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
Moffitt is back for a third season with Our Motorsports.
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.
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.
Creed will be moving up to the Xfinity Series with RCR.
Bayley Currey will drive a full season for JD Motorsports.
Mills will be back with BJ McLeod's team for the 2022 season.
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.
Allgaier will be returning to JRM for a seventh season with the Dale Earnhardt Jr.-owned organization.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jones will be back at JGR in 2022 for a fifth season.
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.
Team Penske executive Walter Czarnecki indicated the organization does not plan to field a full-time Xfinity car in 2022.
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.
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.
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.
After a playoff season and his first Xfinity win with RCR, Snider will join Jordan Anderson's Xfinity team for a full season.
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.
Alex Labbe will return to run 18 races with DGM but its unknown who will pilot the car for the other races.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Josh Williams is moving to run for BJ McLeod Motorsports program after several seasons with DGM Racing.
Herbst will be back at SHR for a second season in the No. 98 Ford.
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.
Partnering with NFL legend and Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith, Iwuji will run for his own team and the team will field Chevrolets.
Parsons will run his first Xfinity season for the McLeod-owned organization.
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Silly Season
No.
Driver
Crew Chief
Team
Deegan will be back for a second season with David Gilliland's team.
Nemechek is returning to KBM for the 2022 season.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Smith will be back for a second full-time season with KBM after scoring two wins in 2021.
McAnally-Hilgemann Racing will field Chevrolets in 2022 and have an alliance with GMS Racing.
Jesse Little has a deal with Young's to drive a select schedule but his Truck number is not yet known.
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.
Wood will return to GMS Racing for the 2022 season, the team announced in August.
DiBenedetto will run a full season in the Truck Series with Daytona marking his first-ever start in the series.
Fogleman scored his first Truck win in 2021 and will take over the seat that Danny Bohn was the primary driver for in 2021.
Fresh off back-to-back runner-up finishes in the Truck Series standings, Smith moves to Front Row to drive their truck.
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.
Niece Motorsports announced Hocevar would return in 2022 for a full-time ride.
Wright will join Niece Motorsports full-time for the 2022 Truck Series season, completing the team’s driver lineup.
Alan will run full time for the team after making a handful of starts to close out the 2021 season.
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.
Johnny Sauter (expected to do 13 races), Tim Viens (five races) and Roger Reuse (five races) will split this ride in 2022.
Team owner Hill will drive a full-time entry in the Truck Series in 2022 after splitting the ride with his brother last season.
Purdy is moving to drive for Hattori Racing Enterprises after a full-time season with GMS Racing.
Majeski will run a full season after running four races with ThorSport in 2021.
Hensley -- a former crew chief at ThorSport -- takes the reins from the retiring Junior Joiner.
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.
Hill Motorsports will field two entries in the 2022 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.
Spire Motorsports will field a Truck Series entry for the 2022 season. Driver and truck number will be announced at a later date.
Howard is joining McAnally-Hilgemann Racing as the organization looks to expand its Truck operation to two teams in 2022.
