Noah Gragson crossed the finish line first and won the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Darlington despite the leader’s tyre blowing out on the penultimate lap and the second-place car colliding with the barrier.

Sheldon Creed held on to the lead as the circuits of the race on Saturday came to an end as he pursued his first victory of the 2022 season and a playoff berth.

In the final circuits, Kyle Larson and Creed battled side-by-side for the lead after momentarily passing Gragson for second. Creed was pushed into the barrier when the two made contact.

On the white flag lap, Gragson passed them both and jumped back to second place. Creed appeared to have a chance of winning, but his tyre eventually blew out. Gragson, though, hit the barrier shortly after that.

Both drivers were out of shape when they approached Turn 4, which allowed Gragson to pass Creed and win by 0.794 seconds.

There’s a reason why they call Darlington the track @TooToughToTame.

Spectacular, full-contact finish to the @NASCAR_Xfinity race with cars in the wall and sparks flying! WOW #NASCAR pic.twitter.com/fP0JtJwRpw

— Motorsport.com (@Motorsport) September 4, 2022

For Gragson, it’s his fourth victory of the year and ninth overall. He has already triumphed twice at Darlington Raceway.

“What a hell of a job by everyone on my team,” Gragson said. “Sheldon Creed was really fast. Kyle came on strong there at the end. I watched during the rain delay him running the top (lane) in (Turns) 1 and 2 and I went up there and I found something.

“Sheldon pinched me off and (Larson) got by me and I was thinking they were going to get into each other racing too hard. What a job by everyone at JR Motorsports. The Hendrick power was awesome today.

“I’m just so excited. We won this race here last year and today we put on one hell of a show for the fans.”

Third place went to A.J. Allmendinger, fourth place went to Justin Allgaier, and fifth place went to Larson.

Cla	#	Driver		Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	Laps Led
1	9	Noah Gragson		Chevrolet	147	2:02’58.552			82
2	2	Sheldon Creed		Chevrolet	147	2:02’59.346	0.794	0.794	47
3	16	A.J. Allmendinger		Chevrolet	147	2:02’59.497	0.945	0.151
4	7	Justin Allgaier		Chevrolet	147	2:02’59.808	1.256	0.311	12
5	17	Kyle Larson		Chevrolet	147	2:02’59.850	1.298	0.042	1
6	54	Ty Gibbs		Toyota	147	2:03’00.170	1.618	0.320
7	18	Christopher Bell		Toyota	147	2:03’00.355	1.803	0.185
8	8	Josh Berry		Chevrolet	147	2:03’00.966	2.414	0.611
9	26	John Hunter Nemechek		Toyota	147	2:03’01.622	3.070	0.656
10	21	Austin Hill		Chevrolet	147	2:03’02.325	3.773	0.703	2
11	1	Sam Mayer		Chevrolet	147	2:03’02.965	4.413	0.640
12	10	Landon Cassill		Chevrolet	147	2:03’03.207	4.655	0.242
13	11	Daniel Hemric		Chevrolet	147	2:03’03.772	5.220	0.565
14	19	Brandon Jones		Toyota	147	2:03’03.915	5.363	0.143	3
15	48	Ross Chastain		Chevrolet	147	2:03’05.311	6.759	1.396
16	34	Kyle Weatherman		Chevrolet	147	2:03’06.256	7.704	0.945
17	45	Stefan Parsons		Chevrolet	147	2:03’07.805	9.253	1.549
18	39	Ryan Sieg		Ford	147	2:03’09.071	10.519	1.266
19	4	Bayley Currey		Chevrolet	147	2:03’09.701	11.149	0.630
20	91	Mason Massey		Chevrolet	147	2:03’10.058	11.506	0.357
21	51	Jeremy Clements		Chevrolet	147	2:03’11.037	12.485	0.979
22	44	Ryan Ellis		Chevrolet	147	2:03’11.278	12.726	0.241
23	38	Kyle Sieg		Ford	147	2:03’11.396	12.844	0.118
24	27	Jeb Burton		Chevrolet	147	2:03’11.960	13.408	0.564
25	08	David Starr		Ford	147	2:03’12.132	13.580	0.172
26	36	Josh Williams		Chevrolet	146	2:02’56.373	1 Lap	1 Lap
27	6	Ryan Vargas		Chevrolet	146	2:03’13.082	1 Lap	16.709
28	31	Myatt Snider		Chevrolet	145	2:02’52.557	2 Laps	1 Lap
29	78	Brandon Brown		Chevrolet	145	2:02’55.389	2 Laps	2.832
30	35	Dawson Cram		Toyota	145	2:03’06.122	2 Laps	10.733
31	47	Brennan Poole		Chevrolet	86	1:50’05.963	61 Laps	59 Laps
32	66	J.J. Yeley		Chevrolet	83	1:16’17.260	64 Laps	3 Laps
33	07	Joe Jr.		Ford	61	48’09.830	86 Laps	22 Laps
34	98	Riley Herbst		Ford	56	44’12.441	91 Laps	5 Laps
35	02	Ty Dillon		Chevrolet	55	39’38.888	92 Laps	1 Lap
36	68	Kris Wright		Chevrolet	55	41’53.799	92 Laps	2’14.911
37	23	Anthony Alfredo		Chevrolet	51	33’47.111	96 Laps	4 Laps
38	5	Tommy Joe Martins		Chevrolet	44	24’52.370	103 Laps	7 Laps

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