Cole Custer Returns To Ssglr For Five O'reilly Races In 2026

2023 NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series champion Cole Custer is returning to nan second-tier bid for a part-time run successful 2026, teaming up pinch Bobby Dotter and SS-GreenLight Racing.

Custer will tally a five-race schedule successful nan second-tier section for nan coming season, piloting nan No. 0 Chevrolet. The NASCAR Cup Series regular will beryllium sharing nan thrust pinch some Garrett Smithley (the anchor driver for nan entry) and Alex Labbe, who will tally nan roadworthy courses. Josh Bilicki will thrust nan team's different full-time entry, nan No. 07, successful 2026.

SS-GreenLight Racing did not corroborate which races Custer would beryllium moving arsenic portion of its Friday announcement.

"Having Cole backmost successful our car is an honor, we've been fortunate to stock occurrence and we dream to person much this season," said Bobby Dotter, proprietor of SS-GreenLight Racing. "We are stepping up our programme this twelvemonth pinch lease motors and caller unit and Cole will beryllium a large portion of that effort."

Custer is simply a 15-time race-winner successful nan NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series, having spent respective years successful nan second-tier section pinch Stewart-Haas Racing (now Haas Factory Team). The Ladera Ranch, California-native is besides a NASCAR Cup Series victor -- taking a triumph astatine Kentucky Speedway successful 2020, which catapulted him to nan series' Rookie of nan Year title.

The 27-year-old driver isn't caller to moving pinch Dotter and nan SS-GreenLight Racing team, though. In 2022, Custer collaborated pinch nan statement to tally a five-race schedule successful nan No. 07, wherever he captured nan organization's first (and to date, only) victory astatine Auto Club Speedway. Also successful those 5 races, Custer earned 4 top-five starts for nan statement and 3 finishes wrong nan top-10.

"I'm thankful for nan opportunity to return to nan NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series and compete pinch SS-GreenLight Racing and Chevrolet," said Cole Custer. "I'm really looking guardant to moving pinch Bobby [Dotter] and nan full squad complete these 5 races. Our extremity is to person beardown runs each clip we unload and put ourselves successful position to title for wins and get to Victory Lane."

SS-GreenLight Racing was founded successful 2001 by erstwhile NASCAR driver Bobby Dotter. The statement has spent much than 2 decades competing crossed NASCAR's National Series and has earned a estimation arsenic being a hardworking independent team.

The 2026 NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series play originates astatine Daytona International Speedway connected Saturday, February 14 astatine 5:30 PM ET connected The CW, MRN, and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.

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