Brent Crews | |||||||
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![]() Crews at Sonoma Raceway in 2024 | |||||||
Born | Hickory, North Carolina, U.S. | March 30, 2008||||||
Achievements | 2023 SCCA Trans-Am TA2 ProAm Series Champion 2024 World Series of Asphalt Super Late Model Champion, Cars Tour LMSC Rookie of the Year 2016 United States Pro Kart Series Rookie Champion 2017 Rotax Grand Nationals Micro Max Champion 2024 Orange Blossom 100 Winner 2024 Red Eye 100 Winner 2023 Chad McDaniel Memorial Winner Youngest POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Series Winner (13 years, 3 months, 18 days) Youngest Trans-Am Series Champion (15 years, 7 months, 3 days) Youngest Trans-Am Series Winner (14 years, 3 months, 6 days) | ||||||
Awards | 2024 CARS Late Model Stock Car Tour Rookie of the Year | ||||||
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career | |||||||
6 races run over 1 year | |||||||
Truck no., team | No. 1 (Tricon Garage) No. 70 (Brent Crews Motorsports) | ||||||
First race | 2025 Window World 250 (North Wilkesboro) | ||||||
Last race | 2025 UNOH 250 (Bristol) | ||||||
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ARCA Menards Series career | |||||||
17 races run over 3 years | |||||||
ARCA no., team | No. 18 (Joe Gibbs Racing) No. 70 (Nitro Motorsports) | ||||||
Best finish | 27th (2023, 2024) | ||||||
First race | 2023 General Tire 100 at The Glen (Watkins Glen) | ||||||
Last race | 2025 Southern Illinois 100 (DuQuoin) | ||||||
First win | 2023 Dutch Boy 100 (Springfield) | ||||||
Last win | 2025 Bush's Beans 200 (Bristol) | ||||||
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ARCA Menards Series East career | |||||||
6 races run over 2 years | |||||||
Best finish | 7th (2025) | ||||||
First race | 2024 General Tire 150 (Dover) | ||||||
Last race | 2025 Bush's Beans 200 (Bristol) | ||||||
First win | 2025 Rockingham ARCA 125 (Rockingham) | ||||||
Last win | 2025 Bush's Beans 200 (Bristol) | ||||||
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ARCA Menards Series West career | |||||||
4 races run over 2 years | |||||||
ARCA West no., team | No. 18 (Joe Gibbs Racing) | ||||||
Best finish | 25th | ||||||
First race | 2024 General Tire 200 (Sonoma) | ||||||
Last race | 2025 General Tire 150 (Phoenix) | ||||||
First win | 2025 General Tire 150 (Phoenix) | ||||||
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Statistics up to date as of September 11, 2025. |
Brent Crews (born March 30, 2008) is an American professional dirt track, sports car and stock car racing driver. He competes part time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 1 Toyota Tundra TRD Pro for Tricon Garage and the No. 70 Tundra for his own team, Brent Crews Motorsports, part-time in the ARCA Menards Series, East Series, and West Series driving the Nos. 18 and 81 Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing, and the No. 70 Camry for Nitro Motorsports.
Crews, a member of Toyota Racing Development's TD2 driver development program, has previously competed in the SCCA Trans-Am TA2 ProAm Series, before selling his cars to form his own NASCAR Truck Series team in 2025, known as Brent Crews Motorsports. He also competed in the CARS Late Model Stock Tour.
Crews began racing go-karts at the GoPro Motorplex in Mooresville, North Carolina, at a young age. In 2016, he competed in the United States Pro Kart Series (USPKS) rookie class, winning the championship. [1] Crews won the Iame International World Finals in 2017 and 2018. Crews would also win a Micro MAX World Championship Rotax Max Challenge race in Brazil in 2018. [2] He then followed that victory up with a SuperKarts! USA SuperNationals victory in Mini Swift. [3] Then in 2019, Crews won his second straight SuperNationals in the KA100 Junior division. In 2021, he became the youngest National Champion in the KZ Pro Shifter Class, leaving his total National Championship count at 12. [4]
Crews made his outlaw kart debut in 2016, working his way quickly from Box Stocks all the way to the Open Class. He became the first to win in every outlaw kart class at Millbridge Speedway in 2019. He also won the Outlaw Kart Nationals in Knoxville, Iowa. [5] On March 2, 2021, it was announced that Crews would run full time in the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Series, driving the 86 Toyota for CB Industries. [6] He earned his first win of the season at Valley Speedway, becoming the youngest driver to win a POWRi National Midget Series race, at 13 years old. [7] He would also score wins at Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55, Jacksonville Speedway, and Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex. [8] [9] [10]
In 2022, Crews would re-join Nitro Motorsports to run a full season in the SCCA Trans-Am TA2 ProAm Series. He scored his first career pole and win mid-season at Road America, becoming the youngest driver to win a Trans-Am Series race, at 14 years, 3 months, and 4 days. [11] He would also score wins at the Music City Grand Prix and Virginia International Raceway, and finishing 3rd in the final standings. [12] [13] He returned to Nitro for the 2023 season, scoring wins at NOLA Motorsports Park, the Detroit Street Circuit, Road America, and Watkins Glen. [14] [15] [16] [17] He clinched the 2023 championship after finishing fourth at Circuit of the Americas, becoming the youngest champion in TA2 history. In 2024, he added three more wins in only five races and leads the series in wins since joining. [18]
