Jayson Alexander was supposed to be done racing for the 2024 season. With an admirable race run at Michigan International Speedway one week ago where issues forced Jayson to run his first lap of the weekend under green. Jayson finished P. 13 for Fast Track Racing in their No. 10 Camry in the cleanest ARCA Menards Series race I’ve ever witnessed. So he head home from the Irish Hills back down to Charlotte with his team ready to hang it up for the season.

Jayson attends Queens University of Charlotte where he is a Division One Lacrosse player. With nothing left in the racing season, lacrosse and school were the focus. Until it wasn’t.

Jayson got a phone call from Scott Osteen, owner of the new Craftsman Truck Series team Floridian Motorsports. As I spoke with Jayson on Thursday afternoon, he was on his way from Charlotte to Statesville to work on the truck. This would only be the second time he had seen or put his hands on the No. 21 Ford Performance F-150 as he had only received the call from Scott the day before.

Scott Osteen called Jayson Wednesday inquiring on his licensing and approvals to race in the Craftsman Truck Series after a deal that Scott and Floridian had to field the 21 truck for Blake Lothian, Jayson’s teammate through the Wings and Wheels Foundation had fallen through. Thursday, Jayson was offered the ride and on his way to help wrap the truck as we spoke.

Jayson and the team ran an all-nighter Wednesday night getting the all white No. 21 wrapped for the Milwaukee Mile, and one of the biggest parts (Pun fully intended) of the evening was getting the 6’5″ Jayson Alexander into a truck where the cab is a bit smaller and a setup for Mason Maggio, the team’s primary driver, who is 8-10 inches shorter than Jayson.

The No. 21 F-150 will head up to the Milwaukee Mile with no Primary sponsorship for this weekend unless the team can sell spots prior to the start. The 21 team will however feature associate sponsorship from Constant Contact, an online marketing company, a major supporter of Jayson’s ARCA Menards Series campaign.

Over the period of our phone call, Jayson expressed how truly appreciative he was to Scott and the team at Floridian Motorsports for the opportunity. The chance to run in the Craftsman Truck Series was surreal to him. I got on the Phone with Jayson at 5pm exactly, he had told me that this opportunity was so short notice that the tickets were booked fifteen minutes prior.

Jayson stated that Michigan was the shortest heads up he had ever gotten to race, (two weeks heads up) before his call from Scott Thursday. This was such a short notice opportunity that his mom, DeLisa Alexander, will not be able to make it. The only core support he will have is from his Social Media director, Shane DiMantova and his spotter Ryan Honeycutt (no relation to the drivers) accompanying him to Wisconsin.