2021 was a crossroads for Ty Majeski. After stints with Roush Fenway Racing in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and Niece Motorsports in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series ended abruptly, Majeski looked like an odd man out of NASCAR. That’s when ThorSport Racing came into the picture.
Majeski joined ThorSport in 2021 with the intention of being a full-time driver. However, the team was unsure of the timing of that and Majeski became an engineer with the team. Eventually, he ran a fifth part-time truck in four races for ThorSport. That led to a full-time opportunity in 2022, and Majeski has been making the most of it.
Majeski has had near misses at his first win at places like Daytona International Speedway, Kansas Speedway, Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park and Richmond Raceway. He qualified for the playoffs in his first full-time season, racking up eight top fives and 12 top 10s in the process.
Frontstretch caught up with Majeski to discuss the playoffs, his career trajectory, the Richmond conditions and potentially finding a home at ThorSport ahead of the Richmond race, an event where he won stage one and led a career-high 73 laps en route to a third-place result. With one race remaining in the Round of 10 for the NCWTS, Majeski sits in fifth, 36 points above the cut line.
Luken Glover, Frontstretch: You came really close to winning at IRP. What can you take away from that for the rest of the season?
Majeski: Obviously, the playoffs are actually short track loaded. We go from IRP to Richmond, then Bristol is in there with Phoenix to close it out. Over half the races are short tracks so that’s been a strength of mine given my past and a strength of our [No.] 66 bunch. I’m excited for it and feel like if we put a few good races together we’ll have a shot at it.
Glover: Looking at the rest of the season, which tracks do you feel like pop out where ‘This is where we’ve circled and we can go and clinch our spot into the championship round?’
Majeski: Like I said, really all the short tracks. We go back to Kansas in the first round. We ran second there in the spring. We won the pole at Daytona and go to Talladega, right? I don’t really feel like we have a weakness. I think Talladega and Bristol are the biggest wildcards, but hopefully we can go to Bristol and win and then we don’t have to worry about Talladega.
Glover: You’re with ThorSport now and it’s been kind of a breakthrough year in a way. Have you found a home here at…
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