2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series

The 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series will be the 41st season of the NASCAR Xfinity Series, a stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR in the United States. The season will kick off with the Beef. It's What's for Dinner. 300 on February 19 at Daytona International Speedway and will end with the playoff finale on November 5 at Phoenix Raceway.

2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series
Previous: 2021 Next: 2023
Champions | Seasons
Daniel Hemric, the defending Xfinity Series champion.

This season will mark the first time in over 20 years to feature two African-American drivers racing against each other in a NASCAR national series race, as Jesse Iwuji will run full-time and Rajah Caruth will run part-time in the series in 2022. The last time this happened was when Willy T. Ribbs and Bill Lester competed together in five races in the Truck Series in 2001. Also, the Xfinity Series logo will change from red to purple in 2022.[1]

Daniel Hemric enters the season as the defending champion. He drove the No. 18 car for Joe Gibbs Racing in 2021, but he will now be driving the No. 11 car for Kaulig Racing. He will try to become the second driver in series history to win back-to-back championships driving for two different teams. (The first was Tyler Reddick in 2018 and 2019.)

Teams and drivers

Complete schedule
Manufacturer Team No. Race driver Crew chief
Chevrolet Alpha Prime Racing[2] 44 Caesar Bacarella 4[2][3] TBA
Tommy Joe Martins TBA[4]
Andy Lally 6[5]
Rajah Caruth 3[2]
Ryan Ellis 5[6]
TBA TBA
Big Machine Racing Team 48 Jade Buford[7] Patrick Donahue[7]
DGM Racing 91 Mason Massey TBA[8] TBA
TBA TBA
92 TBA TBA
Jeremy Clements Racing[9] 51 Jeremy Clements TBA
Jordan Anderson Racing 31 Myatt Snider[10] TBA
JR Motorsports 7 Justin Allgaier[11] TBA
8 Josh Berry[12] TBA
9 Noah Gragson[13] TBA
TBA Sam Mayer[14] TBA
Kaulig Racing 10 Landon Cassill[15] TBA
11 Daniel Hemric[16] TBA
16 A. J. Allmendinger[17] TBA
Richard Childress Racing 2 Sheldon Creed (R)[18] TBA
TBA Austin Hill (R)[19] TBA
Ford RSS Racing[20] 39 Ryan Sieg[20] TBA
TBA TBA 23 TBA
Parker Retzlaff 10[21]
Stewart-Haas Racing 98 Riley Herbst[22] TBA
Toyota Joe Gibbs Racing 19 Brandon Jones[23] Jeff Meendering[23]
TBA Ty Gibbs[N 1] TBA
TBA TBA TBA
Sam Hunt Racing 26 TBA Allen Hart[25]
Chevrolet TBA
Toyota TBA		 B. J. McLeod Motorsports 78 Josh Williams[26] Danny Johnson[26]
Chevrolet TBA
Toyota TBA		 99 Stefan Parsons[27] TBA
Chevrolet TBA
Toyota TBA		 TBA TBA TBA TBA
Nick Sanchez TBA[28]
TBA Jesse Iwuji Motorsports[29] TBA Jesse Iwuji (R) TBA
Ford TBA
Toyota TBA		 Joey Gase Racing[30] 35 Joey Gase TBA TBA
Shane Lee TBA[31]
TBA TBA

Limited schedule
Manufacturer Team No. Race driver Crew chief Rounds
Chevrolet Alpha Prime Racing[32] TBA TBA TBA TBA
JR Motorsports 88 Miguel Paludo[33] TBA 3[34]
Dale Earnhardt Jr. 1[35][36]
Ford Miles Thomas Motorsports[37] TBA Jason Miles[37] TBA TBA
TBA MBM Motorsports 13 TBA TBA 1
TBA 61 TBA TBA 1
TBA 66 TBA TBA 1

Notes
  1. It has yet to officially be announced that Gibbs will run full-time in the Xfinity Series for Joe Gibbs Racing in 2022. However, he is widely expected to. It has been announced that Gibbs will run 3 races for the team in 2022 with Interstate Batteries sponsorship.[24]

