Event: NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Championship Race (134 laps / 201 miles)
Round: 25 of 25 (Season Finale)
Track: Homestead-Miami Speedway
Location: Homestead, FL
Date & Time: Friday, November 6 | 7:30 PM ET
Tune-In: FOX Sports 1 | NASCAR Racing Network (NRN) | SiriusXM Ch. 90
Team Stats & Notes
- Niece Motorsports Homestead-Miami Stats:
NCTS Starts: 23; Wins: 1 (Carson Hocevar, 2023); Top-Fives: 4; Top-10s: 7.
- New Late Model Driver: Niece Motorsports welcomes Hudson Sharp, son of 1996 NTT INDYCAR SERIES co-champion, Scott Sharp, to its Late Model Stock Car (LMSC) team for this weekend’s Fall Brawl race at Hickory Motor Speedway. The 17-year-old recently finished third in his ARCA Menards Series West debut at Kevin Harvick’s Kern Raceway, and has run select races in LMSC competition throughout the year for Lee Falk Racing and Development.
- Thank you, CRAFTSMAN: Friday’s race at Homestead-Miami Speedway will mark the end of CRAFTSMAN’s tenure as the title sponsor of the NASCAR Truck Series. Since its return in 2023, and throughout its founding years, CRAFTSMAN has been a loyal supporter of the series. In 2027, the series will rebrand to the NASCAR FedEx Freight Truck Series, or NFXFTS for short.
No. 4 Niece Equipment Chevrolet Silverado RST
Driver: Connor Hall | Crew Chief: Mike Shiplett
- Hall Returns: Connor Hall returns to make his sixth start of the 2026 campaign driving the team’s No. 4 entry at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The 29-year-old’s season-best finish came at Rockingham Speedway, where he finished in 20th-place. Friday’s race will mark just his second-career start on a mile-and-a-half track.
- Hall’s Homestead-Miami Stats:
Connor Hall will make his first-career NCTS start in any series at Homestead-Miami on Friday.
- Shiplett’s Homestead-Miami Stats:
NCS Starts: 4; Top-Fives: 1; Top-10s: 1; Best Finish: 5th (2010).
NOAPS Starts: 8; Wins: 1 (Kyle Larson, 2015); Poles: 1 (Tyler Reddick, 2017); Top-Fives: 4; Top-10s: 5; Best Finish: 2nd (2019).
NCTS Starts: 2; Best Finish: 14th (2025).
- On the Truck: Hall’s No. 4 Chevrolet Silverado RST will race with primary support from Niece Equipment, one of the country’s largest producers of fuel & lube trucks. The truck will sport a special Miami-inspired paint scheme for the season finale.
- Recapping Martinsville: Conner Jones and the Niece Equipment team had an early end to their race in Martinsville. Jones started the 200-lap race in 21st, gained a few positions early, and elected to make a pit stop before the end of the first stage. With a handful of laps remaining in stage two, the No. 4 truck began to drop back with a rear gear issue. Jones drove the truck behind the wall on lap 95 and was out of the race in 36th-place.
- No. 4 Team Season Highlights: Niece Motorsports’ No. 4 team had a large roster of drivers take the reins this year, including Cleetus McFarland, Ben Maier, Connor Hall, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Shane van Gisbergen, Stefan Parsons, Donovan Strauss, Matt Mills, and Conner Jones. The team’s best finish was delivered by van Gisbergen at Watkins Glen, where he drove the truck up to a third-place finish. In total, the team led by Mike Shiplett captured one top-five and two top-10 finishes in its part-time season.
- Quoting Hall: How much were you able to learn in your first intermediate start at Kansas which can help you this weekend?
“Kansas was the first place that I ever really got to run that was super multi-grooved. In the short track stuff that I am used to running, even if it’s a multi-grooved track, you’re never truly up against the fence like how you are at that track. Understanding how that works along with all of the aero stuff that’s involved at a mile-and-a-half is going to help me a lot for this weekend. In the first part of that race, I was able to explore and learn a lot of lessons in doing things that I wasn’t used to before. I felt like I had gotten a pretty good grip on it by the end of the race, so I’m excited to go to Homestead and do it again. We had a lot of speed there, so we’re just looking to have our Niece Equipment Chevy that’s equal to, if not better than that on Friday.”
About Niece Motorsports: Niece Motorsports is a professional auto racing team that has competed in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series since 2016. The team is owned by Josh Morris of DQS Solutions and Staffing and the Fowler Family of J.F. Electric and Utilitra, and was founded by United States Marine Corps Veteran Al Niece. At its 80,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Salisbury, NC, Niece Motorsports is a full-service race vehicle build shop as well as a customizable fabrication shop for any manufacturing needs.
Follow the Team: To keep up to date with the latest team news, visit niecemotorsports.com or connect on Facebook and Instagram (@NieceMotorsports) as well as X (@NieceMotorsport).
About Niece Equipment: For over 40 years, Niece Equipment has provided clients with reliable products at competitive prices. Our reputation is built on service, integrity and dependability. Each of our water and fuel/lube trucks are engineered with quality and durability in mind. Our capability ranges from 2,000 gallon water trucks to 12,000 gallon water towers. The fuel/lube trucks we offer range from 600 to 4,000 gallons.
