Top 5 Moments of Rajah Caruth’s Career

WEST ALLIS, WISCONSIN - AUGUST 27: Rajah Caruth, driver of the #24 Wendell Scott Foundation Chevrolet, looks on during qualifying for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Clean Harbors 175 at The Milwaukee Mile on August 27, 2023 in West Allis, Wisconsin. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images)
Rajah Caruth is one of the lower tier series' most intriguing free agents. With GMS Racing shutting down, Caruth's options are wide open for 2024, and he has had an interesting career to this point. Here are the best moments of Caruth's career to this point.

Rajah Caruth is one of the lower-tier series’ most intriguing free agents. With GMS Racing shutting down, Caruth’s options are wide open for 2024, and he has had an interesting career to this point. Here are the best moments of Caruth’s career to this point.

2021 Shore Lunch 150 at Iowa: First ARCA Menards Series Start

In 2021, while Rajah Caruth was in the midst of his first career season in the ARCA Menards East Series, he participated in the Shore Lunch 150 at Iowa, an ARCA Menards Series race. At the age of 19, Caruth qualified 12th in a 23-car field, and he kept his nose clean all day, finishing in ninth on the lead lap. He would go on to race four more times that season, and he would finish in the top 10 three more times.

2022 Dutch Boy 150 at Kansas: Best ARCA Finish

In 2022, Caruth ran the full ARCA Menards Series schedule, and he went on to finish a solid third in the points. His best race came at Kansas Speedway in the Dutch Boy 150, as he went toe to toe with teammate Nick Sanchez.

Sanchez would get the better of Caruth on this day, but second place was Caruth’s best finish in his ARCA Menards Series career.

2022 Toyota 200 at Gateway: Craftsman Truck Series Debut

Later in 2022, Spire Motorsports tabbed Caruth to run in the Truck Series at World Wide Technology Raceway. It was not quite the same debut as he had in ARCA, but he still impressed. Caruth qualified 19th, and he would finish a solid 11th on the lead lap.

His performance on this day, along with his ARCA performance, netted him a full-time Truck Series ride in 2023.

2023 Buckle Up South Carolina 200 at Darlington: Best Truck Series Finish

The beginning of the 2023 season was difficult for Caruth, but a solid day awaited him at Darlington Raceway. A 13th-place qualifying effort tied for his best of the season at that time, and the 24 truck overcame a rash of cautions late in the race to finish a solid sixth. It is his best finish in the Craftsman Truck Series in his career.

2023 Rackley Roofing 200 at Nashville: Best Qualifying Effort and First Truck Series Lap Led

The night may not have ended like he wanted to, but the Rackley Roofing 200 at Nashville was a night of firsts. He got his first top-3 qualifying effort by qualifying in third, and he went on to lead his first lap in the Truck Series later that night as well.

His day was done in by mechanical failures, but it was a taste of the front of the pack for Caruth.

Rajah Caruth has quite the future ahead of him, and who knows where he will be in the future. What other great moments will Caruth add to this list?

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Cup: Bell Forces the Issue, Takes Out Berry and Gibbs

What’s Happening?

After a clean but eventful Stage 1 was in the books, we got our first caution for incident on Lap 81. Fresh off the stage break, the aggression was still amped up. What triggered this incident in particular was Christopher Bell’s headful of steam juking below Josh Berry as they raced down the backstretch. Berry, not expecting to go 4 wide into the corner, lifted. Subsequently, he clipped the rear bumper of Ty Gibbs. This sent both Berry and Gibbs hard into the outside SAFER barrier. Here’s what happened.

  • Berry and Gibbs both were having decent days heading into this unfortunate event. Berry, though he wasn’t able to earn stage points in the first stage, did show speed. He ran solidly in the top 3 in the opening laps of the race before getting shuffled back to just outside the top 10.
  • Gibbs also showed some promise early on, in the thick of contention in the opening laps of the race. Unfortunately, he was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time when his teammate made a late move and tried to force 4 wide in Turn 3.
  • Denny Hamlin and Rilet Herbst, in turn, both received damage from this incident. For both drivers, it was minor and strictly cosmetic. Meanwhile, Gibbs and Berry were both hauled to the garage.
  • When it comes to how their 2025 seasons ended, it’s sort of a tale of two cities when it comes to Berry and Gibbs. Berry, on one hand, started off the 2025 season strong. He led a lot of laps at Atlanta last year and even won at Las Vegas. However, he petered out in the summer months and went on to have one of the worst Playoff showings in recent memory.
  • Gibbs was the complete opposite. He started agonizingly off the pace, running horribly in the first half of the season. Then, in the summer stretch, it was like a switch flipped. He started to run more consistently and even showed race-winning speed by season’s end. This isn’t the start to the season that either of these drivers wanted.

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What to Look Out for in the Cup Race at EchoPark Speedway

What’s Happening?

