Austin Cindric

Regional and Camping World Truck Series

In July 2015, Cindric made his ARCA Racing Series debut at the #ThisIsMySpeedway 150 at Iowa Speedway, driving the No. 99 for Cunningham Motorsports;^[6] Cindric started and finished fourth in the race.^[10] He made his NASCAR debut in the Camping World Truck Series, driving the No. 29 Ford F-150 for Brad Keselowski Racing at Martinsville as a substitute for Austin Theriault, who was still recovering from his injury at Las Vegas.^[11]

In addition to his Pirelli World Challenge schedule in 2016, he joined Martin-McClure Racing for two K&N Pro Series East events^[9] and Brad Keselowski Racing in the No. 2 F-150 at Dover International Speedway.^[12] His two K&N East starts resulted in victories at Virginia International Raceway and Watkins Glen International.^[13] Later in the year, he recorded his first ARCA win at Kentucky Speedway.^[14] That October, Cindric made his restrictor track debut at Talladega, finishing 20th. In November 2016, BKR announced that Cindric would compete full-time in the Truck Series in 2017.^[15]

During the 2017 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season, he grabbed the pole for the season's lone road course race at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. Although he led the most laps that day, differing strategies saw Cindric behind Kaz Grala on the last lap. Cindric, on newer tires, made contact with Grala, causing the No. 33 to spin. Cindric went on to win and claim a playoff berth in team Brad Keselowski Racing's final season.^[16] Grala claimed that he got run over, but Cindric marginalized his maneuver by calling it a "last resort" and claiming that it was justified by the need for a playoff spot. The move drew widespread criticism from other drivers, including Justin Allgaier and Christopher Bell.^[17] A week after the Mosport incident, Cindric made a Global Rallycross start in which he collided with Scott Speed coming out of a joker lap. That led to a verbal confrontation with Speed afterwards and again drew the ire of the NASCAR community on social media.^[18]

Xfinity Series

In August 2017, Cindric joined Team Penske's No. 22 car for the Xfinity Series race at Road America.^[19]

In 2018, Cindric ran the full Xfinity schedule, splitting time between three different Ford Mustangs: Penske's No. 12 and No. 22 Fords, and the No. 60 Ford of Roush Fenway Racing.^[20] Cindric got his first pole at Iowa in the season's fourteenth race, where his No. 22 car had a history of success, though he faded back to eleventh in the race after finishing second in the first stage. He was involved in a violent crash in the Daytona race, in which he barrel-rolled twice in turn 2. In Cindric's last ride with the No. 60 Roush Fenway car at Darlington, he was turned by Ryan Truex exiting turn four on the third lap and spun out resulting in a 40th-place finish. The car, split between Cindric, Chase Briscoe, and Ty Majeski, attracted notoriety during the season for being involved in numerous accidents, ending the year with 28: 22 brought out a caution flag, six spins that did not produce a caution, and four wrecks during practice or qualifying.^[21]

On November 8, 2018, Team Penske announced that Cindric would compete full-time in their No. 22 Ford Mustang in 2019. MoneyLion was the primary sponsor for eighteen races, part of a multi-year deal with the team.^[22]

In August 2019, Cindric scored his first career NASCAR Xfinity Series wins with back-to-back road course victories at Watkins Glen and Mid-Ohio.^[23][24] He finished the 2019 season sixth in points after finishing seventh at Homestead.^[25]

Cindric scored his first oval victories in July 2020 at Kentucky Speedway, where he swept the weekend's Xfinity races Shady Rays 200 and Alsco 300.^[26] He was the first driver to win national series races at the same track on two consecutive days since Richard Petty in 1971.^[27] The victories began a seven-race stretch in which he won or finished second, including his third straight win at Texas Motor Speedway after Kyle Busch's disqualification and back-to-back road course victories at Road America and the Daytona road course.^[28][29][30] He won the regular season championship with a tenth-place finish in the finale at Richmond and entered the playoffs with five wins.^[31] Cindric won at Phoenix to win the championship. Cindric also led the non-playoff points standings and led all drivers in top fives (nineteen) and top tens (26).^[32]

