Ty Gibbs Earns Fifth Xfinity Series Win of 2022 at Michigan

Ty Gibbs continued his strong 2022 season by taking control of the final stage to earn his fifth Xfinity Series win of the season. The course of the race changed when Noah Gragson, the pole-sitter, decided to stay out on the track and earn the stage win, while Gibbs elected to pit before the end of the stage. The race ran caution-free from the final restart on Lap 68 to the finish on Lap 125, and Gibbs beat runner-up Justin Allgaier to the stripe, as Allgaier’s teammate, Noah Gragson, worked his way up to third.

“I think this type of racing shows the strategy in the pit stops,” said Gibbs in his post-race interview. “My guys did such a great job. I work out with them during the week, so I see how hard they work. They do a great job—every one of them.

“So I’m very thankful and glad to be part of the organization that motivates me like that week in and week out—not motivates, because that’s temporary, but being relentless, and I feel like that’s what they showed me.”

This victory marked Ty Gibbs’ ninth career win in the Xfinity Series in just 39 starts. Justin Allgaier was following a similar pit strategy to Gibbs, but a slower pit stop on lap 100 cost him a shot to win the race.

“I pitted to try and get clear of some lapped cars, and, unfortunately, we merged back on the racetrack right behind those same lapped cars, right before they made their pit stops,” Allgaier said. “So not only did we have to contend with getting by them, as soon as we got by them, they all pitted.

“Second place is tough, but my daughter’s birthday is on Monday, so we’ll celebrate, even though it’s second.”

Noah Gragson had the fastest car all race but with the longer green-flag runs and the decision to stay out, he wasn’t able to get the chance to win.

“We won the first stage and then had a caution with about five to go in the second stage and opted to stay out, won the second stage (by .035 seconds of AJ Allmendinger),” Gragson said. “Then just flipped.

“Restarted the third stage 12th, and that kind of hurt us there at the end, but an overall good day for our Bass Pro Shops, Black Rifle Camaro. We were running him down—just needed more laps there at the end.”

Brandon Jones and Austin Hill finished fourth and fifth, as Josh Berry, AJ Allmendinger, Daniel Hemric, Riley Herbst, and Landon Cassill rounded out the top 10.