With Round 1 of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series Race to the Chase in the books, the greatest drivers in the world, the stars of the NASCAR Cup Series, head to the Peach State. We’re going back-to-back superspeedway racing as the NASCAR takes on the EchoPark Speedway (formerly the Atlanta Motor Speedway). This is what you need to keep your eyes peeled for in what is guaranteed to be a thriller of a race.

  • Yesterday morning’s qualifying session was washed due to weather in the Hampton, Georgia area. This means that the field was set by the qualifying metric. As a result, Tyler Reddick will start today’s race where he ended last week’s Daytona 500: in first place. Starting on the outside pole is every fans’ favorite driver, Joey Logano.
  • NASCAR’s Most Popular Driver, Chase Elliott, will try to bounce back after a heartbreaking end to the 68th running of the Great American race last week. Elliott came so close to winning it all. A proven superspeedway winner and former Atlanta winner, NASCAR’s favorite son is hoping to get it done today in his home state. There may be a party in Dawsonville, Georgia, tonight! Chase Elliott rolls off 4th.
  • On the flip side, Elliott’s teammate, Alex Bowman, has had a rough start to the year. He DNF’d in the 500 last week and now starts today’s race in the 36th position. Generally, he’s seen as being on the hot seat this year as he’s currently sitting on a contract year. He’ll need to win big and soon if he wants contract negotiations to go in his favor. He’s got a tough battle ahead of him, though.
  • Expect a different kind of racing today than what we saw at Daytona last week. Yes, it’s superspeedway style, drafting racing in big packs, but Atlanta is a mile shorter than Daytona. This results in an emphasis on handling over fuel saving and more compact packs. Whoever can set their car up the best today will likely have a fighting chance when it gets down to the wire.
  • Coverage for the NASCAR Cup Series Autotrader 400 at EchoPark Speedway begins at 2 PM EST/11 AM PST on FOX.

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HAMPTON, GEORGIA - FEBRUARY 21: Sheldon Creed, driver of the #00 Road Ranger Chevrolet, takes the checkered flag to win the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series Bennett Transportation & Logistics 250 at Echo Park Speedway on February 21, 2026 in Hampton, Georgia.

O’Reilly: Sheldon Creed Breaks Through in Thriller at EchoPark Speedway

What’s Happening?

It was a busy Saturday at EchoPark Speedway (formerly Atlanta Motor Speedway). First, we had the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race. Then, the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series took center stage and they were two vastly different events. Ultimately, it was Sheldon Creed standing tall in victory lane when all was said and done. Here’s what you need to take away from tonight’s NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race at EchoPark Speedway.

  • There were a lot of drivers who had tire problems which set off massive wrecks and incidents. First, Sam Mayer had a tire go down from the race lead. Sammy Smith got bitten. Austin Green. Corey Day. Taylor Gray. The list goes on and on. Some of them were able to stay in contention while others were plagued for the rest of the race.
  • Speaking for Corey Day, he just had a bad race. First, he sparked an incident which took out several drivers, including the Sieg brothers (who weren’t shy about voicing their displeasure about the rookie) and Harrison Burton. And though the broadcasters on the CW gave him the benefit of the doubt, the later incident was less forgivable. In this incident, while he was battling the JRM duo of Carson Kvapil and Justin Allgaier for the race lead, Day got into the No. 1 Arby’s Chevy, sending all three of them into the wall. This is certainly a performance that he’ll want to forget.
  • Chevrolets swept the stages. Winning the first one was none other than Jesse Love, continuing RCR’s dominance on drafting tracks. Rajah Caruth, who had a handful all race, was able to capture his first career stage win by winning Stage 2.
  • It wasn’t the dominating race for RCR that we all thought it would be. With ill-handling cars, their qualifying attempts were underwhelming, and they got off to a lukewarm start tonight. By the end of it, though, they were in the mix. Slicing and dicing, Austin Hill had the lead as they came around to take the white flag. However, in Turn 1, he got “Chastained.” Ross Chastain plowed into the back of the No. 21, knocking him down to the apron. Hill was able to save it and rally home to a 12th place finish.
  • The big story tonight is that Sheldon Creed, finally, after far too many runner-up finishes to count, broke through to capture his first NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series win. It will certainly be a day he and his team will never forget.

Notable Incidents

Lap 5: Corey Day

Corey Day had a very sloppy, bad race in general, and it started early. First, he caused a wreck that took out Harrison Burton and a couple of others. Then, he took out the JRM duo of Carson Kvapil and Justin Allgaier. You can recap that first incident by reading the article below.

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Lap 142: Sammy Smith

Kvapil and Allgaier weren’t the only JRM cars to have issues tonight. Firstly, Rajah Caruth was out of control throughout the race, fighting a mean-handling car. He was able to brilliantly save it several times, to his credit. But perhaps the biggest incident involving the four JRM Chevys came at Lap 142 when Sammy Smith had a tire go down and spun in front of the pack. This took out several drivers, including Taylor Gray, among others. Read about that here:

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Results

Results Pending.

Points Standings (2 of 35)

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