The official 2022 Production Alliance 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series entry list features top NASCAR drivers set to compete at Auto Club Speedway, highlighting the full lineup of race participants and teams.
Saturday, February 26th, 2022
Auto Club Speedway, Fontana, CA
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.
ENTRY | # | DRIVER | HOMETOWN | DOB | AGE | MAKE | SPONSOR | TEAM | CREW CHIEF |
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1 | 16 | AJ Allmendinger | Los Gatos, CA | Dec 16, 1981 | 40 | Chevrolet | Nutrien Ag Solutions | Kaulig Racing | Bruce Schlicker |
2 | 90 | Dexter Bean | Westby, WI | Jan 5, 1987 | 35 | Chevrolet | DGM Racing | DGM Racing | BJ Tucker |
3 | 66 | JJ Yeley | Phoenix, AZ | Oct 5, 1976 | 45 | Chevrolet | Remote Health Solutions | Motorsports Business Management | George Church |
4 | 10 | Landon Cassill | Cedar Rapids, IA | Jul 7, 1989 | 32 | Chevrolet | Carnomaly | Kaulig Racing | Jason Trinchere |
5 | 18 | Trevor Bayne | Knoxville, TN | Feb 19, 1991 | 31 | Toyota | Devotion Nutrition | Joe Gibbs Racing | Jason Ratcliff |
6 | 38 | Timmy Hill | Port Tobacco, MD | Feb 25, 1993 | 29 | Ford | Tahoe Blue Vodka | RSS Racing | Steve Addington |
7 | 7 | Justin Allgaier | Riverton, IL | Jun 6, 1986 | 35 | Chevrolet | BRANDT | JR Motorsports | Jason Burdett |
8 | 02 | Brett Moffitt | Grimes, IA | Aug 7, 1992 | 29 | Chevrolet | Half Off Wholesale | Our Motorsports | Kris Bowen |
9 | 35 | Joey Gase | Cedar Rapids, IA | Feb 8, 1993 | 29 | Toyota | OneLegacy | Emerling Gase Motorsports | Rick Bourgeois |
10 | 27 | Jeb Burton | Halifax, VA | Aug 6, 1992 | 29 | Chevrolet | Arrowhead Brass | Our Motorsports | Chad Walter |
11 | 24 | Jeffrey Earnhardt | Mooresville, NC | Jun 22, 1989 | 32 | Toyota | ForeverLawn / Harvest | Sam Hunt Racing | Allen Hart |
12 | 39 | Ryan Sieg | Tucker, GA | Jun 20, 1987 | 34 | Ford | CMRroofing.com\ A-game | RSS Racing | Kevin Starland |
13 | 92 | Kyle Weatherman | Wentzville, MO | Aug 28, 1997 | 24 | Chevrolet | PORAC | DGM Racing | Nathan Kennedy |
14 | 11 | Daniel Hemric | Kannapolis, NC | Jan 27, 1991 | 31 | Chevrolet | Poppy Bank | Kaulig Racing | Alex Yontz |
15 | 47 | Brennan Poole | Sacramento, CA | Apr 11, 1991 | 30 | Chevrolet | Mike Harmon Racing | Mike Harmon Racing | Ryan Bell |
16 | 52 | Harrison Rhodes | High Point, NC | Jul 15, 1993 | 28 | Chevrolet | Jimmy Means Racing | Means Motorsports | Tim Brown |
17 | 07 | Cole Custer | Ladera Ranch, CA | Jan 23, 1998 | 24 | Ford | Production Alliance Group | SS Green Light Racing | Joe Williams |
18 | 4 | Bayley Currey | Driftwood, TX | Oct 29, 1996 | 25 | Chevrolet | KSDT CPA | JD Motorsports | Wayne Carroll Jr |
19 | 45 | Kaz Grala | Boston, MA | Dec 29, 1998 | 23 | Chevrolet | Lilly Finance/Ruedebusch | Alpha Prime Racing | Paul Clapprood |
20 | 36 | Alex Labbe | Saint-Albert, Canada | Apr 29, 1993 | 28 | Chevrolet | Southwest Site Services | DGM Racing | Corey Cashman |
