On January 3, 2024, it was announced that the team would field an entry in the NASCAR Xfinity Series in 2024. That same day, Leland Honeyman was announced as the full-time driver of the No. 42 car.[1]
On January 14, 2025, it was announced that Anthony Alfredo would drive the No. 42 car full time.[2]
In 2018, Austin Hill drove the 02 full-time.[4] Despite scoring a top-five at Texas, six top-tens and an eleventh-place finish in points, Hill said that rules changes and simple mistakes by the team held them back from greater success.[5]
In 2019, Tyler Dippel joined Young's Motorsports to drive the No. 02 full-time.[6] On August 23, NASCAR announced that Dippel had been suspended indefinitely for violation of the sport's Code of Conduct.[7][8]D. J. Kennington served as his substitute replacement for the race at Canada.[9] Dippel was reinstated the following week on August 28, 2019.[10]
In 2020, the team announced that Tate Fogleman would compete for Rookie of The Year honors driving the 02 truck. He ended the season with a seventeenth-place points finish with a best finish of thirteenth at Michigan.
In 2021, the team announced that they would be adding Rookie of The Year honor contestant Kris Wright to their No. 02 truck, and they would be moving Fogleman to their No. 12 truck. Wright started the season with a twelfth-place finish at Daytona. At the Daytona Road Course, the team unexpectedly announced that Kaz Grala would replace Wright while he made his Xfinity Series debut, Grala would come in eighth. After Wright had a positive test for COVID-19 just before the race at Atlanta, Josh Berry replaced him, finishing 22nd. Daniel Suárez also replaced Wright at Bristol, finishing seventeenth. At Darlington, Wright ran a throwback scheme to Dale Earnhardt, however, instead of his longtime sponsor Goodwrench, the sponsor was wrightcars.com, with larger letters on the side saying Goodwright. Grala returned at Circuit of the Americas, being in the top-three most of the day and finishing second to Todd Gilliland, whom he battled with for the stage 1 win, which Gilliland won. Michael Annett wanted to make his debut at the Corn Belt 150, but a leg injury caused him to be replaced by Chris Windom. On October 6, NASCAR indefinitely suspended crew chief Eddie Troconis for violation of Sections 12.8.1.c Behavioral.[11]
On December 22, 2021, it was announced that Jesse Little would drive the No. 02 truck in 2022, splitting the ride with Kaz Grala.[12]
On January 27, 2025, the team announced that Nathan Byrd would drive the No. 02 for the majority of the 2025 Truck season, competing in fifteen of 25 races for the team.[15]
In 2019, Gus Dean joined Young's Motorsports to drive the No. 12 full-time. During the February Daytona race, he spun on the last laps hitting Ben Rhodes’ No. 99 and then started the Big One, finishing fifteenth. His best finish was thirteenth at Michigan and his worst was thirty-second at Martinsville and Texas. He ended up finishing fifteenth in the points at the end of the 2019 season.[16]
In 2020, T. J. Bell was to drive the Young's Motorsports No. 12 at the spring Atlanta race, but the truck was not entered when the race was postponed from March to June due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Bell would instead drive the No. 83 CMI Motorsports truck in the rescheduled race.[17]
For 2021, Tate Fogleman would move over from the 02 to the 12 truck for his sophomore season to make room for rookie Kris Wright. He would start the season with a crash-ending 30th-place finish at Daytona. On October 2, Fogleman scored his first career win and Young's Motorsports' second win at Talladega by sending John Hunter Nemechek sideways and beating Tyler Hill by 0.052 seconds before both trucks crashed into the inner wall.[18]
On January 7, 2022 it was announced that Spencer Boyd would drive the No. 12 full-time in 2022; he had driven the team's No. 20 truck since 2019. At Las Vegas, he suffered a dislocated shoulder in a last lap crash.[19]
Boyd returned to drive the No. 12 truck full-time. He failed to qualify for the season opener at Daytona and struggled throughout the season, only scoring one top 20 finish. He also failed to qualify for the races at Talladega and Phoenix. Boyd parted ways with the team at season's end.
For the 2019 season, Spencer Boyd was announced to pilot the No. 20 full-time.[23] He started off the season with a career-best fourth-place result at the 2019 NextEra Energy 250.[24] Boyd raced the team to an unofficial second-place finish in the 2019 Sugarlands Shine 250 at Talladega, however the unofficial winner, Johnny Sauter, would be penalized for forcing the No. 51 KBM truck of Riley Herbst below the double yellow line in an attempt to block, giving the win to Boyd and Young's Motorsports. Boyd would return to the No. 20 truck in 2020 and would take it to a best finish of fourteenth at Texas and a twentieth place points finish. He would return to the No. 20 truck for a third season in 2021 and would take the truck to a 13th-place finish behind teammate Kris Wright at Daytona. In the Corn Belt 150, Kyle Strickler replaced Boyd.
In 2014, the team fielded a second truck (No. 60) for Charles Lewandoski at Daytona but the team withdrew. The team returned at Kansas as a start and park team to help fund the team's No. 02 truck but now with a new number (No. 42). After six races, the No. 42 team shut down.
On July 10, 2024, it was announced that Thad Moffitt would race the No. 46 truck for Young's Motorsports for the rest of the season starting at Pocono after YMS acquired the number and team from Faction46.[26]
In 2017, Austin Hill started to run for the team in No. 02, sharing the truck with Tyler Young. However, Hill drove Ford trucks that he owned while Young ran Chevrolets from the team inventory.
ARCA Menards Series
Car No. 02 history
On January 14, 2021, the team announced that they would expand into the ARCA Menards Series, fielding the No. 02 car on a part-time basis. The team first entered the series in ARCA's Daytona test session in January with Kris Wright (one of their full-time Truck Series drivers) and Toni Breidinger driving. Their first race will come in the season-opening race at Daytona in February, although they have yet to determine the rest of their schedule and who their driver(s) will be in each race. Toni Breidinger made some appearances for the team. Mark Green would appear at Mid-Ohio. Breidinger would depart the team and join her old team Venturini Motorsports. Connor Mosack made 3 starts for the rest of the year.
In 2022, Leland Honeyman drove the No. 02 car for 3 races. Kris Wright drove the car for 1 race at Pocono. Mamba Smith made his ARCA debut in the No. 02 car at IRP.
In 2023, Miguel Gomes drove the No. 02 car at Daytona. Honeyman drove the car at Phoenix. Parker Retzlaff would drive the car at Watkins Glen.
In 2024, Honeyman drove the No. 02 car at Daytona. He finished 31st after caught up in an accident.
In 2025, Craig Bracken drove the No. 02 car at Daytona.[29][30] Bracken was involved in a crash on lap 19 and finished the race in 27th. After being taken to the infield care center after the accident, Bracken was transported to a local hospital for further evaluation.[31]
In 2021, the team fielded the No. 02 car part-time in the ARCA Menards Series East for Connor Mosack at Dover. He finished seventh.[32] He would make one more start at the Milwaukee Mile. He finished sixteenth.
In 2022, the No. 02 car would run full-time with Leland Honeyman as the driver.[33]
In 2021, the team fielded the No. 02 car part-time for Toni Breidinger at Phoenix.
In 2022, the team fielded the No. 02 car part-time for Katie Hettinger at Las Vegas Bullring and Phoenix.
Retzlaff at Sonoma in 2023.
In 2023, the team fielded the No. 02 car part-time for Leland Honeyman at Phoenix. Parker Retzlaff would drive the No. 02 car at Portland and Sonoma. Mamba Smith would drive the No. 02 car at season finale at Phoenix.
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