AM Racing
American stock car team that competed in NASCAR and ARCA series.
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AM Racing was a professional stock car racing team from the United States that took part in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series, the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, and the ARCA Menards Series. The team joined forces with Niece Motorsports in 2018, but left that partnership in 2019 to run its own cars again. In 2020, the team set up shop in the old Front Row Motorsports facility in Statesville, North Carolina, sharing the space with Jordan Anderson Racing and Win-Tron Racing, though all three stayed separate. A merger between AM and Win-Tron was announced for 2021. In late 2025, fellow ARCA team Sigma Performance Services planned to buy AM Racing starting in 2026, but that deal fell through by early 2026. The team officially shut down on May 15, 2026.
Quick Facts
- Team name
- AM Racing Future Focused
- Owner names
- Tim Self
- Principals
- Kevin Cywinski (Operator); Wade Moore (President)
- Base
- Statesville, North Carolina
- Series
- NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series
- Drivers
- 25. Nick Sanchez (part-time); 52. Daniel Dye (part-time)
- Manufacturer
- Ford
- Opened
- 2016
Facts from the source article.
Did You Know?
- Two-time Cup Series champion Joey Logano drove for AM Racing at the 2024 Chicago street race, finishing eighth.
- The proposed acquisition of AM Racing by Sigma Performance Services was announced on November 24, 2025, but was never finalized as of January 30, 2026.
O'Reilly Auto Parts Series
On October 7, 2022, the team announced that they would field an entry into the NASCAR Xfinity Series in 2023. It was announced on December 12 that Brett Moffitt would drive for the team full-time in the No. 25 in 2023. On September 23, 2023, AM Racing announced their desire to field a second Xfinity Series team in 2024. On October 5, the team announced that they had signed Hailie Deegan to a multi-year deal to drive the No. 15 beginning the following season.
AirBox, Inc. and Viva Tequila Seltzer were announced as the sponsors for the entry. On January 17, 2024, the team announced that they would not field the No. 25 in the season-opener at Daytona, as it most likely would be fielded later in the spring. The No. 25 points would then be moved to the No. 15. Following a string of disappointing finishes, AM Racing signed two-time Cup Series champion Joey Logano to replace Deegan for the Chicago street race, where he finished eighth.
On July 8, AM Racing and Deegan officially announced that they would go their separate ways. Josh Berry signed to drive the No. 15 at Pocono and at Indy. Lawless Alan was announced to make his Xfinity series debut in the No. 15 at Michigan. Harrison Burton was announced as the driver of the No. 25 car for the 2025 season on September 20, 2024.
On October 8, 2025, Burton announced that he won't return to AM Racing for 2026. On February 9, 2026, it was announced that Nick Sanchez would drive the No. 25 car for the 2026 season. On February 9, 2026, AM Racing announced that Daniel Dye would compete in the No. 52 on a part-time basis for the 2026 season. On September 1, 2025, AM Racing announced that Kole Raz would attempt to make his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut at World Wide Technology Raceway driving the No. 76 car.
Craftsman Truck Series
In December 2015, it was announced that AM Racing would enter one truck in the Camping World Truck Series field, the No. 22 Toyota Tundra full-time for Austin Wayne Self. The team's first race was the season opener at Daytona, where Self qualified the truck 19th and finished in that same position, one lap down. In the second race at Atlanta, Self qualified twentieth and finished sixteenth. Self failed to qualify for the third race at Martinsville, but raced with the No. 44 after Tommy Joe Martins crashed his only truck in qualifying and had no backup.
Self had variable runs throughout the first half of the season until he broke through for his first top ten, a ninth at the Aspen Dental Eldora Dirt Derby. The team's operations were taken over by Win-Tron Racing after twelve races. The Self family retained an ownership stake in the team. After the merger with Win-Tron, performance remained nearly the same, with Austin Wayne Self turning in runs from the teens to twenties.
At Martinsville, the team replaced Self with Justin Fontaine, who would be making his Truck debut. Fontaine qualified on owner points in 29th and moved up three places during the race to finish 26th. Self then took over the truck for the Striping Technology 350, finishing 22nd. For the Phoenix race, Self was again swapped out, this time for Myatt Snider.
Snider qualified nineteenth and finished seventeenth. Self closed out the season at Homestead-Miami Speedway, finishing 25th. The No. 22 truck finished 22nd in owner points in its debut season. For the 2017 season, AM Racing announced a partnership with Joe Gibbs Racing for engine power.
On February 10, 2017, it was announced that J. J. Yeley would drive the No. 22 Legrand Tundra at the season opener at Daytona, while Self would drive the No. 32 truck. The team would run five races in total during the year under the AM Racing banner, the other four with Self behind the wheel. AM partnered with Niece Motorsports and Martins Motorsports to run Self in most of the remaining races. In October 2017, it was announced that Self would move to Niece Motorsports for the 2018 season.
AM Racing reopened in 2019, with Self in the No. 22 for another full season. Self got the team their first top-five at Michigan Speedway. However, Self was suspended in April of that year due to violating NASCAR's substance abuse policy, and Bubba Wallace filled in for 2 races (at Martinsville and Texas in March) before Self was reinstated. Self returned full-time in 2020.
He got two top-ten finishes that year, at Texas Motor Speedway and Martinsville Speedway, and finished sixteenth in points. In January 2024, the No. 22 truck owner points were bought by Reaume Brothers Racing. Austin Wayne Self piloted a second entry for the team, the No. 32, at the 2017 season-opener at Daytona. He finished a career-best second after avoiding the big one on the last lap.
In 2021, Brett Moffitt drove the No. 37 truck at the Corn Belt 150. In 2022, the No. 37 returned as AM Racing's second entry and Logan Bearden would drive the truck at COTA as well as Max Gutiérrez driving at Charlotte. Using Bolen Motorsports' owner points, Justin Fontaine drove the No. 66 truck in one race in 2017.
ARCA Menards Series
Following Win-Tron Racing's merger into AM Racing for the 2021 season, Howie DiSavino III, who drove the car part-time in 2019 and 2020, continued to do so in 2021. He made his first start at Daytona that year. In 2022, the team fielded the No. 32 car part-time for Max Gutiérrez at Daytona and Talladega, and was also a technical alliance with Rette Jones Racing. Austin Wayne Self drove the No. 32 car once at Watkins-Glen. In October the team announced their intentions to return full-time in 2023. On January 10, 2023, the team announced that Christian Rose would drive full-time in the main ARCA Series in their No. 32 car. On February 6, 2025, it was announced that Kole Raz would drive the No. 76 for the season-opener at Daytona.
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