There is no more fitting racetrack for Trackhouse Racing to celebrate its 300th start this weekend than Nashville (Tenn.) Superspeedway.
Just six days after Ross Chastain registered his sixth win, the Trackhouse team comes home to Nashville, where founder and owner Justin Marks resides and where Trackhouse’s corporate offices are located.
The Trackhouse story has been a whirlwind in its first five seasons.
After retiring from a successful driving career in NASCAR and sports cars, Marks, 44, formed the Trackhouse Entertainment Group in 2020 to create a racing brand that transcends motorsports.
Since taking to the track in 2021 with Daniel Suárez as its only driver, Trackhouse Racing has grown to three full-time Cup teams, a part-time fourth team and a driver development program in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. Trackhouse boasts nine victories in its young existence, created a sophisticated social and digital program with an international flavor and has attracted major corporate support from some of the world’s most recognizable brands including: Chevrolet, Anheuser-Busch, Red Bull, Jockey, Coca-Cola, WeatherTech, Tootsie’s, Freeway Insurance, Kubota, Wendy’s, Moose International, Choice Hotels, Safety Culture and others.
Expansion began midway through the 2021 season when Marks purchased the NASCAR assets of Chip Ganassi Racing and began the 2022 season as a two-car team operating out of its Concord, North Carolina, race shop with Suárez and Chastain as drivers.
Chastain gave the organization its first victory at Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in Austin, Texas, in March 2022, while Suárez became the first Mexican driver to win a Cup race when he won at Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway in June 2022. In July 2023, New Zealander Shane van Gisbergen won the inaugural Chicago Street race in his first start driving for Trackhouse’s PROJECT91 program. Marks created the program to offer NASCAR opportunities to international driving stars that have included F1 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen and four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Hélio Castroneves.
Trackhouse Racing joined the MotoGP grid in 2024, bringing an American team back to the pinnacle of international motorcycle racing for the first time in over a decade. It fielded Aprilia motorcycles for Spaniard Raul Fernandez and Japanese rider Ai Ogura.
Also in 2024, Avenue Sports Fund acquired a significant minority stake in Trackhouse Entertainment Group.
In 2025, Van Gisbergen, Suárez and Chastain race full-time in the Cup Series for Trackhouse Racing while 18-year-old development driver Connor Zilisch races for JR Motorsports in the Xfinity Series and made his first two Cup starts at COTA and last weekend in Charlotte.