NASCAR Xfinity Series: Cole Custer wins 2019 Use Your Melon Drive Sober 200

Cole Custer closed out the round of 12 of the 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series playoffs by winning the Use Your Melon Drive Sober 200 at Dover International Speedway.

Stewart-Haas Racing’s Cole Custer closed out the round of 12 of the three-round, seven-race 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series playoffs by winning the Use Your Melon Drive Sober 200 at Dover International Speedway.

Custer started this 200-lap race around the four-turn, 1.0-mile (1.609-kilometer) high-banked Monster Mile oval in Dover, Delaware in third place in his #00 Ford, and he won it by one second over JR Motorsports’ Justin Allgaier in second in his #7 Chevrolet.

Allgaier finished in second place after winning the race’s first two stages, marking a disappointing result for the driver who won five races in last year’s regular season but hasn’t won since.

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Team Penske’s Austin Cindric, Kaulig Racing’s Justin Haley and Stewart-Haas Racing’s Chase Briscoe rounded out the top five by finishing in third, fourth and fifth place in their #22 Ford, #11 Chevrolet and #98 Ford, respectively. Briscoe started the race from the pole position.

JR Motorsports teammates Michael Annett, Noah Gragson and Zane Smith finished in sixth, seventh and ninth place in their #1 Chevrolet, #9 Chevrolet and #8 Chevrolet, respectively. GMS Racing’s John Hunter Nemechek finished in eighth in his #23 Chevrolet, and RSS Racing’s Ryan Sieg rounded out the top 10 by finishing in 10th in his #39 Chevrolet.

B.J. McLeod Motorsports’ Stefan Parsons was the highest finishing Toyota driver of the race. He finished in 19th place in his #99 Toyota, four laps off the lead lap, as the usual Toyota contenders, the three Joe Gibbs Racing cars, all experienced issues.

Christopher Bell finished in 25th place after his #20 Toyota experienced a fuel pressure issue. Brandon Jones and Harrison Burton were involved in a first-lap crash and officially scored in 37th and 38th in their #19 Toyota and #18 Toyota, respectively.

This race featured eight lead changes among six leaders. Aside of Custer, who led 31 laps, five drivers led at least one lap of the race. These drivers were Allgaier, Cindric, Briscoe, Annett and Mike Harmon Racing’s Joe Nemechek. Briscoe led more laps than anybody else in the field with 71 laps led.

This race also featured six caution flag periods, and only 22 of the 38 drivers who started it finished it. Of these 22 drivers, only seven finished on the lead lap.

Here are the full race results of the 2019 Use Your Melon Driver Sober 200 at Dover International Speedway.

Race Results
1st – Cole Custer
2nd – Justin Allgaier
3rd – Austin Cindric
4th – Justin Haley
5th – Chase Briscoe
6th – Michael Annett
7th – Noah Gragson
8th – John Hunter Nemechek
9th – Zane Smith
10th – Ryan Sieg
11th – Brandon Brown
12th – Tyler Reddick
13th – Ross Chastain
14th – Dillon Bassett
15th – Josh Williams
16th – B.J. McLeod
17th – Ray Black Jr.
18th – Gray Gaulding
19th – Stefan Parsons
20th – Vinnie Miller
21st – David Starr
22nd – Joey Gase
23rd – Stephen Leicht
24th – Matt Mills
25th – Christopher Bell
26th – Garrett Smithley
27th – Timmy Hill
28th – Carl Long
29th – Landon Cassill
30th – Joe Nemechek
31st – Chad Finchum
32nd – J.J. Yeley
33rd – Bayley Currey
34th – Mike Harmon
35th – Kyle Weatherman
36th – Jeremy Clements
37th – Brandon Jones
38th – Harrison Burton

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The Kansas Lottery 300 is the opening race of the round of 8 of the 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series playoffs, and it is set to be broadcast live on NBC from Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas beginning at 3:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, October 19.

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