CJB Motorsports owner Chad Clemens and Barry Jackson, the manager of the Pennsylvania-based team, announced Tuesday they’ve hired Brenham Crouch as the new driver of the team’s familiar No. 5 Sprint Car in 2025.

The 19-year-old of Lubbock, Texas, moves over to the established CJB team from his family-owned CMS Racing operation he campaigned with on the Kubota High Limit Racing inaugural national season. The CJB team also announced that National Sprint Car Hall of Fame driver Paul McMahan, CJB's former full-time driver from 2013-15, “has been enlisted as a mentor” to the young Crouch.

“First and foremost, I am super pumped to join forces with Barry Jackson, Chad Clemens, and the entire CJB Motorsports team," Crouch said via Peterson Media’s press release. "This team’s nucleus has worked with some great drivers over the years, and in talking with Barry the last month or so, I am really confident for what is to come in 2025.

“As I continue to grow as a driver, I believe CJB Motorsports brings a ton to the table that will help me develop and learn night in and night out.”

On the High Limit Racing tour, Crouch finished 16th in the standings, posting two top-10 while qualifying for 33 of the tour’s 51 features. Crouch’s also resume includes the 2022 Lucas Oil POWRI National Midget title with Keith Kunz Motorsports and the 2023 IRA Sprint Car title with his family-owned No. 1 CMS team.

After Spencer Bayston’s departure from CJB last month, Clemens states that “we are excited for a new beginning with a young up-and-comer in Brenham.”

"Only 19 years old, he already has a POWRI National Midget championship to his credit as well as an IRA Sprint Car championship,” Clemens added. “With hard work, his future can be bright on the National level as well. We look forward to building a long-term relationship with Brenham and his family, and we are excited to welcome them all to our CJB family.”

For Jackson, who shifts from the race-day crew chief and into a managerial role at CJB next season, he “(sees) the traits and qualities (in Crouch) that it takes to becomes successful in the highly competitive 410 Sprint Car world at the national level.”

“He is very driven and has a desire to learn and develop as we move forward,” Jackson added. “We are completely committed to this process, and we are working diligently to put all the right pieces in place in to provide the best possible program to enhance Brenham's development and future.”

As for McMahan, who retired from Sprint Car racing in 2022 and now works full-time for Quickcar Racing Products, Jackson said that he’s "very excited to have my good friend” back involved with CJB. McMahan won 12 World of Outlaws features across the 2013-15 season for CJB.

"I could not ask for a better person to be in this (mentor) role as he is a true professional and someone I have the utmost respect for,” Jackson added. "While he will still maintain his role at Quickcar, he will get to the track when he can and be someone that Brenham can lean on from both the mental side of being a driver on the national level as well as the technical side of things.”

CJB’s 2025 plans with Crouch at the wheel are “still a work in progress as they navigate team members, marketing partners and decide on their full schedule,” per the team’s press release.