Noah Gragson, Front Row Motorsports agree to contract extension
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Noah Gragson will return to the No. 4 Front Row Motorsports Ford for the 2027 NASCAR Cup Series season with options to extend beyond next year, the team announced Friday.
Gragson is in the midst of his third full season in the Cup Series and second with Front Row Motorsports. The Las Vegas native sits 31st in the standings.
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Gragson is a 13-time winner in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series, where he competed from 2019 through 2022 at JR Motorsports, collecting a career-best eight wins in 2022 before finishing runner-up in the championship.
The 2026 campaign has been a difficult one for Gragson, 28, and first-year Cup crew chief Grant Hutchens. Gragson’s best finish (ninth place) came in April at Talladega Superspeedway for his lone top 10 this season. Other runs have been encouraging, including an 11th-place showing at the Daytona 500 and a 16th-place effort in May at Nashville Superspeedway.
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Gragson made his Cup debut in 2022 on a part-time schedule, splitting time between Beard Motorsports’ No. 62 entry, Kaulig Racing’s No. 16 car and then Hendrick Motorsports’ No. 48 car after an injury to Alex Bowman. The 2023 season was Gragson's first full-time Cup campaign after taking over the No. 42 Chevrolet for Legacy Motor Club. He joined Stewart-Haas Racing for the 2024 season, completing his first full Cup campaign with a career-best seven top-10 finishes and landing 24th in points with a personal-best 19.6 average finish.
His average finish through 23 races this season is 24.65, which would mark his best series performance since the 2024 campaign if maintained.