FANTASY NASCAR Racin

Bill Mcanally - 08/28/1965
William Hilgemann -
January 13, 2020, BMR announced a partnership with Bill Hilgemann to form McAnally-Hilgemann Racing. McAnally assumed over-seeing the ARCA West series entries, while MHR would field the NASCAR Truck Series teams. MHR fielded the #19 Tundra full-time in the Truck Series for Kraus. The following day, the team revealed a new ARCA Menards Series West driver lineup of Gio Scelzi, (who replaced Derek Kraus who went to drive the MHR truck full time. Jesse Love replaced Hailie Deegan, who left BMR and Toyota's driver development program to compete in the 20-race ARCA Menards Series with DGR. Holley

Hollan would drive the #50 full-time, which was run part-time in 2019. Gracie Trotter would drive the #99, replacing Brittney Zamora, who started the 2020 season without a ride. For the 2020 NASCAR Truck season Kraus got off to a great start finishing fourth at Daytona. He would improve on that when he almost got the win at Darlington, finishing second behind Ben Rhodes. He had a respectable season with three top five and 13 top tens results. In the ARCA Series the team saw the rookies turn in pretty respectable results. Jesse Love would win three times in the eleven race series. His three wins propelled him to the 2020 ARCA West Championship. Not to be outdone, Gio Scelzi also got a win, as did Gracie Trotter. In 2021, McAnally's team participated in the ARCA West Series with full time drivers Jesse Love and Cole Moore. They would cut down from four full time teams to just two. He also ran several drivers on a part-time basis, among those were: Derek Kraus, Amber Balcaen, Jolynn Wilkinson, and Sebastian Arias.

Gracie Trotter moved from MHR to run full time in the main ARCA Series full time for Venturini Motorsports. Love would win twice in 2021, and win the Championship once again. Moore was third in points and had a best finish of second on two occasions. Meanwhile in the Truck series, things proved to be tough for Kraus for his second season as he was only able to get one top five, a fifth at Knoxville. He also only had four top tens. In 2022, McAnally-Hilgemann and McAnally's team switched to Chevrolet,

sixth at Knoxville, and Bristol. He did post seven top tens finishes, and finished inside the top 15 on 16 occasions. Colby Howard was also brought on to compete full time in the truck series as MHR expanded to two full time teams. He had a best finish of eighth and posted nine top 15 finishes. The #35 attempted to make their debut at the 2022 Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 200 at Martinsville Speedway, but failed to qualify with Jake Garcia due to a rained out qualifying. In the ARCA Series, Austin Herzog made his first full-time appearance, but was replaced by Landen Lewis after five rounds. Jack Wood and Colby

Howard also raced part-time. Cole Moore raced full time. Cole Moore is the son of John Moore would make his first West Series start since 2015; driving the #27 car for Bill McAnally Racing in the race at All American Speedway. The two of them would be teammates in the race. It would be the first time that they would race against each other in the West Series. Cole went on to grab the win. It would be the organizations lone win for the year. For 2023, Christian Eckes ran the #19 full-time while 18-year-old rookie Jake

Garcia ran the #35 full-time except for Daytona which was run by Chase Elliott, as Garcia was ineligible for the restrictor plate race due to not being 18 yet. Eckes scored wins at Atlanta, Darlington and Kansas. Eckes was eliminated at the conclusion of the Round of 8 at Homestead. He won two weeks later at Phoenix and finished fifth in the final points standings. He had ten top five and 13 top ten finishes. Garcia had a best finish of second at the season ending race at Phoenix. He had three top five and nine top ten results. On the ARCA side, Tanner Reif drove full time, wheeling the #16 full time, while Dylan Lupton and Caleb Shrader ran a partial