Sam Mayer
Sam Mayer | |||||||
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Nationality | American | ||||||
Born | Sam A. Mayer[1] June 26, 2003 Franklin, Wisconsin | ||||||
Related to | Scott Mayer (father) | ||||||
ARCA Menards Series East career | |||||||
Debut season | 2018 | ||||||
Former teams | GMS Racing Jefferson Pitts Racing MDM Motorsports | ||||||
Starts | 24 | ||||||
Championships | 2 | ||||||
Wins | 9 | ||||||
Poles | 5 | ||||||
Best finish | 1st in 2020 | ||||||
Finished last season | 1st (2020) | ||||||
Previous series | |||||||
2018 | CARS Late Model Stock Tour | ||||||
Championship titles | |||||||
2020 2019 2017 | ARCA Menards Series East NASCAR K&N Pro Series East INEX Legends Young Lions National Champion | ||||||
ARCA Menards Series career | |||||||
Debut season | 2018 | ||||||
Current team | Bret Holmes Racing | ||||||
Car number | 23 | ||||||
Engine | Chevrolet | ||||||
Crew chief | Shane Huffman | ||||||
Former teams | GMS Racing MDM Motorsports | ||||||
Starts | 23 | ||||||
Championships | 0 | ||||||
Wins | 5 | ||||||
Poles | 0 | ||||||
Finished last season | 7th | ||||||
NASCAR Xfinity Series career | |||||||
18 races run over 1 year | |||||||
Car no., team | No. 1 (JR Motorsports) | ||||||
2021 position | 25th | ||||||
Best finish | 25th (2021) | ||||||
First race | 2021 Pocono Green 225 (Pocono) | ||||||
Last race | 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Race (Phoenix) | ||||||
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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career | |||||||
14 races run over 3 years | |||||||
Truck no., team | No. 75 (Henderson Motorsports) No. 32 (Bret Holmes Racing) | ||||||
2020 position | 27th | ||||||
First race | 2019 UNOH 200 (Bristol) | ||||||
Last race | 2021 UNOH 200 (Bristol) | ||||||
First win | 2020 UNOH 200 (Bristol) | ||||||
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Statistics current as of December 26, 2021. |
Sam A. Mayer (born June 26, 2003) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 1 Chevrolet Camaro for JR Motorsports, a team in which he is also a development driver for through their Drivers Edge Development program.
Mayer is the 2019 and 2020 East Series champion. He drove for GMS Racing (the other Drivers Edge Development team) both of those years in their No. 21 car and also won the inaugural championship of the ARCA Menards Series Sioux Chief Showdown in 2020. Mayer started his NASCAR career driving for Jefferson Pitts Racing and MDM Motorsports in 2018 before joining GMS, JRM, and Chevrolet as a development driver in 2019.
Racing career[]
Mayer got off to an early start in racing, competing in go-kart events at the age of four.[2] Although his father, Scott Mayer, was an open-wheel racer, Sam chose in his preteen years to focus on stock car racing.[3] Over the course of the 2017 summer, during which Mayer turned fourteen, he spent the summer in Charlotte to race Legends cars; he won the Young Lions division of the Charlotte Motor Speedway Summer Shootout.[4] He also raced in a Limited Late Model and won at Greenville-Pickens Speedway to become the track's youngest winner.[5] He came back to Wisconsin and won a September Midwest Truck Series race at Dells Raceway Park in his first series start.[5]
