Gragson signs extension with Front Row Motorsports

Front Row Motorsports has signed Noah Gragson to a one-year contract extension to remain in his NASCAR Cup Series ride, the organization announced via its social media channels. It will be Gragson's third full season with the team and fourth as a Cup Series driver.

“It’s not easy, but nothing in life is easy,” Gragson said of being in the silly season conversation. “You roll with the punches. This year has taught me a lot about myself, my patience, and what I can do to become a leader for our race team, and when things are going bad, how my reactions can both be positive and negative depending on what direction I take. I think that’s one of the things that stands out to me is I feel like I’ve grown a lot as a race car driver where the past couple of years, I feel like I matured a lot out of the car.

“I still want to continue to write the story and get better from here. It’s not easy by any means, but when you get a group of people around you that believe in you, it allows you to push that little extra bit to keep going.”

Gragson, 27, is in his second season driving the No. 4 Ford Mustang. Bob Jenkins signed the Las Vegas native following the shuttering of Gragson’s former team, Stewart-Haas Racing.

A successful tenure in the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series with JR Motorsports led Gragson to make 18 starts in the Cup Series in 2022 before being signed by Legacy Motor Club for a rookie season in 2023. Later that summer, he was suspended indefinitely for liking an insensitive meme on social media, and he departed the team shortly thereafter.

Gragson ran one year with Stewart-Haas Racing before joining Front Row Motorsports.

The No. 4 team sits 31st in the point standings with one top-10 finish and an average finish of 24.7. Gragson entered the year working with new crew chief Grant Hutchens.

In his 59 starts with the team, Gragson has four top-10 finishes and one top-five finish. He wound up 34th in the Cup Series championship standings last season.

The team will have options to extend the deal beyond next season.

“The opportunity to keep on pushing and be the best version of myself as a person and race car driver is key,” Gragson said. “If I feel I can be the best and we can be at our best as a team, I think the sky is the limit ultimately. At the same time, yeah, you get in the same silly season next year. It would be nice to say, ‘Oh, I’ve got 10 years to keep going racing.’ But it’s a cutthroat industry, and everyone is competing for a job at the end of the day.

“If I feel like I can be at my best and have everything around me at its best, I think we can do great things.”