Young's Motorsports

Young's Motorsports is an American professional stock car racing team that competes in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series. They field the No. 02 Chevrolet Camaro SS full-time for Ryan Ellis and the No. 42 for multiple drivers. They previously competed in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and ARCA Menards Series.

On November 10, 2025, the team announced they would be fielding a second entry in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series. During that same announcement, they announced that Ryan Ellis would drive the No. 02 car.^[1]

On January 3, 2024, it was announced that the team would field an entry in the NASCAR Xfinity Series in 2024. That same day, Leland Honeyman was announced as the full-time driver of the No. 42 car.^[2]

On January 14, 2025, it was announced that Anthony Alfredo would drive the No. 42 car full time.^[3]

On February 12, 2026, the team announces that Carson Hocevar will pilot the No. 42 Chevrolet in the 2026 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series season opener, the United Rentals 300 at Daytona. Nick Leitz would drive the No. 42 at Atlanta. J. J. Yeley would drive the No. 42 at Circuit of the Americas.^[4] Nathan Byrd would drive the No. 42 at Phoenix.^[5]

The team debuted in the 2012 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season with Tyler Young in a part-time schedule. In 2013, Young returned for a part-time schedule. In 2014 the team ran its first full-time season, again with Young. In 2016, the team returned to a part-time schedule, sharing the No. 02 with Austin Hill Racing and Rette Jones Racing. Dylan Lupton, Austin Theriault, Derek Scott Jr. and Scott Lagasse Jr. also drove the 02 in 2016. In 2017, the team announced that the truck would be split by Austin Hill and Tyler Young. Australian sprint car racing driver Max Johnston drove the truck at Eldora Speedway.^[6]

In 2018, Austin Hill drove the 02 full-time.^[7] Despite scoring a top-five at Texas, six top-tens and an eleventh-place finish in points, Hill said that rules changes and simple mistakes by the team held them back from greater success.^[8]

In 2019, Tyler Dippel joined Young's Motorsports to drive the No. 02 full-time.^[9] On August 23, NASCAR announced that Dippel had been suspended indefinitely for violation of the sport's Code of Conduct.^[10][11] D. J. Kennington served as his substitute replacement for the race at Canada.^[12] Dippel was reinstated the following week on August 28, 2019.^[13]

In 2020, the team announced that Tate Fogleman would compete for Rookie of The Year honors driving the 02 truck. He ended the season with a seventeenth-place points finish with a best finish of thirteenth at Michigan.

In 2021, the team announced that they would be adding Rookie of The Year honor contestant Kris Wright to their No. 02 truck, and they would be moving Fogleman to their No. 12 truck. Wright started the season with a twelfth-place finish at Daytona. At the Daytona Road Course, the team unexpectedly announced that Kaz Grala would replace Wright while he made his Xfinity Series debut, Grala would come in eighth. After Wright had a positive test for COVID-19 just before the race at Atlanta, Josh Berry replaced him, finishing 22nd. Daniel Suárez also replaced Wright at Bristol, finishing seventeenth. At Darlington, Wright ran a throwback scheme to Dale Earnhardt, however, instead of his longtime sponsor Goodwrench, the sponsor was wrightcars.com, with larger letters on the side saying Goodwright. Grala returned at Circuit of the Americas, being in the top-three most of the day and finishing second to Todd Gilliland, whom he battled with for the stage 1 win, which Gilliland won. Michael Annett wanted to make his debut at Knoxville Raceway, but a leg injury caused him to be replaced by Chris Windom. On October 6, NASCAR indefinitely suspended crew chief Eddie Troconis for violation of Sections 12.8.1.c Behavioral.^[14]

On December 22, 2021, it was announced that Jesse Little would drive the No. 02 truck in 2022, splitting the ride with Kaz Grala.^[15]

On February 8, 2023, it was announced that Wright would return to the No. 02 truck he drove in 2021, and run full-time in the Truck Series in 2023.^[16] After earning only three top twenty finishes in the first eleven races, Wright and the team would agree to part ways effective immediately before the race at Gateway. Multiple drivers such as Chris Hacker, Layne Riggs, Will Rodgers, Stefan Parsons, Matt Mills, Josh Bilicki, Kaden Honeycutt, Garrett Smithley, and Brad Perez filled up the rest of the season.