Silly Season news and updates

Teams
  • On August 21, 2021, it was announced that NFL Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith and driver Jesse Iwuji would be starting an Xfinity Series team, Jesse Iwuji Motorsports, with Iwuji running the full season and for Rookie of the Year. The team has yet to announce their manufacturer, car number, and crew chief.[29]
  • On August 30, 2021, it was announced that Caesar Bacarella, who has driven part-time in the series for B. J. McLeod Motorsports and DGM Racing since 2017, would be joining Martins Motorsports as a driver/co-owner and the team would be renamed Alpha Prime Racing (Alpha Prime is a company he owns). In addition to Bacarella, Tommy Joe Martins, Rajah Caruth, and potentially additional drivers will share the team's No. 44 car for the full season.[2]
  • When the Jayski's Silly Season Site 2022 Xfinity Series team/driver chart was released, it was revealed that Big Machine Racing Team, which fields the No. 48 car for Jade Buford (who will return to the team in 2022) may form an alliance with a larger NASCAR Xfinity Series team.[38] On October 7, 2021, BMRT announced that they would partner with Richard Childress Racing in 2022.[7]
  • Miles Thomas Motorsports will debut in 2022. The team will compete full-time or part-time in both the Xfinity Series and ARCA Menards Series with Jason Miles, who is also a co-owner of the team. Miles competed part-time in ARCA for Fast Track Racing in 2019 and 2021. Ford will be their manufacturer. The team has yet to announce their car number, sponsors, and crew chief.[37]
  • On October 14, 2021, Bob Pockrass from Fox tweeted that Joe Gibbs Racing could downsize from four full-time cars to three in 2022. One of the cars would continue to be for a rotation of drivers like the No. 54 was in 2021.[39] The team lost two of its full-time drivers from 2021, Daniel Hemric and Harrison Burton, who each bring sponsorship, and the team could not find sponsorship for the No. 54 car in multiple races in 2021. On November 16, JGR officially announced that it would only field 3 full-time Xfinity Series cars in 2022.[40]
  • On October 28, 2021, it was announced that RSS Racing would field two full-time cars again in 2022. After previously fielding three full-time cars in 2018 and 2019 and two in 2020, the team downsized to one car, the No. 39, in 2021. The car number for the second car has yet to be announced, although the team has used the Nos. 38 and 93 in the past.[20] Multiple drivers will share the second car, with Parker Retzlaff being the only one that has been announced so far.[21]
  • On October 29, 2021, it was announced that Richard Childress Racing would field two full-time cars again in 2022. The car number for the second car, which will be driven by Austin Hill, has yet to be announced, although the team will likely use a car number that they have previously used in the Xfinity Series such as the No. 21.[19]
  • On November 18, 2021, Joey Gase announced that he would start his own team, Joey Gase Racing, fielding the No. 35 Ford/Toyota full-time in 2022 with himself and other drivers sharing the ride. The Toyotas that the team will run were purchased from the closed H2 Motorsports team.[30]

