UPDATE: Cole Custer wins pole position for the 2022 Food City Dirt Race. The rest of the starting lineup can be found below.
Qualifying Heat 4 Update: Ty Dillon wins the fourth heat. Elliott, Larson, Stenhouse Jr., Byron, Cindric, Burton, Almirola and Ware round out the order of the finishes in the fourth heat.
Qualifying Heat 3 Update: Justin Haley wins the third heat. Logano, Buescher, Busch, Dillon, Wallace, Yeley, Gragson and Hamlin round out the order for the heat three finishes.
Qualifying Heat 2 Update: Christopher Bell wins the second heat. Busch, Briscoe, McDowell, Jones, Allgaier, Suarez, Harvick and Williams round out the order of the finishes in the second heat.
Qualifying Heat 1 Update: Tyler Reddick wins the first heat. Custer, Bowman, Keselowski, Gilliland, Blaney, Lajoie, Truex Jr. and Ross Chastain round out the order of the heat one finishes.
The 2022 Food City Dirt Race will be held on Sunday, April 17th at 7:00 p.m. ET at the Bristol Motor Speedway. For the second time, they will utilize a dirt track for this race. Qualifying will be held on Saturday on FS2 at 6:00 p.m. ET.
Qualifying is unique for the dirt track. The race field will be split up into four equal groups of about nine or ten cars. Each group will be randomly assigned their starting positions in the field and will run a 15-lap race where they will be eligible for two kinds of points. First, points will be awarded by finishing position with 10 points to the driver that finishes first, nine points to the second-place finisher etc. Points will also be awarded for the number of positions a driver overtakes in the qualifying race.
For example, if a driver starts their qualifying race in ninth and finishes in second, they will receive nine points for their finishing position and an additional seven points for overtaking seven positions in their race.
This will be the second running of the race on a dirt surface. For the first 32 years the race used an asphalt surface and then starting in 1993, they switched to a concrete surface. Joey Logano is the reigning winner of the Food City Dirt Race and he won the event in 2:43:53.
Kyle Larson has the best odds to win the 2022 Food City Dirt Race at DraftKings Sportsbook installed at +550. He is followed by Christopher Bell (+800), Logano (+900), Chase Elliott (+1000) and William Byron (+1200) as the top-five drivers with the best odds to win the race.
Here is the starting lineup for the 2022 Food City Dirt Race.
Starting lineup
2022 Food City Dirt Race Starting Lineup
Pos | Driver | Car # |
---|---|---|
Pos | Driver | Car # |
1 | Cole Custer | 41 |
2 | Christopher Bell | 20 |
3 | Tyler Reddick | 8 |
4 | Chase Briscoe | 14 |
5 | Kyle Larson | 5 |
6 | Justin Haley | 31 |
7 | Ty Dillon | 42 |
8 | Alex Bowman | 48 |
9 | Chase Elliott | 9 |
10 | Joey Logano | 22 |
11 | Kyle Busch | 18 |
12 | Austin Dillon | 3 |
13 | Kurt Busch | 45 |
14 | Erik Jones | 43 |
15 | Chris Buescher | 17 |
16 | Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. | 47 |
17 | Michael McDowell | 34 |
18 | Brad Keselowski | 6 |
19 | William Byron | 24 |
20 | Austin Cindric | 2 |
21 | Daniel Suarez | 99 |
22 | Bubba Wallace | 23 |
23 | Todd Gilliland | 38 |
24 | Harrison Burton | 21 |
25 | Ryan Blaney | 12 |
26 | Corey LaJoie | 7 |
27 | Justin Allgaier | 77 |
28 | Noah Gragson | 16 |
29 | J.J. Yeley | 15 |
30 | Martin Truex, Jr. | 19 |
31 | Aric Almirola | 10 |
32 | Kevin Harvick | 4 |
33 | Ross Chastain | 1 |
34 | Denny Hamlin | 11 |
35 | Cody Ware | 51 |
36 | Josh Williams | 78 |