Trackhouse first appeared as a race workforce in 2021 after they entered the NASCAR Cup Sequence as an unremarkable single-car workforce. Nevertheless, after they purchased Chip Ganassi Racing in its entirety, they shocked the NASCAR world and obtained everybody to concentrate to them, and never for the final time.
Since then, Trackhouse has branched out and now fields three full-time entries within the Cup Sequence, in addition to signing the most important rising star within the inventory automotive world. They shaped a MotoGP squad with assist from Aprilia forward of the 2024 season, and even took half within the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona this 12 months with a GTD Professional entry, inserting ninth at school.Â
This weekend, they hit one other milestone as they turned winners on the pinnacle of two-wheeled motorsport, profitable the MotoGP Australian Grand Prix with Raul Fernandez. The workforce hadn’t even scored a podium earlier than Sunday’s triumph.Â
With their spectacular victory in MotoGP, we thought it might be a very good time to look again on the instances Trackhouse, who’ve change into often called disruptors in NASCAR, took the racing world abruptly.
Undertaking 91 and the triumphant arrival of highway course king SVG
Watch: Shane van Gisbergen wins Chicago in his first NASCAR begin
Undertaking 91 was an interesting concept that got here from the thoughts of Trackhouse founder Justin Marks. He wished to deliver worldwide racing stars to NASCAR in one-off entries in an effort to show the game to a bigger viewers, but additionally present alternatives these drivers would not in any other case get.Â
The automotive has solely entered a handful of races over the previous couple of years, nevertheless it has featured 2007 Method 1 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen, four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves, and naturally, three-time Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen.
The automotive’s mere presence on the grid was spectacular sufficient, bringing in some big names and clashing racing worlds collectively. However SVG took no matter shock folks felt and turned it into utter shock. He received on debut on the Chicago Road Course in 2023, changing into the primary driver in over 60 years to win a NASCAR Cup race of their very first attempt.
Since then, he has walked away from his profession in Supercars to tackle the inventory automotive racing world fulltime. Whereas he has quickly progressed on ovals, van Gisbergen has additionally surprised on highway programs in 2025. He has received the final 5 consecutive highway/road programs on the schedule and change into the winningest rookie in Cup Sequence historical past.
Ross Chastain’s viral wall-ride and almost changing into Cup champions
Watch: See a number of angles of Chastain’s last-lap transfer to advance at Martinsville
With regards to head-turning moments, the workforce’s flagship NASCAR star has had loads of them … each good and dangerous. However nothing compares to the transfer he pulled on the finish of the 2022 season. Chastain was a Ganassi driver with no wins when Trackhouse took over the workforce. He rapidly modified that with a dramatic win at COTA (Trackhouse’s first in NASCAR), and the unpredictable driver went deep into the playoffs.Â
In simply their second 12 months as a race workforce, they’d an opportunity to make all of it the best way to the championship finals, however Chastain was going to be eradicated from competition by simply two factors. As an alternative of accepting defeat like a sane individual would do, Chastain took a unique strategy.
As the sphere slammed on the brakes, downshifting as they entered the tight Turns 3 and 4 of the small half-mile brief observe, Chastain upshifted into fifth as a substitute. He stored the pedal mashed to the ground, pinning the automotive in opposition to the surface wall and grinding in opposition to it because the automotive slingshot across the outermost bounds of the race observe. He let go of the wheel and even admitted to his imaginative and prescient getting blurry as he handed 5 automobiles and shattered the observe file. Chastain made the Championship 4, and that transfer was considered over 200 million instances throughout social media. To today, engagement-driven accounts that don’t have anything to do with racing promote the video as a result of it is merely unbelievable and a simple approach to get views.
Chastain’s transfer propelled the workforce to a runner-up end within the championship, coming 356 ft shy of the crown.
Profitable the closest three-wide photograph end in NASCAR historical past
Watch: Hear FOX Sports activities Latin America’s name of Daniel Suárez’s wild Atlanta win
Daniel Suarez was the workforce’s authentic driver in NASCAR, and the primary Mexican-born driver to ever win within the Cup Sequence. In 2024, he was concerned in a photograph end that seemed prefer it was pulled proper out of the film, Automobiles. Suarez crossed the road in a three-wide photograph end for the ages, racing to the checkered flag alongside Ryan Blaney and Kyle Busch in what appeared like a trio of fighter pilots flying in formation.