Drivers
  • On September 15, 2020, JR Motorsports announced that Sam Mayer would run full-time for them in 2022 after running the second half of the 2021 season in their No. 8 car.[14] After the announcement that Josh Berry, who shared the No. 8 car with Mayer in 2021, would drive the No. 8 full-time in 2022, Dustin Albino from Jayski confirmed that Mayer would still run full-time for JRM in 2022.[41] Dale Earnhardt Jr. himself commented on NASCAR Reddit that it was possible that the team could run five cars full-time[42] so the team would not have to release one of their other full-time drivers. JRM had re-signed Noah Gragson and Justin Allgaier in addition to Berry and Mayer and it was likely that Michael Annett would return to the team in 2022 due to him bringing sponsorship from Pilot Flying J, so at that time, it was likely that Mayer would run full-time for JRM in the fifth car. However, with Annett announcing his retirement, Mayer will replace him as the team's fourth full-time driver (likely still in the No. 1 although that has yet to be confirmed) and the team will not field a fifth car full-time. However, JRM will field a fifth car (the No. 88) in the spring Martinsville race for Earnhardt Jr. in his once-a-year Xfinity Series start. It is the first time since 2018 that JRM will have fielded five cars in a race.[36]
  • On June 18, 2021, Kaulig Racing announced that Justin Haley, the driver of their No. 11 car in the Xfinity Series, would move up to the Cup Series full-time in 2022, driving the team's No. 16 car.[43] On September 25, Kaulig announced that Daniel Hemric would replace Haley in the No. 11 in 2022.[16] He drove the No. 18 for Joe Gibbs Racing in 2021 and won the championship. Hemric also drove Kaulig's No. 10 car in the race at Charlotte in 2019 as a relief driver for Austin Dillon.
  • On July 15, 2021, Team Penske announced that Austin Cindric would move up to the Cup Series full-time in 2022, replacing Brad Keselowski (who is moving to Roush Fenway Racing to become a driver/co-owner for that team) in the No. 2 car.[44] The team has yet to announce their plans for the No. 22 car, although at this time it appears most likely that it will go back to being an "all-star car" with their Cup Series drivers sharing the ride, according to Jordan Bianchi from The Athletic.[45]
  • On July 15, 2021, it was also announced that Harrison Burton, the driver of the No. 20 for Joe Gibbs Racing in the Xfinity Series, would be moving up to the Cup Series full-time in 2022, replacing Matt DiBenedetto in the No. 21 car for Wood Brothers Racing.[46] JGR has yet to announce who will replace Burton in the No. 20, although JGR part-time Xfinity and full-time ARCA driver Ty Gibbs and Kyle Busch Motorsports full-time Truck Series driver John Hunter Nemechek are widely considered to be the most likely candidates (although Nemechek would run part-time since he is returning to KBM in the Truck Series full-time in 2022). Gibbs could also stay in the No. 54, which he drove part-time in 2021, and run full-time in that car since Kyle Busch will not be returning to the Xfinity Series in 2022 after reaching his retirement goal of 100 wins in the series in 2021.[47] Gibbs could also drive JGR's No. 18 car in 2022 as Daniel Hemric will be leaving the team to drive the No. 11 for Kaulig Racing in 2022.[16]
  • On July 16, 2021, GMS Racing full-time Truck Series driver Sheldon Creed stated in an interview that he would like to move up to the Xfinity Series full-time in 2022.[48] On August 17, Chris Knight from Catchfence tweeted that Creed was close to getting a 2022 deal done.[49] On September 14, it was announced that Creed would drive full-time for Richard Childress Racing in the Xfinity Series in 2022.[18] On October 9, RCR announced that Creed would replace Myatt Snider in the No. 2 and that Snider would remain with RCR in their driver development program.[50] On November 3, it was announced that Snider would drive full-time for the RCR-aligned Jordan Anderson Racing in their No. 31 car in 2022.[10]
  • On July 27, 2021, Tommy Joe Martins announced that he will go back to part-time as a driver and his team's No. 44 will be split between him and multiple other drivers, one of which currently competes in ARCA and has yet to make a start in the top 3 series. Martins is expected to announce who that driver is sometime in August.[4] On August 30, Martins announced that the driver is Rajah Caruth, who will be running three races in the No. 44 car (one race at Martinsville, Dover, and Richmond) with the possibility of two more if sponsorship can be found (Pocono and Kansas). Caruth will also return to Rev Racing and the Drive for Diversity program in 2022 and will run full-time in the ARCA Menards Series.[2]
  • On August 16, 2021, JR Motorsports announced that Josh Berry would drive full-time in their No. 8 car in 2022, which he drove part-time in 2021.[12]
  • On September 9, 2021, it was announced that Colby Howard would drive full-time in the Truck Series for McAnally-Hilgemann Racing in 2022. He previously drove the No. 15 for JD Motorsports in the Xfinity Series full-time in 2021 and part-time in 2020.[51] JD Motorsports has yet to announce Howard's replacement and their entire 2022 driver lineup.
  • On September 21, 2021, it was announced that Stefan Parsons would drive full-time for B. J. McLeod Motorsports in 2022. He has driven part-time for the team since 2019, mostly in the No. 99 car. His 2022 car number has yet to be announced.[27]
  • On October 2, 2021, Jamie Little revealed during the NASCAR on Fox pre-race show for the Truck Series race at Talladega that Austin Hill will not be returning to Hattori Racing Enterprises in 2022. Hill hopes to compete in the Xfinity Series full-time in 2022.[52] He competed full-time in the Truck Series and part-time in the Xfinity Series for Hattori in 2019, 2020 and 2021. On October 29, it was announced that Hill would drive full-time for Richard Childress Racing in 2022.[19]
  • On October 6, 2021, it was announced that Michael Annett would retire from full-time competition after the 2021 season. He has driven full-time for JR Motorsports in the Xfinity Series since 2017.[53]
  • On October 11, 2021, Jeb Burton confirmed in an interview with Frontstretch that he would not be returning to the Kaulig Racing No. 10 in 2022 as a result of longtime sponsor Nutrien parting ways with the team at the end of the 2021 season.[54] On December 9, Kaulig signed Landon Cassill to drive the No. 10 full-time in 2022.[15]
  • On October 19, 2021, B. J. McLeod Motorsports announced that Nick Sanchez would run part-time for the team in 2022. It will be his debut in the Xfinity Series. Sanchez, a member of the Drive for Diversity program, will also continue to drive full-time for Rev Racing in the ARCA Menards Series in 2022. Sanchez's car number has yet to be announced.[28]
  • On November 9, 2021, Jeffrey Earnhardt posted on his Facebook page that he would not return to JD Motorsports in 2022 in order to pursue opportunities to drive for a top-tier team whether it be full-time or part-time.[55]
  • On November 15, 2021, DGM Racing announced that Josh Williams will not return to the No. 92, with the team opting to find an experienced and funded driver to fill the seat in 2022.[56]
  • On November 22, 2021, NASCAR indefinitely suspended Alpha Prime Racing driver/co-owner Caesar Bacarella for substance abuse after he claimed he unknowingly took a workout supplement that is on the banned substances list. Bacarella has since enrolled in the Road to Recovery program and is expected to be reinstated in time for the season-opener at Daytona.[3]
  • On December 1, 2021, JR Motorsports announced that Brazilian road racing champion Miguel Paludo will return to the team for three road course races in 2022, although he will now drive the part-time No. 88 car as Josh Berry is driving the No. 8, which Paludo drove in 2021, full-time in 2022.[33]
  • On December 3, 2021, RSS Racing announced that Parker Retzlaff, who has driven in the ARCA Menards Series East for Cook-Finley Racing, would run part-time in the team's full-time second car in 2022.[21]
  • On December 8, 2021, B. J. McLeod Motorsports announced that Josh Williams would run full-time in the No. 78 for the team in 2022. Williams drove for DGM Racing the last five years either full-time or part-time.[26]
  • On December 15, 2021, DGM Racing announced that Mason Massey would drive the No. 91 car for the majority of the 2022 season. He drove part-time for B. J. McLeod Motorsports in 2020 and 2021.[8]

