2022 Beef. It's What's for Dinner. 300

2022 Beef. It's What's for Dinner. 300

Race details
Race 1 of 33 in the 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series
Date	February 19, 2022
Official name	41st Annual Beef. It's What's for Dinner. 300
Location	Daytona Beach, Florida, Daytona International Speedway
Course	Permanent racing facility 2.5 mi (4.0 km)
Distance	120 laps, 300 mi (482.803 km)
Scheduled Distance	120 laps, 300 mi (482.803 km)
Average speed	136.605 miles per hour (219.844 km/h)
Pole position
Driver	Daniel Hemric	Kaulig Racing
Time	49.221
Most laps led
Driver	Daniel Hemric	Kaulig Racing
Laps	38
Winner
No. 21	Austin Hill	Richard Childress Racing
Television in the United States
Network	Fox Sports 1
Announcers	Adam Alexander, Denny Hamlin, Chad Knaus
Radio in the United States
Radio	Motor Racing Network

The 2022 Beef. It's What's for Dinner. 300 was the first stock car race of the 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series and the 41st iteration of the event. The race was held on Saturday, February 19, 2022, in Daytona Beach, Florida at Daytona International Speedway, a 2.5 miles (4.0 km) permanent triangular-shaped superspeedway. The race was run over 120 laps. In a wild ending, Austin Hill, driving for Richard Childress Racing, would win the race under caution, with a major wreck including Jordan Anderson Racing driver Myatt Snider flipping and hitting the catchfence with others involved spinning and hitting parts of Snider's wrecked car.^[1] Snider would eventually walk away, unharmed from the incident. The win was Hill's first career NASCAR Xfinity Series win and his first of the season. To fill out the podium, A. J. Allmendinger of Kaulig Racing and Noah Gragson of JR Motorsports would finish second and third, respectively.

Daytona International Speedway is one of three superspeedways to hold NASCAR races, the other two being Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway.^[2] The standard track at Daytona International Speedway is a four-turn superspeedway that is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) long. The track's turns are banked at 31 degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at 18 degrees.^[3]

The only 50-minute practice session was held on Friday, February 18, at 4:35 PM EST.^[4] Ty Gibbs of Joe Gibbs Racing would set the fastest time in the session, with a time of 48.117 seconds and a speed of 187.044 mph (301.018 km/h).^[5]

Qualifying was held on Saturday, February 19, at 11:35 AM EST.^[4] Since Daytona International Speedway is a superspeedway, the qualifying system used is a single-car, single-lap system with two rounds. In the first round, drivers have one lap to set a time. The fastest ten drivers from the first round move on to the second round. Whoever sets the fastest time in Round 2 wins the pole.^[6]

Daniel Hemric scored the pole for the race with a time of 49.221 seconds with a speed of 182.849 mph (294.267 km/h).^[7]

Stage 1 Laps: 30

Stage 2 Laps: 30

Stage 3 Laps: 60

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 A. J. Allmendinger 51 2 Austin Hill 47 (-4) 3 Riley Herbst 42 (–9) 4 Justin Allgaier 42 (–9) 5 Ryan Sieg 41 (–10) 6 Noah Gragson 40 (–11) 7 Ty Gibbs 35 (–16) 8 Brandon Brown 34 (–17) 9 Sheldon Creed 31 (–20) 10 Anthony Alfredo 30 (–21) 11 Daniel Hemric 29 (–22) 12 Josh Bilicki 28 (–23) Official driver's standings Note: Only the first 12 positions are included for the driver standings.