Complete schedule Limited schedule Notes Changes Teams • On August 6, 2021,
Shane Lee tweeted that he got the equipment from the closed
H2 Motorsports team that he drove for in
2019 and was contemplating whether to use it and start his own team or sell the equipment. On November 18,
Joey Gase announced that he would start his own team, Joey Gase Racing, fielding the No. 35 Ford/Toyota full-time in 2022 with himself and other drivers sharing the ride. The Toyotas that the team will run were the ones owned by Lee that were last used by H2M. As part of the deal to sell the equipment to Gase, Lee will drive select races in Gase's No. 35. • On August 30, 2021, it was announced that
Caesar Bacarella, who has driven part-time in the series for B. J. McLeod Motorsports and DGM Racing since
2017, would be joining
Martins Motorsports as a driver/co-owner and the team would be renamed
Alpha Prime Racing (Alpha Prime is a company he owns). In addition to Bacarella,
Tommy Joe Martins,
Rajah Caruth, and potentially additional drivers will share the team's No. 44 car for the full season. • When the ''
Jayski's Silly Season Site'' 2022 Xfinity Series team/driver chart was released, it was revealed that
Big Machine Racing, which fields the No. 48 car for
Jade Buford (who will return to the team in 2022) may form an alliance with a larger NASCAR Xfinity Series team. On October 7, 2021, BMRT announced that they would partner with Richard Childress Racing in 2022. • On October 14, 2021,
Bob Pockrass from
Fox tweeted that
Joe Gibbs Racing could downsize from four full-time cars to three in 2022. One of the cars would continue to be for a rotation of drivers like the No. 54 was in 2021. The team lost two of its full-time drivers from 2021,
Daniel Hemric, who moved to
Kaulig Racing's No. 11 car, and
Harrison Burton, who moved up to
Wood Brothers Racing in the
NASCAR Cup Series, who each bring sponsorship, and the team could not find sponsorship for the No. 54 car in multiple races in 2021. On November 16, JGR officially announced that it would only field 3 full-time Xfinity Series cars in 2022, thus shutting down the No. 20 team, because the No. 54 car would return in 2022 with
Ty Gibbs as its full-time driver. It was later turned out the No. 54 was renumbered from the No. 20 after the season ended. • On October 28, 2021, it was announced that
RSS Racing would field two full-time cars again in 2022 with multiple drivers sharing the second car (announced to be the No. 38 on January 17, 2022). After previously fielding three full-time cars in 2018 and 2019 and two in 2020, the team downsized to one car, the No. 39, in 2021. • On November 17, 2021,
MBM Motorsports owner
Carl Long announced on
SiriusXM NASCAR Radio that his team would downsize their Xfinity Series team to one full-time car in 2022. The team previously fielded three full-time cars, the Nos. 13, 61 and 66, with the No. 61 sharing the owner points with
Hattori Racing Enterprises. On January 20, 2022, SQR announced that former
Kyle Busch Motorsports and
GMS Racing Truck Series driver
Raphaël Lessard would drive the team's car, the No. 87, part-time. Lessard and the No. 87 car were not on the entry list for the race at Richmond and Lessard revealed in a Facebook post on March 29 that the team would not be attempting any races due to personal issues involving team owner Stout. • On January 13, 2022,
Team Penske Vice Chairman Walt Czarnecki announced that Penske would not field an Xfinity Series team in 2022 unless a sponsor was interested. On February 15, 2022,
Roger Penske revealed on
SiriusXM NASCAR Radio that his team would field a part-time car in the Xfinity Series in 2022. • On March 28, 2022,
DGM Racing announced it would condense its Xfinity operation to two full-time teams with the No. 36 and No. 91 continuing to run full-time while the No. 92 would become a part-time car. A day later,
SS-Green Light Racing announced that it purchased the points of the No. 92 car for its No. 08 car, which had failed to qualify for four of the first six races of the season. • On April 12, 2022,
Richard Childress Racing announced that they would be fielding a third part-time car, the No. 3, in the
spring race at Talladega with
Jeffrey Earnhardt driving. It is the first time since
2018 that RCR has fielded the No. 3 car in the Xfinity Series. • On June 2, 2022,
Hendrick Motorsports announced it would field the No. 17 in three Xfinity races in 2022, with
Kyle Larson running at
Road America,
Alex Bowman at
Indianapolis, and
William Byron at
Watkins Glen. This marks HMS' return to the Xfinity Series after
Tony Stewart won for the team at
Daytona in
2009. • On June 27, 2022,
Team Stange Racing revealed that they would field an entry in the
Xfinity Series race at the Indianapolis Road Course in order for
Tarso Marques, who is running part-time in the Cup Series for the team, to be approved to race in the Cup Series, although they would end up not appearing on the entry list. • On August 8, 2022, it was revealed that
Kaulig Racing would field a fourth car, the No. 14, for the first time in the race at Daytona which will be driven by
Justin Haley, who drives full-time in the Cup Series for the team.