In 2017, Mayer came in touch with industry veteran Lorin Ranier, who eventually landed Mayer a late model ride with JR Motorsports in the CARS Tour for 2018. Mayer's late model racing also brought him to the World Series of Asphalt, where he finished second to Stephen Nasse.[3] Ranier also led Mayer to MDM Motorsports for a limited slate in the ARCA Racing Series and NASCAR K&N Pro Series East in the back half of 2018, with age restrictions being a factor in which races Mayer could run, as both series only let 15-year-old competitors race on certain tracks.[3] In his first ARCA race, Mayer ran as high as third and finished inside the top-ten.[6] After the CARS Tour season was over, Mayer was voted the series' Most Popular Driver for 2018. The CARS Tour season included one victory, at Wake County Speedway.[7]
On December 5, 2018, it was announced that Mayer would run a full NASCAR K&N Pro Series East schedule with GMS Racing as part of a 2019 schedule that would also include seven ARCA races and four NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series races with the team. All four of the Truck races will come after Mayer turns sixteen; his debut is slated to be at Bristol Motor Speedway in August. That race would be followed by appearances at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, Martinsville Speedway and ISM Raceway.[2]
Mayer scored his first K&N East win at Bristol on April 6, 2019, leading every lap.[8] He nearly scored his first ARCA Menards Series win at Gateway in June after a late pit gamble, but was moved up the track by Ty Gibbs in the final set of corners and was relegated to third.[9] In October, he won the 2019 K&N East championship to become the youngest NASCAR champion at 16 years, 3 months, and 8 days; the previous record was 16 years and 5 months by Todd Gilliland in 2016. Mayer ended the 2019 season with four wins and top tens in all but one race.[10]
While racing in the ARCA Menards Series and ARCA Menards Series East in 2020, Mayer made a TA2 Trans-Am start at Road America and suffered a hairline fracture in his wrist during a race-ending crash.[11] The injury forced Colin Braun to sub in for Mayer midway through the AMS race at the Daytona International Speedway road course.[12] Mayer later won ARCA's first trip to Lebanon I-44 Speedway.[13]
On September 15, 2020, Mayer and JR Motorsports announced an agreement to have him drive one of the organization's NASCAR Xfinity Series cars part-time in the latter portion of 2021 and full-time in the 2022 season.[14] Two days later, Mayer swept the night at Bristol, winning both the Truck Series and ARCA race.[15] He overcame a pit miscue to claim the checkered flag in the ARCA event.[16] Mayer won the East finale at Five Flags Speedway to capture the series championship with an average finish of 1.2 on the season.[17]
On January 14, 2021, defending ARCA champion Bret Holmes announced he would begin fielding a part-time Truck Series team, the No. 32, for himself and Mayer for the upcoming season. In addition, Mayer would also drive select races in Bret Holmes Racing's No. 23 car in the ARCA Menards Series and ARCA Menards Series East.[18] Three days later on January 17, it was also announced that Mayer would run seven races in the No. 75 for Henderson Motorsports in the Truck Series, beginning at the Daytona Road Course.[19]
Motorsports career results[]
NASCAR[]
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. ** – All laps led.)
Xfinity Series[]
NASCAR Xfinity Series results | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | NXSC | Pts | Ref | ||
2021 | JR Motorsports | 8 | Chevy | DAY | DAY | HOM | LVS | PHO | ATL | MAR | TAL | DAR | DOV | COA | CLT | MOH | TEX | NSH | POC 18 |
