| Timmy Hill | |||||||
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Hill atDaytona International Speedway in 2024 | |||||||
| Born | Timothy Grant Hill (1993-02-25)February 25, 1993 (age 32) Port Tobacco, Maryland, U.S. | ||||||
| Achievements | 2009Allison Legacy Series Champion | ||||||
| Awards | 2011NASCAR Nationwide Series Rookie of the Year | ||||||
| NASCARCup Series career | |||||||
| 144 races run over 12 years | |||||||
| 2025 position | 59th | ||||||
| Best finish | 38th (2013) | ||||||
| First race | 2012Kobalt Tools 400 (Las Vegas) | ||||||
| Last race | 2025Cook Out Southern 500 (Darlington) | ||||||
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| NASCARO'Reilly Auto Parts Series career | |||||||
| 243 races run over 13 years | |||||||
| 2023 position | 100th | ||||||
| Best finish | 17th (2011) | ||||||
| First race | 2011Bashas' Supermarkets 200 (Phoenix) | ||||||
| Last race | 2023NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Race (Phoenix) | ||||||
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| NASCARCraftsman Truck Series career | |||||||
| 119 races run over 11 years | |||||||
| Truck no., team | No. 56 (Hill Motorsports) | ||||||
| 2025 position | 29th | ||||||
| Best finish | 20th (2022) | ||||||
| First race | 2013Fred's 250 (Talladega) | ||||||
| Last race | 2025Slim Jim 200 (Martinsville) | ||||||
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| NASCARCanada Series career | |||||||
| 1 race run over 1 year | |||||||
| 2012 position | 44th | ||||||
| Best finish | 44th (2012) | ||||||
| First race | 2012 NAPA Autopro 100 (Montreal) | ||||||
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| ARCA Menards Series career | |||||||
| 9 races run over 2 years | |||||||
| Best finish | 26th (2010) | ||||||
| First race | 2010Kentuckiana Ford Dealers 200 (Salem) | ||||||
| Last race | 2025Bush's Beans 200 (Bristol) | ||||||
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| ARCA Menards Series East career | |||||||
| 5 races run over 2 years | |||||||
| Best finish | 18th (2025) | ||||||
| First race | 2010New Hampshire 125 (New Hampshire) | ||||||
| Last race | 2025Bush's Beans 200 (Bristol) | ||||||
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| ARCA Menards Series West career | |||||||
| 2 races run over 1 year | |||||||
| Best finish | 46th (2010) | ||||||
| First race | 2010 King Taco 200 (Irwindale) | ||||||
| Last race | 2010 3 Amigos Tequila 125 (Phoenix) | ||||||
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| Statistics up to date as of October 31, 2025. | |||||||
Timothy Grant Hill[1] (born February 25, 1993) is an American professionalstock car racing driver and team owner. He competes part-time in theNASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 56Toyota Tundra TRD Pro for his team,Hill Motorsports. He has previously competed in theNASCAR Cup Series,NASCAR Xfinity Series,ARCA Menards Series,ARCA Menards Series East, andNASCAR K&N Pro Series West.
Hill was born inPort Tobacco, Maryland, and began racinggo-karts at the age of 12. In karting, he won twoWorld Karting Association championships, two King George Speedway track championships, and theConcord Speedway Winter Championship. Afterward, Hill raced inLegend cars, theAllison Legacy Series, theK&N Pro Series East, and theARCA Racing Series. In 2011, Hill moved toRick Ware Racing in the Nationwide Series, where he wonRookie of the Year honors.
He is the son of formerNASCAR driverJerry Hill and brother of current NASCAR driverTyler Hill, who shared driving duties in2023 and co-owns the No. 56 truck with Timmy.
Hill began his racing career in 2005 bykarting at the age of twelve.[2] During his first season, he recorded more than 80 victories, as well as winning twoWorld Karting Association championships, two King George Speedway championships, and theConcord Speedway Winter Championship.[3] He also finished third in the World Karting Association National Championship.[3] Once the 2005 season concluded, he began racingBandoleros.[2] In 2006, he scored ten wins. One year later, Hill began racingLegend cars and in theAllison Legacy Series.[3] During the season, Hill failed to win a race. However, in 2008, he managed to win four Legend car races and two in the Allison Legacy Series. In the Allison Legacy Series, he finished fifth in the point standings.[3]
During the 2009 season, Hill won ten Allison Legacy Series races and finished first in the point standings.[3] In Legend cars, he won two races in theWinter Heat Series and won theSummer Shootout atCharlotte Motor Speedway.[2] In the following year, he began racing in theARCA Racing Series and theK&N Pro Series East while continuing racing Legend cars.[3] In Legend cars, he won seven races, while recording two top-ten finishes in the K&N Pro Series and one in the ARCA Racing Series.[2]

