“What could have been.”
A phrase tossed around, not only in sports, but in everyday life. It’s not always a life-altering decision that spurs this saying. It can be as simple as using two hands to catch a fly ball in a little league game instead of one. Or maybe if you played one less mission on your favorite video game, your mom isn’t upset when you arrive 10 minutes late to a family dinner and you’re grounded for a week.
But sticking with NASCAR, let’s rewind the clock to February when the Xfinity Series raced at Auto Club Speedway. That’s where Our Motorsports and Anthony Alfredo left Fontana with a big “what could have been.”
Owner Chris Our moved the team to the Xfinity Series in 2020 after previously competing part-time in the ARCA Menards Series and the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour. The team’s first season had Brett Moffitt, who was running for the Camping World Truck Series championship, running most of the races in the team’s No. 02 Chevrolet.
In 2021, the team looked to expand to two full-time teams with the No. 02 of Moffitt as the full-time driver — and declared for Xfinity Series points — along with the No. 03 car. But after rain cancelled qualifying for the season opener at Daytona International Speedway, the No. 03 was sidelined with no owner’s points.
Our purchased owner’s points from RSS Racing and Reaume Brothers Racing, and the No. 03 was renumbered 23 and ran the remainder of the 2021 season, beginning in the fourth race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Nine total drivers piloted the car, with a few races nearly ending in victory lane, and Our’s first double top 10 occurred at Atlanta Motor Speedway in July.
Now in 2022, the team has expanded yet again. Our has three full-time drivers and teams, with Moffit still piloting the No. 02, Alfredo in the No. 23 and Jeb Burton in the newest car, the No. 27.
At the start of the season, you never know precisely how a season will turn out, especially when you add a team and bring in two new drivers. Will there be chemistry? If so, how long will it take to achieve it? So for a team to be in position to win a race they maybe weren’t supposed to in just the season’s second race, in a way, is a gift.
Alfredo and his team had a spare set of fresh tires laying on pit road when the caution came out for debris. He pitted, his crew put on the fresh tires, and he restarted outside the top 10. But in no time Alfredo found his way into the top 10.
One caution later,…
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