{"id":354423,"date":"2026-06-10T09:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/354423\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T09:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:03:18","slug":"brendan-gaughan-to-make-first-nascar-truck-start-in-almost-13-years-at-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/354423\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Gaughan to make first NASCAR Truck start in almost 13 years at San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Gaughan is getting back behind the wheel of a NASCAR race car! The 50-year-old racer will pilot the No. 20 Bill McAnally Racing Chevrolet Silverado at the June 19 Truck Series race at Naval Base Coronado &#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/nascar-cup\/news\/first-look-take-a-virtual-lap-around-nascars-naval-base-coronado-street-course\/10828656\/\" data-custom-text=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> an all-new street course for NASCAR, taking place on an active military base in San Diego, California.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gaughan was born in Los Angeles, and is part of the family that owns South Point Hotel &amp; Casino, which will sponsor the effort.<\/p>\n<p>Gaughan has 67 Cup starts with a best finish of fourth, 219 NASCAR O&#8217;Reilly Series starts with two victories (Road America 2014; Kentucky 2014), but most of his success came in the Truck Series.<\/p>\n<p>Driving a NASCAR Truck, Gaughan started 217 NCTS races, winning eight races, including a six-win season in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego will be Gaughan&#8217;s first start in any level of NASCAR since 2020, and his first in the Truck Series since 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is so cool to come back and race in a truck again for Bill (McAnally),\u201d said Gaughan in a release from the team. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a ton of history together, tons of great memories, and this is going to be something we\u2019ll talk about for a long time. Ever since I heard the race at Coronado was going to happen, I knew I wanted to run something, and I\u2019m just glad Bill and I were able to make this happen. This is a great chance for the NASCAR community to celebrate and recognize our military with a unique event, and I wanted to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Gaughan\u00a0earned back-to-back titles in the NASCAR Winston West Series (now ARCA West) in 2000 and 2001, winning eight races there. Gaughan&#8217;s career also includes a class win in the 2011 Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona, driving a Porsche 997 GT3 Cup entry for TRG.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0            <\/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":"Brendan Gaughan is getting back behind the wheel of a NASCAR race car! The 50-year-old racer will pilot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[144495,73844,127131,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-354423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-brendan-gaughan-to-make-first-nascar-truck-start-in-almost-13-years-at-san-diego","tag-nascar-truck","tag-naval-base-coronado","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}