ROA 35 |
ATL 9 |
NHA 39 |
GLN 10 |
IND 27 |
MCH 33 |
DAY 12 |
DAR 39 |
BRI 9 |
LVS 34 |
TAL 38 |
CLT 10 |
TEX 13 |
KAN 8 |
MAR 4 |
PHO 13 |
25th | 338 | [20] | |||
B.J. McLeod Motorsports | 99 | Chevy | RCH 12 |
Camping World Truck Series[]
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | NCWTC | Pts | Ref | |||||||||||||||
2019 | GMS Racing | 21 | Chevy | DAY | ATL | LVS | MAR | TEX | DOV | KAN | CLT | TEX | IOW | GTW | CHI | KEN | POC | ELD | MCH | BRI 21 |
MSP | LVS | TAL | MAR 28 |
PHO 19 |
HOM | 50th | 54 | [21] | |||||||||||||||
2020 | 24 | DAY | LVS | CLT | ATL | HOM | POC | KEN | TEX | KAN | KAN | MCH | DAY | DOV 15 |
GTW 4 |
DAR | RCH 19 |
BRI 1 |
LVS | TAL | KAN | TEX | MAR 18 |
PHO 17 |
27th | 179 | [22] | |||||||||||||||||
2021 | Henderson Motorsports | 75 | Chevy | DAY | DAY 37 |
LVS | ATL | BRI | -* | -* | [23] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bret Holmes Racing | 32 | Chevy | RCH 9 |
KAN | DAR | COA 6 |
CLT | TEX | NSH | POC | KNX | GLN 9 |
GTW | DAR | BRI 22 |
LVS | TAL | MAR | PHO |
* Season still in progress
1 Ineligible for series points
ARCA Menards Series[]
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
ARCA Menards Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | AMSC | Pts | Ref |
2018 | MDM Motorsports | 40 | Toyota | DAY | NSH | SLM | TAL | TOL | POC | MCH | MAD | CHI | IOW 10 |
ELK | ISF | BLN | DSF | IRP 7 |
KAN | 52nd | 400 | [24] | ||||
2019 | GMS Racing | 21 | Chevy | DAY | 15 |
SLM 2 |
TAL | TOL 5 |
POC | MCH | 3 |
3 |
CHI | ELK 3 |
IOW | ISF | DSF | SLM 5 |
3 |
KAN | 14th | 1650 | [25] | |||
2020 | DAY | PHO 20 |
TAL | POC 3 |
IRP 2 |
KEN 4 |
IOW 2 |
KAN | 1 |
TOL 1 |
MCH | DAY 3 |
GTW 3 |
L44 1 |
TOL 1* |
BRI 1* |
MEM 2 |
ISF | KAN | 7th | 553 | [26] | ||||
2021 | Bret Holmes Racing | 23 | Chevy | DAY | PHO | TAL | KAN | TOL | CLT | MOH | POC 22 |
ELK | BLN | IOW | WIN | GLN 14 |
MCH 4 |
ISF | MLW 2 |
DSF | BRI 29 |
SLM | KAN | 27th | 149 | [27] |
ARCA Menards Series East[]
ARCA Menards Series East results | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | AMSEC | Pts | Ref |
2018 | Jefferson Pitts Racing | 27 | Ford | NSM | BRI | LGY | SBO | SBO | MEM | NJM | THO | NHA 17 |
IOW 17 |
18th | 200 | [28] | ||||
MDM Motorsports | 41 | Toyota | GLN 5 |
DOV 4 | ||||||||||||||||
12 | GTW 11 |
NHA 10 |
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2019 | GMS Racing | 21 | Chevy | NSM 4 |
BRI 1** |
SBO 2 |
SBO 11 |
MEM 4 |
NHA 2 |
IOW 1* |
GLN 3 |
BRI 1 |
4 |
NHA 5 |
DOV 1* |
1st | 511 | [29] | ||
2020 | NSM 1 |
TOL 2 |
DOV 1 |
TOL 1* |
BRI 1* |
FIF 1 |
1st | 332 | [30] | |||||||||||
2021 | Bret Holmes Racing | 23 | Chevy | NSM | FIF | NSV | DOV | SMP | IOW | MLW 2 |
BRI 29 |
29th | 57 | [31] |
ARCA Menards Series West[]
ARCA Menards Series West results | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | AMSWC | Pts | Ref |
2018 | Jefferson Pitts Racing | 27 | Ford | KCR | TUS | TUS | OSS | CNS | SON | DCS | IOW 17 |
EVG | GTW | LVS | MER | AAS | KCR | 52nd | 27 | [32] |
2019 | GMS Racing | 21 | Chevy | LVS | IRW | TUS | TUS | CNS | SON | DCS | IOW | EVG | GTW | MER | AAS | KCR | PHO 2* |
37th | 42 | [33] |
2020 | LVS 1* |
IRW | DCS | UMC | CNS | SON | EVG | MER | AAS | KCR | PHO 21 |
16th | 122 | [34] |
References[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sam Mayer. |
- ^ "Team Event Rosters – Bristol Motor Speedway – Thursday, August 15, 2019" (PDF). NASCAR. Retrieved August 15, 2019.
