Sam Hunt Racing

The new alliance with Hendrick that Haas has is an enticing factor apparently.

Maybe makes a little more sense now that Sheldon Creed had announced his departure for Sam Hunt Racing.

Did they move Cus- Do they move Custer into Creed's seat and then put Brad Keselowski into the family car in the Cup series?" If you had to give that a grade, that they're moving Cole Custer out to Sheldon Creed's seat so Brad Keselowski can come in, probably get a little bit of ownership when he does come in, and some more support from Hendrick Motorsports, what do you give that rumor as far as a Spidey scoop?

I mean, I mean, I have no idea.

That was my biggest, like, stunner of, of the weekend when I saw that clip.

Uh, I could not believe that, but...

Sheldon Creed will leave Haas for Sam Hunt Racing in 2027, where he says he will receive his first ever salary from a race team.

"I get paid for the first time in my life by a race team," is the quote that they put up, Creed said after Las Vegas.

The last couple weeks, Sam Mayer, who is in the second car at Haas Factory Team with Creed, would be leaving for Junior Motorsports in the offseason, and at the moment, the The driver that's going to replace him is Dean Thompson.

It was announced in Vegas that Sheldon Creed would not be returning to Haas Factory Team in 2027, and he would be joining Sam Hunt Racing starting in 2027.

I was not expecting that.

With the Sam Mayer news, Sam Mayer's been at Junior Motorsports before.

And as I mentioned, he's at the top of the point standings.

And in sports, what have you done for me lately? I thought that would at least get Sheldon another year at Haas.

I was completely wrong and Sam Hunt Racing is contending for races.

Harrison Burton, Dean Thompson running full-time with those guys.

It was announced this weekend.

Sheldon Creed, current points leader of the O'Reilly Series, will be heading to Sam Hunt Racing.

He has three wins this year.

His first three.

I do love it.

I said this to Sam, hanging out with him a couple weeks ago, and I heard this go down.

I was like, I can't, you know, Sheldon's going to win the championship and the 2026 O'Reilly Series champions head to Sam Hunt racing.

He's

Quoppell in second, Jesse Love third, and then Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Brent Crews and Taylor Gray fourth and fifth.

Sheldon Creed still leads the O'Reilly's Series point standings, even though he's leaving Haas Factory Team at the end of the year for Sam Hunt Racing in a surprising move.

I mean, I get why Sam Mayer would wanna return to Junior Motorsports as he's had more success over there.

But Sheldon Creed leaving for Sam Hunt's Racing after...

He's won two of, he won two of the first three chase races.

He literally leads the O'Reilly Series point standings.

He might win the O'Reilly Series championship and then leave to go to Sam Hunt Racing.

Although, I guess it's not the first time we've seen an O'Reilly's competition before.

Having the mile-and-a-half speed was at Charlotte a couple years ago, finished top five in the Truck Series.

Then last year, here at Charlotte, he finished fifth place in this 26 car for Sam Hunt Racing.

He can do it.

He can do the top five even, which should've looked at this top five number.

You know, we know that Sammy Smith is out at Junior Motorsports, Sam Mayer is in.

And we knew that Dean Thompson was leaving Sam Hunt Racing, going to Haas Factory Team.

That still made me think, okay, well, Sheldon Creed's good, but then I heard on one of the broadcasts kind of mention, "Well, we don't know what Creed's situation is next year." And I, and I repeated that on this show last week, but not really thinking that he was actually leaving the double zero.

I mean, here he is, he's won his first three career races.

Here he is leading the points, and only the news coming out this weekend in Vegas that Sheldon Creed is moving to Sam Hunt Racing to take over the number 26 that Dean Thompson, from which it's, is, he's departing.

Okay.

Now, we've seen, of course, outgoing drivers do well in the championship.

It's a great point.