Young's Motorsports is an American professional

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team that competes in the

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and the

ARCA Menards Series The ARCA Menards Series is an American stock car series, the premier division of the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA). It is considered a minor, semi-professional league of stock car racing, used as a feeder series into the three nation ...

. In the Truck Series, they field three full-time

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s: the No. 02 for Jesse Little and

Kaz Grala Kaz Edward Grala ( ; born December 29, 1998) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 26 Toyota Supra for Sam Hunt Racing. The Boston native is the youngest NASCAR win ...

, the No. 12 for

Spencer Boyd Spencer Peyton Boyd (born June 26, 1995) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, driving the No. 12 Chevrolet Silverado for Young's Motorsports. Boyd has previously compe ...

, and the No. 20 for multiple drivers. In the ARCA Menards Series, they field the No. 02

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part-time for

Leland Honeyman Leland Honeyman Jr. (born February 23, 2005) is an American professional stock car racing driver who competes part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the Nos. 43/44/45 Chevrolet Camaros for Alpha Prime Racing, the No. 35 Chevrolet Camaro ...

History

Camping World Truck Series

Truck No. 02 history

The team debuted in the

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season with Tyler Young in a part-time schedule. In 2013, Young returned for a part-time schedule. In 2014 the team ran its first full-time season, again with Young. In 2016, the team returned to a part-time schedule, sharing the No. 02 with

Austin Hill Racing Austin Edward Hill (born April 21, 1994) is an American professional stock car racing driver and former team owner. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 21 Chevrolet Camaro for Richard Childress Racing and part-time ...

and

Rette Jones Racing Rette Jones Racing is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the ARCA Menards Series. The team is owned by Terry Jones and friend Mark Rette and currently fields the No. 30 Ford for Frankie Muniz in the ARCA Me ...

Dylan Lupton Dylan Jarin Lupton (born December 7, 1993) is an American professional stock car racing driver who last competed part-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, driving the No. 7 Chevrolet Silverado for Spire Motorsports. He has also competed ...

Austin Theriault Austin L. Theriault (born January 23, 1994) is an American professional stock car racing driver and politician, who currently works in driver development. He last competed part-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 52 for Rick Ware Racing ...

, Derek Scott Jr. and

Scott Lagasse Jr. Scott E. Lagasse Jr. (; born January 31, 1981) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He formerly drove in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. He is the son of former sports car and NASCAR driver Scott Lagasse Sr. He is the owne ...

also drove the 02 in 2016. In 2017, the team announced that the truck would be split by

Austin Hill Austin Edward Hill (born April 21, 1994) is an American professional stock car racing driver and former team owner. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 21 Chevrolet Camaro for Richard Childress Racing and part-time ...

and Tyler Young. Australian

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driver Max Johnston drove the truck at

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. In 2018,

drove the 02 full-time. Despite scoring a top-five at Texas, six top-tens and an eleventh-place finish in points, Hill said that rules changes and simple mistakes by the team held them back from greater success. In 2019,

Tyler Dippel Tyler W. Dippel (born April 5, 2000) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He last competed full-time in the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series in 2019, driving the No. 02 Chevrolet Silverado for Young's Motorsports. Racing care ...

joined Young's Motorsports to drive the No. 02 full-time. On August 23, NASCAR announced that Dippel had been suspended indefinitely for violation of the sport's Code of Conduct. Young's Motorsports has not yet announced his substitute replacement for the race at

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nor the following races until his suspension is lifted.

D. J. Kennington Douglas James "D. J." Kennington (born July 15, 1977) is a Canadian professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Pinty's Series, driving the No. 17 Dodge Challenger for his own team DJK Racing. He won the 201 ...

served as his substitute replacement for the race at

. Dippel was reinstated the following week on August 28, 2019. In 2020, the team announced that

Tate Fogleman Tate Fogleman (born March 8, 2000) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He last competed part-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, driving the No. 30 Toyota Tundra for On Point Motorsports and the No. 26 Chevrolet Silver ...

will compete for Rookie of The Year honors driving the 02 truck. He ended the season with a 17th-place points finish with a best finish of 13th at Michigan. In 2021, the team announced that they would be adding Rookie of The Year honor contestant

Kris Wright Kristofer Cole Wright (born July 17, 1994) is an American professional racing driver. He last competed part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 68 Chevrolet Camaro for Brandonbilt Motorsports. He has also competed in sports car, ope ...