On February 12, 2024, it was announced that Mason Massey would run full-time in the No. 02 truck Series in 2024.^[17] However, he parted ways with the team after the race at Richmond. Multiple drivers such as Dexter Bean, Justin Mondeik, Nathan Byrd, Keith McGee, and Dylan Lupton filled up the rest of the season.

On January 27, 2025, the team announced that Nathan Byrd would drive the No. 02 for the majority of the 2025 Truck season, competing in fifteen of 25 races for the team.^[18]

In 2018, the team debuted at Iowa Speedway with Reid Wilson behind the wheel. Ty Dillon drove at Eldora Speedway. Alex Tagliani was announced to drive at Mosport.

In 2019, Gus Dean joined Young's Motorsports to drive the No. 12 full-time. During the February Daytona race, he spun on the last laps hitting Ben Rhodes’ No. 99 and then started the Big One, finishing fifteenth. His best finish was thirteenth at Michigan and his worst was thirty-second at Martinsville and Texas. He ended up finishing fifteenth in the points at the end of the 2019 season.^[19]

In 2020, T. J. Bell was to drive the Young's Motorsports No. 12 at the spring Atlanta race, but the truck was not entered when the race was postponed from March to June due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Bell would instead drive the No. 83 CMI Motorsports truck in the rescheduled race.^[20]

For 2021, Tate Fogleman would move over from the 02 to the 12 truck for his sophomore season to make room for rookie Kris Wright. He would start the season with a crash-ending 30th-place finish at Daytona. On October 2, Fogleman scored his first career win and Young's Motorsports' second win at Talladega by sending John Hunter Nemechek sideways and beating Tyler Hill by 0.052 seconds before both trucks crashed into the inner wall.^[21]

On January 7, 2022 it was announced that Spencer Boyd would drive the No. 12 full-time in 2022; he had driven the team's No. 20 truck since 2019. At Las Vegas, he suffered a dislocated shoulder in a last lap crash.^[22]

Boyd returned to drive the No. 12 truck full-time. He failed to qualify for the season opener at Daytona and struggled throughout the season, only scoring one top 20 finish. He also failed to qualify for the races at Talladega and Phoenix. Boyd parted ways with the team at season's end.

In 2024, Dale Quarterley would drive the No. 12 truck at Circuit of the Americas. He finished 26th.

The No. 20 was Austin Hill Racing's former number. In 2017, with Hill now on No. 02 truck, the second truck became the No. 20. The team debuted at Iowa Speedway. Stadium Super Trucks champion Sheldon Creed drove the No. 20 at Eldora Speedway.^[23]

The team planned to run full-time with the No. 20 team in 2018. Scott Lagasse Jr. drove the No. 20 Chevrolet in the season opener at Daytona with a fifth place finish. Austin and Ty Dillon soon after announced through Team Dillon that Richard Childress Racing affiliated drivers, including both Austin and Ty Dillon, Daniel Hemric and Tanner Thorson would pilot the 20 for the vast majority of the remaining schedule, with Thorson taking most of the races.^[24] Michel Disdier, Reid Wilson, Tate Fogleman, Bubba Wallace and Max Tullman also drove the 20 truck in 2018.^[25]

For the 2019 season, Spencer Boyd was announced to pilot the No. 20 full-time.^[26] He started off the season with a career-best fourth-place result at Daytona.^[27] Boyd raced the team to an unofficial second-place finish at Talladega, however the unofficial winner, Johnny Sauter, would be penalized for forcing the No. 51 KBM truck of Riley Herbst below the double yellow line in an attempt to block, giving the win to Boyd and Young's Motorsports. Boyd would return to the No. 20 truck in 2020 and would take it to a best finish of fourteenth at Texas and a twentieth place points finish. He would return to the No. 20 truck for a third season in 2021 and would take the truck to a 13th-place finish behind teammate Kris Wright at Daytona. In the Corn Belt 150, Kyle Strickler replaced Boyd.

In 2022, Boyd moved to the No. 12 truck. As the results, multiple drivers such as Danny Bohn, Matt Mills, Sheldon Creed, Dillon Steuer, Austin Dillon, Garrett Smithley, Thad Moffitt, Stefan Parsons, Trey Burke, Jesse Little, Joey Gase, Leland Honeyman, Parker Retzlaff, and Armani Williams took over the driving duties of the No. 20 truck. Creed made his pole position at Circuit of the Americas. He then start and parked after 1 lap due to his transmission issues after replacing the fuel pump during the pace laps.