Drivers • On September 15, 2020,
JR Motorsports announced that
Sam Mayer would run full-time for them in 2022 after running the second half of the 2021 season in their No. 8 car.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. himself commented on NASCAR
Reddit that it was possible that the team could run five cars full-time so the team would not have to release one of their other full-time drivers. JRM had re-signed
Noah Gragson and
Justin Allgaier in addition to Berry and Mayer and it was likely that
Michael Annett would return to the team in 2022 due to him bringing sponsorship from
Pilot Flying J, so at that time, it was likely that Mayer would run full-time for JRM in the fifth car. However, with Annett announcing his retirement, Mayer will replace him as the team's fourth full-time driver and the team will not field a fifth car full-time. However, JRM will field a fifth car (the No. 88) in the spring Martinsville race for Earnhardt Jr. in his once-a-year Xfinity Series start. It is the first time since
2018 that JRM will have fielded five cars in a race. On September 25, Kaulig announced that
Daniel Hemric would replace Haley in the No. 11 in 2022. The team has yet to announce their plans for the No. 22 car, although at this time it appears most likely that it will go back to being an "all-star car" with their Cup Series drivers sharing the ride, according to Jordan Bianchi from
The Athletic. • On July 15, 2021, it was also announced that
Harrison Burton, the driver of the No. 20 for
Joe Gibbs Racing in the Xfinity Series, would be moving up to the Cup Series full-time in 2022, replacing
Matt DiBenedetto in the No. 21 car for
Wood Brothers Racing. JGR has yet to announce who will replace Burton in the No. 20, although JGR part-time Xfinity and full-time ARCA driver
Ty Gibbs and
Kyle Busch Motorsports full-time Truck Series driver
John Hunter Nemechek are widely considered to be the most likely candidates (although Nemechek would run part-time since he is returning to KBM in the Truck Series full-time in 2022). Gibbs could also stay in the No. 54, which he drove part-time in 2021, and run full-time in that car since
Kyle Busch will not be returning to the Xfinity Series in 2022 after reaching his retirement goal of 100 wins in the series in 2021. Gibbs could also drive JGR's No. 18 car in 2022 as
Daniel Hemric will be leaving the team to drive the No. 11 for Kaulig Racing in 2022. On August 17, Chris Knight from
Catchfence tweeted that Creed was close to getting a 2022 deal done. On September 14, it was announced that Creed would drive full-time for
Richard Childress Racing in the Xfinity Series in 2022. On November 3, it was announced that Snider would drive full-time for the RCR-aligned
Jordan Anderson Racing in their No. 31 car in 2022. • On September 21, 2021, it was announced that
Stefan Parsons would drive full-time for
B. J. McLeod Motorsports in 2022. He has driven part-time for the team since 2019, mostly in the No. 99 car. He competed full-time in the Truck Series and part-time in the Xfinity Series for Hattori in 2019, 2020 and 2021. On October 29, it was announced that Hill would drive full-time for
Richard Childress Racing in 2022. • On October 11, 2021,
Jeb Burton confirmed in an interview with
Frontstretch that he would not be returning to the Kaulig Racing No. 10 in 2022 as a result of longtime sponsor
Nutrien parting ways with the team at the end of the 2021 season. On December 9, Kaulig signed
Landon Cassill to drive the No. 10 full-time in 2022. On December 27, JDM announced that Currey would drive one of their cars full-time in 2022. Although he drove the No. 15 in all of his starts for the team in 2021, Currey moved to JDM's No. 4 car for 2022, replacing
Landon Cassill. Sanchez would replace
Matt Mills in BJMM's No. 5 car in the races he ran. On July 15, 2022, Sanchez parted ways with B. J. McLeod Motorsports after running two of his seven races scheduled with the team. On September 8, Mills tweeted that he would miss the
Kansas race due to a flu.
