NASCAR Xfinity Series: Cole Custer wins 2019 ToyotaCare 250

Cole Custer earned his second victory of the 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series season by winning the ToyotaCare 250 at Richmond Raceway.

Stewart-Haas Racing’s Cole Custer entered the eighth race of the 33-race 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series season, the ToyotaCare 250, at Richmond Raceway having earned one victory so far this season, as he won the race at Auto Club Speedway last month.

Custer doubled his season win total by winning Friday night’s 250-lap ToyotaCare 250 at the four-turn, 0.75-mile (1.207-kilometer) Richmond Raceway oval in Richmond, Virginia after starting in fourth place in his #00 Ford. Over the course of the last four races, he has doubled his career Xfinity Series win total.

Custer won this race by 2.639 seconds over Team Penske’s Austin Cindric, who tied his career-high finish with a second place finish in his #22 Ford. Cindric led the race late over Custer after taking the lead from him on the final restart, but Custer was able to run him down and pass him en route to taking the checkered flag.

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Chevrolet drivers took the next five positions, with JR Motorsports’ Justin Allgaier leading the way in third in his #7 Chevrolet.

Richard Childress Racing’s Tyler Reddick, RSS Racing’s Ryan Sieg, JR Motorsports rookie Zane Smith and GMS Racing rookie John Hunter Nemechek rounded out the top seven by finishing in fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh place in their #2 Chevrolet, #39 Chevrolet, #8 Chevrolet and #23 Chevrolet, respectively. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Chase Briscoe finished in eighth place in his #98 Ford.

Joe Gibbs Racing rookie Riley Herbst, who started the race from the pole position, was the highest finishing Toyota driver of the race. He finished in ninth in his #18 Toyota in what was just the second start of his Xfinity Series career. Kaulig Racing’s Justin Haley finished in 10th in his #11 Chevrolet.

The race featured a total of nine lead changes among six drivers. Aside of Custer, who led more laps than anybody else in the field with 122 laps led, five drivers led at least one lap of the race. Those five drivers were Cindric, Allgaier, Herbst, JR Motorsports’ Michael Annett and Joe Gibbs Racing’s Christopher Bell.

Allgaier won stage one while Custer won stage two. Annett and Bell went on to finish the race in 13th and 16th place in their #1 Chevrolet and #20 Toyota, respectively.

This race also featured a total of seven caution flag periods, including five that took place as a result of on-track incidents and two that took place as a result of the endings of stages one and two, for 47 laps. Of the 38 drivers who started the race, 32 finished it and 21 finished it on the lead lap.

Here are the full race results of the 2019 ToyotaCare 250 at Richmond Raceway.

Race Results
1st – Cole Custer
2nd – Austin Cindric
3rd – Justin Allgaier
4th – Tyler Reddick
5th – Ryan Sieg
6th – Zane Smith
7th – John Hunter Nemechek
8th – Chase Briscoe
9th – Riley Herbst
10th – Justin Haley
11th – Ross Chastain
12th – Elliott Sadler
13th – Michael Annett
14th – Kaz Grala
15th – Dillon Bassett
16th – Christopher Bell
17th – Gray Gaulding
18th – Stephen Leicht
19th – Garrett Smithley
20th – Brandon Brown
21st – Ray Black Jr.
22nd – Noah Gragson
23rd – Joey Gase
24th – Tyler Matthews
25th – Donald Theetge
26th – Colin Garrett
27th – Vinnie Miller
28th – Matt Mills
29th – David Starr
30th – B.J. McLeod
31st – Mike Harmon
32nd – Kyle Weatherman
33rd – Brandon Jones
34th – Chad Finchum
35th – Jeremy Clements
36th – Mason Diaz
37th – Timmy Hill
38th – Jeff Green

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The next race on the 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series schedule is the MoneyLion 300, which is scheduled to take place on Saturday, April 27. This race is set to be broadcast live on Fox Sports 1 from Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Alabama beginning at 1:00 p.m. ET.

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