In2011, Hill began racing in theNASCARNationwide Series atPhoenix International Raceway,[4][5] having been too young to compete in the season opener atDaytona International Speedway, not yet having passed his eighteenth birthday.[6] During the season, he had a best finish of eleventh atRoad America and finished seventeenth in the point standings,[5] winning theRookie of the Year award.[7] After a close battle withBlake Koch andRyan Truex, Hill edged Koch by a single point atHomestead-Miami Speedway to take Rookie of the Year honors.[8][9] He competed in 33 of the 34 events scheduled for the season, and scored top-twenty finishes in five.[5]
Hill returned to Rick Ware Racing in NASCAR for the 2012 season, also competing for the team in the24 Hours of Daytona.[10] Just before the start of the season, it was announced that Hill would move up to theSprint Cup Series, driving the No. 37Ford forMax Q Motorsports with an alliance with Rick Ware's team, and also competing forRookie of the Year.[11] Hill had originally been announced to compete in all Cup races that year except for the2012 Daytona 500, whereMike Wallace, an experienced and successful plate driver, would drive the No. 37 instead of the rookie Hill to have a better chance of getting the team in the race (which they still did not). Hill would instead be given the chance to drive at Daytona that weekend in the Nationwide race for Ware in their No. 41 car, where he would go on to score his career-best finish of seventh after avoiding a last-lap crash.
Hill would fail to qualify in his first Cup attempt atPhoenix. However, he did qualify for the following race atLas Vegas, making his series debut there. However, he would crash and finish 42nd.[12] After a poor start to the season and only qualifying for one race (Las Vegas) in his first four races, Hill decided to return to the Nationwide Series with RWR full-time for the rest of the season.[13] Hill would still compete in a few Cup races later in the season, with three starts in theFAS Lane Racing No. 32 and one start atTalladega in theNEMCO Motorsports No. 97.

For 2013, Hill returned to the No. 32 team for a part-time schedule of 19 races with OXY Water and U. S. Chrome sponsorship, and declared for Sprint Cup Rookie of the Year honors (again)[14] He would finish third in the Rookie of the Year standings, behind full-time driversRicky Stenhouse Jr. andDanica Patrick.[15]
Hill would drive the No. 33Chevy part-time forCircle Sport in2014 after starting the year without a ride after he was replaced in the No. 32 byTravis Kvapil that year. He was involved in a controversy at Bristol when, while running in last place, Hill failed to slow his car under caution and crashed into the rear of the stopped car ofMatt Kenseth, who was running in second place at the time. Hill would later state that his spotter did not tell him the caution flag was out, and he did not see the safety lights around the track turn on.NASCAR on Fox analystDarrell Waltrip famously called out Hill for a "rookie mistake" at the moment of the incident, though he recanted his harsh tone late in the broadcast. He also practiced and qualifiedLandon Cassill's No. 40 Circle Sport car atSonoma when Cassill was in Road America for the Nationwide race that day. Hill would also drive in two races each for theIdentity Ventures Racing andXxxtreme Motorsports teams. IVR was a team with a limited alliance withMichael Waltrip Racing. AtPocono in June, he drove the No. 66Toyota and would finish 36th. AtNew Hampshire in July, he drove the team's other car, the No. 87, to a 41st-place finish. In his two races in Xxxtreme's No. 44, Hill finished 43rd (at Dover) and 42nd (at Martinsville in October).

