Few drivers have ridden as big a career roller coaster as Brett Moffitt, but he may finally have found his home.
Moffitt burst onto the scene as a Michael Waltrip Racing development driver, winning the 2015 NASCAR Cup Series Rookie of the Year award with Front Row Motorsports. He essentially skipped over the NASCAR Xfinity, Craftsman Truck and ARCA Menards series and went straight to Cup.
Then MWR shut down, leaving Moffitt ride-less.
It took him until 2018 to land another full-time ride, racing trucks for Hattori Racing Enterprises, where he won a championship. Despite winning that title, he was replaced by Austin Hill. Moffitt enjoyed a few years with GMS Racing in Trucks and Our Motorsports in Xfinity, but was again without regular employment the second half of last year.
The Our split was especially shocking, as the team released him just 20 races into the 2022 season. He had previously been the team’s flagship driver, being there from its Xfinity beginning as a single-car team in 2020 to its expansion to three cars at the start of last year.
“He [Chris Our, team owner] was trying to run a race team, and he had to do what was right for his company, which I understand and I respect,” Moffitt told Frontstretch earlier this month at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. “The way things were going, it’s what needed to happen for the business to survive. I enjoyed being there a lot, but at the same time, you could kind of see how things were going.”
Our has since shrunken back to a single-car team. It has yet to score a top 10 this year after Moffitt had two top fives and 21 top 10s over his two and a half years there. Both top fives and 12 of those top 10s came in the first year-and-a-half when Joe Williams was the crew chief.
“It was a little bit of taking on too much, too quick, I think,” Moffitt said. “Chris Our and the Our family are a very great and a passionate family about racing. Hats off to them; the experience I gained there over the past two and a half years was amazing. It’s unfortunate it ended the way it did, but it is what it is. No hard feelings there. We’ll move on, and I’m just thankful for the opportunity there.”
Moffitt seemed to be out of sight, out of mind after Our. In that scenario, it’s easy for the sport to leave a driver in the dust and for them to never get another opportunity.
“There’s always that thought [that you won’t get another opportunity],” Moffitt…
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