1. Daniel Brian Hemric was born on January 27,1991 and is an American professional stock car racing driver.
39 Facts About Daniel Hemric
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Daniel Hemric competes full-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No 19 Chevrolet Silverado RST for McAnally-Hilgemann Racing and part-time in the ARCA Menards Series West, driving the No 19 Chevrolet SS for the Bill McAnally Racing.
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Daniel Hemric ran two full seasons in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for Richard Childress Racing, reaching the Championship Round of the NASCAR playoffs in both years, before competing in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series for the team in 2019.
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In 2021, Daniel Hemric joined Joe Gibbs Racing and won his first career NASCAR race and the Xfinity Series championship.
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At 16, Daniel Hemric moved up to Legends cars, and in 2008, he won the track's Pro championship, as well as the first of two back-to-back Legends Pro national championships.
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In 2010, Daniel Hemric won the Legends Million at Charlotte Motor Speedway, winning the largest paycheck in Legends car history, $250,000.
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Daniel Hemric won the Summer Shootout Series championship again in 2013, in addition to competing in the Southern Super Series late model championship, driving the No 98 Ford for Carswell Motorsports.
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Daniel Hemric competed in the Blizzard Series late model tour, winning the series' 2013 championship.
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In October 2013, Daniel Hemric made his debut in NASCAR national series competition at Martinsville Speedway, driving the No 6 Chevrolet for Sharp Gallaher Racing in the Camping World Truck Series.
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Daniel Hemric made his third Truck start in 2014 for NTS Motorsports, finishing a solid 12th at Homestead.
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In 2015, Daniel Hemric announced that he would compete full-time for the first time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series with NTS Motorsports.
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Daniel Hemric drove the No 14 California Clean Power Chevrolet Silverado and competed for the 2015 NASCAR Rookie of the Year title.
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Daniel Hemric earned a best finish of fourth and ran as high as fifth in the NCWTS Driver Point Standings, ultimately finishing the season seventh in the championship standings.
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On November 3, Daniel Hemric announced that he would join Brad Keselowski Racing to drive the No 19 Ford F-Series in 2016.
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Daniel Hemric started the season with an 8th-place finish at Daytona.
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Daniel Hemric would make the Chase after being the highest non-winner points.
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In 2018, Daniel Hemric made a return to the Truck Series, running a one-off race for Young's Motorsports at Charlotte Motor Speedway, where he started 16th and finished 21st.
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Daniel Hemric started the 2025 season with a seventh place finish at Daytona.
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On September 17,2016, it was announced that Daniel Hemric would join Richard Childress Racing in 2017.
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Daniel Hemric ran the full Xfinity Series schedule and competed for Rookie of the Year, driving the No 21 Chevy Camaro.
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Daniel Hemric rebounded the next week at Atlanta, finishing 9th for his first career Xfinity top-10 finish.
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At Mid-Ohio, Daniel Hemric would run in the top 5 for most of the day, bringing home an impressive and career-best 2nd-place finish.
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Daniel Hemric finished 34th and 13 laps down, fourth in the points.
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Daniel Hemric returned to the Xfinity Series in 2020, joining JR Motorsports' No 8 car for a 21-race schedule and sharing the car with Dale Earnhardt Jr.
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Daniel Hemric moved to Joe Gibbs Racing's No 18 Xfinity car for the 2021 season, marking a return to full-time competition.
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On November 6, Daniel Hemric used a last lap, overtime pass of Cindric at the season finale at Phoenix Raceway to not only win the first race of his NASCAR career, but the 2021 Xfinity Series title.
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Daniel Hemric's car flipped onto its roof and finally got off of the wall heading into the frontstretch off of turn 4.
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Daniel Hemric's flip occurred in the same race as Blaine Perkins.
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Daniel Hemric was eliminated at the conclusion of the Charlotte Roval race.
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Daniel Hemric returned to RCR's No 21 for the 2018 season in addition to a part-time schedule in the Truck Series, driving the No 20 Chevrolet Silverado for Young's Motorsports.
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On September 28,2018, RCR announced that beginning in 2019, Daniel Hemric would be the full-time driver of the No 31 Chevrolet in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, competing for 2019 Rookie of the Year honors.
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On December 14,2018, RCR announced that Daniel Hemric would be driving the No 8 car instead of the No 31 car for the 2019 season.
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Daniel Hemric finished the season 25th in the points standings.
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In 2022, Daniel Hemric drove the Kaulig Racing No 16 part-time in the Cup Series, finishing 12th at the 2022 Daytona 500 and peaking at ninth place at Fontana.
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On November 6, Daniel Hemric filled in for Ty Gibbs in the No 23 car for 23XI Racing in the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway.
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Daniel Hemric was still at the track after the previous day's Xfinity Series race and was able to be fitted into Gibbs' car seat.
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On September 15,2023, Kaulig Racing announced that Daniel Hemric would drive the No 31 in 2024.
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Daniel Hemric announced in November 2019 that Ruston was expecting their first child.
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Daniel Hemric announced in August 2022 that Ruston was expecting their second child.