The 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season is right around the corner. While we await the first green flag of the season, teams are piecing together their lineups for 2025. Here is every confirmed driver for the 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season. Make sure to check back in throughout the off and pre-season to see who is racing where.
This article will be updated as drivers, teams, promotions, and demotions continue to happen throughout 2024 and into 2025.
Last season, there were 22 full-time Truck Series drivers; there are currently 23 for 2025.
Longtime racer and influencer Toni Breidinger finally found her full-time ride in the NASCAR Truck Series when Tricon announced she would take over Dean Thompson’s No. 5 for 2025. Despite a solid part-time 2023 in ARCA, Breidinger had an off year in 2024. Perhaps a fresh start could be good for the young driver.
After GMS Racing closed in 2023, Grant Enfinger recovered well with underdog CR7 Motorsports last season. The pair won two races in 2024 and made a serious run at the Championship. All indications suggest the two will be back in 2025.
Jake Garcia will return to full-time action for a second season with Thorsport Racing. Garcia struggled in his first season with Thorsport. However, this could have been his sophomore slump in the series.
Following another great season in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, Heim re-signed with Tricon Garage for 2025. As he continues to dominate the series, Heim is still struggling to win the big one. If his momentum transfers over once again, he could find his way to the top in 2025.
While his brother takes the next step in his career with Joe Gibbs Racing in 2025, Tanner Gray sticks with TRICON in 2025. His loan highlight from the season was a back-and-forth with Christian Eckes at Martinsville; while his 2024 stat totals don’t look great, his averages were up from 2023. Hopefully, Tanner can add to both of those in 2025.
TRICON finalized their lineup with late model standout and 2024 ARCA Menards Series East race winner Giovanni Ruggiero. Toyota highly regards Ruggiero and will take over the team’s flagship No. 17 next season.
2024 was a season of much-needed improvement and consistency for Truck Series veteran Tyler Ankrum. After years of bouncing between teams, Ankrum will stick with MHR in 2025. Hopefully, he will become the prospect most in the industry always expected him to be.
Daniel Hemric steps down from the Cup Series and returns to the Truck Series full-time for the first time since 2016. He will once again drive the No. 19, this time for MHR. Last season, with Christian Eckes behind the wheel, the No. 19 was the best truck on track. After a tough season on track in 2024, this may be Hemric’s best chance to shine in NASCAR.
Dawson Sutton took over the No. 26 from Ty Dillon late last season and found his first top-five at Kansas. Rackley W.A.R. continues to grow year to year. Perhaps a young driver like Sutton and the team’s new shop can be the next step in that progression.
Frankie Muniz continues to roll through NASCAR’s developmental levels heading into 2025. After piecing together a part-time schedule in 2024, RBR rewarded Frankie with a full-time ride for 2025. Frankie has shown to have the talent needed to bring the truck home, but can he take another step in 2025?
After a tough start to the season, second-generation racer Layne Riggs found late-season momentum, winning back-to-back races on his way to winning the Rookie of the Year award. In a post-season interview with FRM, Riggs said, “A Playoff berth is the expectation next season,” hinting that he will return to the No. 38 in 2025.
Following an unlikely free agency, Chandler Smith will be back in the Truck Series full-time in 2025 with an expanding Front Row Motorsports. Smith’s last full-time season in a truck was in 2022 with Kyle Busch Motorsports. That season, he won three races, finished third in points, and had the Series’ second-highest average finish.
Matt Mills’ first full-time season in the Truck Series could have been better. A late-season fiery crash and subsequent stay in the hospital didn’t help his season either. However, sticking with Niece for 2025 means that Mills has a chance to be in a familiar spot next season.
This season, Kaden Honeycutt pieced together one of the most diverse schedules in all of NASCAR racing in several series on asphalt and dirt. Honeycutt’s efforts earned him a full-time ride in the Truck Series with Niece Motorsports. Hopefully, this highly touted prospect can live up to the hype.
Veteran Stewart Friesen had a disappointing 2024, scoring just one top-five, a career low. As a veteran of the series, Friesen can hopefully turn this performance around in 2025. The team has confirmed it’s return via X.
