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Production Alliance 300

Saturday, February 26th, 2022

Auto Club Speedway, Fontana, CA

  • 31 Chevrolet
  • 6 Toyota
  • 6 Ford

  • Auto Club Speedway
  • 23rd Production Alliance Group 300
  • Pole Winner: AJ Allmendinger
  • Age: 40
  • Team : No. 16 - Nutrien Ag Solutions Chevrolet
  • Owner: Kaulig Racing
  • Crew Chief: Bruce Schlicker
  • AJ Allmendinger won the Pole Award for the 23rd Production Alliance Group 300 with a lap of 40.038 seconds, 179.829 mph.
  • This is his fourth pole in 62 NASCAR Xfinity Series races.
  • This is his first pole and first top-10 start in 2022.
  • This is his first pole in two races at Auto Club Speedway.
  • Cole Custer (second) posted his first top-10 start of 2022 and his fourth in four races at Auto Club Speedway.
  • Brandon Jones (third) posted his fifth top-10 start at Auto Club Speedway. It is his second in two races this season.
  • Austin Hill (eighth) was the fastest qualifying rookie.
  • Chevrolet has tied Toyota for the NASCAR Xfinity Series most poles at Auto Club Speedway with 12 each.

  • Saturday, February 26th, 2022
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Reid Spencer
Cole Custer dominates Xfinity race at Fontana in three NASCAR overtimes

Californian Cole Custer was the only former Auto Club Speedway winner in the field for Saturday's Production Alliance 300 NASCAR Xfinity Series race in Fontana, California.

Three overtimes, 12 cautions and more than three hours of official race time later, Custer was still the only former winner in the Fontana field, having beaten runner-up Noah Gragson to the finish line by .565 seconds.

It was a long day's journey into night, a race that started in mid-afternoon and unexpectedly ended under the lights in temperatures that dropped appreciably between the start and the finish. The three overtimes extended the event 15 laps beyond its scheduled distance of 150 circuits at the 2-mile track.

But Custer was the clear class of the field, leading 80 of the 165 laps and twice charging like a rocket from the outside of the fourth row to the lead after slower-than-usual late pit stops.

He got his second victory at Fontana in a No. 07 Ford that was a partnership entry between Stewart-Haas Racing and Bobby Dotter-owned SS Green Light Racing.

Custer was moonlighting - literally, as it turned out - from his Sunday ride in the No. 41 SHR Ford Mustang, which he'll be racing in the WISE Power 400 (3:30 p.m. ET on FOX, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

"Man, it was just an awesome car," Custer said during his post-race frontstretch interview. "That thing was just a rocket ship all day. I can't thank Bobby Dotter enough - everybody that was involved on this car.

"It was unbelievable how fast we were. It's awesome to win at home - can't wait for tomorrow."

Gragson was competitive all day, leading 25 laps. Despite sliding though his pit stall during a pit stop under the eighth caution on Lap 125, he surged back to the front from 14th, retaking the top spot on the second lap after a restart on Lap 129.

Five laps later, however, Custer regained the lead and held it for all but one of the last 31 laps, through four more cautions and three overtime restarts.

"I felt like the car was really close all day, just struggled with the cloud cover and the temperature change - too loose or too tight," Gragson said. "Hats off to all the guys on the 07 car and Cole Custer. He was really fast today."

Trevor Bayne, the 2011 Daytona 500 winner, ran third in his first Xfinity Series start since a one-off in 2016. Josh Berry was fourth, as JR Motorsports drivers claimed four of the top eight finishing positions, with Gragson second, Sam Mayer sixth and Justin Allgaier eighth.

Anthony Alfredo parlayed tire strategy into a fifth-place finish. Pole winner AJ Allmendinger recovered from an unscheduled pit stop for a loose wheel to come home seventh. Riley Herbst and Ryan Sieg were ninth and 10th, respectively.

  • Drivers Entered: 43 (5 drivers will not make the race)
  • Laps Scheduled: 150
  • Laps Actual: 165 - NASCAR OVERTIME!
  • Margin of Victory: 0.565 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 3 Hours 5 Minutes 5 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 105.682
  • Cautions: 12 for 58 laps
  • Lead Changes: 19
  • Green Flag Passes: 2,336 (21.8 passes per green flag lap)

