NASCAR Xfinity Series: Cole Custer wins 2019 Pocono Green 250

Cole Custer earned his third victory of the 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series season by winning the season’s 12th race, the Pocono Green 250, at Pocono Raceway.

Stewart-Haas Racing’s Cole Custer passed Richard Childress Racing’s Tyler Reddick in the final turn of the final lap of the 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series season’s 12th race, the Pocono Green 250, at Pocono Raceway en route to earning his third victory of the season.

Custer, who started this 103-lap race, which was scheduled to be a 100-lap race but went into overtime due to a late caution flag period, around the three-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) Pocono Raceway triangle in Long Pond, Pennsylvania from the pole position, won it by just 0.226 seconds in his #00 Ford over Reddick in second place in his #2 Chevrolet.

Here is a video of this exciting finish.

Stewart-Haas Racing’s Chase Briscoe finished the race in third place in his #98 Ford, giving the team two of the top three finishing positions. JR Motorsports’ Ryan Preece finished in fourth in his #8 Chevrolet. Joe Gibbs Racing’s Christopher Bell was the highest finishing Toyota driver of the race. He finished in fifth in his #20 Toyota.

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JR Motorsports’ Noah Gragson, Team Penske’s Austin Cindric, JR Motorsports’ Michael Annett and Kaulig Racing teammates Justin Haley and Austin Dillon rounded out the top 10 by finishing in sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th place in their #9 Chevrolet, #22 Ford, #1 Chevrolet, #11 Chevrolet and #10 Chevrolet, respectively.

This race featured a total of 10 lead changes among six drivers. Aside of Custer, who led more laps than anybody else in the field with 59 laps led, five drivers led at least one lap of the race. These five drivers were Reddick, Bell, Cindric, JR Motorsports’ Justin Allgaier and GMS Racing’s John Hunter Nemechek. Custer won stage one and Allgaier won stage two.

This race also featured a total of seven caution flag periods, of which five took place as a result of on-track incidents and two took place as a result of the usual endings of stages one and two. Of the 38 drivers who started the race, 28 finished it, and of the 28 drivers who finished it, 15 finished on the lead lap.

Here are the full race results of the 2019 Pocono Green 250 at Pocono Raceway.

Race Results
1st – Cole Custer
2nd – Tyler Reddick
3rd – Chase Briscoe
4th – Ryan Preece
5th – Christopher Bell
6th – Noah Gragson
7th – Austin Cindric
8th – Michael Annett
9th – Justin Haley
10th – Austin Dillon
11th – Justin Allgaier
12th – John Hunter Nemechek
13th – Brandon Brown
14th – Ross Chastain
15th – Josh Williams
16th – Jeremy Clements
17th – B.J. McLeod
18th – Ray Black Jr.
19th – Timmy Hill
20th – Gray Gaulding
21st – Ronnie Bassett Jr.
22nd – Jeffrey Earnhardt
23rd – Stephen Leicht
24th – David Starr
25th – Vinnie Miller
26th – Ryan Sieg
27th – Todd Peck
28th – Mike Harmon
29th – Garrett Smithley
30th – Matt Mills
31st – John Jackson
32nd – Camden Murphy
33rd – Joey Gase
34th – Josh Bilicki
35th – Morgan Shepherd
36th – Jeff Green
37th – Chad Finchum
38th – Brandon Jones

The LTi Printing 250 is the next race on the 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series schedule. This race is scheduled to take place on Saturday, June 8, and it is set to be broadcast live on Fox Sports 1 from Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan beginning at 1:30 p.m. ET.