Suarez received the race after all — his first on an oval. In doing so, he additionally turned the primary foreign-born driver to win an oval race within the Cup Sequence since Canadian Earl Ross did it in 1974. However this race was additionally the closest three-wide photograph end within the historical past of the whole sport. Suarez beat Blaney by simply 0.003s, and Busch in third was a mere 0.007s behind.
Disrupting the NASCAR championship race like by no means earlier than
Watch: Chastain on racing Blaney exhausting in title race: ‘I do know he’s mad, and I don’t care’
In fashionable NASCAR, the season ends with 4 finalists in a winner-take-all race at Phoenix Raceway (and beforehand Homestead-Miami Speedway. It is not a factors race for these Championship 4 drivers, as whichever certainly one of them finishes increased is topped champion. Subsequently, it needs to be no shock that the winner of the season finale yearly since this format was launched in 2014 has additionally been the champion…apart from one time.
Chastain was eradicated midway by means of the playoffs in 2023, however that does not imply you go residence. The remainder of the sphere continues to be on the market racing whereas the 4 title combatants battle it out. Chastain fortunately inserted himself into that battle, drawing the ire of eventual champion Ryan Blaney, who flipped him as they battled in a full-contact battle for the lead. On the ultimate restart, he drove proper on by fellow Chevy (and one other Championship 4 driver) Kyle Larson to take the lead, and ultimately held off Blaney for the race win. The published workforce struggled with tips on how to name the end as their consideration was break up between the champion in second, and the driving force who was truly profitable the race.
From final to first in a backup automotive to win NASCAR’s longest race
Watch: Ross Chastain makes daring transfer to win 2025 Coca-Cola 600
Chastain seems a couple of instances on this record as a result of he’s at all times so filled with surprises (simply take a look at the current Spherical of 12 elimination race on the Charlotte Roval), however earlier this 12 months, he earned Trackhouse its greatest win in NASCAR but. And the best way they did it was moderately unconventional.
In observe for the 2025 Coca-Cola 600 — NASCAR’s longest race at 600 miles (roughly 966km), the No. 1 automotive pushed by Chastain crashed with a tire failure. The workforce labored all through the night time to get the backup automotive prepared for this crown jewel occasion, figuring out they have been going to start out fortieth — final within the subject.
The automotive was readied, and Chastain slowly progressed by means of the sphere. He was twentieth by the top of Stage 1, tenth by the top of Stage 2, and fifth by the top of Stage 3. Within the fourth and closing stage, he snatched the lead away from William Byron with lower than ten miles left within the grueling occasion. He went on to seize the checkered flag, main simply eight of 400 laps, and smashing a watermelon because the eighth-generation farmer at all times does when he’s victorious. It was the deepest within the subject a winner of the legendary race has ever began, which dates all the best way again to 1960.
Fernandez stuns with MotoGP triumph
Raul Fernandez, Trackhouse Racing
Photograph by: Robert Cianflone / Getty Pictures
And the workforce’s most up-to-date shocker occurred in the newest spherical of MotoGP. Raul Fernandez was beginning his 76th profession grand prix, having by no means completed increased than fifth. Trackhouse’s MotoGP effort is lower than two years outdated, working as a satellite tv for pc workforce for Aprilia, they usually’ve by no means scored a podium.
Nevertheless, after beginning fourth within the Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island, he jumped as much as second moderately rapidly with Marco Bezzecchi simply forward of him. Bezzecchi needed to serve a penalty that later dropped him down the order, and opened the door for Fernandez. The Trackhouse rider held onto the race lead with a agency grip, sustaining a depraved tempo all through the occasion. Whereas there have been issues that he would burn the rear tire off, he managed it completely, taking the win by 1.4 seconds over Fabio di Giannantonio. It was a surprising triumph that few noticed coming, and Fernandez might hardly include his pleasure as soon as he ascended the highest step of the rostrum.
Together with 14 NASCAR Cup wins courtesy of Chastain, Van Gisbergen, and Suarez, the workforce now has one MotoGP victory due to Fernandez. All 4 drivers come from totally different nations as properly, representing the USA (Chastain), New Zealand (SVG), Mexico (Suarez), and Spain (Fernandez).
Watch: Raul Fernandez wins the Australian GP!
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