2022 NASCAR Cup Series

Busch announced in 2022 that he would not compete full time again in NASCAR, and in 2023 officially confirmed his retirement and will not start in a Cup Car again.

It is the first time it has happened in a Cup Series race since the rule disqualifying the winner if their car failed post-race inspection was added in 2019.

Five drivers (Austin Cindric, Chase Briscoe, Ross Chastain, Daniel Suárez, and Tyler Reddick) won their first career races.

The 2022 season started with an exhibition race on a temporary 1⁄4 mile (0.40 km) track constructed at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

The heat races, which determined 16 of the 23 drivers for the 150-lap feature, were won by Kyle Busch, Tyler Reddick, Justin Haley, and Joey Logano.

In the second Duel, Joey Logano was leading late in the race until he wrecked on the last lap attempting to block Chris Buescher.

On the subsequent restart, Larson held off charges from Austin Dillon, Erik Jones, and Daniel Suárez for his second Cup win at Fontana.

In stage 3 with 13 laps to go, Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. battled for the lead.

This also marked the 18th consecutive season that Kyle Busch won a race, tying the record set by Richard Petty.

During a restart in the second stage, a multicar wreck occurred that involved Joey Logano, Daniel Suárez, Ty Dillon, and Harrison Burton.

During the caution, Busch parked his car on pit road and walked away when its front suspension was too damaged to turn to the garage.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Chris Buescher, and Daniel Suárez qualified for the race by winning the three stages of the All-Star Open while Erik Jones won the fan vote.

[257] Chase Briscoe got his first pole position of the season at the Cup Series' debut at the World Wide Technology Raceway.

In the final stage Kyle Busch and Joey Logano battled for the win, but a brake rotor failure on Kevin Harvick's car on lap 236 sent the race to overtime.

Suárez, who dominated the last stage from the lead won the race, earning his first Cup Series win, and Trackhouse's third in its second season.

After a several hour red flag due to rain and lightning, the race resumed as Martin Truex Jr. would sweep both stages.

Eliott would dominate the race and lead the most laps, but didn't win either stage as they were won by Chase Briscoe and Ryan Blaney respectively.

Truex fell back as Chase Elliott took the lead after the final round of green flag pit stops.

Ross Chastain took the lead from Busch after the final round of green flag pit stops and was pulling away until Ryan Blaney slammed hard into the wall.

On the restart, Chase Elliott spun and collected William Byron, Erik Jones, Austin Dillon, Briscoe, Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr., which sent the race to overtime.

On the first restart, JJ Yeley, who had not stopped unlike most of the field, got loose in turn 2 and spun in the middle of the field, collecting Kyle Busch, Aric Almirola, Harrison Burton, Austin Cindric, and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Christopher Bell won the first stage while Denny Hamlin won the second stage.

Kyle Busch spun after contact with Chastain and collected Erik Jones and Martin Truex Jr. Kevin Harvick took the lead from Logano and held off charges from Christopher Bell and Chris Buescher for his second consecutive win, and the 60th of his Cup career.

In addition to the majority of drivers being from the United States and series full-time driver Daniel Suárez being from Mexico, road course ringers Daniil Kvyat from Russia, Loris Hezemans from the Netherlands, Kyle Tilley from England, Mike Rockenfeller from Germany and Kimi Räikkönen from Finland all entered this race; Kvyat and Hezemans were teammates for Team Hezeberg, Tilley drove for Live Fast Motorsports in the No.78, Rockenfeller drove Spire's No.77, and Raikkonen debuted Trackhouse Racing's PROJECT91 entry.

Austin Dillon spun after contact with Ross Chastain and collected Kimi Räikkönen, who was making his NASCAR debut.

In the closing laps, Denny Hamlin got turned into the wall and collected most of the field including Kevin Harvick, Daniel Hemric, Chase Elliott, Justin Haley, Ty Dillon, Chris Buescher, Harrison Burton, and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. During the caution, the race was red flagged due to rain and lightning.

Daniel Suárez lost control of his car, with fellow playoff drivers Austin Dillon and Tyler Reddick getting caught up with heavy damage.

[275] A string of tire failures also resulted in Alex Bowman suffering from a concussion that effectively eliminated him from the playoffs[276] and Cody Ware sustaining an impaction fracture on his ankle after am hard hit into the pit wall.

Harrison Burton got turned and collected Austin Cindric, Joey Logano, Ty Gibbs, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Noah Gragson (filling in for Alex Bowman who didn't race due to concussion-like symptoms), and Justin Allgaier.

On the restart Christopher Bell, who needed a win to advance, took the lead from Kevin Harvick and won his second race of the season and third of his career.

Logano took the lead from spring winner Chase Briscoe and held off Blaney to win the race and become the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Champion.