Crews would make his late model racing debut in the CARS Pro Late Model Tour in 2022, driving the No. 24 Toyota Camry for Donnie Wilson Motorsports at Caraway Speedway. He would start 8th and finish 14th after experiencing a clutch issue. He ran two more races at Motor Mile and South Boston, finishing 8th and 12th, respectively. On February 14, 2024, it was announced that Crews would compete in six races of the World Series Of Asphalt Stock Car Racing at New Smyrna Speedway. Crews finished first in the point standings in his first time racing a Super Late Model after earning two wins and an average finish of 2.0. He also went on to tie the CARS Tour Late Model Stock class in wins in 2024, winning races at Orange County Speedway, Caraway Speedway, and Ace Speedway, earning Rookie of the year honors, and finishing 5th in drivers points. [19]
On August 10, 2023, it was announced that Crews would make his ARCA Menards Series debut at Watkins Glen, driving the No. 25 Toyota for Venturini Motorsports. [20] [21] Crews would finish third after running inside the top five in the entire race. [22] He made his second start of the season at the Illinois State Fairgrounds, where he would go on to dominate, leading the most laps and winning the race, becoming the second-youngest driver to win in ARCA. [23] Crews returned to Venturini in 2024 to run part-time in ARCA again. [24] That year, he won the main ARCA Series race at the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds, the other dirt race on the series schedule, leading every single lap in the race en route to the win. [25]
On January 8, 2025, Joe Gibbs Racing announced that Crews would drive for them part-time in all 3 ARCA Series in 2025. [26] That year, he won the ARCA and ARCA West combination race at Phoenix, the ARCA East Series race at Rockingham, the ARCA and ARCA East combination race at IRP, Springfield, and the ARCA and ARCA East combination race at Bristol. [27] [28] [29]
On January 6, 2025, Tricon Garage announced that Crews would make his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series debut for the team in their No. 1 truck in 2025. [30] On August 1, Crews announced he had formed his own Truck Series team, which would debut at Watkins Glen. [31]
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | NCTC | Pts | Ref |
2025 | Tricon Garage | 1 | Toyota | DAY | ATL | LVS | HOM | MAR | BRI | CAR | TEX | KAN | NWS 22 | CLT | NSH | MCH | POC | LRP 8 | IRP 23 | RCH 16 | DAR | BRI 24 | NHA | ROV | TAL | MAR | PHO | -* | -* | [32] | |
Brent Crews Motorsports | 70 | Toyota | GLN 17 |
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. ** – All laps led.)
ARCA Menards Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | AMSC | Pts | Ref |
2023 | Venturini Motorsports | 25 | Toyota | DAY | PHO | TAL | KAN | CLT | BLN | ELK | MOH | IOW | POC | MCH | IRP | GLN 3 | ISF 1* | MLW | DSF 2 | KAN | BRI | SLM 12 | TOL | 27th | 166 | [33] |
2024 | 55 | DAY | PHO | TAL | DOV 16 | KAN | CLT | IOW | MOH 2* | BLN | IRP | SLM | ELK | MCH | ISF | MLW | TOL 4 | 27th | 160 | [34] | ||||||
20 | DSF 1** | GLN | BRI | KAN | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2025 | Joe Gibbs Racing | 18 | Toyota | DAY | PHO 1 | TAL | KAN | CLT | MCH | BLN | ELK | LRP 6 | DOV 21 | IRP 1 | IOW 2 | GLN 9* | BRI 1** | SLM | KAN | TOL | -* | -* | [35] | |||
Nitro Motorsports | 70 | Toyota | ISF 1* | MAD | DSF 15* |
ARCA Menards Series East results | ||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | AMSEC | Pts | Ref |
2024 | Venturini Motorsports | 55 | Toyota | FIF | DOV 16 | NSV | FRS | IOW | IRP | MLW | BRI | 52nd | 28 | [36] |
2025 | Joe Gibbs Racing | 81 | Toyota | FIF | CAR 1* | NSV | FRS | 7th | 212 | [37] | ||||
18 | DOV 21 | IRP 1 | IOW 2 | BRI 1** |
ARCA Menards Series West results | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | AMSWC | Pts | Ref | ||||
2024 | Venturini Motorsports | 15 | Toyota | PHO | KER | PIR | SON 23 | IRW | IRW | SHA | TRI | MAD | AAS | 25th | 102 | [38] | ||||||
20 | KER 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
22 | PHO 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||
2025 | Joe Gibbs Racing | 18 | Toyota | KER | PHO 1 | TUC | CNS | KER | SON | TRI | PIR | AAS | MAD | LVS | PHO | -* | -* | [39] |
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. ** – All laps led.)
CARS Late Model Stock Car Tour results | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | CLMSCTC | Pts | Ref |
2023 | Lee Faulk Racing | 5 | Toyota | SNM | FLC | HCY | ACE | NWS | LGY | DOM | CRW | HCY 24 | ACE 17 | TCM | WKS | AAS | SBO | TCM | CRW | 45th | 25 | [40] |
2024 | Kevin Harvick Inc. | 29 | Toyota | SNM 6* | HCY 9 | AAS 16 | OCS 1 | ACE 15 | TCM 7 | LGY 2 | CRW 1 | HCY 19 | NWS 9 | ACE 1 | WKS 14* | FLC 21 | SBO 15 | TCM 25 | NWS 11 | 5th | 396 | [41] |
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CARS Pro Late Model Tour results | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | CPLMTC | Pts | Ref | |||
2022 | Donnie Wilson Racing | 24 | Toyota | CRW 14 | HCY | GPS | FCS | TCM | HCY | ACE | MMS 8 | TCM | ACE | SBO 12 | CRW | 16th | 66 | [42] | ||||
2023 | SNM | HCY 2 | NWS 6 | TCM | DIL | CRW | WKS | HCY | FLC | SBO | TCM | CRW | 18th | 114 | [43] | |||||||
28 | ACE 5 |