Cole Custer is known as an American professional race driver. He is most famous for winning the Kentucky Quaker State 400.
Cole Matthew Custer was born on January 23, 1998 in Ladera Ranch, CA.
Cole Custer has gathered successes and records befitting drivers twice his age. In 2019, Custer amassed a career-high seven wins and six poles, with 17 top-five and 24 top-10 completions and an aggregate of 922 laps drove. Subsequent to being the runner up in the championship standings for a subsequent straight season, SHR promoted Custer to its flagship NASCAR Cup Series program for 2020, joining partners Kevin Harvick, Aric Almirola, and Clint Bowyer.
In the wake of starting 2017 as a rookie, Custer finished his debut year in the Xfinity Series vehemently, taking the success in the season-finishing Ford EcoBoost 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. He drove multiple times for a race-high 182 laps to establish a precedent for the most laps drove in a solitary Xfinity Series race at Homestead. He earned a perfect driver rating of 150.0 by clearing the two phases of the race and took the triumph by a whopping 15.405 seconds. It was the finish of a noteworthy season that included seven top-fives and 19 top-10s with 301 laps drove, and it set up for a significantly more grounded second-year run.
In July 2020, late in the NASCAR Cup Series race at Kentucky Speedway, Kevin Harvick was out front and appeared as though he was going to voyage to the fifth win of his 2020 season. Rather, Harvick's rookie colleague, 22-year-old Cole Custer, took the checkered banner with a wild completion. It's the first triumph of his Cup Series career and was the first time a rookie won a race since 2016.
Even Custer conceded after the race that he wasn't anticipating that his group should wind up in triumph path. The No. 41 Stewart-Haas Racing driver said it was the best vehicle he has driven in his life. After the event, Custer said, "I'm surprised, yes! We have definitely done a better job these last few weeks. We started putting the whole picture together, and you've gotta just have the whole thing working together, whether it's pit stops and restarts, or me doing my job, or having the car perfectly right."
Cole Custer has not revealed any public information about his private and personal relationships.
Birth Date: | 23 Jan, 1998 |
Age: | 22 yrs |
Occupations: | Racing driver |
Citizenship: | United States of America |
Birth Place: | Ladera Ranch |
Gender: | Male |
Description: | American stock car racing driver |