TRICON Garage Announces Starters for Their No. 1 Team

TRICON Garage rebranded from David Gilliland Racing to TRICON Garage for the 2023 Craftsman Truck Series season. Since the rebrand and return to Toyota Racing Development, now Toyota Gazoo Racing, TRICON has seen just about every success besides a championship. In 2024, the team’s No. 1 entry saw eight different drivers including Toni Breidinger who is now full-time for the team, Cup Series star Christopher Bell, former Truck Champion Brett Moffitt, William Sawalich, Colby Howard and others.

In 2025, TRICON will make a bit of a change by announcing the four “All-Star” drivers early. The team consists of former Truck regulars, up and comers and even multi-time Xfinity Series winners. The All-Star truck will make all 25 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series starts for 2025 and each of the four drivers will get good seat time.

Race engineer for TRICON since 2019, Jake Hampton, will take the reigns of the 1 team as Crew Chief for all four drivers for the 2025 season. The 29-year-old Hampton led as interim Crew Chief for the 17 team where he guided Gray to three top-5 finishes.

Brent Crews

Brent Crews is a 16-year-old Toyota development driver with a lost of accomplishments in his young career including a two-time ARCA winner and the youngest ever TRANS-AM Champion. Crews will make his debut at North Wilkesboro in May and make a total of nine starts for TRICON.

North Wilkesboro, Lime Rock, IRP, Richmond, Bristol 2, New Hampshire, ROVAL, Martinsville 2, Phoenix

Brandon Jones

The 27-year-old Georgia native has a long history in NASCAR. Jones left JR Motorsports in the Xfinity Series after 2024 and will be returning full-time to Joe Gibbs Racing for 2025 and making seven starts for TRICON Garage in the Truck Series as well. Jones has five Xfinity victories and a single Truck win to his name over a career spanning ten years.

Homestead-Miami, Bristol 1, Rockingham, Texas, Kansas, Charlotte, Pocono

Lawless Alan

Lawless Alan, the 24-year-old from California will run the full 2025 ARCA Menards Series Season for Venturini Motorsports as he transitions from the Ford Performance pipeline to Toyota Racing’s pipeline. He has 76 Craftsman Truck Series starts to his name and will field the 1 truck for four races in ’25.

Martinsville 1, Michigan, Darlington, Talladega

William Sawalich

Young Sawalich has raced the ARCA Menards Series two years in a row, and, been the ARCA Menards Series Champion two years in a row racing for Joe Gibbs Racing amassing 23 ARCA victories. For 2025, Sawalich will make his full-time Xfinity Series debut for Gibbs in their No. 18 GR Supra. He will also make five starts in the TRICON Garage No. 1 Tundra starting at the season opener at Daytona. Sawalich has made 16 Truck starts so far in his career with three Top-10 finishes.

Daytona, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Nashville, Watkins Glen

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