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Todd Gilliland

Todd Gilliland

25-Year-Old Driver  
Front Row Motorsports
Front Row Motorsports
2024 Cup Stats
Points
630
Starts
36
Wins
0
Poles
0
Top 5
0
Top 10
4
2025 Fantasy Outlook
This will be season three for Gilliland at Front Row Motorsports. His previous two campaigns in the No. 38 Ford showed some gradual improvement. Gilliland nabbed four Top-10 finishes last year and finished 28th in the final driver standings. While his gains were only modest, he still earned another year in the team's Ford Mustang. His future at Front Row will likely hinge on this season. He'll once again be paired with crew chief, Ryan Bergenty. Gilliland needs to find more Top 10's, whittle down his 22.0 average finish and look to penetrate the Top 25 in the driver standings in 2024. Those are all attainable goals and likely ones that he'll need to complete to earn more seat time at Front Row Motorsports. As long as Michael McDowell continues to perform well in the team's other Ford, the bar will be set pretty high for Gilliland. Read Past Outlooks
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Car No. 34 Ford
Crew Chief Chris Lawson
Rookie Year 2018
Birth Date 5/15/2000
Born Sherrills Ford, North Carolina, United States
Country UNITED STATES
Tops Final Mexico Practice
NASCAR Cup
June 13, 2025
Gilliland was fastest in Happy Hour practice for the Viva Mexico 250 NASCAR Cup Series race at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez on Friday. He turned a fast lap of 93.180 mph.
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As drivers became more comfortable with the Mexico City circuit, speeds would increase in this final session ahead of pole qualifying. Gilliland would pick up the pace from is opening session and top the scoring pylon in this final practice. He edged Ross Chastain to lead the session. The driver of the No. 34 Ford will look to challenge the Top 10 in Sunday's Viva Mexico 250.
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Past Fantasy Outlooks
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
This will be season three for Gilliland at Front Row Motorsports. His previous two campaigns in the No. 38 Ford showed some gradual improvement. Gilliland nabbed four Top-10 finishes last year and finished 28th in the final driver standings. While his gains were only modest, he still earned another year in the team's Ford Mustang. His future at Front Row will likely hinge on this season. He'll once again be paired with crew chief, Ryan Bergenty. Gilliland needs to find more Top 10's, whittle down his 22.0 average finish and look to penetrate the Top 25 in the driver standings in 2024. Those are all attainable goals and likely ones that he'll need to complete to earn more seat time at Front Row Motorsports. As long as Michael McDowell continues to perform well in the team's other Ford, the bar will be set pretty high for Gilliland.
Gilliland will return for a second season with the Front Row Motorsports team. However, now the pressure is on the young driver to up his performance and match a level closer to his teammate, Michael McDowell. Gilliland nabbed just two Top 10's in his rookie campaign last year, and finished a distant 28th-place in the final driver standings. He'll have to improve in his sophomore season with a new crew chief as Seth Barbour has moved on to take over the competition director's role at Front Row Motorsports. The crew chief role remains unannounced as of this writing, so Gilliland's potential will be tied a good bit to whomever takes over that role. Gilliland made the jump from the truck series to Cup, which is rare, and it will obviously take him some time to find his footing at NASCAR's top level.
Gilliland gets a bit of a surprise promotion to the Cup Series in this upcoming season. Front Row Motorsports parted ways with Anthony Alfredo at the end of last season, and they will put Gilliland in the No. 38 Ford for 2022. The 21-year-old driver will be one of the few drivers who have directly promoted from the Camping World Truck Series directly into NASCAR's top division, while bypassing the Xfinity Series completely. We're a bit reserved about Gilliland's chances for success given this quick promotion. Although, he does have 93 starts in the truck series with two victories, so there's something to work with here. The big burden will lie with veteran crew chief, Seth Barbour, as it will be his task to quickly acclimate Gilliland to the Cup Series. It will be the most interesting of the rookie campaigns of the upcoming season, to be sure.
