First Annual Xfinity Series Driver of the Year 2022

By: Tom Luttermoser    Image Via Luke Lambert Twitter

Now this was a tough one. There were a couple very, very impressive drivers in the Xfinity Series this season and with names like Gibbs, Gragson and Allmendinger all with very impressive stats or seasons in their own rights I just couldn't decide. But one stat jumped out at me as the most impressive, and that locked this driver in to win this first ever award.

When you win 4 times in a season, that's pretty damn impressive no matter the series. But when you win 4 in a row, that's a record that took 40 years to tie and Noah Gragson did that in 2022. That record belonged to NASCAR Xfinity legend Sam Ard from 1983 winning South Boston, Martinsville, Orange County Speedway and Charlotte. in 2022 Noah Gragson won a total of 8 times scoring Top-5s 21 of 33 races and Top-10s 26 of those 33. Most impressively, Noah led a NASCAR high 1,010 laps in rout to his runner up title spot. 

As for the stages, Noah won 16 times for 160 Stage points making up majority of his 3rd in the series 343 Stage points. He won the Dover segment of the 2022 Xfinity Series Dash 4 Cash. Among the most impressive 2 bits of his 2022 season would be his maturing after his Road America scuffle and the fact that he won on nearly every type of track the Xfinity Series has to offer this year, short tracks, Superspeedways and intermediates leaving out only road courses in his win column. 

Those are my reasoning for Choosing Noah Gragson for the 2022 Xfinity Driver of the Year!