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Nemechek got a chance to make 18 starts for Chevy CAMARO SS
CREW CHIEF:
Chip Ganassi’s Xfinity team in 2018, and he 23
responded with the win at Kansas. CHAD NORRIS FEATURED DRIVERS

When Ganassi picked Ross Chastain to be OWNER:
his full-time driver in Xfinity, Nemechek’s GMS RACING
2019 plans suddenly were in doubt. Then
came the offer from GMS Racing.
said. “We are excited to have him on board for the 2019
season. With how much progress we showed last year
“The results that GMS Racing showed in our NASCAR Xfinity Series program, I know that John
last year in their NASCAR Xfinity Hunter will take us to the next level.”
Series program were impressive,”
Nemechek said. “Their goal is to create
a championship-caliber team, like their GMS Racing also fields NGOTS teams. The organization
truck series program, and I believe won the truck series championship with Johnny Sauter
in 2016 and the 2015 ARCA Racing Series presented by
that we can achieve that goal in the Menards title in with Grant Enfinger.
2019 season.”

Nemechek started racing go-karts, quarter-midgets and
Although he competed at a part-time
level in both the trucks and Xfinity dirt bikes when he was 5. In 2012 he won the Allison
Legacy Series championship, and a year later he made his
Series in 2018, his results mirrored
each other. He won a single race in both NASCAR debut in a NEMCO truck.
series, six top-fives in both and 10 top-
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10s in trucks and 11 top-10s in Xfinity.

That was more than enough to
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“John Hunter is a wheelman,” Mike
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