Rajah Caruth will return as the motive force of the No. 71 Chevrolet Silverado RST entry for Spire Motorsports for the 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Sequence season.
The information come because the 22-year-old Caruth from Washington D.C. is coming off his second consecutive full-time marketing campaign within the Truck circuit, the place he achieved his first profession victory at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in March. In doing so, Caruth joined Wendell Scott and Bubba Wallace as the one African-American rivals to win throughout NASCAR’s high three premier collection. Along with the Vegas victory, Caruth notched his first two profession poles, 5 top-five outcomes, 12 top-10 outcomes, 56 laps led and an average-finishing results of 11.6. After qualifying for his first Truck Playoffs this previous season, he settled in seventh place within the last driver’s standings and was named the 2024 Most Well-liked Driver within the collection.
Caruth’s announcement of his 2025 racing plans additionally occurred on December thirteenth, the day he graduated from Winston-Salem State College with a Bachelor of Science in Motorsports Administration.
“It’s nice to have a house and stability heading into subsequent 12 months,” Caruth mentioned in a launched assertion. “I consider that is the primary time in my profession I received’t be with a brand new staff or competing in a distinct collection in the beginning of the season. I actually recognize the chance [owners] Jeff [Dickerson] and T.J. [Puchyr] have given me, and I’m excited to proceed preparations for 2025. Our group has actually grown over the previous 12 months, and we’ve proven what we’re able to. Now we have set the bar excessive for the season and the expectation is to win extra races and compete for a championship.”
Caruth, whose racing profession began nearly by means of iRacing in 2018, made his Truck Sequence debut at World Vast Know-how Raceway in June 2022, the place he piloted the No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet entry to an Eleventh-place end result. After making three extra Truck begins with Spire for the rest of the 2022 season, he campaigned in his first full-time season within the collection with GMS Racing in 2023. Throughout the season, he notched 4 top-10 outcomes, an average-finishing results of 18.2 and settled in sixteenth place within the last standings earlier than he returned to Spire on a full-time foundation in 2024.
By means of 50 present begins within the Truck Sequence, Caruth has achieved one victory, two poles, 5 top-five outcomes, 16 top-10 outcomes, 57 laps led and an average-finishing results of 15.7. He has additionally made 19 profession begins within the Xfinity Sequence and 25 within the ARCA Menards Sequence, the latter of which he notched 14 top-10 outcomes and completed in third place within the last driver’s standings through the 2022 season whereas competing for Rev Racing.
“I’m thrilled to verify that Rajah Caruth can be again with us in 2025 driving the No. 71 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet Silverado,” Jeff Dickerson, co-owner of Spire Motorsports, mentioned. “He took the extremely excessive expectations we positioned on him to start out the 12 months and exceeded them in each means. I’m impressed with how he’s balanced his commitments to his race staff, his craft, the media and his rising fanbase whereas managing a full workload at Winston-Salem State College. Our group believes in Raj and he has constantly proven the management, type and work ethic that each staff appears to be like for in a driver. Everybody at Spire Motorsports is actually glad to run it again with him subsequent season.”
As a part of Caruth’s return to the Truck Sequence, HendrickCars.com, which sponsored Caruth for all the schedule in 2024, may also return to sponsor him for all the 25-race schedule in 2025. Caruth was additionally sponsored by HendrickCars.com when he competed within the 2023 Xfinity Sequence finale at Phoenix Raceway for Hendrick Motorsports, the place he completed 14th after beginning thirteenth.
“Rajah is a younger man of super character and has confirmed to be an ideal consultant of HendrickCars.com and our practically 11,000 teammates throughout the nation, Rick Hendrick, chairman and CEO of Hendrick Automotive Group and proprietor of Hendrick Motorsports, mentioned. “Along with being extraordinarily proficient, he has an unimaginable work ethic. We couldn’t be prouder to make this announcement on the identical day Rajah and his household have fun his school commencement. He has a really brilliant future within the sport, and we’re thrilled to proceed supporting his journey in 2025.”
The rest of Spire Motorsports’ driver and crew chief lineup for the 2025 NASCAR season stays to be decided.
Together with his plans for subsequent season set, Rajah Caruth’s 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Sequence season is scheduled to start at Daytona Worldwide Speedway on February 14 at 7:30 p.m. ET on FS1.