21 | 21 | Austin Hill | Winston, GA | Apr 21, 1994 | 27 | Chevrolet | Bennett Transportation | Richard Childress Racing | Andy Street |
22 | 68 | Brandon Brown | Woodbridge, VA | Sep 14, 1993 | 28 | Chevrolet | TradeTheChain.com | Brandonbilt Motorsports | Doug Randolph |
23 | 19 | Brandon Jones | Atlanta, GA | Feb 18, 1997 | 25 | Toyota | Menards / Patroit Lighting | Joe Gibbs Racing | Jeff Meendering |
24 | 51 | Jeremy Clements | Spartanburg, SC | Jan 16, 1985 | 37 | Chevrolet | First Pacific Funding | Jeremy Clements Racing | Mark Setzer |
25 | 08 | Joe Graf Jr | Mahwah, NJ | Jul 12, 1998 | 23 | Ford | Bucked Up Energy Drink | SS Green Light Racing | Jason Miller |
26 | 78 | Josh Williams | Port Charlotte, FL | Aug 3, 1993 | 28 | Chevrolet | American Iron Rentals & I.M.S | BJ McLeod Motorsports | Daniel Johnson |
27 | 5 | Matt Mills | Lynchburg, VA | Nov 14, 1996 | 25 | Chevrolet | J.F. Electric | BJ McLeod Motorsports | David Ingram |
28 | 31 | Myatt Snider | Charlotte, NC | Dec 30, 1994 | 27 | Chevrolet | TaxSlayer | Jordan Anderson Racing | Shane Whitbeck |
29 | 9 | Noah Gragson | Las Vegas, NV | Jul 15, 1998 | 23 | Chevrolet | Bass Pro Shops TrueTimber BRCC | JR Motorsports | Luke Lambert |
30 | 98 | Riley Herbst | Las Vegas, NV | Feb 24, 1999 | 23 | Ford | Monster Energy | Stewart-Haas Racing | Richard Boswell |
31 | 44 | Tommy Joe Martins | Como, MS | Dec 7, 1986 | 35 | Chevrolet | Market Rebellion | Alpha Prime Racing | Dan Stillman |
32 | 91 | Mason Massey | Douglasville, GA | Jan 24, 1997 | 25 | Chevrolet | BRUNT Workwear | DGM Racing | Mario Gosselin |
33 | 23 | Anthony Alfredo | Ridgefield, CT | Mar 1, 1999 | 22 | Chevrolet | Dude Wipes | Our Motorsports | Pat Tryson |
34 | 48 | Jade Buford | Brentwood, TN | Feb 15, 1988 | 34 | Chevrolet | Big Machine Spiked Coolers | Big Machine Racing | Patrick Donahue |
35 | 34 | Jesse Iwuji | Carrollton, TX | Aug 12, 1987 | 34 | Chevrolet | Chevy Truck Month | Jesse Iwuji Motorsports | Jason Houghtaling |
36 | 6 | Ryan Vargas | La Miranda, CA | Sep 23, 2000 | 21 | Chevrolet | Swann Security | JD Motorsports | Kase Kallenbach |
37 | 99 | Stefan Parsons | Cornelius, NC | Jun 15, 1998 | 23 | Chevrolet | SOKAL | BJ McLeod Motorsports | Mike Tyska |
38 | 2 | Sheldon Creed | Alpine, CA | Sep 30, 1997 | 24 | Chevrolet | Whelen | Richard Childress Racing | Jeff Stankiewicz |
39 | 33 | Will Rodgers | Maui, HI | Oct 8, 1994 | 27 | Toyota | Kelly Benefits | Reaume Brothers Racing | Andrew Abbott |
40 | 8 | Josh Berry | Hendersonville, TN | Oct 22, 1990 | 31 | Chevrolet | PUBG Mobile | JR Motorsports | Mike Bumgarner |
41 | 54 | Ty Gibbs | Charlotte, NC | Oct 4, 2002 | 19 | Toyota | Monster Energy | Joe Gibbs Racing | Chris Gayle |
42 | 28 | Kyle Sieg | Tucker, GA | Apr 16, 2001 | 20 | Ford | TopPools.com | RSS Racing | Andrew May |
43 | 1 | Sam Mayer | Franklin, WI | Jun 26, 2003 | 18 | Chevrolet | Accelerate Pros Talent | JR Motorsports | Taylor Moyer |