Young's Motorsports

Owner(s)	Randy Young Tyler Young
Base	Mooresville, North Carolina
Series	NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series ARCA Menards Series
Race drivers	O'Reilly Auto Parts Series 02.Ryan Ellis Truck Series: 02.Nathan Byrd,Jayson Alexander,Stefan Parsons,Ben Maier,Logan Bearden 20.Stefan Parsons,Jordan Anderson,Mason Massey,Will Rodgers (part-time) ARCA Menards Series: 02.Craig Bracken (part-time)
Manufacturer	Chevrolet
Opened	2012
Career
Debut	O'Reilly Auto Parts Series: 2024United Rentals 300 (Daytona) Truck Series: 2012North Carolina Education Lottery 200 (Rockingham) ARCA Menards Series: 2021Lucas Oil 200 (Daytona) ARCA Menards Series East: 2021General Tire 125 (Dover International Speedway) ARCA Menards Series West: 2021General Tire 150 (Phoenix)
Latest race	O'Reilly Auto Parts Series: 2025NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Race (Phoenix) Truck Series: 2025NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Championship Race (Phoenix) ARCA Menards Series: 2025Ride the 'Dente 200 (Daytona) ARCA Menards Series East: 2022Bush's Beans 200 (Bristol) ARCA Menards Series West: 2023 Desert Diamond Casino West Valley 100 (Phoenix)
Races competed	Total: 386 O'Reilly Auto Parts Series: 66 Truck Series: 285 ARCA Menards Series: 19 ARCA Menards Series East: 9 ARCA Menards Series West: 7
Drivers' Championships	Total: 0 O'Reilly Auto Parts Series: 0 Truck Series: 0 ARCA Menards Series: 0 ARCA Menards Series East: 0 ARCA Menards Series West: 0
Race victories	Total: 2 O'Reilly Auto Parts Series: 0 Truck Series: 2 ARCA Menards Series: 0 ARCA Menards Series East: 0 ARCA Menards Series West: 0
Pole positions	Total: 2 O'Reilly Auto Parts Series: 0 Truck Series: 1 ARCA Menards Series: 0 ARCA Menards Series East: 1 ARCA Menards Series West: 0

Young's Motorsports is an American professionalstock car racing team that competes in theNASCAR Xfinity Series,NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, and theARCA Menards Series. In the O'Reilly Auto Parts Series, they field the No. 02Chevrolet Camaro SS full-time forRyan Ellis. In the Truck Series, they field the No. 02Chevrolet Silverado full-time, primarily forNathan Byrd and the No. 20 part-time forStefan Parsons and three others. In the ARCA Menards Series, they field the No. 02Chevrolet SS part-time forCraig Bracken.

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

On January 3, 2024, it was announced that the team would field an entry in theNASCAR 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 thatAnthony Alfredo would drive the No. 42 car full time.^[3]

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The team debuted in the2012 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season withTyler 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 withAustin Hill Racing andRette Jones Racing.Dylan Lupton,Austin Theriault,Derek Scott Jr. andScott Lagasse Jr. also drove the 02 in 2016.In 2017, the team announced that the truck would be split byAustin Hill andTyler Young. Australiansprint car racing driverMax Johnston drove the truck atEldora Speedway.^[4]

In 2018,Austin Hill drove the 02 full-time.^[5] 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.^[6]

In 2019,Tyler Dippel joined Young's Motorsports to drive the No. 02 full-time.^[7] On August 23, NASCAR announced that Dippel had been suspended indefinitely for violation of the sport's Code of Conduct.^[8][9]D. J. Kennington served as his substitute replacement for the race atCanada.^[10] Dippel was reinstated the following week on August 28, 2019.^[11]

In 2020, the team announced thatTate 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 contestantKris 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 thatKaz Grala would replace Wright while he made his Xfinity Series debut, Grala would come in eighth. After Wright had a positive test forCOVID-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 toDale Earnhardt, however, instead of his longtime sponsorGoodwrench, the sponsor was wrightcars.com, with larger letters on the side saying Goodwright. Grala returned atCircuit of the Americas, being in the top-three most of the day and finishing second toTodd Gilliland, whom he battled with for the stage 1 win, which Gilliland won.Michael Annett wanted to make his debut at theCorn Belt 150, but a leg injury caused him to be replaced byChris Windom. On October 6, NASCAR indefinitely suspended crew chiefEddie Troconis for violation of Sections 12.8.1.c Behavioral.^[12]

On December 22, 2021, it was announced thatJesse Little would drive the No. 02 truck in 2022, splitting the ride withKaz Grala.^[13]

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.^[14] 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 atWorld Wide Technology Raceway. Multiple drivers such asChris Hacker,Layne Riggs,Will Rodgers,Stefan Parsons,Matt Mills,Josh Bilicki,Kaden Honeycutt,Garrett Smithley, andBrad Perez filled up the rest of the season.

