{"id":696473,"date":"2026-05-27T05:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/696473\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T05:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:31:17","slug":"cleetus-mcfarland-to-make-nascar-truck-return-at-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/696473\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleetus McFarland to make NASCAR Truck return at Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleetus McFarland (aka Garrett Mitchell)\u00a0 will be back behind the wheel of a NASCAR Craftsman Truck at Michigan International Speedway on June 6.<\/p>\n<p>Cleetus will drive the No. 4 Niece Motorsports Chevrolet. It will be his second appearance in the Truck Series, after making his debut in the same truck at Daytona. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/nascar-truck\/news\/cleetus-mcfarland-daytona-nascar-truck-debut-wrecks\/10797587\/\" data-custom-text=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unfortunately, his debut only lasted six laps<\/a>, losing control at the exit of Turn 4 and crashing into the inside wall. He finished 37th &#8212; last.<\/p>\n<p>However, Cleetus continues to make progress behind the wheel of a stock car, and has since signed a deal with Richard Childress Racing, making his NASCAR O&#8217;Reilly debut at Rockingham and finishing 32nd. He had hoped to gain approval to race at Talladega soon after, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/nascar-os\/news\/cleetus-mcfarland-denied-nascar-oreilly-superspeedway-approval\/10811387\/\" data-custom-text=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR refused his request<\/a>, hoping to see more experience out of him first. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/nascar-os\/news\/cleetus-mcfarland-to-make-second-nascar-oreilly-start-at-nashville-next-month\/10814189\/\" data-custom-text=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">He also plans to run the NASCAR O&#8217;Reilly race at Nashville this weekend.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Cleetus earned a top five finish in the ARCA East Race at Rockingham, and nearly won the ARCA Menards Series race at Talladega, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/arca\/news\/andy-jankowiak-wins-cleetus-mcfarland-second-arca-talladega\/10815493\/\" data-custom-text=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">finishing second in a dramatic finish.\u00a0 Andy Jankowiak passed Cleetus in a full-contact battle to the checkered flag, earning his first win instead.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alone with one start each in the O&#8217;Reilly and Truck Series, Cleetus now has eight races under his belt between the main ARCA division and ARCA East.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>            We want your opinion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our 5 minute survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleetus McFarland (aka Garrett Mitchell)\u00a0 will be back behind the wheel of a NASCAR Craftsman Truck at Michigan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,253995,1447,28098,634,18242,82],"class_list":["post-696473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cleetus-mcfarland-to-make-nascar-truck-return-at-michigan","tag-michigan","tag-michigan-international-speedway","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-truck","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}