Sam Mayer

Samuel Adam Mayer (born June 26, 2003) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series, driving the No. 41 Chevrolet Camaro SS for Haas Factory Team. His father is the founder of QPS Employment Group and a former IndyCar Series driver, Scott Mayer.

Mayer is the 2019 and 2020 East Series champion. He drove for GMS Racing (the other Drivers Edge Development team) both of those years in their No. 21 car and also won the inaugural championship of the ARCA Menards Series Sioux Chief Showdown in 2020. Mayer started his NASCAR career driving for Jefferson Pitts Racing and MDM Motorsports in 2018 before joining GMS, JRM, and Chevrolet as a development driver in 2019.

Racing career

Mayer got off to an early start in racing, competing in go-kart events at the age of four. Although his father, Scott Mayer, was an open-wheel racer, Sam chose in his preteen years to focus on stock car racing. Over the course of the 2017 summer, during which Mayer turned fourteen, he spent the summer in Charlotte to race Legends cars; he won the Young Lions division of the Charlotte Motor Speedway Summer Shootout. He also raced in a Limited Late Model and won at Greenville-Pickens Speedway to become the track's youngest winner. He came back to Wisconsin and won a September Midwest Truck Series race at Dells Raceway Park in his first series start. After the CARS Tour season was over, Mayer was voted the series' Most Popular Driver for 2018. The CARS Tour season included one victory, at Wake County Speedway.

On December 5, 2018, it was announced that Mayer would run a full NASCAR K&N Pro Series East schedule with GMS Racing as part of a 2019 schedule that would also include seven ARCA races and four NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series races with the team. All four of the Truck races will come after Mayer turns sixteen; his debut is slated to be at Bristol Motor Speedway in August. That race would be followed by appearances at Martinsville Speedway and ISM Raceway. He nearly scored his first ARCA Menards Series win at Gateway in June after a late pit gamble, but was moved up the track by Ty Gibbs in the final set of corners and was relegated to third. In October, he won the 2019 K&N East championship to become the youngest NASCAR champion at 16 years, 3 months, and 8 days; the previous record was 16 years and 5 months by Todd Gilliland in 2016. Mayer ended the 2019 season with four wins and top tens in all but one race.

While racing in the ARCA Menards Series and ARCA Menards Series East in 2020, Mayer made a TA2 Trans-Am start at Road America and suffered a hairline fracture in his wrist during a race-ending crash. The injury forced Colin Braun to sub in for Mayer midway through the AMS race at the Daytona International Speedway road course. Mayer later won ARCA's first trip to Lebanon I-44 Speedway.

On September 15, 2020, Mayer and JR Motorsports announced an agreement to have him drive one of the organization's NASCAR Xfinity Series cars part-time in the latter portion of 2021 and full-time in the 2022 season. Two days later, Mayer swept the night at Bristol, winning both the Truck Series and ARCA race. He overcame a pit miscue to claim the checkered flag in the ARCA event. Mayer won the East finale at Five Flags Speedway to capture the series championship with an average finish of 1.2 on the season.

On January 14, 2021, defending ARCA champion Bret Holmes announced he would begin fielding a part-time Truck Series team, the No. 32, for himself and Mayer for the upcoming season. In addition, Mayer would also drive select races in Bret Holmes Racing's No. 23 car in the ARCA Menards Series and ARCA Menards Series East. Three days later on January 17, it was also announced that Mayer would run seven races in the No. 75 for Henderson Motorsports in the Truck Series, beginning at the Daytona Road Course, which would end up being his only start with Henderson Motorsports.

On January 4, 2022, it was confirmed that Sam Mayer would drive the JR Motorsports No. 1 in 2022, replacing Michael Annett. At the Martinsville spring race on April 8, Mayer finished fifth after doing a bump and run on Ty Gibbs on the final lap. After the race, Gibbs attempted to spin Mayer out during the cool-down laps before both drivers engaged in a fistfight on pit road. Mayer would go on to finish seventh in the final points standings with a best result of second at Talladega.

On August 9, 2022, it was announced that Mayer would return for the 2023 season. He started the 2023 season with a 27th-place finish at Daytona, where he flipped down the backstretch on the final lap. Mayer scored his first career win at Road America. He followed it up with his second win at Watkins Glen. During the playoffs, Mayer won at the Charlotte Roval and at Homestead to make the Championship 4. Mayer finished fifth at Phoenix and third in the points standings.

Mayer started the 2024 season with a 36th-place DNF at Daytona. At Texas, he scored a narrow victory over Ryan Sieg at Texas by 0.002 seconds, making it part of a three-way tie for the second closest finish in Xfinity Series history. Mayer scored his second win of the season at Iowa. During the playoffs, he was disqualified at Talladega after his car failed the post-race ride height requirement. A week later, Mayer won at the Charlotte Roval.

On August 17, 2024, Mayer signed with Haas Factory Team to drive the No. 41 Ford in 2025. Mayer started the season with a second-place finish at Daytona. After staying consistent throughout the year, he won at Iowa, earning Haas's first win in their career and the first win for Ford that year.

On October 28, 2025, NASCAR imposed a one-race suspension on Mayer for intentionally wrecking Jeb Burton during the post-race cooldown lap at Martinsville, with Ryan Sieg replacing him for the season finale at Phoenix.

Personal life Mayer's father Scott Mayer, also a race driver, is the founder of QPS Employment Group and Accelerate Professional Talent Solutions, Mayer's primary sponsor in the Xfinity Series. As of 2023, the company has 57 branches across eight states and employs thousands of associate employees, making it one of the largest employment firms in the Midwest. nowrap| B. J. McLeod Motorsports 99 Chevy

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GTW BRI LVS CLT PHO TAL MAR HOM -* -* Camping World Truck Series NASCAR Camping World Truck Series results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Pts Ref 2019 GMS Racing 21 Chevy DAY ATL LVS MAR TEX DOV KAN CLT TEX IOW GTW CHI KEN POC ELD MCH BRI21 MSP LVS TAL MAR28 PHO19 HOM 50th 54 2020 24 DAY LVS CLT ATL HOM POC KEN TEX KAN KAN MCH DRC DOV15 GTW4 DAR RCH19 BRI1 LVS TAL KAN TEX MAR18 PHO17 27th 179 2021 Henderson Motorsports 75 Chevy DAY DRC37 LVS ATL BRD 100th 01 Bret Holmes Racing 32 Chevy RCH9 KAN DAR COA6 CLT TEX NSH POC KNX GLN9 GTW DAR BRI22 LVS TAL MAR PHO

Season still in progress Ineligible for series points

ARCA Menards Series (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.) ARCA Menards Series results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Ref 2018 MDM Motorsports 40 Toyota DAY NSH SLM TAL TOL CLT POC MCH MAD GTW CHI IOW10 ELK POC ISF BLN DSF SLM IRP7 KAN 52nd 400 2019 GMS Racing 21 Chevy DAY FIF15 SLM2 TAL NSH TOL5 CLT POC MCH MAD3 GTW3 CHI ELK3 IOW POC ISF DSF SLM5 IRP3 KAN 14th 1650 2020 DAY PHO20 TAL POC3 IRP2 KEN4 IOW2 KAN TOL1 TOL1 MCH DRC3 GTW3 L441 TOL1* BRI1* WIN MEM2 ISF KAN 7th 553 2021 Bret Holmes Racing 23 Chevy DAY PHO TAL KAN TOL CLT MOH POC22 ELK BLN IOW WIN GLN14 MCH4 ISF MLW2 DSF BRI29 SLM KAN 27th 149

ARCA Menards Series East ARCA Menards Series East results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Pts Ref 2018 Jefferson Pitts Racing 27 Ford NSM BRI LGY SBO SBO MEM NJM THO NHA17 IOW17 18th 200 MDM Motorsports 41 Toyota GLN5 DOV4 12 GTW11 NHA10 2019 GMS Racing 21 Chevy NSM4 BRI1** SBO2 SBO11 MEM4 NHA2 IOW1* GLN3 BRI1 GTW4 NHA5 DOV1* 1st 511 2020 NSM1 TOL2 DOV1 TOL1* BRI1* FIF1 1st 382 2021 Bret Holmes Racing 23 Chevy NSM FIF NSV DOV SNM IOW MLW2 BRI29 29th 57

ARCA Menards Series West ARCA Menards Series West results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Pts Ref 2018 Jefferson Pitts Racing 27 Ford KCR TUS TUS OSS CNS SON DCS IOW17 EVG GTW LVS MER AAS KCR 52nd 27 2019 GMS Racing 21 Chevy LVS IRW TUS TUS CNS SON DCS IOW EVG GTW MER AAS KCR PHO2* 37th 42 2020 LVS1* MMP MMP IRW EVG DCS CNS LVS AAS KCR PHO21 16th 122 2024 Sigma Performance Services 23 Chevy PHO KER PIR SON1* IRW IRW SHA TRI MAD AAS KER PHO 36th 48

CARS Late Model Stock Car Tour (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. ** – All laps led.) CARS Late Model Stock Car Tour results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Pts Ref 2018 JR Motorsports 9M Chevy TCM3 MYB15 ROU7 5th 297 9 HCY7 BRI9 ACE20 CCS14 KPT4 WKS1 ROU6 SBO8 28 HCY7