On February 12, 2024, it was announced thatMason Massey would run full-time in the No. 02 truck Series in2024.^[15] However, he parted ways with the team after the race atRichmond. Multiple drivers such asDexter Bean,Justin Mondeik,Nathan Byrd,Keith McGee, andDylan Lupton filled up the rest of the season.

On January 27, 2025, the team announced thatNathan Byrd would drive the No. 02 for the majority of the2025 Truck season, competing in fifteen of 25 races for the team.^[16]

In 2018, the team debuted atIowa Speedway withReid Wilson behind the wheel.Ty Dillon drove atEldora Speedway.Alex Tagliani was announced to drive atMosport.

In 2019,Gus Dean joined Young's Motorsports to drive the No. 12 full-time. During the FebruaryDaytona race, he spun on the last laps hittingBen Rhodes’ No. 99 and then startedthe Big One, finishing fifteenth. His best finish was thirteenth atMichigan and his worst was thirty-second atMartinsville andTexas. He ended up finishing fifteenth in the points at the end of the 2019 season.^[17]

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 theCOVID-19 pandemic. Bell would instead drive the No. 83CMI Motorsports truck in the rescheduled race.^[18]

For 2021,Tate Fogleman would move over from the 02 to the 12 truck for his sophomore season to make room for rookieKris 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 atTalladega by sendingJohn Hunter Nemechek sideways and beatingTyler Hill by 0.052 seconds before both trucks crashed into the inner wall.^[19]

On January 7, 2022 it was announced thatSpencer Boyd would drive the No. 12 full-time in2022; he had driven the team's No. 20 truck since 2019. AtLas Vegas, he suffered a dislocated shoulder in a last lap crash.^[20]

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

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

The No. 20 wasAustin Hill Racing's former number. In 2017, with Hill now on No. 02 truck, the second truck became the No. 20. The team debuted atIowa Speedway.Speed Energy Formula Off-Road championSheldon Creed drove the No. 20 atEldora Speedway.^[21]

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 andTy Dillon soon after announced through Team Dillon thatRichard Childress Racing affiliated drivers, including both Austin and Ty Dillon,Daniel Hemric andTanner Thorson would pilot the 20 for the vast majority of the remaining schedule, with Thorson taking most of the races.^[22]Michel Disdier,Reid Wilson,Tate Fogleman,Darrell Wallace Jr. andMax Tullman also drove the 20 truck in 2018.^[23]

For the 2019 season,Spencer Boyd was announced to pilot the No. 20 full-time.^[24] He started off the season with a career-best fourth-place result at the2019 NextEra Energy 250.^[25] Boyd raced the team to an unofficial second-place finish in the2019 Sugarlands Shine 250 atTalladega, however the unofficial winner,Johnny Sauter, would be penalized for forcing the No. 51KBM truck ofRiley 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 teammateKris Wright at Daytona. In theCorn Belt 150,Kyle Strickler replaced Boyd.

In 2022, Boyd moved to the No. 12 truck. As the results, multiple drivers such asDanny 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, andArmani 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 asDerek Kraus,Matt Mills,Mason Maggio,Ed Jones,Stefan Parsons,Brad Perez,Nick Leitz,Kaden Honeycutt,Chad Chastain,Mason Massey, andGreg Van Alst. Van Alst suffered a fractured vertebrae from a multi-truck accident atTalladega.^[26]

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

In 2025, the No. 20 truck returned in part-time basis withStefan Parsons,Jordan Anderson,Mason Massey, andWill Rodgers as the drivers.

In 2014, the team fielded a second truck (No. 60) forCharles Lewandoski at Daytona but the team withdrew. The team returned at Kansas as a start and park team to help fund the team's No. 02 truck but now with a new number (No. 42). After six races, the No. 42 team shut down.

On July 10, 2024, it was announced thatThad Moffitt would race the No. 46 truck for Young's Motorsports for the rest of the season starting atPocono after YMS acquired the number and team fromFaction46.^[27]

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

In 2016, Young's teamed withAustin Hill Racing fielding No. 02 Ford for Hill's self-owned team in four races. Later that year Young's partnered withRette Jones Racing to field the No. 02 forDominique Van Wieringen atPhoenix International Raceway.^[28] The next race, atHomestead, Young's fielded the No. 07 truck forPatrick Staropoli that utilized owner points fromSS-Green Light Racing.^[29]

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 withKris Wright (one of their full-time Truck Series drivers) andToni 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 teamVenturini 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.^[30][31] 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.^[32]

In 2021, the team fielded the No. 02 car part-time in theARCA Menards Series East forConnor Mosack at Dover. He finished seventh.^[33] He would make one more start at the Milwaukee Mile. He finished sixteenth.

In 2022, the No. 02 car would run full-time withLeland Honeyman as the driver.^[34]

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

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

In 2023, the team fielded the No. 02 car part-time forLeland 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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