Gilliland has been confirmed as returning to the Front Row Motorsports No. 38 team in 2021. The two had a successful debut in the Camping World Truck Series together last season. Gilliland earned four Top-5 and 10 Top-10 finishes en route to a 10th-place finish in the final driver standings. This team and driver are back for another run at challenging for race wins and upping their Top-10 totals. The sponsorship and team support look pretty steady for the FRM team, and Chris Lawson will return to fulfill the crew chief duties. Intermediate ovals seem to be Gilliland's bread-and-butter at this point. That's something to remember in DFS and weekly lineup leagues. As to moving up the standings, it's going to be a tall order given how competitive this division of NASCAR is currently.
Gilliland and Kyle Busch Motorsports parted ways the end of last season. His 2019 campaign there fell a bit short of expectations. However, the 19-year-old driver landed on his feet at Front Row Motorsports. They are starting up a truck series team in association with DGR-Crosley in 2020. While optimism is high and expectations are reasonably high, it will be a bit of a transition for Gilliland. His one win, 14 Top-10 campaign with KBM last season didn't make the cut with that organization. Gilliland will be challenged to approach those numbers with this new race team. With just 48 truck series starts to his credit, this driver is still learning the ropes to some degree. Gilliland has some untapped racing potential, but it remains to be seen if it will emerge in the upcoming season.
KBM is gearing up big behind this driver and race team as Gilliland will take over the No. 4 entry full-time in 2019. The 18-year-old talent made 19 of 23 events with this race team last season and posted some respectably good numbers along the way. It was Gilliland's first near-full schedule in this division of NASCAR, so lessons were learned aplenty. Gilliland managed four Top-5, nine Top-10 finish, and he even grabbed a pole position at Martinsville. The youngster led over 200 combined laps for the season, so he did get a good taste for racing at the front of the pack. Now it's time for Gilliland to up the ante and grab his first-career win, and challenge for the championship. With the help of crew chief Marcus Richmond, it should happen.
KBM made big headlines in promoting Gilliland to the No. 4 Toyota Tundra in the off-season. He takes over the No. 4 truck that Christopher Bell raced to the championship in 2017. Gilliland will be paired with veteran crew chief, Marcus Richmond. The entire situation screams of the vote of confidence that owner Kyle Busch has in the young man. Gilliland turned heads in 2017 in just a part-time slate. The 17-year-old nabbed three Top-10 finishes in just six starts with KBM. Gilliland is the son of long-time NASCAR veteran David Gilliland. The apple didn't fall far from the tree. It's apparent that he has the racing gift. Gilliland won 12 races and back-to-back titles the last two years of racing in the K&N Pro Series West. That didn't happen by accident.
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Crew Chief Named
NASCAR Cup
December 12, 2024
Chris Lawson will return to Front Row Motorsports to crew chief Gilliland and the No. 34 team during the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season.
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Car Number Switch
NASCAR Cup
November 19, 2024
Gilliland will enter the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season with new, yet familiar colors. Gilliland will pilot the No. 34 Love's Travel Stops Ford Mustang Dark Horse for Front Row Motorsports. Todd will follow in his father, David's, footsteps in representing the Love's colors at FRM.
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Signs Extension with FRM
NASCAR Cup
June 5, 2024
Front Row Motorsports confirms that Gilliland, a rising star for the team, has signed a multi-year contract extension to continue to race for the organization for years to come. Gilliland will return to one of FRM's three NASCAR Cup Series teams in 2025.
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Returning to Front Row in 2024
NASCAR Cup
August 9, 2023
Gilliland will return to Front Row Motorsports in 2024 to drive the No. 38 Ford alongside Michael McDowell in the No. 34 Ford, the team announced Wednesday.
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Talladega Start with Front Row
NASCAR Cup
March 2, 2023
Carl Ruedebusch, the owner of N29 Capital Partners, LLC and Ruedebusch Development and Construction, continues to build a future for Gilliland. The successful Wisconsin-based businessman and venture capitalist will sponsor Gilliland at the Talladega Superspeedway on April 23 and complete a full NASCAR Cup Series season for the sophomore driver, Front Row Motorsports PR reports.
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