39 Facts About Noah Gragson

Noah Quinn Gragson was born on July 15,1998 and is an American professional stock car racing driver.

Noah Gragson competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No 42 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Legacy Motor Club.

Noah Gragson previously drove full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for JR Motorsports from 2019 to 2022, and full-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series for Kyle Busch Motorsports from 2017 to 2018.

Noah Gragson competed in the INEX Legends car racing series, winning the 2014 Young Lion Road Course championship.

At Tucson Speedway, Noah Gragson battled with teammate Gracin Raz to score his first career victory.

Later in the season at Meridian Speedway, Noah Gragson recorded his first pole position and led 176 laps to win.

Noah Gragson raced at Homestead as well, qualifying 10th and finishing 15th.

Noah Gragson returned to the No 18 KBM truck for the 2018 season.

Noah Gragson finished 2nd in the points standings, after finishing 3rd at Homestead.

Noah Gragson made his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut in the No 18 for Joe Gibbs Racing at Richmond Raceway in 2018 as part of a three-race schedule that included further starts at Talladega Superspeedway and Dover International Speedway.

On September 25,2018, JR Motorsports announced that Noah Gragson would drive the No 1 Chevrolet full-time for the 2019 Xfinity Series, replacing Elliott Sadler who retired at the end of the 2018 season.

Noah Gragson opened his rookie campaign with JR Motorsports by finishing 11th in the NASCAR Racing Experience 300 at Daytona International Speedway.

Noah Gragson scored a ninth-place at Atlanta the next week for his first top-10 of the season and followed it up with his first top-five of the season the next week when he finished third at Las Vegas.

Noah Gragson would go on to produce several strong runs during the season including a season-best second-place at Michigan.

Noah Gragson scored his first DNF of his Xfinity Series career in the 2019 O'Reilly 300 at Texas Motor Speedway when contact on lap 150 with the No 18 of Harrison Burton sent Noah Gragson's car spinning through the frontstretch grass.

On February 11,2020, Noah Gragson announced Bass Pro Shops, Black Rifle Coffee Company, and True Timber would sponsor him as a primary sponsor for three races starting at the season opener at Daytona International Speedway.

Noah Gragson went on to win the season-opening NASCAR Racing Experience 300.

Noah Gragson was in position to win a late-season race at Texas Motor Speedway but was passed by Harrison Burton in the final set of corners.

Noah Gragson began the 2022 season with a third-place finish at Daytona.

At Road America, Noah Gragson had an on-road scuffle with Sage Karam, resulting in him triggering a 13-car pileup on lap 25.

Noah Gragson was fined 35,000 and docked 30 driver and owner points for the incident.

Noah Gragson won the next three races at Kansas, Bristol, and Texas, becoming the first driver since Sam Ard in 1983 to win four straight Xfinity Series races.

Noah Gragson won his eighth race at Homestead to make his second straight Xfinity Championship 4 appearance.

Noah Gragson was unable to set a qualifying time after failing inspection three times and started the Bluegreen Vacations Duel from the back; a wreck with Garrett Smithley and Brad Keselowski with four laps remaining ended his chances of making the 500.

Noah Gragson returned to Beard for the 2022 Daytona 500, this time successfully qualifying for the race.

At the 2022 Coke Zero Sugar 400, Noah Gragson finished a Cup career-best finish of fifth.

Noah Gragson drove the Hendrick Motorsports No 48 at the Talladega, Charlotte Roval, Las Vegas, Homestead and the Martinsville races as a substitute for Alex Bowman, who sustained a concussion from a crash at Texas.

In 2017 he won the Winchester 400 and in his final ride with KBM, Noah Gragson won the 2018 Snowball Derby after holding off Ty Majeski.

Noah Gragson's 2018 racing slate included starts on the NASCAR Pinty's Series circuit in an effort to make himself a better driver via more seat time.

When Noah Gragson won the 2018 Snowball Derby he attempted to kiss the Snowball Derby trophy girl Helena Ciappini, which immediately garnered attention and support towards Noah Gragson with seemingly no consent being given, the next week however he would take her to the end-of-season NASCAR Awards Show as his date.

Later in the season in the 2020 Pocono Green 225, Snider would do what Noah Gragson did however he would in turn cause more than 5 cars to wreck along with him, under caution, Noah Gragson would run into him to voice his displeasure.

In December while under the red flag in the 2021 Snowflake 100 Noah Gragson would be involved an incident which took out Johanna Robbins in which her team owner came over and cussed out Noah Gragson and threatened to fight him but ultimately did not do anything.

Shortly after finishing 29th at Kansas, Noah Gragson confronted Ross Chastain over a racing incident between them that resulted in Noah Gragson hitting the outside wall.

Noah Gragson shoved Chastain, who retaliated with a punch to the face.

Noah Gragson attended Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas, Nevada for two years.

Noah Gragson finished his high school education online at K12.

Noah Gragson enjoys downhill mountain biking, and is an avid video game player, saying in an interview that he would perhaps spend Dash 4 Cash winnings on the popular video game Fortnite.

Noah Gragson's father Scott is a real estate agent and a businessman.

Noah Gragson settled out of court with the victims and is currently serving an 8-to-20-year prison sentence.