NASCAR Cup Series

2022 NASCAR Xfinity & Camping World Truck Series Silly Season tracker

By Staff Report

NASCAR.com

Published: 11 Feb, 2022

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Our 2022 Silly Season Tracker is below, listing what we know for full-time NASCAR Xfinity and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series teams in 2021. We’ll update this page as teams finalize their plans for next season. Anything highlighted in red indicates news on that driver and ride for beyond 2021, and clicking on the red line will give you more information on the move and its impact.

NASCAR Xfinity Series Silly Season

No.
Driver
Crew Chief
Team
02
Brett Moffitt
Kris Bowen
Our Motorsports
Moffitt is back for a third season with Our Motorsports.
07
Joe Graf Jr.
Joe Williams
SS Green Light Racing
Joe Graf Jr. will be back for a second year with SS Green Light. The team will have a technical alliance with Stewart-Haas Racing.
1
Sam Mayer
Taylor Moyer
JR Motorsports
Mayer takes over the No. 1 seat after seeing significant seat time in the No. 8 in 2021. He will work with Taylor Moyer. Michael Annett, who drove the No. 1 over the last few seasons for JRM, retired at the end of 2021.
2
Sheldon Creed
Jeff Stankiewicz
Richard Childress Racing
Creed will be moving up to the Xfinity Series with RCR.
4
Bayley Currey
Wayne Carroll Jr.
JD Motorsports w/ Gary Keller
Bayley Currey will drive a full season for JD Motorsports.
5
Matt Mills
Dave Ingram
BJ McLeod Motorsports
Mills will be back with BJ McLeod's team for the 2022 season.
6
Ryan Vargas
Kase Kallenbach
JD Motorsports w/ Gary Keller
Vargas signed on for Year 2 with JD Motorsports for a full-time schedule this season after driving for them for the bulk of 2021.
7
Justin Allgaier
Jason Burdett
JR Motorsports
Allgaier will be returning to JRM for a seventh season with the Dale Earnhardt Jr.-owned organization.
8
Josh Berry
Mike Bumgarner
JR Motorsports
After part-time duty in 2021 with JRM, Berry has landed a full ride with Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s team for the 2022 season. Bumgarner slides over from the No. 1 box to lead Berry's team. The two won at Las Vegas together in 2021.
9
Noah Gragson
Luke Lambert
JR Motorsports
JR Motorsports announced at the end of August that Gragson would return for a fourth season with the organization. Dave Elenz will not be the crew chief as he is moving to the Cup Series with Richard Petty Motorsports. Luke Lambert will move from RFK Racing to take over those duties.
10
Landon Cassill
Jason Trinchere
Kaulig Racing
Landon Cassill joins Kaulig Racing for the 2022 in a ride that should see him reach the playoffs just as Jeb Burton and Ross Chastain have in the same seat. Trinchere was crew chief for AJ Allmendinger in 2021.
11
Daniel Hemric
Alex Yontz
Kaulig Racing
Daniel Hemric will move to Kaulig to replace Justin Haley, who is making the jump to the Cup Series in 2022 to pilot the Kaulig entry full-time.
16
AJ Allmendinger
Bruce Schlicker
Kaulig Racing
AJ Allmendinger agreed to a contract extension to remain at Kaulig Racing in 2022 full-time in the Xfinity Series, while also piloting a second Cup Series entry part-time. Schlicker formerly commanded the No. 10 Kaulig entry with Ross Chastain and Jeb Burton.
18
Multiple drivers/TBD
Jason Ratcliff
Joe Gibbs Racing
Trevor Bayne will make seven starts in this car for JGR. How the rest of the remaining races are filled is yet to be known.
19
Brandon Jones
Jeff Meendering
Joe Gibbs Racing
Jones will be back at JGR in 2022 for a fifth season.
20
N/A
TBD
Joe Gibbs Racing