- ^ a b Kallman, Dave. "Sam Mayer of Franklin to make NASCAR Truck debut in August". Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
- ^ a b c Kallman, Dave. "15-year-old Sam Mayer of Franklin on a rapid rise toward NASCAR". Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
- ^ "Sam Mayer -- Legends Champion". Retrieved 6 December 2018.
- ^ a b Kallmann, Dave (July 2, 2018). "If you're 15 and looking to make it in the stock-car world, it's great to be Sam Mayer". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
- ^ Eberly, Brian. "Sam Mayer Brings Home Top-Ten at Iowa in ARCA Debut". Motorsports Tribune. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
- ^ Lemasters, Ron. "JRM's Sam Mayer Voted CARS Tour LMSC Most Popular Driver". JR Motorsports. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
- ^ Segal, Davey (April 6, 2019). "Sam Mayer dominates at Bristol for his first NASCAR K&N Pro Series win". Autoweek. Crain Communications. Retrieved April 7, 2019.
- ^ "Ty Gibbs, 16, grabs first ARCA Menards Series win with last-lap pass". NASCAR.com. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
- ^ Segal, Davey (October 4, 2019). "Sam Mayer Dominates Dover To Close Championship Season". NASCAR Home Tracks. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
- ^ Kallman, Dave (August 8, 2020). "Local driver Sam Mayer finishes his first race at Road America with a broken wrist and runner-up finish". Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Gannett. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
- ^ Starr, Briar (August 31, 2020). "Colin Braun open to more Stock Car starts". Speedway Media. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
- ^ Allaway, Phil (September 5, 2020). "Sam Mayer Wins Rough And Tumble Zinsser SmartCoat 200". Frontstretch. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
- ^ "Sam Mayer reunites with JR Motorsports for Xfinity Series debut". Yahoo! Sports. September 15, 2020. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
- ^ Long, Dustin (September 17, 2020). "17-year-old Sam Mayer wins first NASCAR Truck race". NASCAR on NBC. NBC Sports. Retrieved September 18, 2020.
- ^ Seelman, Jacob (September 18, 2020). "Sweet Sweep: Mayer Doubles Down at Bristol". Speed Sport. Retrieved September 18, 2020.
- ^ "Mayer Closes ARCA East Title Run With Pensacola Score". Speed Sport. October 11, 2020. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
- ^ "Holmes & Mayer Going Truck Series Racing". Speed Sport. January 14, 2021. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
- ^ Srigley, Joseph (January 17, 2021). "Henderson Motorsports Entering Four of First Five Truck Events; Kligerman and Mayer Selected as Drivers". TobyChristie.com.
- ^ "Sam Mayer – 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved December 25, 2021.
- ^ "Sam Mayer – 2019 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved February 15, 2019.
- ^ "Sam Mayer – 2020 NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
- ^ "Sam Mayer – 2021 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved April 17, 2021.
- ^ "Sam Mayer – 2018 ARCA Racing Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
- ^ "Sam Mayer – 2019 ARCA Menards Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved February 28, 2020.
- ^ "Sam Mayer – 2020 ARCA Menards Series results". Racing Reference. Retrieved September 28, 2020.
- ^ "Sam Mayer– 2021 ARCA Menards Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
- ^ "Sam Mayer – 2018 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
- ^ "Sam Mayer – 2019 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved May 6, 2019.
- ^ "Sam Mayer – 2020 ARCA Menards Series East results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved September 18, 2020.
- ^ "Sam Mayer – 2021 ARCA Menards East Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
- ^ "Sam Mayer – 2018 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
- ^ "Sam Mayer – 2019 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
- ^ "Sam Mayer – 2020 ARCA Menards Series West results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 7, 2020.
External links[]
- Sam Mayer driver statistics at Racing-Reference
- 2003 births
- Sportspeople from the Milwaukee metropolitan area
- Racing drivers from Wisconsin
- NASCAR drivers
- ARCA Menards Series drivers
- Living people
- People from Franklin, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin