Chris Hacker joins On Point for home race at IRP

On Level Motorsports‘ driver carousel has added Chris Hacker to the rotation as he’ll drive the #30 Toyota Tundra TRD Professional within the NASCAR Tenting World Truck Sequence race at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park on 29 July. TJ’s Group Basis, a nonprofit geared toward supporting pediatric most cancers analysis, will sponsor the truck.

“TJ beloved NASCAR and now we have since continued to embrace the game with ardour in his honor,” stated basis co-founder Travis Anderson, whose six-year-old son TJ Anderson handed away from most cancers in 2018. “After we had been made conscious of Chris Hacker and the struggles that he has gone by to get onto the observe, we knew he was a driver that we needed to be aligned with in serving to us promote TJ’s Group Basis.

“Chris’ ardour is what stood out to me, simply seeing a child that has medical points put all the pieces he has into chasing his dream, jogs my memory of my son TJ. We’re simply hoping to make the most of the NASCAR platform to unfold the phrase about TJ’s Group Basis and we’re proud to have Chris as our ambassador.”

Hacker isn’t any stranger to On Level Motorsports as his Truck début at Gateway in 2021 got here through partnership between OPM and Reaume Bothers Racing, the place he completed twenty-seventh. Since then, He has made three begins to this point in 2022, all for RBR: after ending seventeenth at Atlanta, he respectively positioned thirty-first and twenty-ninth at Texas and Nashville. He additionally has two begins for Niece Motorsports in late 2021, with a thirty-seventh at Las Vegas and a profession finest sixteenth at Martinsville.

His hometown of Noblesville, Indiana is roughly forty miles (64.37 km) away from IRP in Brownsburg, primarily making this a house race.

The 22-year-old started racing briefly tracks and was the youngest Champion Racing Affiliation race winner at 13. In 2014, he acquired the JEGS All-Star Sequence Sportsman of the 12 months Award. He moved into the ARCA Menards Sequence West in 2020 with Cram Racing Enterprises, ending fifteenth at Phoenix, adopted by a tenth in his lone ARCA nationwide sequence begin for the workforce at Charlotte 2021. He was resulting from run that year’s Truck race at Nashville for the team, however the two events split days later.

Hacker will probably be OPM’s sixth totally different driver in as many makes an attempt for the workforce. Tate Fogleman contested the primary eleven races earlier than Josh Bilicki, Joey Gase, and Camden Murphy took over for the following three rounds at Sonoma, Knoxville, and Nashville. After taking Mid-Ohio off, the workforce will return this Saturday at Pocono with Kaden Honeycutt. The #30 is twenty-ninth in proprietor factors with a finest end of twelfth by Fogleman at Las Vegas, however has struggled in latest months as they haven’t scored a high twenty since Kansas in Might.