{"id":37026,"date":"2025-08-23T13:49:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T17:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=37026"},"modified":"2025-08-23T13:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T17:58:11","slug":"kaulig-racing-heading-to-truck-series-with-ram-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2025\/08\/23\/kaulig-racing-heading-to-truck-series-with-ram-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaulig Racing Heading To Truck Series With RAM In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Current Cup and Xfinity team Kaulig Racing announced that they would partner with new manufacturer RAM for the 2026 Truck Series season. The team will field five trucks and run for the owners&#8217; championship.<\/p>\n<h2>Kaulig Racing will field 5 RAM Trucks in the &#8217;26 Craftsman Truck Series Season<\/h2>\n<p>Kaulig Racing will become the only team in NASCAR currently to field cars in all three divisions. In their announcement today, they shared that they have partnered with RAM Trucks for 2026. The Welcome, North Carolina, team will field five trucks in the 2026 Craftsman Truck Series, but drivers have not been announced. They will run for the 2026 Owner&#8217;s championship, allowing for multiple drivers to pilot one truck.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37027\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37027\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-37027 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2155651606-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2155651606-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2155651606-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2155651606-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2155651606-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2155651606-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2155651606-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2155651606-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PORTLAND, OREGON &#8211; JUNE 01: (L-R) Matt Kaulig, owner of Kaulig Racing, Shane Van Gisbergen, driver of the #97 Quad Lock Chevrolet, and Chris Rice, President of Kaulig Racing celebrate in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Xfinity Series Pacific Office Automation 147 at Portland International Raceway on June 01, 2024 in Portland, Oregon. (Photo by Meg Oliphant\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Kaulig and RAM Go Racing:<\/h3>\n<p>Kaulig Racing currently fields Chevrolets in both the Cup and Xfinity Series, so this is a bit of uncharted territory. The team has said that they will operate out of the same building. Safeguards will have to be in place to protect Chevrolet&#8217;s information and RAM&#8217;s information. Fox Sports&#8217; Bob Pockrass believes that Kaulig will get Trucks from Spire Motorsports. Kaulig will change the nose and tail of the trucks with RAM&#8217;s body panels.<\/p>\n<p>Again, no drivers have been announced yet, but all five trucks will run for the championship. Bob Pockrass believes that since the announcement came at a RAM dealership owned by current Kaulig Xfinity driver Daniel Dye, Dye could be connected with the program.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASCAR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@NASCAR<\/a> Craftsman Truck Series is about to meet a new kind of beast.<a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RamTrucks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@RamTrucks<\/a> is back and <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KauligRacing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@KauligRacing<\/a> is leading the charge. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sdPA4PHoz8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/sdPA4PHoz8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kaulig Trucks (@Kaulig_Trucks) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kaulig_Trucks\/status\/1959286651965870453?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Five full-time Trucks are a huge operation for Kaulig, making their total NASCAR fleet 10 cars. Kaulig believes it will have to hire fifty-plus new employees for the effort. Kaulig is the only team planned to partner with RAM for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>This is a big step for Kaulig. I am interested to see how the different manufacturers coexist in the same building. As a RAM owner myself, I can&#8217;t wait to see RAM&#8217;s racing in NASCAR again.<\/p>\n<p>I am excited to see how RAM and Kaulig fare in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current Cup and Xfinity team Kaulig Racing announced that they would partner with new manufacturer RAM for the 2026 Truck Series season. The team will field five trucks and run for the owners&#8217; championship. Kaulig Racing will field 5 RAM Trucks in the &#8217;26 Craftsman Truck Series Season Kaulig Racing will become the only team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4347,"featured_media":37030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1666],"tags":[2178,1852,2573],"class_list":["post-37026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nascar","category-nascar-camping-world-truck-series","tag-daniel-dye","tag-kaulig-racing","tag-ram-trucks"],"modified_by":"Hayden Murdock","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37026"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37033,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37026\/revisions\/37033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}