Following his stellar first season with the growing Spire Motorsports, Rajah Caruth and his sponsor, HendrickCars.com, return for a second full-time season with the No. 71. After a taste of the playoffs in 2024, perhaps this can be the year Rajah pieces it all together.
Spencer Boyd and Freedom Racing Enterprises will be back in 2025 for their second season of NASCAR Truck Series action. The team is expanding to entries, one part-time and one full-time. Last season, Boyd and the No. 76 scored one top-five and two top-ten finishes in the teams freshman season.
After a stellar championship season in the ARCA Menards Season, Andres Perez de Lara will race full-time for Spire Motorsports in 2025. Perez de Lara, who made his Truck Series debut with Spire in 2024, is replacing Chase Purdy in the No. 77.
After a stellar part-time season in the Truck Series, McAnally-Hilgemann Racing is giving Connor Mosack his first shot at full-time NASCAR National Series Racing in 2025. Mosack is known for his skill on road courses. He improved on ovals in 2024, but will that translate into 2025?
Matt Crafton will enter his 25th and 24th full-time NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season in 2025. This will also be the veteran’s 24th and 23rd consecutive season at Thorsport Racing. His 2024 struggles showed signs of an aging driver. However, there are more records to be broken in 2025.
Jack Wood finally finds his way back to full-time competition in the Craftsman Truck Series with McAnally-Hilgemann Racing. Wood made 13 starts with the team last season with minimal success. However, the consistency of a full-time ride can prove to be good for Wood.
The reigning NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Champion, Ty Majeski, will be back at Thorsport in 2025. Majeski overcame many obstacles late in the season, including two amazing seasons from Championship Four foes Christian Eckes and Corey Heim.
Ben Rhodes will chase his third NASCAR Truck Series title once again in 2025. Rhodes had a down year in 2024 with Thorsport, scoring an almost career-low of three top fives. A rebound year will be necessary for the two-time champ to find his groove.
These drivers are confirmed to be back in 2025 via announcement or mention. Some drivers who will more than likely be back in 2025 will be added as they or their team confirm this.
EchoPark Speedway, or Atlanta Motor Speedway, is often touted as the most exciting track on the NASCAR circuit. What was first seen as a Frankenstein experiment, Marcus Smith’s idea to turn AMS into a baby Daytona worked out in the end. We’ve gotten great race after great race and tonight was no different as fans saw Tyler Reddick power by Carson Hocevar to go two in a row to start the season.
But not everyone had a season to remember. Many drivers and teams had a season that they’d sooner forget. These are the biggest losers of the 2026 EchoPark Speedway racing weekend.
The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race officials rightly got blasted online by fans after they made the extremely questionable decision to put the Truck race on Saturday on the weather clock. That would have been an understandable move if circumstances were different. But they caught flak because 1.) EchoPark Speedway has lights, 2.) the weather had moved out for the weekend, and 3.)…umm…they were only 10 laps shy from the scheduled distance anyway.
Now, we know who the defenders are. The O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Race was slated to follow, but NASCAR has pushed races off in the past. And really, how much time would the CW have lost? Ten minutes? Twenty? If that? That, in my book, makes the NCTS officials some of the biggest losers on the weekend. They owe us fans ten more measly laps for racing!
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Of any driver currently in the Chevy ranks, none has had the support thrown behind them like Corey Day. Day, a protege of proven NASCAR champion Kyle Larson, apparently has turned some heads on the dirt scene. Makes sense, since Larson himself said that he’d rather win the Chili Bowl than the Daytona 500. But unlike other drivers, such as Connor Zilisch, who have excelled in other racing disciplines outside of NASCAR, Day’s career so far has been lukewarm at best. And his race yesterday was the epitome of a rookie race, ladened with senseless mistakes.
The incident that hurt the most was the one where he wrecked his fellow HMS/JRM teammates, Carson Kvapil and Justin Allgaier. He simply just took them out while racing for the race lead. Though he was, somehow, able to rebound to finish the race in the 4th position, yesterday was a sloppy performance that even Corey himself acknowledges that he’d rather put behind him.