Harrison Burton will be driving the No. 21 Wood Brothers Ford in the 2022 Cup Series season. This leaves the No. 20 seat currently vacant although former crew chief Dave Rogers told SiriusXM that JGR will only field three Xfinity teams in 2022.
22
N/A
TBD
Team Penske
Team Penske executive Walter Czarnecki indicated the organization does not plan to field a full-time Xfinity car in 2022.
23
Anthony Alfredo
Pat Tryson
Our Motorsports
Alfredo will drive for Our Motorsports in 2022 after running a season in the Cup Series with Front Row Motorsports. He ran a partial schedule in 2020 for RCR.
26
TBD
Allen Hart
Sam Hunt Racing
Allen Hart comes over to be the crew chief and technical director after multiple years as a race engineer at JR Motorsports. Ryan Truex will drive at Daytona, while Jeffrey Earnhardt will make multiple starts for the team.
27
Jeb Burton
Chad Walter
Our Motorsports
After a season with Kaulig Racing, Burton is moving to Our Motorsports to run a full season as part of a two-year deal with the organization.
31
Myatt Snider
Arthur Haire
Jordan Anderson Racing
After a playoff season and his first Xfinity win with RCR, Snider will join Jordan Anderson's Xfinity team for a full season.
35
Joey Gase
TBD
Emerling-Gase Motorsports
Gase is teaming up with Patrick Emerling to form Emerling-Gase Motorsports, which will field the No. 35 full-time and another car for a part-time ride. The driver lineup will include Gase, Emerling, Shane Lee and others to be announced.
36
TBD
Mario Gosselin
DGM Racing
Alex Labbe will return to run 18 races with DGM but its unknown who will pilot the car for the other races.
39
Ryan Sieg
Shane Wilson
RSS Racing
44
Assorted drivers
Dan Stillman
Alpha Prime Racing
Tommy Joe Martins and Caesar Bacarella are partnering to form a new team where they will have seat time, along with newcomer Rajah Caruth during the 2022 season. The organization will have a second full-time car that will see Kaz Grala, Ryan Ellis and Sage Karam as part of its driver lineup.
47
TBD
Mike Harmon
Mike Harmon Racing
Kyle Weatherman and MHR have parted ways ahead of the 2022 season. Weatherman will run the first five races of the season with DGM Racing.
48
Jade Buford
Patrick Donahue
Big Machine Racing
Buford will be back for a second season and the organization is entering an enhanced partnership with RCR while relocating to RCR's Welcome, North Carolina campus.
51
Jeremy Clements
Mark Setzer
Jeremy Clements Racing
52
TBD
Tim Brown
Jimmy Means Racing
54
Ty Gibbs
Chris Gayle
Joe Gibbs Racing
Gibbs will drive the No. 54 for the full season after a four-win partial campaign in 2021. The No. 54 car was shared by multiple drivers in 2021 including Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr., Christopher Bell, and Gibbs.
68
Brandon Brown
Doug Randolph
Brandonbilt Motorsports
78
Josh Williams
Danny Johnson
BJ McLeod Motorsports
Josh Williams is moving to run for BJ McLeod Motorsports program after several seasons with DGM Racing.
98
Riley Herbst
Richard Boswell
Stewart-Haas Racing
Herbst will be back at SHR for a second season in the No. 98 Ford.
21
Austin Hill
Andy Street
Richard Childress Racing
After three seasons and eight wins with Hattori, Hill will move up to the Xfinity Series with Richard Childress Racing for the 2022 season. No number has been announced for the full-time effort.
34
Jesse Iwuji
TBD
Jesse Iwuji Motorsports
Partnering with NFL legend and Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith, Iwuji will run for his own team and the team will field Chevrolets.
99
Stefan Parsons
Mike Tyska
BJ McLeod Motorsports
Parsons will run his first Xfinity season for the McLeod-owned organization.

