35 Facts About Timmy Hill

Timothy Grant Hill was born on February 25,1993 and is an American professional stock car racing driver and team owner.

Timmy Hill competes part-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No 56 Toyota Tundra for his team, Hill Motorsports, and full-time in the ARCA Menards Series East, driving the No 56 Toyota Camry for the same team.

Timmy Hill previously competed part-time in the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series.

Timmy Hill was born in Port Tobacco, Maryland, and began racing go-karts at the age of 12.

In 2011, Timmy Hill moved to Rick Ware Racing in the Nationwide Series, where he won Rookie of the Year honors.

Timmy Hill is the son of former NASCAR driver Jerry Hill and brother of current NASCAR driver Tyler Hill, who shared driving duties in 2023 and co-owns the No 56 truck with Timmy.

Timmy Hill began his racing career in 2005 by karting at the age of 12.

Timmy Hill finished third in the World Karting Association National Championship.

One year later, Timmy Hill began racing Legend cars and in the Allison Legacy Series.

In 2011, Timmy Hill began racing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series at Phoenix International Raceway, having been too young to compete in the season opener at Daytona International Speedway, not yet having passed his eighteenth birthday.

Timmy Hill competed in 33 of the 34 events scheduled for the season, and scored Top 20 finishes in five.

Timmy Hill returned to Rick Ware Racing in NASCAR for the 2012 season, competing for the team in the 24 Hours of Daytona.

Just before the start of the season, it was announced that Timmy Hill would move up to the Sprint Cup Series, driving the No 37 Ford for Max Q Motorsports with an alliance with Rick Ware's team, and competing for Rookie of the Year.

Timmy Hill had originally been announced to compete in all Cup races that year except for the 2012 Daytona 500, where Mike Wallace, an experienced and successful plate driver, would drive the No 37 instead of the rookie Timmy Hill to have a better chance of getting the team in the race.

Timmy Hill would fail to qualify in his first Cup attempt at Phoenix.

For 2013, Timmy Hill returned to the No 32 team for a part-time schedule of 19 races with OXY Water and US Chrome sponsorship, and declared for Sprint Cup Rookie of the Year honors He would finish third in the Rookie of the Year standings, behind full-time drivers Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

Timmy Hill would drive the No 33 Chevy part-time for Circle Sport in 2014 after starting the year without a ride after he was replaced in the No 32 by Travis Kvapil that year.

Timmy Hill practiced and qualified Landon Cassill's No 40 Circle Sport car at Sonoma when Cassill was in Road America for the Nationwide race that day.

In 2015, Timmy Hill returned to Identity Ventures, now renamed Premium Motorsports, where he would drive part-time in both the No 62 in the Cup Series and the No 94 in the Truck Series and later the No 98 in Cup as well after they bought the Phil Parsons Racing team.

Timmy Hill made his first Xfinity Series start of the season at Texas in the No 13 for Carl Long's MBM Motorsports team.

Timmy Hill would go on to run 11 more races for Premium Motorsports.

Timmy Hill announced in August that he would be running the remainder of the 2016 Xfinity Series season for MBM.

In 2017, Timmy Hill returned to Rick Ware Racing to drive the No 51 in the Cup Series starting at the Daytona 500, but failed to qualify.

At the Brickyard 400, Timmy Hill avoided numerous incidents to record his and MBM's best finish, a 14th.

In 2018, Timmy Hill continued to drive for MBM at multiple levels, scoring his and MBM's first Top 10, a seventh at Daytona in July.

Timmy Hill continued with MBM in 2019, earning a seventh-place finish at Bristol in August in a car that was fielded in collaboration with Hattori Racing Enterprises.

Timmy Hill made the starting lineup of the 2020 Daytona 500 after finishing 16th in Duel 2 of the 2020 Bluegreen Vacations Duels.

Timmy Hill made the most NASCAR national series starts of any driver in 2020, with a total of 75 races, ranking third all-time behind Kyle Busch and 2018 and 2019 holder Ross Chastain.

The second one came at the Yellawood 500 where due to a lot of front runners being involved in crashes, Timmy Hill ran in the Top 10 towards the end of the race, but Timmy Hill ran out of fuel and placed 15th, making it his third Cup series Top 20.

Timmy Hill did not end up running the full Cup schedule, only attempting 14 of the 36 races.

Timmy Hill's Cup schedule included the 2021 Daytona 500 in the No 66, which was a Ford in that race for the second straight year.

Timmy Hill did not end up making the 500 in 2021 or 2022.

For 2025, Timmy Hill moved down to the ARCA Menards Series East to compete in the No 56 Toyota there full-time, which would be his first time in an ARCA sanctioned race since 2011.

Season still in progress Ineligible for series points Timmy Hill started the 2012 season running for Cup points but switched to the Nationwide Series starting at Texas in April.

Timmy Hill started the 2021 season running for Xfinity points but switched to the Truck Series starting at Darlington in May.