  • Auto Club Speedway
  • 23rd Production Alliance Group 300
  • Race Winner: Cole Custer
  • Age: 24
  • Team : No. 07 - Production Alliance Group Ford
  • Owner: SS Green Light Racing
  • Crew Chief: Joe Williams
  • Cole Custer won the 23rd Production Alliance Group 300, his 10th victory in 106 NASCAR Xfinity Series races.
  • This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in 2022.
  • This is his second victory and third top-10 finish in four races at Auto Club Speedway.
  • Noah Gragson (second) posted his first top-10 finish in three races at Auto Club Speedway. It is his second top-10 finish in 2022.
  • Trevor Bayne (third) posted his fourth top-10 finish in eight races at Auto Club Speedway.
  • Austin Hill (27th) was the highest finishing rookie.
  • This is SS Green Light Racing's first win in the NASCAR Xfinity Series.
Cole Custer takes the checkered flag to win
Fontana, California - February 19, 2022 : Cole Custer, driver of the #07 Production Alliance Group Ford, takes the checkered flag to win the NASCAR Xfinity Series Production Alliance 300 at Auto Club Speedway.
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Production Alliance 300 at Auto Club Speedway Draftkings results
FINISH & PLACE DIFFERENTIAL POINTS FAST LAP POINTS LAPS LED POINTS TOTAL POINTS
RNK SLRY DRIVER TEAM # MAKE LAPS DR ST FIN FIN PTS PD PTS FST % FST FST PTS LED % LED LED PTS TOT PTS
1 9,800 Cole Custer N/A 07 Ford 165 146.50 2 1 45 1 36 38.71 16.20 80 48.5 20.00 82.20
3 10,900 Noah Gragson JR Motorsports 9 Chevrolet 165 124.80 6 2 42 4 19 20.43 8.55 25 15.2 6.25 60.80
4 9,100 Trevor Bayne Joe Gibbs Racing 18 Toyota 165 112.70 4 3 41 1 10 10.75 4.50 24 14.6 6.00 52.50
7 9,500 Josh Berry JR Motorsports 8 Chevrolet 165 106.90 11 4 40 7 1 1.08 0.45 0 0.0 0.00 47.45
2 7,300 Anthony Alfredo Our Motorsports 23 Chevrolet 165 69.00 28 5 39 23 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 62.00
8 8,700 Sam Mayer JR Motorsports 1 Chevrolet 165 96.00 13 6 38 7 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 45.00
11 10,500 AJ Allmendinger Kaulig Racing 16 Chevrolet 165 94.40 1 7 37 -6 12 12.9 5.40 13 7.9 3.25 39.65
6 10,100 Justin Allgaier JR Motorsports 7 Chevrolet 165 108.90 20 8 36 12 0 0 0.00 7 4.2 1.75 49.75
10 8,300 Riley Herbst Stewart Haas Racing 98 Ford 165 88.80 16 9 35 7 6 6.45 2.70 0 0.0 0.00 44.70
13 7,000 Ryan Sieg RSS Racing 39 Ford 165 83.00 14 10 34 4 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 38.00
5 7,200 Brandon Brown Brandonbilt Motorsports 68 Chevrolet 165 79.20 30 11 32 19 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 51.00
19 10,300 Daniel Hemric Kaulig Racing 11 Chevrolet 165 96.70 5 12 31 -7 1 1.08 0.45 10 6.1 2.50 26.95
18 11,300 Ty Gibbs Joe Gibbs Racing 54 Toyota 165 90.40 12 13 30 -1 2 2.15 0.90 3 1.8 0.75 30.65
14 7,600 Jeb Burton Our Motorsports 27 Chevrolet 165 72.80 21 14 29 7 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 36.00
17 4,500 Joe Graf Jr N/A 08 Ford 165 60.70 18 15 28 3 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 31.00
16 5,500 Kyle Weatherman DGM Racing 92 Chevrolet 165 61.30 22 16 27 6 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 33.00
26 6,900 Jeremy Clements Jeremy Clements Racing 51 Chevrolet 165 65.50 10 17 26 -7 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 19.00
8 5,400 Kyle Sieg RSS Racing 28 Ford 165 52.20 38 18 25 20 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 45.00
20 7,900 Brett Moffitt Our Motorsports 02 Chevrolet 165 73.00 17 19 24 -2 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 22.00
12 5,000 Joey Gase N/A 35 Toyota 165 43.80 36 20 23 16 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 39.00
15 6,100 Josh Williams BJ McLeod Motorsports 78 Chevrolet 165 44.50 34 21 21 13 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 34.00
20 5,600 JJ Yeley Motorsports Business Management 66 Chevrolet 165 50.30 24 22 20 2 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 22.00
22 4,700 Matt Mills BJ McLeod Motorsports 5 Chevrolet 165 49.30 25 23 19 2 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 21.00
28 6,600 Alex Labbe DGM Racing 36 Chevrolet 165 45.00 19 24 18 -5 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 13.00
22 7,400 Kaz Grala Alpha Prime Racing 45 Chevrolet 163 62.00 29 25 17 4 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 21.00
22 8,100 Myatt Snider Jordan Anderson Racing 31 Chevrolet 163 52.00 31 26 16 5 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 21.00
34 7,800 Austin Hill Richard Childress Racing 21 Chevrolet 162 33.30 8 27 15 -19 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 -4.00
26 4,900 Mason Massey DGM Racing 91 Chevrolet 162 33.80 33 28 14 5 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 19.00
22 6,800 Jeffrey Earnhardt Sam Hunt Racing 24 Toyota 161 63.20 37 29 13 8 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 21.00
30 6,000 Stefan Parsons BJ McLeod Motorsports 99 Chevrolet 159 59.30 23 30 12 -7 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 5.00
29 6,300 Tommy Joe Martins Alpha Prime Racing 44 Chevrolet 158 32.70 27 31 10 -4 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 6.00
35 8,500 Sheldon Creed Richard Childress Racing 2 Chevrolet 156 79.20 9 32 9 -23 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 -14.00
37 9,300 Brandon Jones Joe Gibbs Racing 19 Toyota 155 90.20 3 33 8 -30 6 6.45 2.70 3 1.9 0.75 -18.55
33 5,300 Bayley Currey JD Motorsports 4 Chevrolet 154 51.50 26 34 7 -8 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 -1.00
32 5,200 Ryan Vargas JD Motorsports 6 Chevrolet 150 41.30 32 35 6 -3 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 3.00
31 4,800 Jesse Iwuji Jesse Iwuji Motorsports 34 Chevrolet 131 24.70 35 36 5 -1 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 4.00
36 6,200 Jade Buford Big Machine Racing 48 Chevrolet 123 69.20 15 37 4 -22 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 -18.00
38 8,900 Landon Cassill Kaulig Racing 10 Chevrolet 6 26.50 7 38 3 -31 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 -28.00