In 2015, Hill returned to Identity Ventures, now renamedPremium Motorsports, where he would drive part-time in both the No. 62 in the Cup Series and the No. 94 in the Truck Series, and later the No. 98 in Cup as well after they bought thePhil Parsons Racing team. He made his first Xfinity Series (previously Nationwide) start of the season at Texas in the No. 13 forCarl Long'sMBM Motorsports team. Hill would make six more starts with Long, but his best finish would come in his first of three starts withJGL Racing, where he finished 11th in the No. 26 Toyota at Daytona in July. In the Truck Series, Hill would run a total of 12 races for Premium Motorsports in the No. 49 Chevy Silverado. Nine races resulted in top-20 finishes with a best finish of 15th at Dover and Kentucky. Hill's 2015 Cup debut came in the July race at Loudon. His best finish came at Pocono, where he finished 36th. Hill would go on to run eleven more races for Premium Motorsports.
Hill's 2016 season started in the season-opening Truck race at Daytona, driving the No. 49 for Premium. After running up front in the top ten for most of the race, Hill was spun out while running in the top five on the last lap, relegating him to fourteenth. As of September, Hill had run eleven Xfinity races with a best finish of 22nd at Loudon in the No. 13 for MBM. Hill announced in August that he would be running the remainder of the 2016 Xfinity Series season for MBM.

In 2017, Hill returned to Rick Ware Racing to drive the No. 51 in the Cup Series starting at theDaytona 500, but failed to qualify.[16] Starting at Dover, Hill would drive for MBM Motorsports in the No. 66 as well at Kentucky and possibly more races. At theBrickyard 400, Hill avoided numerous incidents to record his and MBM's best finish, a fourteenth.[17]
In 2018, Hill continued to drive for MBM at multiple levels, scoring his and MBM's first top-ten, a seventh at Daytona in July.[18] He continued with MBM in 2019, earning a seventh-place finish at Bristol in August in a car that was fielded in collaboration withHattori Racing Enterprises.[19]

Hill made the starting lineup of the2020 Daytona 500 after finishing sixteenth in Duel 2 of the2020 Bluegreen Vacations Duels.[20] That same weekend, Hill's Xfinity team was assessed a $50,000 and 75-point penalty in pre-race inspection due to extra body fillers; without his now-suspended crew chief Sebastian LaForge, Hill finished third in the race, his highest career finish.[21]
When a portion of the 2020 season was postponed due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, NASCAR drivers, including Hill, competed in the eNASCAR Pro Invitational Series oniRacing.[22] At the second race that was held, the O'Reilly Auto Parts 125 on March 29, Hill scored a win in his virtual No. 66 MBM car at the virtualTexas Motor Speedway. A veteran iRacer, Hill had competed in 1,677 events and won 673 of them, with the Texas race being his 674th.[23]
Hill made the most NASCAR national series (Cup, Xfinity, and Truck) starts of any driver in2020, with a total of 75 races (all 36 in Cup, 29 of 33 in Xfinity, and ten of 23 in Truck), ranking third all-time behindKyle Busch (who accomplished this four years) and2018 and2019 holderRoss Chastain.[24]
Hill got two top-twenties in 2020 (nineteenth at Bristol). The second one came at theYellawood 500, where, due to numerous front-runners being involved in crashes, Hill ran in the top ten towards the end of the race. However, he ran out of fuel and placed fifteenth, making it his third Cup Series top twenty finish.
For 2021, MBM ownerCarl Long announced in a Facebook post on December 19, 2020, that Hill would return to the team in 2021 to again run in the Cup and Xfinity Series, although he would run for Xfinity points this season. He did not end up running the full Cup schedule, only attempting fourteen of the 36 races. His Cup schedule included the2021 Daytona 500 in the No. 66, which was a Ford in that race for the second straight year.[25] He did not end up making the 500 in 2021 or 2022.

