for eighth place, which was a personal best for him.

Ty Gibbs, 19, has won numerous races in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, from his series debut to dominating a road circuit, and now to victory on a pseudo-superspeedway with a last-lap overtime move. Gibbs won his sixth Xfinity race of his career and his first at the newly redesigned Atlanta Motor Speedway thanks to a solid finish on the last lap.

Noah Gragson, who won last week in Phoenix and had one of his 2021 trips to Atlanta cut short due to a brawl with current Kaulig Racing Cup teammate Daniel Hemric, began on the pole and led until the competition caution.

On the restart, Gragson maintained his lead, but JR Motorsports teammate Josh Berry eventually won the stage; JRM drivers dominated the top four, with Gragson, Justin Allgaier, and Sam Mayer following. Trevor Bayne, Austin Hill, Jeb Burton, Brandon Brown, Brandon Jones, and Sheldon Creed finished second and third, respectively.

There were ten distinct race leaders and 11 separate changes at the front. Ten cautions, one red flag, and two overtime restarts slowed the race down.

Gragson’s race took a turn for the worst after he collided with the wall on lap 51, dropping him a lap behind the leaders. A.J. Allmendinger was in front of Hemric, Jade Buford, Tommy Joe Martins, Sage Karam, Creed, Brown, Hill, Trevor Bayne, and Jeb Burton at the finish of the stage.

Buford and Jeremy Clements were involved in the first wreck of the day on lap 105, which was followed by an accident that claimed Joe Graf Jr. and Hemric. Mayer was the first to spin on lap 128, followed by Creed, Berry, and Brown ten circuits later. On lap 152, the largest crash of the night occurred, resulting in the collection of twelve drivers on the frontstretch.

Under the next caution laps, Myatt Snider was the leader, but a shower of sparks knocked him off the pace at the restart, and he was bumped from behind by Herbst on the frontstretch, though he avoided contact with the field.

The incident ended in overtime, only for another caution to be issued after many drivers collided again, necessitating a twelve-minute cleanup red flag.

For the second overtime shot, Ryan Sieg and Hill were in the front row. Hill was leading at the time of the white flag, but as they entered turn one, Gibbs found a run on the inside and passed him for the lead and subsequently the victory. After winning in Las Vegas a fortnight ago, he is the first repeat winner of the 2022 Xfinity season.

Both NASCAR support races at Atlanta on Saturday ended with a Toyota driver completing a final-lap pass in the tri-oval for the win, thanks to the overtake. Gibbs’ opponent for the 2021 ARCA Menards Series championship, Corey Heim, made the similar move earlier in the day in the Camping World Truck Series race.

NASCAR Xfinity series Race results – Atlanta speedway

Finish	Start	Number	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Status
1	4	54	Ty Gibbs	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	172	Running
2	14	21	Austin Hill	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	172	Running
3	7	16	A.J. Allmendinger	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	172	Running
4	24	98	Riley Herbst	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford	172	Running
5	10	10	Landon Cassill	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	172	Running
6	26	91	Mason Massey	DGM Racing	Chevrolet	172	Running
7	3	19	Brandon Jones	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	172	Running
8	28	92	Kyle Weatherman	DGM Racing	Chevrolet	172	Running
9	13	2	Sheldon Creed	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	172	Running
10	9	39	Ryan Sieg	RSS Racing	Ford	172	Running
11	21	66	J.J. Yeley	MBM Motorsports	Ford	172	Running
12	32	6	Ryan Vargas	JD Motorsports	Chevrolet	172	Running
13	19	26	Jeffrey Earnhardt	Sam Hunt Racing	Toyota	172	Running
14	16	02	Brett Moffitt	Our Motorsports	Chevrolet	172	Running
15	12	27	Jeb Burton	Our Motorsports	Chevrolet	172	Running
16	27	23	Anthony Alfredo	Our Motorsports	Chevrolet	172	Running
17	35	35	Shane Lee	Emerling-Gase Motorsports	Toyota	172	Running
18	11	68	Brandon Brown	Brandonbilt Motorsports	Chevrolet	172	Running
19	17	36	Alex Labbé	DGM Racing	Chevrolet	172	Running
20	37	45	Tommy Joe Martins	Alpha Prime Racing	Chevrolet	172	Running
21	15	1	Sam Mayer	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	172	Running
22	36	78	Josh Williams	B.J. McLeod Motorsports	Chevrolet	172	Running
23	23	07	Joe Graf Jr.	SS-Green Light Racing	Ford	172	Running
24	31	28	Kyle Sieg	RSS Racing	Ford	172	Running
25	25	99	Stefan Parsons	B.J. McLeod Motorsports	Chevrolet	172	Running
26	1	9	Noah Gragson	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	172	Running
27	38	34	Jesse Iwuji	Jesse Iwuji Motorsports	Chevrolet	172	Running
28	5	18	Trevor Bayne	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	172	Running
29	20	4	Bayley Currey	JD Motorsports	Chevrolet	172	Running
30	22	31	Myatt Snider	Jordan Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	171	Running
31	33	5	Matt Mills	B.J. McLeod Motorsports	Chevrolet	165	Accident
32	29	44	Sage Karam	Alpha Prime Racing	Chevrolet	154	Accident
33	2	8	Josh Berry	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	153	Accident
34	6	7	Justin Allgaier	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	152	Accident
35	8	11	Daniel Hemric	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	113	Accident
36	34	38	Loris Hezemans*	RSS Racing	Toyota	112	Accident
37	18	51	Jeremy Clements	Jeremy Clements Racing	Chevrolet	106	Accident
38	30	48	Jade Buford	Big Machine Racing Team	Chevrolet	105	Accident