AM Racing is an American professional stock car racing team that competes in the

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, fielding the No. 22

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part-time for

Austin Wayne Self Austin Wayne Self (born March 5, 1996) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes part-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, driving the No. 22 Chevrolet Silverado for his family team, AM Racing and part-time in t ...

, TBA and the No. 37 part-time for multiple drivers. They compete full-time in the

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, fielding the No. 25 for

Brett Moffitt Brett B. Moffitt (born August 7, 1992) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 25 Ford Mustang for AM Racing. He won Rookie of the Year Honors in 2015 in the NASCAR ...

, and the

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. The team also has a technical alliance with

Stewart-Haas Racing Stewart-Haas Racing is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the NASCAR Cup Series, the NASCAR Xfinity Series, and eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series. The team is co-owned by three-time NASCAR Cup Series champ ...

AM Racing merged into Niece Motorsports for the 2018 season, but split back up from them in 2019 and fielded its own entries again. In 2020, the team moved to the former

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race shop in

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, which they shared with

Jordan Anderson Racing Jordan Anderson Racing Bommarito Autosport is an American professional stock car racing team that competes in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, fielding the No. 31 Chevrolet Camaro full-time for Myatt Snider, the No. 32 part-time for owner Jordan And ...

and

Win-Tron Racing Win-Tron Racing (formerly known as Country Joe Racing) was an American professional stock car racing team that competed in both the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and the ARCA Menards Series. The team merged into Truck Series team AM Racing b ...

, although the three teams did not merge and remained separate organizations. However, on January 14, 2021, it was announced that AM and Win-Tron would be merging for 2021.

Xfinity Series

;Brett Moffitt (2023-Present) On October 7, 2022, the team announced that they would field an entry into the

in 2023. It was announced on December 12, 2022 that

would drive for the team full-time in the No. 25

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in 2023.

Camping World Truck Series

Truck No. 22 history

In December 2015, it was announced that AM Racing would enter one truck in the

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field, the No. 22

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full-time for

. The team's first race was the season opener at Daytona, where Self qualified the truck 19th and finished in that same position, one lap down. In the second race at

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, Self qualified twentieth and finished sixteenth. Self failed to qualify for the third race at Martinsville, but raced with the No. 44 after

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crashed his only truck in qualifying and had no backup. Self had variable runs throughout the first half of the season until he broke through for his first top ten, a ninth at the

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. The team's operations were taken over by

after twelve races. The Self family retained an ownership stake in the team. After the merger with Win-Tron, performance remained nearly the same, with Austin Wayne Self turning in runs from the teens to twenties. At Martinsville, the team replaced Self with Justin Fontaine, who would be making his Truck debut. Fontaine qualified on owner points in 29th and moved up three places during the race to finish 26th. Self then took over the truck for the Striping Technology 350, finishing 22nd. For the Phoenix race, Self was again swapped out, this time for the son of

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broadcaster Marty Snider,

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. Snider qualified 19th and finished 17th. Self closed out the season at Homestead-Miami Speedway, finishing 25th. The No. 22 truck finished 22nd in owner points in its debut season. For the 2017 season, AM Racing announced a partnership with

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for engine power. On February 10, 2017, it was announced that

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would drive the No. 22 Legrand Tundra at the season opener at Daytona, while Self would drive the No. 32 truck. The team would run five races in total during the year under the AM Racing banner, the other four with Self behind the wheel. AM partnered with Niece Motorsports and Martins Motorsports to run Self in most of the remaining races. In October 2017, it was announced that Self would move to Niece Motorsports for the 2018 season. AM Racing reopened in 2019, with Self in the No. 22 for another full season. Self got the team their first top 5 at

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. However, Self was suspended in April of that year due to violating NASCAR's substance abuse policy, and

Bubba Wallace William Darrell "Bubba" Wallace Jr. (born October 8, 1993) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 23 Toyota Camry for 23XI Racing and part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity ...

filled in for 2 races (at Martinsville and Texas in March) before Self was reinstated. Self returned full-time in 2020. He got two top 10 finishes that year, at

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and

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, and finished 16th in points.

Truck No. 32 history

piloted a second entry for the team, the No. 32, at the 2017 season-opener at Daytona. He finished a career-best second after avoiding the big one on the last lap.

Truck No. 37 history

drove this truck at the

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. In 2022, the No. 37 returned as AM Racing's second entry and

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would drive the truck at COTA as well as other races that season. In 2023, the No. 37 is expected to run the full schedule.

Truck No. 66 history

Using

Bolen Motorsports Bolen Motorsports was an American professional stock car racing team that competed part-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. The team fielded the No. 66 Chevrolet Silverado for Jordan Anderson, Ross Chastain, Travis Kvapil, Trey Hutch ...

' owner points, Justin Fontaine drove the No. 66 truck in one race in 2017.

ARCA Menards Series

Car No. 32 history

Following Win-Tron Racing's merger into AM Racing for the 2021 season. Howie DiSavino III, who drove the car part-time in 2019 and 2020, continued to do so in 2021. He made his first start at Daytona that year. The team did not field an entry in 2022, but announced their intentions to return in 2023 in October 2022.

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