Crew chiefs
  • On November 5, 2021, it was reported by Jayski that Dave Elenz would not return as crew chief for Noah Gragson and would move to the NASCAR Cup Series to be the crew chief for the Richard Petty Motorsports No. 43 car of Erik Jones, replacing Jerry Baxter. The move was officially announced on November 10. Noah Gragson's new crew chief will be announced at a later date.[57]
  • On November 10, 2021, Sam Hunt Racing announced that Allen Hart, who previously worked for JR Motorsports as the engineer for Justin Allgaier's No. 7 car (as well as Allgaier's interim crew chief in one race in 2021), would become the team's technical director as well as the crew chief for their No. 26 car. Former crew chief Andrew Abbott will remain with Sam Hunt Racing in another role.[25]
  • On November 16, 2021, it was announced that defending Xfinity Series championship-winning crew chief Dave Rogers, who was Daniel Hemric's crew chief at Joe Gibbs Racing in 2021, would be moving to 23XI Racing in the Cup Series as their performance director in 2022.[40]
  • On December 8, 2021, B. J. McLeod Motorsports announced that Danny Johnson would be the crew chief for Josh Williams and their No. 78 car in 2022. Johnson crew chiefed the No. 23 Our Motorsports car for most of the first half of the 2021 season. He was also Williams' crew chief when he ran full-time in the ARCA Menards Series in 2016 for his own team.[26]

Interim crew chiefs
  • On October 26, 2021, NASCAR suspended Our Motorsports No. 23 crew chief Kenneth Roettger Jr. for 4 Xfinity Series races after the car lost a ballast during the race at Kansas that month.[58] Because there were only 2 races left in the 2021 season, he will also will be suspended for the first 2 races of the 2022 season (Daytona and California). Ronnie Osmer filled in for Roettger Jr. as the interim crew chief of the No. 23 in 2021. It has not been announced who the interim crew chief will be in 2022 and if Roettger Jr. will return to Our Motorsports as a crew chief in 2022.
  • On November 22, 2021, NASCAR suspended Mike Harmon Racing crew chief Ryan Bell for the first six races in 2022 for violating the vehicle testing rule when the team brought the No. 74 car to Rockingham Speedway (which is currently unsanctioned by NASCAR) for a charity event. In addition, the team will have 75 owner and driver points deducted at the start of the 2022 season.[3]
  • On December 3, 2021, NASCAR announced that MBM Motorsports crew chief Johnny Roten has been indefinitely suspended after violating the substance abuse policy in the NASCAR rulebook. MBM has yet to announce if Roten will return to the team as a crew chief in 2022 after his suspension is lifted and if he does, who would fill in for him before then.[59]