to their No. 02 truck, and they would be moving Fogleman to their No. 12 truck. Wright started the season with a twelfth-place finish at Daytona. At the Daytona Road Course, the team unexpectedly announced that

would replace Wright while he made his Xfinity Series debut, Grala would come in eighth. After Wright had a positive test for COVID-19 just before the race at Atlanta,

Josh Berry Joshua W. Berry (born October 22, 1990) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 8 Chevrolet Camaro for JR Motorsports. Berry has also competed for JRM in late model ...

replaced him, finishing 22nd. Daniel Suarez also replaced Wright at Bristol, finishing 17th. At Darlington, Wright ran a throwback scheme to

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, however, instead of his longtime sponsor

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, the sponsor was wrightcars.com, with larger letters on the side saying Goodwright. Grala returned at

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, being in the top 3 most of the day and finishing 2nd to

Todd Gilliland Todd J. Gilliland (born May 15, 2000) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 38 Ford Mustang for Front Row Motorsports. He is the son of NASCAR driver and team owner D ...

, whom he battled with for the stage 1 win, which Gilliland won.

Michael Annett Michael W. Annett (born June 23, 1986) is an American retired professional stock car racing driver. He last competed in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 1 Chevrolet Camaro for JR Motorsports. Racing career Early career Save for a few ...

wanted to make his debut at the

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, but a leg injury caused him to be replaced by

Chris Windom Christopher R. Windom (born December 24, 1990) is an American professional racing driver. Windom was the seventh driver to complete a United States Auto Club (USAC) Triple Crown by winning titles in sprint cars, midget cars, and Silver Crown. U ...

. On October 6, NASCAR indefinitely suspended crew chief Eddie Troconis for violation of Sections 12.8.1.c Behavioral.

Truck No. 12 history

In 2018, the team debuted at

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with Reid Wilson behind the wheel.

Ty Dillon Tyler Reed Dillon (born February 27, 1992) is an American professional stock car racing driver who competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 77 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Spire Motorsports. He has also competed in the NASCAR Camp ...

drove at

Alex Tagliani Alexandre Tagliani (; born October 18, 1973), nicknamed "Tag", is a Canadian professional racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Pinty’s Series, driving the No. 18 Chevrolet Camaro for 22 Racing. Tagliani has competed in a variety ...

was announced to drive at

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. In 2019,

Gus Dean Gus H. Dean (born August 19, 1994) is an American professional stock car racing driver who competes part-time in the ARCA Menards Series, driving the No. 55 and 15 Toyota Camrys for Venturini Motorsports. He previously drove in the series for Win- ...

joined Young's Motorsports to drive the No. 12 full-time. During the February Daytona race, he spun on the last laps hitting Ben Rhodes’ No. 99 and then started the Big One, finishing fifteenth. His best finish was thirteenth at

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and his worst was thirty-second at Martinsville and

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. He ended up finishing fifteenth in the points at the end of the 2019 season. In 2020, T. J. Bell was to drive the Young's Motorsports No. 12 at the spring Atlanta race, but the truck was not entered when the race was postponed from March to June due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Bell would instead drive the No. 83 CMI Motorsports truck in the rescheduled race. For 2021,

would move over from the 02 to the 12 truck for his sophomore season to make room for rookie

. He would start the season with a crash-ending 30th-place finish at Daytona. On October 2, Fogleman scored his first career win at Talladega by sending

John Hunter Nemechek John Hunter Nemechek (born June 11, 1997) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes full time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 20 Toyota Supra for Joe Gibbs Racing. He is the son of NASCAR driver Joe ...

sideways and beating Tyler Hill by 0.052 seconds before both trucks crashed into the inner wall. On January 7, 2022 it was announced that

would drive the No. 12 full-time in

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; he had driven the team's No. 20 truck since 2019. At

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, he suffered a dislocated shoulder in a last lap crash.

Truck No. 12 results

Truck No. 20 history

The No. 20 was

's former number. In 2017, with Hill now on No. 02 truck, the second truck became the No. 20. The team debuted at

. Speed Energy Formula Off-Road champion

Sheldon Creed Sheldon M. Creed (born September 30, 1997) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 2 Chevrolet Camaro for Richard Childress Racing. He is a member of Drivers Edge De ...

drove the No. 20 at

. The team planned to run full-time with the No. 20 team in 2018.

drove the No. 20 Chevrolet in the season opener at Daytona with a 5th-place finish.

