2022 Fr8 208


The 2022 Fr8 208 was the third stock car race of the 2022 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and the 17th iteration of the event. The race was held on Saturday, March 19, 2022, in Hampton, Georgia at Atlanta Motor Speedway, a permanent quad-oval racetrack. The race was run over 135 laps. Corey Heim of Kyle Busch Motorsports would win the race after getting a push to the lead by teammate John Hunter Nemechek on the last lap. This was Heim's first career win in the truck series. To fill out the podium, Ben Rhodes and Ty Majeski of ThorSport Racing would finish 2nd and 3rd, respectively.

Background

Atlanta Motor Speedway is a 1.54-mile race track in Hampton, Georgia, United States, 20 miles south of Atlanta. It has annually hosted NASCAR Cup Series stock car races since its inauguration in 1960.
The venue was bought by Speedway Motorsports in 1990. In 1994, 46 condominiums were built over the northeastern side of the track. In 1997, to standardize the track with Speedway Motorsports' other two intermediate ovals, the entire track was almost completely rebuilt. The frontstretch and backstretch were swapped, and the configuration of the track was changed from oval to quad-oval, with a new official length of where before it was. The project made the track one of the fastest on the NASCAR circuit. In July 2021 NASCAR announced that the track would be reprofiled for the 2022 season to have 28 degrees of banking and would be narrowed from 55 to 40 feet which the track claims will turn racing at the track similar to restrictor plate superspeedways. Despite the reprofiling being criticized by drivers, construction began in August 2021 and wrapped up in December 2021. The track has seating capacity of 71,000 to 125,000 people depending on the tracks configuration.

Entry list

Practice

Friday's 50-minute practice session was cancelled due to inclement weather. Practice will replace qualifying on Saturday. Tyler Ankrum of Hattori Racing Enterprises would set the fastest time in the session, with a time of 30.527 seconds and a speed of.

Qualifying

Qualifying will be cancelled because of a need to add additional practice to the reconfigured circuit. Starting lineup will be based on the rulebook. No one would fail to qualify for the race. Chandler Smith would get the pole for the race.

Race results

Stage 1 Laps: 30
Pos.#DriverTeamMakePts
152Stewart FriesenHalmar Friesen RacingToyota10
223Grant EnfingerGMS RacingChevrolet9
319Derek KrausMcAnally–Hilgemann RacingChevrolet8
498Christian EckesThorSport RacingToyota7
588Matt CraftonThorSport RacingToyota6
615Tanner GrayDavid Gilliland RacingFord5
718Chandler SmithKyle Busch MotorsportsToyota4
841Ross Chastain 'Niece MotorsportsChevrolet0
94John Hunter NemechekKyle Busch MotorsportsToyota2
1016Tyler AnkrumHattori Racing EnterprisesToyota1

Stage 2 Laps: 30
Pos.#DriverTeamMakePts
14John Hunter NemechekKyle Busch MotorsportsToyota10
266Ty MajeskiThorSport RacingToyota9
318Chandler SmithKyle Busch MotorsportsToyota8
498Christian EckesThorSport RacingToyota7
516Tyler AnkrumHattori Racing EnterprisesToyota6
688Matt CraftonThorSport RacingToyota5
740Dean Thompson 'Niece MotorsportsChevrolet4
815Tanner GrayDavid Gilliland RacingFord3
942Carson HocevarNiece MotorsportsChevrolet2
1017Ryan PreeceDavid Gilliland RacingFord1

Stage 3 ''Laps: 75''

Standings after the race

;Drivers' Championship standings
  • Note: Only the first 10 positions are included for the driver standings.