Garrett Smithley was announced as the driver of the No. 5 for the race. On January 14, 2022, it was announced that Earnhardt would drive part-time in the No. 26 car for
Sam Hunt Racing. On April 12, it was announced that Earnhardt would drive for
Richard Childress Racing in the
spring race at Talladega in their No. 3 car, the number made famous by his grandfather
Dale when he drove for RCR in the Cup Series. On January 31, it was announced that
Kyle Weatherman, who drove the No. 47 for
Mike Harmon Racing full-time in 2021, would replace Williams in the No. 92, driving the first five races of the season in that car. • On December 1, 2021, JR Motorsports announced that
Porsche Cup Brasil champion
Miguel Paludo will return to the team for three road course races in 2022, although he will now drive the part-time No. 88 car as Josh Berry is driving the No. 8, which Paludo drove in 2021, full-time in 2022. • On December 3, 2021,
RSS Racing announced that
Parker Retzlaff, who has driven in the
ARCA Menards Series East for
Cook-Finley Racing, would run part-time in the team's full-time second car (later announced to be the No. 38) in 2022. • On December 15, 2021,
DGM Racing announced that
Mason Massey would drive the No. 91 car for the majority of the 2022 season. He drove part-time for B. J. McLeod Motorsports in 2020 and 2021. On January 31, it was announced that Weatherman would drive the No. 92 for
DGM Racing in the first five races of the season. • On January 13, 2022,
Sam Hunt Racing announced that
Ryan Truex would run part-time in the No. 26 in 2022. • On March 9, 2022,
Sam Hunt Racing announced that
Parker Chase would make his Xfinity Series debut in
the race at
Circuit of the Americas driving their No. 26 car. Chase has competed part-time in the ARCA Menards Series for
Venturini Motorsports and made his Truck Series debut at the Daytona Road Course in 2021 in the
Kyle Busch Motorsports No. 51. • On May 25, 2022,
Joe Gibbs Racing announced that
Connor Mosack, who competes full-time in the
Trans-Am Series for
TeamSLR and part-time in the
ARCA Menards Series for
Bret Holmes Racing, would make his Xfinity Series debut in their No. 18 car in the race at Portland. Brown later stated that he would unlikely return to the No. 68 full-time as a result of his struggle to secure a sponsor.
Kris Wright was announced to drive the No. 68 in all but three races from August onwards. Brown drove the No. 5 for B. J. McLeod Motorsports at Watkins Glen. • On August 22, 2022, it was announced that Josh Williams would return to DGM Racing starting at the
Daytona, with him driving the rest of the season split between the team's No. 36 and No. 92 cars. He will drive the No. 36 car in each race that Alex Labbé does not have sponsorship for (all remaining races except Daytona, Bristol and the Charlotte Roval, where he'll be sponsored by Can-Am). On January 4, JRM announced that former
Roush Fenway Racing Cup Series crew chief
Luke Lambert would replace Elenz as the crew chief for the No. 9 of Gragson. Bell would move from the MHR No. 74 car to the No. 47 car in 2022, replacing Mike Tyska, who became the crew chief for
Stefan Parsons and the No. 99
B. J. McLeod Motorsports car. • On December 8, 2021,
B. J. McLeod Motorsports announced that Danny Johnson would be the crew chief for
Josh Williams and their No. 78 car in 2022. Johnson crew chiefed the No. 23
Our Motorsports car for most of the first half of the 2021 season. He was also Williams' crew chief when he ran full-time in the ARCA Menards Series in
2016 for
his own team. Because there were only 2 races left in the 2021 season, he will also be suspended for the first 2 races of the 2022 season (Daytona and California). Roettger Jr. will not return to Our Motorsports as a crew chief in 2022 (he was replaced by
Pat Tryson, who moved over from the team's No. 02 car), • On April 12, 2022, Jeff Stankiewicz, crew chief of the
Richard Childress Racing No. 2 driven by
Sheldon Creed, was suspended for four races after the car lost a ballast during the
2022 Call 811 Before You Dig 250 at
Martinsville Speedway. Jim Pohlman would serve as the interim crew chief for Creed at Talladega, Dover, Darlington and Texas. • On May 3, 2022, Taylor Moyer, crew chief of the
JR Motorsports No. 1 driven by
Sam Mayer, was suspended for four races due to a tire and wheel loss during the
2022 A-GAME 200 at
Dover. Andrew Overstreet would serve as the interim crew chief for Mayer at Darlington, Texas, Charlotte and Portland.
J. J. Yeley would end up driving the car in that race instead of Hill. ==Rule changes==