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and

soon after announced through Team Dillon that

Richard Childress Racing Richard Childress Racing (RCR) is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the NASCAR Cup Series and the NASCAR Xfinity Series. The team is based in Welcome, North Carolina, and is owned and operated by Richard Ch ...

affiliated drivers, including Austin, Ty,

Daniel Hemric Daniel Hemric (born January 27, 1991) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 11 Chevrolet Camaro for Kaulig Racing and part-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving ...

and

Tanner Thorson Tanner Delbert Thorson (born May 7, 1996) is an American professional dirt track racing driver. He competes in the United States Auto Club (USAC) and World of Outlaws. Thorson has also competed in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, last drivin ...

would pilot the 20 for the vast majority of the remaining schedule, with Thorson taking most of the races. Michel Disdier, Reid Wilson,

, Darrell Wallace Jr. and Max Tullman also drove the 20 truck in 2018. For the 2019 season,

was announced to pilot the 20 full-time. He started off the season with a career-best fourth-place result at the

2019 NextEra Energy 250 The 2019 NextEra Energy 250 was a NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series race held on February 15, 2019. Contested over 111 laps due to an overtime finish, on the asphalt superspeedway. It was the first race of the 2019 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck ...

. Boyd raced the team to an unofficial second-place finish in the

2019 Sugarlands Shine 250 The 2019 Sugarlands Shine 250 is a NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series race held on October 12, 2019, at Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Alabama. Contested over 94 laps on the 2.66 mile (4.28 km) superspeedway, it was the 20th race of the ...

at Talladega, however the unofficial winner,

Johnny Sauter Jonathan Joseph "Johnny" Sauter (born May 1, 1978) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He last competed part-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, driving the No. 47 Toyota Tundra for G2G Racing, the No. 13 Tundra for T ...

, would be penalized for forcing the No. 51 KBM truck of

Riley Herbst Riley Dederick Kern Herbst (born February 24, 1999) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 98 Ford Mustang for Stewart-Haas Racing and part-time in the NASCAR Campi ...

below the double yellow line in an attempt to block, giving the win to Boyd and Young's Motorsports. Boyd would return to the 20 truck in 2020 and would take it to a best finish of 14th at Texas and a 20th-place points finish. He would return to the 20 truck for a third season in 2021 and would take the truck to a 13th-place finish behind teammate

at Daytona. In the

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replaced Boyd.

made his pole position at Circuit of the Americas in 2022. He then start and parked after 1 lap due to his transmission issues after replacing the fuel pump during the pace laps.

Truck No. 42 history

In 2014, the team fielded a second truck (No. 60) for

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at Daytona but the team withdrew. The team returned at Kansas as a start and park team to help fund the team's No. 02 car but now with a new number (No. 42). After 6 races, the No. 42 team shut down.

Partnerships

In 2013, Tyler Young drove No. 6 for the team at

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, using Sharp Gallaher Racing owners' points. He finished 24th in the race. In 2016, Young's teamed with

fielding No. 02 Ford for Hill's self-owned team in four races. Later that year Young's partnered with

to field the No. 02 for Dominique Van Wieringen at

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. The next race, at Homestead, Young's fielded the No. 07 truck for Patrick Staropoli that utilized owner points from

SS-Green Light Racing SS-Green Light Racing is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, fielding the No. 07 Ford primarily for Joe Graf Jr. and the No. 08 for primarily for David Starr. They also have a tech ...

. In 2017,

started to run for the team in No. 02, sharing the truck with Tyler Young. However, Hill drove Ford trucks that he owned while Young ran Chevrolets from the team inventory.

ARCA Menards Series

Car No. 02 history

On January 14, 2021, the team announced that they would expand into the ARCA Menards Series, fielding the No. 02 car on a part-time basis. The team first entered the series in ARCA's Daytona test session in January with

(one of their full-time Truck Series drivers) and

Toni Breidinger Toni Breidinger (born July 14, 1999) is an American professional stock car racing driver & Victoria's Secret Model who competes full-time for Venturini Motorsports in the ARCA Menards Series, driving the No. 25 Toyota Camry. She was the female dr ...

driving. Their first race will come in the season-opening race at Daytona in February, although they have yet to determine the rest of their schedule and who their driver(s) will be in each race.

made some appearances for the team. Mark Green would appear at Mid-Ohio. Breidinger would depart the team and join her old team

Venturini Motorsports Venturini Motorsports is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the ARCA Menards Series, ARCA Menards Series East, and ARCA Menards Series West. Founded in 1982 by Bill Venturini Sr., Venturini Motorsports is th ...

Connor Mosack Connor Charles Mosack (born January 20, 1999) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 24 Toyota Supra for Sam Hunt Racing and the No. 19 Supra for Joe Gibbs Racing an ...

made 3 starts for the rest of the year.

References

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