Ryan Preece has found a new home in the NASCAR Cup Series for the 2025 season. Ryan Preece will join Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing in a new third car sponsored by Kroger supermarket chain, the team announced at Kroger headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio Tuesday morning.

Preece has been in search of a new home in the Cup Series since Stewart-Haas Racing, who he had raced for since the start of the 2023 season, announced in May that it would be closing down at the end of the season, and now it turns out that RFK Racing was the landing spot. 

“It started with a phone call, actually,” Preece said in a video released by RFK Racing. “I was walking into SHR’s building and I saw that Brad was calling. It led a conversation of, ‘there may be an opportunity to where we are expanding to a third car. Would you like to come drive for us?’ Obviously I’m extremely excited about this opportunity and thankful Brad, Jack (Roush), and everybody here at RFK gave me that opportunity.”

Preece’s journey to the Cup Series started in Modified racing at Stafford Motor Speedway and Thompson Speedway in Connecticut and at Riverhead Raceway on Long Island. He won the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour championship in 2013 and is a 26-time winner with the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour. 

He competed full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series in 2016 for the underfunded JD Motorsports, but really turned heads in 2017 when he got an opportunity for a handful of starts with Joe Gibbs Racing. He finished second at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and then won for the first time at Iowa Speedway that summer. Preece won again for JGR in a Dash 4 Cash race at Bristol Motor Speedway in the spring of 2018. He also has won two NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races.

Preece eventually went full-time in the Cup Series with JTG-Daugherty Racing in 2019. In three years with that team, he scored two top-five finishes and five top-10 finishes. In 2022, he left JTG-Daugherty and signed a contract to be the reserve driver for Stewart-Haas Racing. He was promoted to replace Cole Custer in 2023 and scored two top fives and seven top 10 finishes across two seasons at SHR. He won his first pole at Martinsville Speedway in the spring of 2023 and led 135 laps before a speeding penalty derailed his strong run.

The Berlin, Connecticut driver will also be heading to Pensacola, Florida in two weeks to compete in the 57th Annual Snowball Derby at Five Flags Speedway for Kevin Harvick Inc. That race can be seen live on FloRacing for the first time.

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