The 2025 NASCAR season is almost here.
It all begins on Friday, Feb. 14, when the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series hits the track for its first race of the season at Daytona International Speedway for 250 miles of pedal-to-the-metal action after three months of being away from the track.
However, there are still several holes in the full-time (and part-time) roster that need filled before Valentine’s Day arrives. So let’s take a look at which pieces of the puzzle still need put together with the season just under a month away.
Niece Motorsports
In 2024, Niece Motorsports ran four trucks, three of them full time. If it were to follow the same strategy in 2025, its full-time lineup is set. Matt Mills returns for a second season, and the team adds Christian Rose and Kaden Honeycutt as its other full-timers.
The question becomes what will Niece do about a fourth truck. It’s very possible that it will be the team’s All-Star truck again, with drivers such as Ross Chastain and Matt Gould getting a couple starts in the truck (Niece’s Phil Gould recently commented on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio that he’d like to get Chastain back in a truck for his allotted races). However the team has one driver on the roster that has yet to confirm his 2025 plans: Bayley Currey.
Currey drove the No. 41 full time in 2024 and has been an active participant in Niece’s offseason social content, so one could expect him to be back with the team in 2025. However, no announcement has been made by Currey nor the team, so in what capacity Currey’s driving duties are in 2025 are still up in the air.
Should Niece retain Currey for 2025, could a fifth part-time truck be put into action? It all revolves around what Currey’s 2025 plans look like.
Spire Motorsports/Rev Racing
Let’s start with the ambiguity of Rev Racing, as the team has been radio silent over the offseason. While it was largely expected that Andres Perez would take over the seat of the No. 2 for the outgoing Nick Sanchez, the team seems to be in trouble on the Truck side. It was announced that Reaume Brothers Racing had acquired the No. 2 for a third full-time truck in 2025.
Not long after that, Spire Motorsports announced it was ending its partnership with the team. The partnership included building Rev’s trucks in Spire’s shop and running it as a de facto extra truck. That carried over from Spire’s purchase of Kyle Busch Motorsports in 2023, as KBM originally built Rev’s trucks in-house as well.
It’s worth noting that KBM sued Rev in 2024 for missed payments. The lawsuit was eventually dropped. Not saying the same thing happened to Spire, but that might have been the beginning of the end for Rev Racing’s Truck endeavors.
Rev’s Truck assets have been rumored to be picked up by Spire, making it a four-truck team. However, aside from Rajah Caruth driving the No. 71 and Perez in the No. 77, not much else is known. The No. 7 will again be an All-Star truck, as Corey Day has been announced as one its drivers. Day will contest eight races in the truck, leaving 17 open for others.
Chase Purdy will not return to the No. 77 — and looks as if his racing days are over, as evidenced by his social media bios reading in part, “former NASCAR driver.” If the rumor of Spire acquiring Rev’s truck assets outright are true, the fourth truck would be the No. 07, as noted in a recent Spire press release. However, Spire still has a lot of pieces left to announce in its truck stable.
Young’s Motorsports
After fielding the No. 02 full time, the 20 part time and acquiring the No. 46 from the now-defunct Faction46 in 2024, the team has not announced any 2025 plans. It will, however, still exist, as it’s revealed Anthony Alfredo for its single-car NASCAR Xfinity Series team.
Front Row Motorsports
A bombshell (for Truck news, at least) came out that Chandler Smith would join Front Row Motorsports’ Truck team, driving a second full-time truck alongside 2024 Rookie of the Year Layne Riggs. It has not been announced what number Smith would drive, though a safe guess would be the No. 34 to match its Cup numbers. FRM has only entered a second truck once before, in 2023 at Talladega Superspeedway with Brett Moffitt. That truck was No. 34, and it went to victory lane.
Reaume Brothers Racing
As mentioned earlier, Reaume will run three full-time trucks, the Nos. 2, 22, and 33. Frankie Muniz was announced late in 2024 as the driver of the No. 33, however, the drivers of the No. 22 has not been announced. The No. 2 will be a rotational truck, as Tyler Tomassi and Cody Dennison have been confirmed to make 10 combined starts in the truck (Dennison will compete in eight and Tomassi two).
One driver it seems we will not see in a Reaume truck is its full-time driver from 2024, Lawless Alan. He left the team to drive full time in the ARCA Menards Series for Venturini Motorsports and part-time Trucks for TRICON Garage.
