Brent Crews wins O’Reilly Series Rookie of the Year Award
HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Brent Crews officially wins the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Sunoco Rookie of the Year award after his third place finish at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Crews is the first Toyota driver to win the award since Sammy Smith in 2023 and the sixth driver to take home the honor for Joe Gibbs Racing.
Early Season
The now 18-year-old Brent Crews was too young to compete in four of the first six races of the O’Reilly Series season. However, he gave the field a glimpse of what was to come when he made his debut at Circuit of the Americas in early March at just 17 years old.
Crews ran with the front-runners throughout the race and came away with a sixth-place finish.
From that point forward, he quickly emerged as the favorite for Sunoco Rookie of the Year once he became eligible for full-time competition at Martinsville Speedway a few weeks later.
The young driver stepped into a competitive Joe Gibbs Racing seat and wasted little time showing his potential.
Beginning with just his third start of the season, Crews recorded five consecutive top-10 finishes across his next six races, highlighted by a career-best runne...