Cole Custer won the 2023 XFINITY SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP race as well as the championship itself. Saturday’s victory vaulted Custer to seventh on the Xfinity Active Drivers list for the NASCAR Xfinity Series with a CIELO rating of 1847. Noah Gregson, who has not raced on the Xfinity series this year, still tops the ELO-based ratings with 2062 on the strength of last year’s run. In 2022, Gragson won 8 of the 31 races in the season.
In 2023, Custer won 3 Xfinity races while owning fourteen top-5 finishes and twenty-one top-10 results. The consistent Custer has thirteen career victories at the Xfinity level. Custer has announced that he will be returning to the Xfinity series with the Stewart Haas Racing team in 2024.
(sps – 2024-11-05)