ThorSport Racing
While nothing changes with ThorSport Racing’s four full-time trucks, the team’s fifth truck, the No. 66 is in question. A look at ThorSport’s website will show TBA as the driver of the No. 66, meaning Conner Jones is likely out despite signing a multi-year contract back in 2023. The team could very well look to another young gun in Luke Fenhaus, who made three starts in the summer of 2024 in the No. 66, earning two top 10s.
Other Part-Time Teams with Limited/Unknown Plans
FDNY Racing announced that it would run four races in 2025, with its annual appearance at the plate tracks of Daytona and Talladega. Additionally it announced it would run back-to-back races at Pocono Raceway and Lime Rock Park and could run more if it could find a funded driver. While Bryan Dauzat will drive the truck at Daytona and Talladega, the team has been open on social media about finding a driver with funding for at least Lime Rock.
Parker Kligerman will return to his part-time schedule with Henderson Motorsports after ceding the truck to Stefan Parsons for 2024. Retired from full-time racing, Kligerman is expected to run around 10 races with the team, though Lime Rock (of which Kligerman is part of the ownership group) might be one of the more anticipated races for driver and team.
CR7 Motorsports and Rackley WAR both fielded a second truck in at least one race in 2024, though a second truck is unclear for either team. CR7 entered team owner Codie Rohrbaugh in the season opener at Daytona in the No. 97, so he could likely return for a one-off. Not to mention the team’s ARCA program, generally driven by Jason Kitzmiller, could see Kitzmiller and other drivers like Landen Lewis make some truck starts for CR7 if funding allows.
Rackley meanwhile, would only likely bring out a second truck for a funded driver or a special one-off. The only time a second truck was brought out in 2024 was for Dawson Sutton, son of Rackley owner and team co-owner Curtis Sutton. With Sutton going full time for 2025, a second truck is unlikely.
Hettinger Racing bought the assets of Bret Holmes Racing for the final two races of 2024 and fielded the No. 4 for Moffitt. The team’s status — full or part time — for 2025 is unclear. It could stick with Moffitt, though Bret Holmes, the driver-owner whose team was bought up by Hettinger, has mentioned he’d like to stay in the Truck Series, so it might turn to him. Katie Hettinger, CARS Tour driver and daughter of team owner Chris Hettinger, could also get some starts later in the year. She took a break from racing to finish her senior year of high school — perhaps the second half of the year could see her return as a Trucker once she graduates.
A new team that hit the track in 2024, Floridian Motorsports, ran 10 races with the No. 21 with Mason Maggio (eight), Sage Karam (one) and Jayson Alexander (one). While the team could return in 2025, team owner Scott Osteen became a part-owner of Joey Gase Motorsports’ Xfinity program over the offseason, leaving his truck team’s future up in the air.
Additionally, the following teams that ran or attempted some races in 2024 have not announced any 2025 plans for the Truck Series:
- GK Racing (attempted two races in the No. 95 with team owner Clay Greenfield in 2024)
- Jennifer Jo Cobb Racing (attempted four races in the No. 10 with team owner Jennifer Jo Cobb in 2024)
- Roper Racing (attempted 10 races with the No. 04 in 2024, with Marco Andretti for six, team owner Cory Roper for two, and Clayton Green and Perez for one apiece)
- Trey Hutchens Racing (attempted three races in the No. 14 with team owner Trey Hutchens III in 2024)
- Hattori Racing Enterprises (attempted four races in the No. 16 in 2024, with Johnny Sauter for two, and Aric Almirola and Lewis for one apiece)
- MBM Motorsports (attempted one race in the No. 67 with Jeffrey Earnhardt in 2024)
- Ryan Huff Motorsports (attempted one race in the No. 36 with team owner Ryan Huff in 2024)
- TC Motorsports (attempted nine races in the No. 90 with Justin Carroll in 2024)
The 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season begins with the Fresh From Florida 250 at Daytona on Friday, Feb. 14. Coverage begins at 7:30 p.m. ET and can be found on FOX Sports 1 (television) and Motor Racing Network (radio).
Anthony Damcott joined Frontstretch in March 2022. Currently, he is an editor and co-authors Fire on Fridays (Fridays); he is also the primary Truck Series reporter/writer and serves as an at-track reporter, among many other duties he takes on for the site. A proud West Virginia Wesleyan College alum from Akron, Ohio, Anthony is now a grad student. He is a theatre actor and fight-choreographer-in-training in his free time.
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