Fantasy NASCAR Racing

and Scott called the shots.  Larson won twice and posted 14 Top 5 finishes in 28 starts.  2015 saw owner Tom Deloach of Red Horse racing hire Zipadelli to team up with driver Ben Kennedy.  Although they didn’t have any wins; they had a successful season finishing ninth in points.  As Deloache's funds dwindled; he split the driving duties of one of his race teams among five different drivers.  Brett Moffitt won at Michigan in one of his six starts.  Moffitt also posted three Top 5’s in those starts.  Due to Deloache’s lack of funding he scaled back the size of his race team; and Zipadelli went to work for owner Shigeaki Hattori and his driver Ryan Truex.  They ran 23 races in the Truck series and posted eight Top 5 and 13 Top 10 finishes.  They also finished the season ninth in points.  For 2018 Brett Moffitt was hired by Hattori to drive his truck full time.  Moffitt won in just the second race of the year; visiting victory lane at Atlanta. He had three wins before the season was half way over; and kept up that pace scoring three more before the seasons end. Moffitt made it through every round of the Chase and was in contention to win the Championship. However everyone had their money on 2016 Truck series champ Johnny Sauter to grab the crown. Kyle Busch Motorsport driver Noah Gragson was also another one picked to win the Championship.  Moffitt ran well toward the end of the second stage and won it.  He had a long run truck and he needed a long race run to be in contention. When it came down to it; Sauter's truck was off all night; while Gragson only led 32 laps about mid-way.  The last 67 laps were run under green; and when it counted, Moffits long run truck showed it's strength.  He led the final 29 laps to win the Truck series Championship.  It was also the first championship for Zipadelli and for truck owner Shigeaki Hattori.  Alas, being a defending truck series champions wasn't enough to see Moffitt keep his job.  The team has always struggled finding sponsorship and Hattori found a driver that could bring sponsorship with him for 2019.  Austin Hill was hired to drive the #16 truck in 2019 and Zipadelli would lead that effort.  The pair kicked off the season with a win at Daytona.  The season was punctuated with good finishes; usually from fifth to tenth place.  They would win again at Michigan and Las Vegas.  He ran well in the playoffs but in the round before the seasons final race, Hill crashed and that poor finish would eliminated him from playoff contention.  That was too bad because when the team went to Miami they were clearly the class of the field.  His truck was great on a long run and would drive off and leave the field.  Hill led 56 of 134 laps and won the race and finished fifth in the points.  Zipadelli and Hill returned to Shige Hattori Racing for 2020.  Hill got two wins in 2020 and added two more in 2021.  Both seasons Hill had a good shot to win the Championship, but problems in the Chase kept him from advancing to the final race.  For 2022 Hill is moving to the Xfinity series to wheel the Richard Childress Racing Chevy.  Tyler Ankrum took over the #16 in 2022 and Zipadelli called the shots.  The season started with a crash at Daytona, but then only one finish worse than 16th the next seven races.  Overheating sidelined them at Texas; and then they run off a streak of finishes between seventh and 16th.  In fact; after the Texas event; the duo paired to finish every lap but one.  For the year they had eight top ten finishes and 15 top 15 finishes in 23 starts.  They would finish 12th in season points.  2023 saw Zipadelli paired with Corey Heim, racing for TRICON Garage.  They finished eighth at Daytona, and improved to finish fourth at Las Vegas.  A crash at Atlanta saw them finish 34th, but came back strong and won four races later at Martinsville.  Then followed that with a second at Kansas.  Starting at Martinsville, over a span of 15 races, they finished no worse than eighth; adding two wins (Mid-Ohio; Bristol).  The duo easily advanced to the Chase and made it to the championship race at Phoenix.  Heim had a strong truck and Zipadelli called a great race.  They had run at the front much of the race.  On a restart with 30 laps to go, Heim grabbed the lead going into turn one, and Carson Hocevar dove down to the apron to try and grab the lead.  He slid up and into Heim and both trucks spun.  So late in the race; it left neither one of them much of a chance to win.  With two laps to go Heim got close to Hocevar and put him in the wall as pay-back.  On the season the duo had three wins, twelve top five and 19 top ten finishes.  For his career Zipadelli had led his drivers in 205 starts.  They have 18 wins and 68 top fives.  He won the Truck championship with Brett Moffitt in 2018.  In the Xfinity series his drivers have made 272 starts and has three wins and 35 top five finishes.