Even while he was on the way to winning the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series championship last year, Brett Moffitt faced an uncertain future.
And though he eventually claimed the title with back-to-back victories at ISM Raceway and Homestead-Miami Speedway, Moffitt’s deal with Hattori Racing Enterprises wasn’t renewed for 2019.
Moffitt signed on with GMS Racing and has won four times this season. And he recently got an official vote of confidence when his one-year deal with GMS was extended through 2020.
“Obviously, until papers are signed, it’s always in the back of your mind because I’ve had other teams lead me astray in that direction, but everyone at GMS was very reassuring,” Moffitt said on Friday at Martinsville Speedway, site of Saturday’s NASCAR Hall of Fame 200 (1:30 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
“Coming into this deal, we did a one-year deal, and as long as the shoe fit where I could fill in the role of being the anchor, the house car and helping these younger kids develop quicker, then it was the road we all wanted to go down. Meanwhile, I get to stay in winning equipment and win races. Ever since halfway through the year, I was confident that I would be back and then it’s just been within this past week we got it finalized.”
GMS also announced on Friday it would retain the services of Truck Series driver Sheldon Creed and provide 16-year-old NASCAR K&N Pro Series East champion Sam Mayer with an expanded Gander Outdoors Truck Series schedule as he competes for the ARCA Menards Series title.
Greg is the author of "The Nuts and Bolts of NASCAR: The Definitive Viewers' Guide to Big-Time Stock Car Auto Racing" and has been published in major publications across the country including the Los Angeles Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was also a contributor to Chicken Soup for the NASCAR Soul, published in 2010, and the Christmas edition in 2016. He wrote as the NASCAR, Formula 1, Auto Reviews and National Veterans Affairs Examiner for Examiner.com and has appeared on Fox News. He holds a BS degree in communications, a Masters degree in psychology and is currently a PhD candidate majoring in psychology. He is currently the weekend Motorsports Editor for Autoweek.
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