In 2023, the No. 20 truck returned with multiple drivers such as Derek Kraus, Matt Mills, Mason Maggio, Ed Jones, Stefan Parsons, Brad Perez, Nick Leitz, Kaden Honeycutt, Chad Chastain, Mason Massey, and Greg Van Alst. Van Alst suffered a fractured vertebrae from a multi-truck accident at Talladega.^[28]

In 2024, the No. 20 truck was reduced to part-time basis with multiple drivers such as Vicente Salas, Blake Lothian, Brad Perez, Memphis Villarreal, Akinori Ogata, and Jerry Bohlman.

In 2025, the No. 20 truck returned in part-time basis with Stefan Parsons, Jordan Anderson, Mason Massey, and Will Rodgers as the drivers.

In 2014, the team attempted to field a second truck (No. 60) for Charles Lewandoski at Daytona, but it was withdrawn prior to the race. The second truck returned at Kansas as a start and park team to help fund the team's No. 02 truck, now with a new number (No. 42). After making six starts, the No. 42 team shut down.

On July 10, 2024, it was announced that Thad Moffitt would race the No. 46 truck for Young's Motorsports for the rest of the season starting at Pocono after YMS acquired the number and team from Faction46.^[29]

In 2013, Tyler Young drove No. 6 for the team at Rockingham Speedway, using Sharp Gallaher Racing owners' points. He finished 24th in the race.

In 2016, Young's teamed with Austin Hill Racing fielding No. 02 Ford for Hill's self-owned team in four races. Later that year Young's partnered with Rette Jones Racing to field the No. 02 for Dominique Van Wieringen at Phoenix International Raceway.^[30] The next race, at Homestead, Young's fielded the No. 07 truck for Patrick Staropoli that utilized owner points from SS-Green Light Racing.^[31]

In 2017, Austin Hill started to run for the team in No. 02, sharing the truck with Tyler Young. However, Hill drove Ford trucks that he owned while Young ran Chevrolets from the team inventory.

On January 14, 2021, the team announced that they would expand into the ARCA Menards Series, fielding the No. 02 car on a part-time basis. The team first entered the series in ARCA's Daytona test session in January with Kris Wright (one of their full-time Truck Series drivers) and Toni Breidinger driving. Their first race will come in the season-opening race at Daytona in February, although they have yet to determine the rest of their schedule and who their driver(s) will be in each race. Toni Breidinger made some appearances for the team. Mark Green would appear at Mid-Ohio. Breidinger would depart the team and join her old team Venturini Motorsports. Connor Mosack made 3 starts for the rest of the year.

In 2022, Leland Honeyman drove the No. 02 car for 3 races. Kris Wright drove the car for 1 race at Pocono. Mamba Smith made his ARCA debut in the No. 02 car at IRP.

In 2023, Miguel Gomes drove the No. 02 car at Daytona. Honeyman drove the car at Phoenix. Parker Retzlaff would drive the car at Watkins Glen.

In 2024, Honeyman drove the No. 02 car at Daytona. He finished 31st after caught up in an accident.

In 2025, Craig Bracken drove the No. 02 car at Daytona.^[32][33] Bracken was involved in a crash on lap 19 and finished the race in 27th. After being taken to the infield care center after the accident, Bracken was transported to a local hospital for further evaluation.^[34]

In 2021, the team fielded the No. 02 car part-time in the ARCA Menards Series East for Connor Mosack at Dover. He finished seventh.^[35] He would make one more start at the Milwaukee Mile. He finished sixteenth.

In 2022, the No. 02 car would run full-time with Leland Honeyman as the driver.^[36]

In 2021, the team fielded the No. 02 car part-time for Toni Breidinger at Phoenix.

In 2022, the team fielded the No. 02 car part-time for Katie Hettinger at Las Vegas Bullring and Phoenix.

In 2023, the team fielded the No. 02 car part-time for Leland Honeyman at Phoenix. Parker Retzlaff would drive the No. 02 car at Portland and Sonoma. Mamba Smith would drive the No. 02 car at season finale at Phoenix.

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