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Chastain did it again! And now, the feelings are mixed. Remember when Ross Chastain used to just send drivers willy-nilly, and it really got on fans’ nerves? Well, thankfully, he’s calmed down in recent years and has become a more respectable veteran of the sport. That is not to say that he still doesn’t have his…moments. Saturday night at the O’Reilly Auto Parts race, Ross Chastain, going for the win, entered turn 1 and sent leader Austin Hill.
Hill was the overwhelming favorite to win this race, and fans have grown sick of him. So, really, this was a welcome return to form for Chastain, a version of him that used to be loathed by fans. Thus, while fans might have won out by Chastain doing what he does best and slaying Austin Hill, the RCR team, and really, anyone who has Chastain in their rearview mirror in the closing laps, are the real losers this weekend.
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There were a couple of drivers who ended 2025 on a sour note and were looking to turn things around and start 2026 strong. One of those has to be Josh Berry and his entire Wood Brothers team. After floundering around with Harrison Burton for a few seasons, the No. 21 Wood Brothers Ford got the shot in the arm that they needed with a new crew chief and Josh Berry as their new driver. They led a bunch of laps at Atlanta in 2025, only for a wreck with 10 laps to go to take them out of contention. Not to worry, though: they followed it up with a win at Las Vegas.
But since that win, the team suffered a steep decline heading into the summer months. By the time the postseason rolled around, they had the single worst Playoff performance in history with three straight last-place finishes. Though he had a promising start to the season with a 9th-place run in the Daytona 500, it was the same old same old tonight. Berry showed some speed in the first stage but ultimately crashed after Christopher Bell forced the issue in the beginning of Stage 2. It’s a familiar routine for the Wood Brothers. Yet another last-place finish. That makes them one of the biggest losers of the weekend. If only they could have capitalized.
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This one’s a tired subject, so I won’t dwell on it too long. Kyle Busch’s late career decline at Richard Childress Racing should be studied. Though he showed speed early on, it was yet again a single-car spin that ended his day prematurely. Granted, he didn’t spin completely on his own. He was tagged from behind by Noah Gragson. But, that was after he checked up twice and recklessly pulled up in front of him in a hole that was barely there. Yet another disappointing outing for Rowdy Nation.
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The checkered flag has flown in the second race of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series Season. And, at the end of the day, it was Tyler Reddick who went back-to-back to win at EchoPark Speedway. Tonight, Reddick became the sixth NASCAR Cup Series driver to win the first two races of the season. He is the first since NASCAR Hall of Famer Matt Kenseth did it to kick off the 2009 season.
But, of course, Reddick wasn’t the only one to have a great start to the season. Several drivers leave Atlanta with a great points day, including Carson Hocevar, Bubba Wallace, William Byron, and Ryan Blaney. Here are the highlights of tonight’s race:
From an awful showing in the 2025 Playoffs to yet another last-place finish, Josh Berry’s 2026 season is off to a rough start. Today, he got together with Ty Gibbs after Gibbs had an awful start to the year last year. The No. 54 was able to turn it around later in the season, though. But, for their 2026 outing, there’s a lot left to be desired. Check it out.
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Kyle Busch’s 2025 season was abysmal. But, after he put his No. 8 RCR Chevy on the pole for the 2026 Daytona 500, things seemed to be looking up. He smartly survived last week by lying back on the last lap and safely navigating through the crash, finishing 15th. And he was a contender early in this race. However, late, Kyle Busch continued his dismal legacy at RCR by spinning after contact with Noah Gragson. His day ended prematurely. Check it out:
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We got our first big crash of the race at Lap 224 when both Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano got loose in front of the field. You can read all about that incident with the link below:
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Things started to get real for the NASCAR Cup Series drivers as we got inside 40 laps to go. We got our first Big One of the afternoon at Lap 224. It was triggered as the field came out of Turn 4 and entered the dogleg. Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin, both whose cars were upset by the dirty air, got together. Logano was able to scoot on virtually unscathed. However, Hamlin turned in front of the pack, collecting several stars and heavy hitters. Here’s what happened:
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