Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has found a home for 2020.
Stenhouse will drive JTG Daugherty Racing’s No. 37 Chevrolet Camaro in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series in 2020, filling the seat vacated by Chris Buescher.
Buescher and Stenhouse swap NASCAR Cup Series rides for the upcoming season, as it was previously announced that Buescher will drive the No. 17 for Roush Fenway Racing in 2020.
“I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to join JTG Daugherty Racing next season,” Stenhouse said in a team release. “To be able to see what Tad, Jodi (Geschickter) and Brad (Daugherty) have built over the years says a lot about the team and the organization both on and off the track. JTG has grown from a small team in a barn to a two-car team with more than 100 employees, and I’m looking forward to joining the family. I’m grateful for the opportunity, and ready to go win races with the ultimate goal of making the playoffs and competing for a championship.”
Stenhouse’s teammate in the No. 47 at JTG has not yet been announced, though Ryan Preece, currently in his first season with the team, may return.
Stenhouse has scored two wins in NASCAR’s premier division along with 34 top 10s, most recently at Talladega Superspeedway last weekend. The longtime RFR driver finished ninth after leading 32 laps.
2020 will mark Stenhouse’s first full season in Cup with a team that isn’t RFR. He also competed for Wood Brothers Racing in one race in 2011, his Cup debut.
The ride that Stenhouse inherits has scored 10 top 10s with Buescher behind the wheel.
Adam Cheek joined Frontstretch as a contributing writer in January 2019. A 2020 graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, he covered sports there and later spent a year and a half as a sports host on 910 the Fan in Richmond, VA. He's freelanced for Richmond Magazine and the Richmond Times-Dispatch and also hosts the Adam Cheek's Sports Week podcast. Adam has followed racing since the age of three, inheriting the passion from his grandfather, who raced in amateur events up and down the East Coast in the 1950s.