Cindric would return to the No. 22 Ford Mustang in 2021. Cindric took his first win of 2021 at Daytona in February, followed by additional victories at Phoenix, Dover, Pocono, and the Indianapolis Road Course. He led much of the regular season standings but finished runner-up in the regular-season finale at Bristol to A. J. Allmendinger when the two made contact coming to the finish and slid across the line.^[33]

Cindric lost the lead and the championship in turn three to Daniel Hemric on the last lap of Phoenix in 2021.^{[citation needed]}

Cup Series

During the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series' 2019 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Cindric replaced Brad Keselowski for final practice as Keselowski was experiencing flu-like symptoms.^[34] Cindric remained on standby for the race,^[35] but Keselowski ran the full event and went on to win.^[36] In September, Cindric once again served as a practice substitute driver, this time for Michael McDowell at the Bank of America Roval 400 while McDowell was being treated for a kidney stone.^[37]

In October 2020, Team Penske announced Cindric would begin racing in the Cup Series in 2021 on a part-time basis before moving up to the series full-time in 2022 in the Wood Brothers Racing No. 21, replacing Matt DiBenedetto.^[38] He would run his part-time schedule in the Cup Series in a part-time fourth car for Penske, the No. 33.^[39] Cindric's first Cup Series start came in the 2021 Daytona 500, where he finished fifteenth after being involved in a fiery last-lap crash. He led laps at Circuit of the Americas and Road America,^[40] and scored his first Cup top ten at Indianapolis when he finished ninth.^[41]

On July 15, 2021, Team Penske announced Cindric would instead drive the team's No. 2 car in 2022, replacing Brad Keselowski as he left to become the driver of the No. 6 car for Roush Fenway Racing as well as a co-owner of the team, which was renamed RFK Racing.^[40]

On February 20, 2022, Cindric won the 2022 Daytona 500 in his first full-time Cup Series season driving for Team Penske. It was only his eighth Cup Series start. Cindric became the ninth driver to win his first Cup Series race in the Daytona 500. At the age of 23, Cindric also became the second-youngest driver in NASCAR history to win the Daytona 500. It was the third Daytona 500 win for Team Penske, who previously won the 2008 race with Ryan Newman, driving the No. 12 car and the 2015 race with Joey Logano, driving the No. 22 car. It was also the first Daytona 500 win for Team Penske's flagship No. 2 car.^[42] The following week, Cindric won the pole at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California and finished 12th. As a result of that finish, Cindric led the points again for two weeks in a row, becoming the second rookie in NASCAR history (after Jimmie Johnson) to lead the NASCAR Cup Series points standings in consecutive weeks. On July 20, crew chief Jeremy Bullins was suspended for four races due to a tire and wheel loss during the 2022 Ambetter 301 at Loudon.^[43] Cindric was eliminated in the Round of 12 after finishing 21st at the Charlotte Roval.^[44] He finished the season twelfth in the points standings and won the NASCAR Rookie of the Year honors.^[45][46]

Cindric started the 2023 Season with a 23rd place finish in the 2023 Daytona 500. Cindric would struggle heavily throughout the season, rarely finishing inside the top-ten in a race. Cindric would miss the playoffs as a result of his poor performance. After a disappointing season, he would finish 24th in the final point standings and only scored one top-five and five top-ten finishes the whole season.

Cindric started the 2024 season with a 22nd place finish at the 2024 Daytona 500. He scored his second career win at Gateway after Christopher Bell lost an engine and Ryan Blaney ran out of gas, breaking an 85-race winless streak.^[47] He was eliminated from the Round of 12 at the conclusion of the Charlotte Roval race.

Cindric started the 2025 season with an eighth place finish at the 2025 Daytona 500. Following the COTA race, he was docked 50 driver points and fined US$50,000 for right-rear hooking Ty Dillon.^[48] Cindric scored his first win of the season at Talladega after beating Ryan Preece by 0.022 to the finish line.^[49]

USF2000 National Championship results

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