Manufacturers
  • On October 28, 2021, it was announced that RSS Racing would have a technical alliance with Stewart-Haas Racing in 2022. The team switched to Ford in 2021 and the team received old SHR cars although they did not have a technical alliance with them.[20]

Sponsorship
  • On August 19, 2021, JR Motorsports announced that Harrison's Workwear will be a primary sponsor for Josh Berry's No. 8 car in eight races in 2022.[60] They join returning sponsor Tire Pros (which will sponsor Berry in nine races in 2022), which means that the car is sponsored for half the races.[61]
  • On September 17, 2021, it was reported and later confirmed by Kaulig Racing President Chris Rice that Nutrien Agricultural Solutions would not return to sponsoring the team in 2022, which leaves the No. 10 car without a primary sponsor. If Kaulig does not find a replacement sponsor, the No. 10 car might close down or not run full-time which would leave Kaulig with two full-time Xfinity Series cars in 2022.[62] On December 9, cryptocurrency platform Voyager signed a two year sponsorship deal with Landon Cassill and the Kaulig Racing No. 10. Cassill will be fully paid in a portfolio of multiple cryptocurrencies as part of the deal.[15]
  • On October 9, 2021, Richard Childress Racing announced that Whelen Engineering Company would be the sponsor for Sheldon Creed and their No. 2 car for the full season in 2022. Whelen is the title sponsor of the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour and the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series and also sponsored RCR's No. 31 Cup Series car, then driven by Ryan Newman, in two races in 2016.[50]
  • On December 3, 2021, it was announced that Parker Retzlaff would be sponsored by Ponsse, Eco-Tracks and Iron Horse Loggers in his 10 races in the second RSS Racing car. Those sponsors also sponsored him in the ARCA Menards Series East with Cook-Finley Racing in 2020 and 2021.[21]
  • On December 13, 2021, Jesse Iwuji Motorsports announced that Equity Prime Mortgage will sponsor the team for eight races in 2022.[63]

Confirmed returning sponsorship
  • Interstate Batteries extended its partnership with the Joe Gibbs Racing and will continue to serve as one of the sponsors for Ty Gibbs in the Xfinity Series. They will sponsor him in three races in 2022. 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the partnership between JGR and Interstate.[64]
  • Hellmann's will again sponsor Dale Earnhardt Jr. in his one Xfinity Series race of 2022, which will be at Martinsville. Fans had the opportunity to vote on one of three paint schemes for him to drive in the race.[65][66]
  • With Noah Gragson returning to the JR Motorsports No. 9 in 2022, it was also announced that Bass Pro Shops, TrueTimber Camo, and Black Rifle Coffee will return to sponsor him and the car full-time.[13]
  • Sokal Digital and Advertising and Springrates Automotive Suspension Source will return as the primary sponsors for Stefan Parsons at B. J. McLeod Motorsports.[27]
  • With the return of Brandon Jones to Joe Gibbs Racing's No. 19 car, it was also announced that Menards would continue to be his primary sponsor. However, Menards will now sponsor him for all 33 races after previously sponsoring a majority of the races but not all of them.[23]
  • CMR Construction & Roofing will continue as the primary sponsor of Ryan Sieg's No. 39 car in 2022.[20]

Teams
  • On September 2, 2021, Jerry Freeze, the general manager of Front Row Motorsports, stated in an interview with Dave Moody on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio that the team has been considering starting an Xfinity Series team in 2022. It is most likely that they will do this if the team sells one of their two Cup Series charters to 23XI Racing and only runs one car full-time in that series in 2022 as had been rumored (the deal ended up falling through). FRM's Truck Series driver, Todd Gilliland, could stay with the team in 2022 and move up to the Xfinity Series full-time. Anthony Alfredo, one of FRM's Cup Series drivers, could stay with the team in 2022 and move down to the Xfinity Series or Truck Series full-time. FRM previously competed in the series from 2008 to 2010. They sold their Xfinity Series team to TriStar Motorsports partway through the 2010 season.[67] On November 30, FRM announced that Gilliland would drive their No. 38 Cup Series car full-time in 2022 and Zane Smith would replace Gilliland in the No. 38 truck, so it is unlikely that they will start an Xfinity Series team in 2022.[68]