On August 28, 2022, during theWawa 250, Hill achieved his and MBM's best finish in a Xfinity race by finishing second in that race, driving the No. 13Chevrolet with sponsorship from Coble Enterprises and VSI Racing, finishing behind a race-winningJeremy Clements.
For 2025, Hill moved to theARCA Menards Series East to compete in the No. 56Toyota there full-time, which would be his first time in an ARCA-sanctioned race since 2011.[26] In the ARCA race at Bristol, Hill ran in the top 5 for much of the race until crashing with less than 25 laps to go.
During the2019 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series season, Hill formedHill Motorsports, fielding the No. 56 Silverado part-time for himself and brotherTyler Hill; the number was used by their father Jerry during his career.[27] The team used trucks acquired fromMDM Motorsports over the 2018–2019 offseason.[28]

The team debuted in the2019 TruNorth Global 250 atMartinsville Speedway.[28] In the second Martinsville race of the year, theNASCAR Hall of Fame 200, Hill escaped multiple wrecks to finish fifth.[29]
Hill became married in January 2018.[30] His younger brotherTyler races part-time in theARCA Racing Series, Xfinity, and Truck Series.
He has two children named Hudson and Hoover.[citation needed]
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time.Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
| Year | Team | Manufacturer | Start | Finish |
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| 2017 | Rick Ware Racing | Chevrolet | DNQ | |
| 2020 | MBM Motorsports | Ford | 32 | 27 |
| 2021 | DNQ | |||
| 2022 | DNQ | |||
* Season still in progress
1 Ineligible for series points
2 Hill started the 2012 season running for Cup points but switched to the Nationwide Series starting at Texas in April.
3 Hill started the 2021 season running for Xfinity points but switched to the Truck Series starting at Darlington in May.[69]
| NASCAR Canadian Tire Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | NCTSC | Pts | Ref | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | White Motorsports | 10 | Dodge | MSP | ICAR | MSP | DEL | MPS | EDM | SAS | CTR | CGV 6 | BAR | RIS | KWA | 44th | 37 | [70] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time.Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
| ARCA Menards Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | AMSC | Pts | Ref | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Rick Ware Racing | 47 | Chevy | DAY | PBE | SLM 19 | TEX | TAL | TOL | POC | MCH | IOW 19 | MFD | POC | CAR 18 | 26th | 1055 | [71] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mark Gibson Racing | 59 | Dodge | BLN 14 | NJE 14 | ISF | CHI | DSF | TOL 10 | SLM 17 | KAN | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | Hill Motorsports | 56 | Toyota | DAY | PHO | TAL | KAN | CLT | MCH | BLN | ELK | LRP | DOV 6 | IRP | IOW | GLN | ISF | MAD | DSF | BRI 19 | SLM | KAN | TOL | 71st | 63 | [72] | ||||||||||||||||||
| ARCA Menards Series East results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | AMSEC | Pts | Ref | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Rick Ware Racing | 99 | Chevy | GRE | SBO | IOW | MAR | NHA | LRP | LEE | JFC | NHA 10 | DOV | 49th | 134 | [73] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | Hill Motorsports | 56 | Toyota | FIF 7 | CAR 20 | NSV | FRS | DOV 6 | IRP | IOW | BRI 19 | 18th | 124 | [74] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | NKNPSWC | Pts | Ref | ||||
| 2010 | Rick Ware Racing | 99 | Chevy | AAS | PHO | IOW | DCS | SON | IRW 7 | PIR | MRP | CNS | MMP | AAS | PHO 30 | 46th | 219 | [75] | ||||
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| Year | Class | No | Team | Car | Co-drivers | Laps | Position | Class Pos. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | GT | 15 | Ford Mustang | 256 | 51DNF | 38DNF | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Preceded by | Allison Legacy Series Champion 2009 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | NASCAR Nationwide Series Rookie of the Year 2011 | Succeeded by |