| Josh Williams | |||||||
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_(cropped).jpg) Williams atMartinsville Speedway in 2024 | |||||||
| Born | Joshua Lee Williams (1993-08-03)August 3, 1993 (age 32) Port Charlotte, Florida, U.S. | ||||||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||||||
| Weight | 192 lb (87 kg) | ||||||
| NASCARCup Series career | |||||||
| 5 races run over 2 years | |||||||
| 2024 position | 57th | ||||||
| Best finish | 54th (2022) | ||||||
| First race | 2022Food City Dirt Race (Bristol Dirt) | ||||||
| Last race | 2024Cook Out 400 (Martinsville) | ||||||
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| NASCARO'Reilly Auto Parts Series career | |||||||
| 249 races run over 10 years | |||||||
| Car no., team | No. 92 (DGM Racing) | ||||||
| 2025 position | 23rd | ||||||
| Best finish | 15th (2020) | ||||||
| First race | 2016Menards 250 (Michigan) | ||||||
| Last race | 2025Blue Cross NC 250 (Charlotte Roval) | ||||||
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| NASCARCraftsman Truck Series career | |||||||
| 2 races run over 2 years | |||||||
| 2023 position | 109th | ||||||
| Best finish | 84th (2014) | ||||||
| First race | 2014Kroger 250 (Martinsville) | ||||||
| Last race | 2023Tyson 250 (North Wilkesboro) | ||||||
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| ARCA Menards Series career | |||||||
| 102 races run over 9 years | |||||||
| Best finish | 3rd (2015) | ||||||
| First race | 2010 Tire Kingdom 150 presented by Modspace (Palm Beach) | ||||||
| Last race | 2018General Tire 200 (Talladega) | ||||||
| First win | 2016Music City 200 (Nashville Fairgrounds) | ||||||
| Last win | 2016Montgomery Ward Fathers Day 200 (Madison) | ||||||
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| Statistics up to date as of November 1, 2025. | |||||||
Joshua Lee Williams[1] (born August 3, 1993) is an American professionalstock car racing driver and team owner. He competes full–time in theNASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series, driving the No. 92Chevrolet Camaro SS forDGM Racing. He also ownsJosh Williams Motorsports, which fields cars fordevelopment drivers in theARCA Menards Series,Late Model Stock Cars,Legend Cars andBandoleros.[2]
Williams started his racing career ingo-kart racing[2] and later raced Fastrucks andLegends cars to advance his early career, eventually earning a berth in the 2009 edition of "Humpy's Heroes", a summerdriver development program run byHumpy Wheeler for young drivers.[3]
Williams drove five races in the2010 ARCA Racing Series in his family car, numbered 02. He recorded the best finish of 15th atIowa Speedway.[4] Williams caught the attention of those in the racing community with those performances, as he ran three races forAndy Belmont the following year and another three for his family team, which later developed an alliance withLira Motorsports. Williams recorded two top-tens in Belmont's car and one more in his own car.[5] For 2012, Williams took hisJosh Williams Motorsports team full-time, running all but one race while having limited funding. He failed to finish three races and had four top tens with a best finish of seventh.[6]
The 2013 season was a struggle, to begin with for Williams, who remained sponsorless through the first five races of the season despite having two top-ten finishes. He then signed a four-race deal withRoulo Brothers Racing, making sporadic appearances in theirFord racecars. Running in between races for Roulo with his family team, Williams was signed byFrank Kimmel to drive one of his cars atRoad America, starting and parking. Williams drove the next race forGMS Racing, againstart and parking atMichigan International Speedway. Williams carried the sponsorship fromAllegiant Air for the rest of the year, grabbing his first top-five finish (a second atChicagoland Speedway). He finished fifth in points while utilizing four teams to get there.[7]
Again hampered by limited funding, Williams scaled back to just over half the schedule in 2014, always running near or in the top ten. He scored another runner-up finish in the season's penultimate race.[8] He raced the full season with the number six in 2015, except for one race withCunningham Motorsports. He only finished outside of the top ten in five races and finished third in the driver's standings,[9] behindGrant Enfinger andAustin Wayne Self, who passed Williams for second during the final race. 2016 brought new success for Williams, as he won his first two races, atMadison International Speedway[10] andNashville Fairgrounds Speedway.[11] The Madison win came after he blew an engine in the previous contests and considered withdrawing from Madison; his crew pulled an all-nighter during the week to get the engine prepared.[2] He finished fifth in points after an inconsistent season with eleven top tens.[12]
Williams had said that he would have liked to run moreARCA Racing Series races in 2017.[13] His team ran two races at the beginning of the season in a partnership withLira Motorsports,[14] and Williams himself went behind the wheel for the annualSalem Speedway throwback weekend, running fourth.[15]
Williams returned once again in the 2018 season behind the wheel of the No. 6 Chevrolet at Talladega in a partnership between his own team andOur Motorsports. They finished in fifth place.
