Race Lineup

The official 2022 Production Alliance 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series race lineup, determined by qualifying results, shows the starting positions of all drivers at Auto Club Speedway.

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.
Noah Gragson, Josh Berry, and Trevor Bayne race
Fontana, California - February 26, 2022 : Noah Gragson, driver of the #9 Bass Pro Shops/TrueTimber/BRCC Chevrolet, Cole Custer, driver of the #07 Production Alliance Group Ford, Josh Berry, driver of the #8 PUBG Mobile Chevrolet, and Trevor Bayne, driver of the #18 Devotion Nutrition Toyota, race during the NASCAR Xfinity Series Production Alliance 300 at Auto Club Speedway.
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Race lineup for the Production Alliance 300 at Auto Club Speedway
ST # DRIVER MAKE SPD TIME BHND SPONSOR TEAM CREW CHIEF
1 16 AJ Allmendinger Chevrolet 179.829 40.038 0.000 Nutrien Ag Solutions Kaulig Racing Bruce Schlicker
2 07 Cole Custer Ford 179.793 40.046 0.008 Production Alliance Group Ss Green Light Racing Joe Williams
3 19 Brandon Jones Toyota 179.677 40.072 0.034 Menards / Patroit Lighting Joe Gibbs Racing Jeff Meendering
4 18 Trevor Bayne Toyota 179.582 40.093 0.055 Devotion Nutrition Joe Gibbs Racing Jason Ratcliff
5 11 Daniel Hemric Chevrolet 178.620 40.309 0.271 Poppy Bank Kaulig Racing Alex Yontz
6 9 Noah Gragson Chevrolet 178.554 40.324 0.286 Bass Pro Shops TrueTimber BRCC Jr Motorsports Luke Lambert
7 10 Landon Cassill Chevrolet 177.927 40.466 0.428 Carnomaly Kaulig Racing Jason Trinchere
8 21 Austin Hill Chevrolet 177.061 40.664 0.626 Bennett Transportation Richard Childress Racing Andy Street
9 2 Sheldon Creed Chevrolet 177.056 40.665 0.627 Whelen Richard Childress Racing Jeff Stankiewicz
10 51 Jeremy Clements Chevrolet 176.926 40.695 0.657 First Pacific Funding Jeremy Clements Racing Mark Setzer
11 8 Josh Berry Chevrolet 176.648 40.759 0.721 PUBG Mobile Jr Motorsports Mike Bumgarner
12 54 Ty Gibbs Toyota 176.631 40.763 0.725 Monster Energy Joe Gibbs Racing Chris Gayle
13 1 Sam Mayer Chevrolet 176.561 40.779 0.741 Accelerate Pros Talent Jr Motorsports Taylor Moyer
14 39 Ryan Sieg Ford 176.319 40.835 0.797 CMRroofing.com\ A-game Rss Racing Kevin Starland
15 48 Jade Buford Chevrolet 175.717 40.975 0.937 Big Machine Spiked Coolers Big Machine Racing Patrick Donahue
16 98 Riley Herbst Ford 175.503 41.025 0.987 Monster Energy Stewart-haas Racing Richard Boswell
17 02 Brett Moffitt Chevrolet 175.486 41.029 0.991 Half Off Wholesale Our Motorsports Kris Bowen
18 38 Timmy Hill Ford 175.439 41.040 1.002 Tahoe Blue Vodka Rss Racing Steve Addington
19 36 Alex Labbe Chevrolet 175.217 41.092 1.054 Southwest Site Services Dgm Racing Corey Cashman
20 7 Justin Allgaier Chevrolet 175.165 41.104 1.066 BRANDT Jr Motorsports Jason Burdett
21 27 Jeb Burton Chevrolet 175.114 41.116 1.078 Arrowhead Brass Our Motorsports Chad Walter
22 92 Kyle Weatherman Chevrolet 174.906 41.165 1.127 PORAC Dgm Racing Nathan Kennedy
23 99 Stefan Parsons Chevrolet 174.728 41.207 1.169 SOKAL Bj Mcleod Motorsports Mike Tyska
24 66 JJ Yeley Chevrolet 174.672 41.220 1.182 Remote Health Solutions Motorsports Business Management George Church
25 5 Matt Mills Chevrolet 174.524 41.255 1.217 J.F. Electric Bj Mcleod Motorsports David Ingram
26 4 Bayley Currey Chevrolet 174.478 41.266 1.228 KSDT CPA Jd Motorsports Wayne Carroll Jr
27 44 Tommy Joe Martins Chevrolet 174.292 41.310 1.272 Market Rebellion Alpha Prime Racing Dan Stillman
28 23 Anthony Alfredo Chevrolet 174.064 41.364 1.326 Dude Wipes Our Motorsports Pat Tryson
29 45 Kaz Grala Chevrolet 173.223 41.565 1.527 Lilly Finance/Ruedebusch Alpha Prime Racing Paul Clapprood
30 68 Brandon Brown Chevrolet 172.683 41.695 1.657 TradeTheChain.com Brandonbilt Motorsports Doug Randolph
31 31 Myatt Snider Chevrolet 172.645 41.704 1.666 TaxSlayer Jordan Anderson Racing Shane Whitbeck
32 6 Ryan Vargas Chevrolet 172.629 41.708 1.670 Swann Security Jd Motorsports Kase Kallenbach
33 91 Mason Massey Chevrolet 172.364 41.772 1.734 BRUNT Workwear Dgm Racing Mario Gosselin
34 78 Josh Williams Chevrolet 171.335 42.023 1.985 American Iron Rentals & I.M.S Bj Mcleod Motorsports Daniel Johnson
35 34 Jesse Iwuji Chevrolet 164.828 43.682 3.644 Chevy Truck Month Jesse Iwuji Motorsports Jason Houghtaling
36 35 Joey Gase Toyota 163.250 44.104 4.066 OneLegacy Emerling Gase Motorsports Rick Bourgeois
37 24 Jeffrey Earnhardt Toyota 0.000 0.000 40.038 ForeverLawn / Harvest Sam Hunt Racing Allen Hart
38 28 Kyle Sieg Ford 0.000 0.000 40.038 TopPools.com Rss Racing Andrew May
39 33 Will Rodgers Toyota 171.920 41.880 1.842 Kelly Benefits Reaume Brothers Racing Andrew Abbott
40 08 Joe Graf Jr Ford 171.535 41.974 1.936 Bucked Up Energy Drink Ss Green Light Racing Jason Miller
41 47 Brennan Poole Chevrolet 0.000 0.000 40.038 Mike Harmon Racing Mike Harmon Racing Ryan Bell