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Silly Season

No.
Driver
Crew Chief
Team
1
Hailie Deegan
Mike Hillman Jr.
David Gilliland Racing
Deegan will be back for a second season with David Gilliland's team.
4
John Hunter Nemechek
Eric Phillips
Kyle Busch Motorsports
Nemechek is returning to KBM for the 2022 season.
9
Blaine Perkins
Doug George
CR7 Motorsports
Perkins and CR7 make up the single-entry team for 2022 with crew chief Doug George, an 18-year veteran atop the box, leading the team. Next season will be Perkins' first full-time NASCAR national series ride.
12
Spencer Boyd
Ryan London
Young's Motorsports
Spencer Boyd is back with Young's Motorsports but will drive the No. 12 Chevrolet as Tate Fogleman is moving to On Point Motorsports for 2022.
13
TBD
TBD
ThorSport Racing
Johnny Sauter is running a partial schedule in the No. 47 G2G Racing Toyota in 2022 but he is also running a partial slate with ThorSport Racing (in an unknown truck number), according to FS1's Todd Bodine.
15
Tanner Gray
Jerry Baxter
David Gilliland Racing
Veteran crew chief Jerry Baxter will lead the team after two years as a Cup crew chief. He has 16 wins atop a Truck pit box.
16
Tyler Ankrum
Scott Zipadelli
Hattori Racing Enterprises
20-year-old Tyler Ankrum is the new driver of the No. 16 Toyota Tundra for Hattori Racing Enterprises in the Truck Series. Ankrum has three full seasons of experience in the series, with playoff berths in 2019 and 2020.
18
Chandler Smith
Danny Stockman Jr.
Kyle Busch Motorsports
Smith will be back for a second full-time season with KBM after scoring two wins in 2021.
19
Derek Kraus
Mark Hillman
McAnally-Hilgemann Racing
McAnally-Hilgemann Racing will field Chevrolets in 2022 and have an alliance with GMS Racing.
20
TBD
Joe Lax
Young's Motorsports
Jesse Little has a deal with Young's to drive a select schedule but his Truck number is not yet known.
22
Austin Wayne Self
Ryan Salomon
AM Racing
23
Grant Enfinger
Jeff Hensley
GMS Racing
Enfinger will be moving to GMS -- the organization where he scored his first Truck win in 2016. He has a two-year deal to drive full time for the organization. Chase Purdy drove this truck in 2021.
24
Jack Wood
Chad Walter
GMS Racing
Wood will return to GMS Racing for the 2022 season, the team announced in August.
25
Matt DiBenedetto
Chad Kendrick
Rackley W.A.R.
DiBenedetto will run a full season in the Truck Series with Daytona marking his first-ever start in the series.
30
Tate Fogleman
TBD
On Point Motorsports
Fogleman scored his first Truck win in 2021 and will take over the seat that Danny Bohn was the primary driver for in 2021.
38
Zane Smith
Chris Lawson
Front Row Motorsports
Fresh off back-to-back runner-up finishes in the Truck Series standings, Smith moves to Front Row to drive their truck.
40
Dean Thompson
TBD
Niece Motorsports
Thompson will run a full season in 2022 and is set to make his Truck debut in the 2021 season finale at Phoenix. He ran the bulk of the ARCA West season in 2021 as well.
42
Carson Hocevar
Phil Gould
Niece Motorsports
Niece Motorsports announced Hocevar would return in 2022 for a full-time ride.
44
Kris Wright
TBD
Niece Motorsports
Wright will join Niece Motorsports full-time for the 2022 Truck Series season, completing the team’s driver lineup.
45
Lawless Alan
Matt Noyce
Niece Motorsports
Alan will run full time for the team after making a handful of starts to close out the 2021 season.
46
Matt Jaskol
TBD
G2G Racing
Matt Jaskol will pilot a full-time ride in the Truck ranks for the first time in his career. G2G will field Toyotas in the Truck Series.
47
Assorted drivers
TBD
G2G Racing
Johnny Sauter (expected to do 13 races), Tim Viens (five races) and Roger Reuse (five races) will split this ride in 2022.
52
Stewart Friesen
Jon Leonard
Halmar Friesen Racing
56
Timmy Hill
Greg Ely
Hill Motorsports
Team owner Hill will drive a full-time entry in the Truck Series in 2022 after splitting the ride with his brother last season.
61
Chase Purdy
Matt Lucas
Hattori Racing Enterprises
Purdy is moving to drive for Hattori Racing Enterprises after a full-time season with GMS Racing.
66
Ty Majeski
Joe Shear Jr.
ThorSport Racing
Majeski will run a full season after running four races with ThorSport in 2021.
88
Matt Crafton
Jeff Hensley
ThorSport Racing
Hensley -- a former crew chief at ThorSport -- takes the reins from the retiring Junior Joiner.
98
Christian Eckes
Jeriod Prince
ThorSport Racing
Eckes takes over the ride that he and Grant Enfinger split in 2021. Eckes won at Las Vegas last fall in this Truck for his first national series win.
99
Ben Rhodes
Richard Lushes
ThorSport Racing
##
TBD
TBD
Hill Motorsports
Hill Motorsports will field two entries in the 2022 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.
##
TBD
Kevin Manion
Spire Motorsports
Spire Motorsports will field a Truck Series entry for the 2022 season. Driver and truck number will be announced at a later date.
##
Colby Howard
TBD
McAnally-Hilgemann Racing
Howard is joining McAnally-Hilgemann Racing as the organization looks to expand its Truck operation to two teams in 2022.