Timmy Hill

However, he would crash and finish 42nd.

After a poor start to the season and only qualifying for one race (Las Vegas) in his first four races, Hill decided to return to the Nationwide Series with RWR full-time for the rest of the season.

Hill would still compete in a few Cup races later in the season, with three starts in the FAS Lane Racing No. 32 and one start at Talladega in the NEMCO Motorsports No. 97.

Timothy Grant Hill (born February 25, 1993) is an American professional stock car racing driver and team owner.

He competes full-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 56 Toyota Tundra for his own team, Hill Motorsports.

Hill was born in Port Tobacco, Maryland, and began racing go-karts at the age of 12.

In karting, he won two World Karting Association championships, two King George Speedway track championships, the Concord Speedway Winter Championship.

Afterward, Hill raced in Legend cars, the Allison Legacy Series, the K&N Pro Series East and the ARCA Racing Series.

Hill began his racing career in 2005 by karting at the age of 12.

During his first season, he recorded more than 80 victories, as well as winning two World Karting Association championships, two King George Speedway championships, and the Concord Speedway Winter Championship.

He also finished third in the World Karting Association National Championship.

Once the 2005 season concluded, he began racing Bandoleros.

In 2006, he scored ten wins.

One year later, Hill began racing Legend cars and in the Allison Legacy Series.

During the season, Hill failed to win a race.

However, in 2008, he managed to win four Legend car races and two in the Allison Legacy Series.

In the Allison Legacy Series, he finished fifth in the point standings.

During the 2009 season, Hill won ten Allison Legacy Series races and finished first in the point standings.

In Legend cars, he won two races in the Winter Heat Series and won the Summer Shootout at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

In the following year, he began racing in the ARCA Racing Series and the K&N Pro Series East while continuing racing Legend cars.

In Legend cars, he won seven races, while recording two top-ten finishes in the K&N Pro Series and one in the ARCA Racing Series.

In 2011, Hill moved to Rick Ware Racing in the Nationwide Series, where he won Rookie of the Year honors.

He is the son of former NASCAR driver Jerry Hill and brother of current NASCAR driver Tyler Hill, who shared driving duties in 2023 and co-owns the No. 56 truck with Timmy.

In 2011, Hill began racing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series at Phoenix International Raceway, having been too young to compete in the season opener at Daytona International Speedway, not yet having passed his eighteenth birthday.

During the season, he had a best finish of 11th at Road America and finished 17th in the point standings, winning the Rookie of the Year award.

After a close battle with Blake Koch and Ryan Truex, Hill edged Koch by a single point at Homestead-Miami Speedway to take Rookie of the Year honors.

He competed in 33 of the 34 events scheduled for the season, and scored Top 20 finishes in five.

Hill returned to Rick Ware Racing in NASCAR for the 2012 season, also competing for the team in the 24 Hours of Daytona.

Just before the start of the season, it was announced that Hill would move up to the Sprint Cup Series, driving the No. 37 Ford for Max Q Motorsports with an alliance with Rick Ware's team, and also competing for Rookie of the Year.

Hill had originally been announced to compete in all Cup races that year except for the 2012 Daytona 500, where Mike Wallace, an experienced and successful plate driver, would drive the No. 37 instead of the rookie Hill to have a better chance of getting the team in the race (which they still did not).

Hill would instead be given the chance to drive at Daytona that weekend in the Nationwide race for Ware in their No. 41 car, where he would go on to score his career-best finish of seventh after avoiding a last-lap crash.

Hill would fail to qualify in his first Cup attempt at Phoenix.

However, he did qualify for the following race at Las Vegas, making his series debut there.

For 2013, Hill returned to the No. 32 team for a part-time schedule of 19 races with OXY Water and U. S. Chrome sponsorship, and declared for Sprint Cup Rookie of the Year honors (again) He would finish third in the Rookie of the Year standings, behind full-time drivers Ricky Stenhouse Jr.. and Danica Patrick.

Hill would drive the No. 33 Chevy part-time for Circle Sport in 2014 after starting the year without a ride after he was replaced in the No. 32 by Travis Kvapil that year.

He was involved in a controversy at Bristol when, while running in last place, Hill failed to slow his car under caution and crashed into the rear of the stopped car of Matt Kenseth, who was running in second place at the time.

Hill would later state that his spotter did not tell him the caution flag was out, and he did not see the safety lights around the track turn on.

NASCAR on Fox analyst Darrell Waltrip famously called out Hill for a "rookie mistake" at the moment of the incident, though he recanted his harsh tone late in the broadcast.

He also practiced and qualified Landon Cassill's No. 40 Circle Sport car at Sonoma when Cassill was in Road America for the Nationwide race that day.

Hill would also drive in two races each for the Identity Ventures Racing and Xxxtreme Motorsports teams.