Williams and family made oneCamping World Truck Series start in a partnership with T3R2 Racing, falling out atMartinsville Speedway in 2014.[16] He made twoXfinity Series starts as astart and park driver in 2016, one forJimmy Means Racing and one forKing Autosport.[17] He was announced as the driver of King's No. 90 entry for the springBristol Motor Speedway Xfinity race on April 21, 2017.[18] Longtime friendMario Gosselin helped Williams get the ride.[19] Along with the Bristol race, Williams wanted to run about six Truck races for his family team in 2017.[20] The Truck races never came, but Williams garnered six other starts split between King's 90 and 92 cars, mostly starting and parking in the 92 and running full races in the 90. At Daytona in the summer, Williams was running just outside the top ten before he was clipped byDaniel Suárez, finishing last.[21] Williams broke the top thirty in all of his full races.[22]
For 2018, Williams took over the majority of the races in the No. 90 and served as crew chief for drivers of the 90 likeDonald Theetge andAndy Lally most weekends when he was not in the seat.[23]
On January 29, 2019, it was announced that Williams would move over to DGM's No. 36 car for the2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series season.[24] After gambling on pit strategy, Williams finished a then-career-best sixteenth in theBoyd Gaming 300 in early March.[25] He later improved on that career-best with his first career top-ten, an eighth atTalladega Superspeedway in the spring. The finish helped Williams and DGM bounce back from a sponsor who failed to pay the team in the beginning portions of the year.[26]
Williams returned to DGM in 2020, piloting the team's No. 92 entry. He reeled off two top-ten finishes in the month of October, including a career-best sixth-place finish atKansas Speedway that came only a day after the death of one of Williams' employees.[2] On October 31, Williams and the team confirmed another full-season effort in 2021.[27] Following the 2021 season, Williams and DGM parted with Williams taking an opportunity that will help him reach racing on Sundays.[28]
Williams moved to the No. 78 in 2022, driving forB. J. McLeod Motorsports.[29]
Williams made his first careerNASCAR Cup Series start at the2022 Food City Dirt Race, and will drive the No. 78 forLive Fast Motorsports.[30]
On August 22, 2022, Williams announced that he would be returning to his old No. 92 for DGM.[31] He would drive that car as well as the team's No. 36 car for the rest of 2022. In 2023, Williams returned to the No. 92 car full-time.[32] AtAtlanta, he sustained heavy damage on lap 27; when debris from his repaired car caused another caution, NASCAR parked him under a provision in theDamaged Vehicle Policy. In response, Williams stopped his car on the start/finish line and walked back to pit road.[33] On March 21, he was suspended for theCOTA race for his actions.[34][35]
Williams would drive the No. 11 car forKaulig Racing in the2024 season.[36] Williams struggled throughout the season and only scored four top-ten finishes, with a best of seventh atPortland. He finished the season in eighteenth in the final points standings.
On July 30, 2025, it was announced that Williams had been released from Kaulig for the remainder of the season. At the time, Williams was nineteenth in the standings with two top-ten finishes.[37] On August 15,Alpha Prime Racing announced that Williams would compete in four races for the team, starting with thesummer Daytona race.[38] On August 25, DGM announced that Williams would return to their team again for the Portland race.[39] Despite missing three races, Williams finished the season in 23rd in the final points standings.
On November 14, 2025, DGM announced that Williams would yet again return to the team in2026 to drive the No. 92 on a multi-year agreement.
Williams was born in Florida but moved to the Charlotte area at age 15, taking online classes to get through high school while racing.[2] As a teen, Williams was injured in a head-on four-wheeler collision and spent five days in the ICU.[3] Williams visits children's hospitals to give back to the community in his free time.[40] Williams, with his wife Trazia Rae, owns a company that prepares foreclosed homes for auction, which he works at during the week while racing.[23] His wife is a social media influencer and they have one daughter together. Williams is also known to visit children's hospitals during race weekends.[citation needed]
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time.Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
| NASCAR Cup 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 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | NCSC | Pts | Ref |
| 2022 | Live Fast Motorsports | 78 | Ford | DAY | CAL | LVS | PHO | ATL | COA | RCH | MAR | BRD 25 | TAL | DOV | DAR | KAN | CLT | GTW | SON | NSH | ROA | ATL | NHA | POC | IRC 25 | MCH | RCH | GLN | DAY | DAR | KAN | BRI | TEX | TAL | ROV 31 | LVS | HOM | MAR | PHO | 54th | 01 | [41] |
| 2024 | Kaulig Racing | 16 | Chevy | DAY | ATL 37 | LVS | PHO | BRI | COA | RCH | MAR 27 | TEX | TAL | DOV | KAN | DAR | CLT | GTW | SON | IOW | NHA | NSH | CSC | POC | IND | RCH | MCH | DAY | DAR | ATL | GLN | BRI | KAN | TAL | ROV | LVS | HOM | MAR | PHO | 57th | 01 | [42] |
| NASCAR Craftsman Truck 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 | 21 | 22 | 23 | NCTC | Pts | Ref |
| 2014 | Josh Williams Motorsports | 66 | Ford | DAY | MAR 34 | KAN | CLT | DOV | TEX | GTW | KEN | IOW | ELD | POC | MCH | BRI | MSP | CHI | NHA | LVS | TAL | MAR | TEX | PHO | HOM | 84th | 10 | [53] | |
| 2023 | AM Racing | 22 | Ford | DAY | LVS | ATL | COA | TEX | BRD | MAR | KAN | DAR | NWS 28 | CLT | GTW | NSH | MOH | POC | RCH | IRP | MLW | KAN | BRI | TAL | HOM | PHO | 109th | 01 | [54] |
* Season still in progress
1 Ineligible for series points
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time.Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)