FANTASY NASCAR Racin

The team, first known as DRIVE Technology, was founded in 2013 by Sam Hunt and Virginian Shayne Lockhart, a former NASCAR driver-turned crew chief. In 2013 they acquired assets from Joe Gibbs Racing's ARCA Menards Series East #18 team, which was closing down after the 2012 season. They kept using the #18. The team picked up sponsorship from the Denny Hamlin Foundation for most of the races. The team later ended up running only part-time, skipping the races at Five Flags, Winston-Salem, both Iowa races, and New Hampshire. Also, Sergio Peña drove the car at the season-finale at Road Atlanta instead of Hunt.
In 2014, Hunt ran another part-time schedule. One of his races was set to be Daytona, but after full-time driver Brandon Jones failed to qualify in his own #33 car for Turner Scott Motorsports, he replaced Hunt in the #18. Other drivers for the team that year were Mason Massey in two races at the Langley and Columbus Speedways. Venezuelan female driver Milka Duno drove the #18 at the season-finale, now at Dover as a result of Road Atlanta being taken off the schedule. The team attempted fewer races in 2015. Peyton Sellers drove two races at Greenville-Pickens Speedway and at Dover. Full-time ARCA Series driver Sarah Cornett-Ching drove the car at Bristol in a partnership between DRIVE

Technology and her ARCA team, RACE 101. Justin LaDuke made his only start of the year and to-date of his career, at Winston-Salem. Hunt returned for two races at tracks in his home state of Virginia: Langley and Richmond. The team continued to scale back in 2016, with Peña returning to the team for the first time in three years after he was released from Rev Racing. He ran the road course race at Virginia International Raceway, and it is his last NASCAR start to date. The team withdrew with Hunt at the next race at Dominion Raceway, another track in Virginia. Lockhart left the team in the end of the 2015 and Peyton Sellers become the new co-owner, the new team name became Hunt-Sellers Racing. In 2017, Hunt and Sellers ran

two races each. Hunt raced at Bristol and at Langley Speedway. He finished 18th at Bristol, and ninth at Langley. In the two starts that Sellers made. they both came at South Boston. He finished ninth in the first race and improved to eighth in the next. HSR ran nearly the full season in 2018, with yet another driver from Virginia, rookie Colin Garrett, running all but the first two races of the season. Garrett originally signed on for four races, but extended it to the remainder of the schedule after strong initial runs. He finished tenth in points. His best finish was a third at the first of the doubleheader races at South Boston, his only top-5 of the year. Garrett did score four top-10's as well. Clinton Cram served as crew chief in

2018. At the end of 2019 Hunt announced the team would move up to the NASCAR Xfinity Series, with their driver Colin Garrett, in the season-finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway with Joe Gibbs Engines under the hood. The team was now renamed as Sam Hunt Racing after Sellers departure. On October 28, 2019, the team announced that they would field an Xfinity team for the first time in 2020, the #26 Toyota, with Garrett driving. Brian Keselowski became the team's crew chief, moving over from the Brandonbilt Motorsports #68 car. They later attempted the

season finale at Homestead in 2019, where they qualified 15th and finished 21st, in preparation for their 2020 schedule of races. For the 2020 season, SHR formed a partnership with Toyota Racing Development in continuation with their partnership on engines with Joe Gibbs Engines. In 2020, Colin Garrett ran select races for the team with a best finish of 14th at Homestead-Miami in June of that year. He also finished 16th at Kansas and was 21st at a second race at Miami. Brandon Gdovic would join the team for 2 races at the Indianapolis Road Course and Daytona Road Course finishing 12th and 28th respectively. Gdovic made a great run at Indy as he

started 38th, and worked his way through the field for a great finish. On October 26, 2020, it was announced that TD2 driver Mason Diaz would drive the #26 Toyota for the final two races of the 2020 season at Martinsville and Phoenix. At Martinsville, Diaz would start 38th and steadily work his way through the field to finish in the top 20. At Phoenix he started and finished 24th. In 2021 the team ran the full schedule with a huge rotation of drivers Brandon Gdovic, Kris Wright, Santino Ferrucci, Colin

