Noah Gragson will drive primarily for his fourth Cup team in four years starting in 2025, and it’s been a heck of a journey for a driver who turns just 25 years old next week.
Driving part-time for Kaulig Racing while in his final Xfinity year at JR Motorsports in 2022 (where he also drove a few Cup races for Beard Motorsports and was a fill-in driver for the injured Alex Bowman at Hendrick Motorsports), Gragson thought he had his future set with a move to Legacy Motor Club in 2023. But struggling with an average finish of 28th in a year where maybe his most notable moment was a fight with Ross Chastain, Gragson found himself sidelined as NASCAR indefinitely suspended him for liking a racially insensitive social media post on the death of George Floyd.
Gragson never made excuses for what he had…