In 2025, three-tenths of the 20-car F1 grid will feature six new full-time competitors, half of the entries will be occupied by new names and all but two of 10 teams will feature at least one new name to their driver roster.
Eddie Pardue and Alex Yontz will remain as crew chiefs for Kaulig's Nos. 11 and 16 Chevrolet teams, respectively, while Kevin Walter will work atop the No. 10 Chevrolet team for the upcoming Xfinity season.
The 21-year-old Retzlaff from Rhinelander, Wisconsin, transitions to Alpha Prime Racing for his third consecutive Xfinity Series campaign after spending the previous two seasons competing for Jordan Anderson Racing.
The 24-year-old Wood from Loomis, California, will pilot the No. 91 McAnally-Hilgemann Racing Chevrolet entry on a full-time basis in 2025 after competing in the entry for 13 events in 2024.
Beginning in 2025, Jake Hampton returns atop the pit box for the No. 1 "all-star" entry, Derek Smith and Scott Zipadelli will remain as crew chiefs for the Nos. 5 and 11 entries, and Jeff Hensley and Jerame Donley swap teams to lead Nos. 15 and 17 entries, respectively.
The 2024 Craftsman Truck Series Most Popular Driver recipient from Washington D.C. returns to Spire Motorsports for a third full-time stint in the series after notching his first career victory and making the Playoffs in 2024.
The 2022 Truck Series championship-winning crew chief from Medway, Ohio, will return to Front Row Motorsports to crew chief Todd Gilliland and the No. 34 Ford team after spending this past Cup Series season at Rick Ware Racing.
Toney, the 2023 Xfinity Series championship-winning crew chief, will be paired with Sheldon Creed and the No. 00 Ford Mustang team while Trinchere, a five-time Xfinity race-winning crew chief, will be paired with Sam Mayer and the No. 41 Ford Mustang team.
Jordan Anderson Racing Bommarito Autosport will retain Burton as the driver of the No. 27 Chevrolet for a third consecutive season and replace the departing Parker Retzlaff with Perkins in the No. 31 Chevrolet for the 2025 Xfinity season.
Trent Owens and Andrew Dickeson have been named crew chiefs for Kaulig Racing's Nos. 16 and 10 Chevrolet entries, respectively, while veteran engineer Mike Cook will be serving as the organization's technical director for the 2025 Cup Series season.
Ryan Ellis was announced as Young’s Motorsports’ full-time driver in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series as the organization enters its third season of competition.
With Nafy, an AI music generator that runs online, a crew member with a laptop can type a description of a sound, pick a vocal style and hear a full track built around it within minutes.
