Devon Rouse (born July 18, 1998) is an American professionaldirt track andstock car racing driver who primarily competes insprint cars at local tracks inIowa. He also competed part-time in theNASCAR Camping World Truck Series, driving the No. 43Chevrolet Silverado forReaume Brothers Racing.

A fan ofNASCAR Cup Series championJeff Gordon who hoped to emulate his career path from dirt to stock car racing, Rouse begankart racing when he was three years old.^[1] He competed in the discipline until he was 13 and won six track championships at Shimek Speedway prior to its closing; he also competed inmodified cars for six years.^[2]

On his 17th birthday, Rouse received asprint car from his parents and started racing at 34 Raceway. He finished third in the track's class standings in 2016, followed by second the following year.^[3]

While vacationing in Florida in October 2019, Rouse befriended aNASCAR Camping World Truck Series crew member who invited him to travel with the team for six weeks.^[2] In January 2020, Rouse tested a truck atMyrtle Beach Speedway.^[4] He had planned to run the Truck Series'Eldora Dirt Derby atEldora Speedway before the race was canceled due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.^[2]

Before the 2021 racing season, he joinedFast Track Racing for theARCA Menards Series test atDaytona International Speedway.^[5] Running the Friday practice session, he was the 46th-fastest driver of 56 in total.^[6] He also signed withReaume Brothers Racing to run the Truck Series'Pinty's Dirt Truck Race andCorn Belt 150 atBristol Motor Speedway andKnoxville Raceway, respectively,^[7][8] though the former was aborted due to sponsorship issues and personal reasons.^[9]

Rouse graduated fromWest Burlington High School in Iowa in 2016 and was a business administration major atSoutheastern Community College.^[2][3] He worked atDuPont inFort Madison for three years before forming a detailing business.^[2]

Rouse is gay.^[4] When he participated in the ARCA test at Daytona in 2021, he became the first openly LGBT driver to compete in an ARCA-sanctioned event.^[10] His Truck debut at Knoxville later that year made him the first such driver to race in the series sinceStephen Rhodes in 2003.^[11]

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^* Season still in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

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