Garrett, John Hunter Nemechek. Grant Enfinger, Will Rodgers, and Dylan Lupton splitting the seat. Gdovic was tabbed to fill the seat as the season opened at Daytona. He started 39th, and when the checkered flag flew the team recorded their first ever top 10 finish. In September at Richmond, the team scored their first ever top 5, with John Hunter Nemechek battling for the win in the closing laps with Justin Haley and eventual race winner Noah Gragson; going on to score a 3rd-place finish. Santino Ferrucci made the most starts of anyone when he piloted the car for seven races. He completed every race, and had five finishes between 13th and 17th. His best run came at Las Vegas. None of the other divers managed to claim a

top ten. Starting at the Indy Road Course, SHR started fielding a 2nd entry in the #24 for Will Rodgers with continued partnership from GoodRx where he finished 28th after starting in 9th. Jeffrey Earnhardt would drive the #24 at Daytona and would finish 15th. Joe Nemechek would attempt to race against his son John Hunter Nemechek however, due to qualifying being cancelled due to rain, the elder Nemechek did not qualify. In 2022, SHR began operating out of The Motorsports Group's former shop just up the road from the shop they had rented from RetteJones Racing from 2020-2021, as well as forming a larger

partnership with TRD on the technical side. In January 2022, Ryan Truex was announced to drive the #26 at Daytona as well as several other races throughout the season; and the next day Jeffrey Earnhardt was announced to compete in at least 7 races bringing sponsorship from ForeverLawn. Truex ran well at Daytona, finishing 12th, while Earnhardt was 15th. Earnhardt would have his best finish of the season at Nashville, when he finished seventh. Also in January 2022, it was announced John Hunter Nemechek would drive the car at both races at Las Vegas

in the season with sponsorship from Berry's Bullets. Other drivers such as Parker Chase, Derek Griffith, and Chandler Smith would also drive the #26. Once again Nemechek would supply the best finish for the organization this season. At Darlington he started 23rd, finished in the top ten in both segments, and ended up finishing fourth. He also had a fifth place finish at Phoenix, after leading eleven laps. It was the first laps ever led by the SHR organization In October, it was announced that Kaz Grala would drive the car in the season finale at Phoenix Raceway in November, marking Grala's Toyota Racing debut. In

December, the team announced that Grala would drive the #26 full-time for the 2023 season. Kaz Grala drove the #26 to two top-5 finishes at Richmond and the Charlotte Roval, as well as nine top-10 finishes during the season. Grala missed the play-offs however, and finished the season seventeenth in points. In late November, SHR announced that Grala wouldn't be returning to the #26 Supra in 2024. No replacement driver(s) were announced at that point. Connor Mosack would anchor the #24 for the 2023 season by driving in 22 races. Cup series driver Tyler Reddick and Truck Series driver Corey Heim, among others, would also drive in the car for the team. Nemechek

and Sage Karen also added fourth place runs that season. Connor Mosack had a fifth place run at Watkins Glen. In January 2024, the team announced Corey Heim, Jeffrey Earnhardt, and Sage Karam, would be driving the #26 in multiple races throughout the season. In May 2024, it was announced that Truck Series regular, Dean Thompson, would make his debut in the Xfinity Series at Charlotte's spring race. Heim made 13 starts, and provided the best results for the team. It appears the organization was on the brink of getting it's first win. But 2024 would not be the year. Heim would finish third at Iowa, getting beat by

Sam Mayer and Riley Herbst. Hiem had another shot at a win at Richmond, where he finish fourth, and led 15 laps. He had another top five run at Atlanta. Jeffery Earnhardt added a top ten run for the organization when he finished eighth at Atlanta; as did Ed Jones who finished fifth at Portland. Short track ace Bubba Pollard made his first career NASCAR start in 2024 for JRM. He made another start driving for SHR later on in the year at Martinsville. He had mechanical issues, and spent many laps in the garage making repairs. He eventually finished 31st, and was 27 laps down. For 2025 SHR it appears the #26 will be driven by Dean Thompson for the full season.