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Daytona 500 Champion to Race in His FIRST EVER NASCAR Truck Series Race

DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA - AUGUST 23: Ricky Stenhouse Jr., driver of the #47 Jack Link's Duos Chevrolet, is introduced prior to the NASCAR Cup Series Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway on August 23, 2025 in Daytona Beach, Florida. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)
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Ricky Stenhouse Jr., the 2023 Daytona 500 Champion, will compete in a star-studded NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season opener at Daytona International Speedway, marking the veteran’s first-ever Truck Series start.

  • Stenhouse will race for Niece Motorsports in their No. 45 truck at Daytona. The No. 45 will race with multiple drivers in 2026, including Landen Lewis and Ross Chastain, with Stenhouse kicking off the season for the truck.
  • Notably, this race will mark Stenhouse’s first-ever race in the Craftsman Truck Series. This small asterisk is in spite of the superspeedway ace’s 582 starts across NASCAR’s O’Reilly Auto Parts and Cup Series, where he is a Cup Series race winner and a two-time O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Champion.
  • The Truck Series races at Daytona are usually ultra-competitive, though part-timers have had good runs in recent seasons. For his efforts, Stenhouse is a two-time winner at Daytona, having won both the Daytona 500 and the summer Daytona race in the NASCAR Cup Series.
  • The veteran driver will have his hands full that weekend in a stacked field, as racing alongside Stenhouse will be three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Tony Stewart. Stewart, now 54, is entering his first NASCAR race since 2016, and his first Truck Series race since 2005.

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