Drivers

Rule changes
  • On November 19, 2021, NASCAR announced the new practice and qualifying formats across all three national series in 2022. The formats are as follows:[73]
  • Oval races: After a 20-minute practice period for each of two groups, all cars will run a single qualifying lap (two laps at tracks 1.000 miles or shorter). Top five in each group will advance to the final round, which is one or two qualifying laps.
  • Superspeedway races: No practice period. All cars run one lap each, with the top 10 transferring to the final round.
  • Road courses: After a 20-minute practice period, the field will be separated into two groups, each running a 15-minute timed session. The top five of each group will advance to the final round, which consists of a 10-minute timed session.
  • Daytona race 1, Atlanta race 1, Portland, Nashville, and the Phoenix season ending race will have one 50-minute practice session.

Schedule

The 2022 season schedule was announced on September 29, 2021.

No Race title Track Date
1 Beef. It's What's for Dinner. 300 Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Florida February 19
2 Production Alliance Group 300 Auto Club Speedway, Fontana, California February 26
3 TBA Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas, Nevada March 5
4 TBA Phoenix Raceway, Avondale, Arizona March 12
5 Nalley Cars 250[74] Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton, Georgia March 19
6 Pit Boss 250 Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas March 26
7 ToyotaCare 250 Richmond Raceway, Richmond, Virginia April 2
8 TBA Martinsville Speedway, Ridgeway, Virginia April 8
9 TBA Talladega Superspeedway, Lincoln, Alabama April 23
10 TBA Dover International Speedway, Dover, Delaware April 30
11 TBA Darlington Raceway, Darlington, South Carolina May 7
12 TBA Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, Texas May 21
13 TBA Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, North Carolina May 28
14 TBA Portland International Raceway, Portland, Oregon June 4
15 TBA Nashville Superspeedway, Lebanon, Tennessee June 25
16 TBA Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin July 2
17 Alsco Uniforms 250[74] Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton, Georgia July 9
18 TBA New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Loudon, New Hampshire July 16
19 TBA Pocono Raceway, Long Pond, Pennsylvania July 23
20 TBA Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Road Course), Speedway, Indiana July 30
21 TBA Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn, Michigan August 6
22 TBA Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen, New York August 20
23 TBA Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Florida August 26
24 Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200 Darlington Raceway, Darlington, South Carolina September 3
25 Kansas Lottery 300 Kansas Speedway, Kansas City, Kansas September 10
26 TBA Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, Tennessee September 16
NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoffs
Round of 12
27 TBA Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, Texas September 24
28 Sparks 300 Talladega Superspeedway, Lincoln, Alabama October 1
29 TBA Charlotte Motor Speedway (Road Course), Concord, North Carolina October 8
Round of 8
30 TBA Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 15
31 Contender Boats 250 Homestead-Miami Speedway, Homestead, Florida October 22
32 TBA Martinsville Speedway, Ridgeway, Virginia October 29
Championship 4
33 TBA Phoenix Raceway, Avondale, Arizona November 5

Schedule changes
Further information: History of NASCAR schedule realignments ยง Realignment 2022
  • Auto Club Speedway returns to the schedule for the first time in two years as a result of state COVID-19 regulations in California forcing the cancellation of the 2021 race. It is scheduled for the weekend after the Daytona 500 (February 25, 26, and 27), which would make it the second race of the season for the first time since 2010, replacing the Daytona Road Course.[75] This will also be the last race at the track before its proposed reconfiguration into a short track for 2023 (which has yet to be approved).
  • The major venue change is a swap of Green Savoree Racing Promotions circuits. Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course will lose its date, which will go to Portland International Raceway, which in return Mid-Ohio will be awarded a Camping World Truck Series date. Portland will be the only standalone date for the Xfinity Series in 2022.[76]
  • As for other slight realignments, Richmond will go from the late-summer date to the spring date and Homestead-Miami go from February to late-October, returning to the playoffs.[76][77]

See also

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