The team came back for the 2018 slate of restrictor-plate races in the No. 62 with Brendan Gaughan behind the wheel, and did the same as well in 2019, using cars from Richard Childress Racing, engines from ECR Engines, and technical support from the Childress crew.[2]
2020 marked Gaughan's final season as a driver.[3] He made the field at the 2020 Daytona 500 by posting the second fastest qualifying speed of all the non-charter teams (188.945 mph; 33rd overall).[4] Gaughan's tenure with the team and career ended in the YellaWood 500 at Talladega, where he finished 35th after being collected in a Stage 2 wreck.[5][6]
On January 14, 2021, Beard announced Noah Gragson would attempt to make his Cup debut in the Daytona 500.[7] On January 31, just fourteen days before the 500, team owner Mark Beard died at age 72.[8]
On September 7, 2021, Beard Motorsports announced they will return in the 2022 season, entering the No. 62 in all four superspeedway races with Gragson competing in the 2022 Daytona 500.[9] Gragson finally made his debut, but he failed to finish being involved in a crash. He achieved sponsorship from Wendy's for Talladega and achieved his first ever top-twenty finish in a Cup Series race. Later on, at the August Daytona Race, Gragson finished fifth in the race, giving the team their first top 5 in a NASCAR Cup Series race.
For the 2026 season, Alfredo returned to drive the No. 62 for the Daytona 500.[16] He failed to qualify on speed and had to race in the duels. He originally got into the 500, finishing higher than B. J. McLeod and J. J. Yeley, but due to an issue with tech regarding cooling hoses not being secured, he was DQ'd, which caused him to be DNQ'd from the 500.[17]
The team was on the entry list for the July race at Loudon but withdrew their car before attempting to qualify.[18] The team then attempted to run at Richmond International Raceway two months later with Clay Rogers in the No. 75 Beard Oil Chevrolet;[19] however, they failed to qualify for the race. The last time Beard Motorsports attempted to qualify for a race was at Phoenix International Raceway with Rogers, but weren't able to make the race.[20]
The team did not attempt any races in 2015 or 2016.[21]
In 2017, Beard Motorsports announced it would run the Daytona 500 with Brendan Gaughan in the No. 75 Beard Oil Chevrolet.[22] Gaughan's Richard Childress RacingXfinity Series pit crew serviced the car and the team used a Childress engine. The team also bought a car from Leavine Family Racing, a Childress satellite; the car had finished fifteenth in the previous year's Daytona 500 with Michael McDowell.[23] The team did not possess a NASCAR charter.[24] As one of the two fastest non-charter cars in qualifying, Gaughan was able to make the field.
Gaughan then secured an eleventh-place finish in the Daytona 500, the first race in the Cup Series for the team.[25] The team announced it would enter the other three 2017 restrictor plate races. Gaughan and the team returned at Talladega, finishing 27th. Then on July 1 in the Coke Zero 400, Brendan Gaughan drove the team's car to a seventh place finish,[26] despite hitting the wall once in the race. The team's next race was the Alabama 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. Gaughan led laps and ended up seventeenth after avoiding the big one then being collected in the next crash.
The owner of the oil business Beard Oil, Mark Beard revived Beard Motorsports in 2009 and began racing in ARCA with Clay Rogers behind the No. 42 Chevrolet; Beard acquired equipment from Hendrick Motorsports.[28][29]
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