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Carson

Kvapil

Born: May 22, 2003

Hometown: Mooresville, NC

0Total Wins

3Top 5's

4Top 10's

Carson Kvapil will enter the NASCAR Xfinity Series ranks this season as a full-time driver for JR Motorsports after a stellar nine-race stint in 2024, in which he earned three top-five and four top-10 finishes in the team’s No. 88 Chevrolet. The 21-year-old second generation driver’s best finish came at Dover Motor Speedway, where he finished second after leading into the race’s final restart. The son of 2003 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion and former NASCAR Cup Series driver Travis, Kvapil won a pair of zMAX CARS Tour Late Model Stock Car championships (2022 and 2023) driving for JRM and legendary crew chief/team manager Bryan Shaffer

In 2024, the duo captured Late Model Stock Car racing’s biggest prize, the ValleyStar Credit Union 300 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway in the fall of 2024. In the process of transitioning to the NXS, Kvapil was unable to defend his consecutive CARS Tour Late Model Stock Car championships, but won at Southern National Motor Speedway, Ace Speedway and South Boston (Va.) Speedway along the way.

In the CARS Tour’s LMSC division, Kvapil recorded 12 career victories in just 47 starts, adding 36 top-five and 40 top-10 finishes and winning eight poles. He led 1,221 laps as well. Among his biggest CARS Tour career victories was the inaugural Window World 125 at North Wilkesboro Speedway, part of the legacy track’s return to racing action following 25 years of inactivity. That race also featured the return of team owner Dale Earnhardt Jr. to the Late Model ranks for the first time since 1997.

The young driver’s career began in 2013 in the U.S. Legend Car Bandolero division, the traditional starting point for drivers who want to climb the ladder of NASCAR racing. In 2016, Kvapil moved up to the U.S. Legend Cars for a single season before moving to dirt-track racing in Outlaw Karts at nearby Millbridge Speedway, where he won several championships in the open-wheel classes.

The young driver counts his father Travis as the person who has influenced his career the most, adding Shaffer and the volunteer crewmen from his early racing efforts to that list.

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Andrew

Overstreet

Born: March 7, 1984

Hometown: Concord, N.C.

Crew Chief

1Total Wins

10Top 5's

14Top 10's

Andrew Overstreet will embark on his first full-time season as a crew chief in 2025 with the No. 1 team at JR Motorsports, fielding rookie Carson Kvapil as driver. The 40-year-old North Carolina native is coming off a season in which his cars earned one win, six top-five and 10 top-10 finishes in a partial schedule with Overstreet atop the pit box, highlighted by a dominant weekend at Watkins Glen International.

That weekend, rising star Connor Zilisch led 45 laps from the pole and earned a thrilling overtime triumph, which was Overstreet’s first in the series as well.

Overstreet, a native of Concord, N.C., is a 2006 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a degree in mechanical engineering, much of it taking place in UNCC’s Alan D. Kulwicki Motorsports Laboratory, one of the top motorsports engineering programs in the country.

Growing up near Charlotte Motor Speedway, Overstreet began his career in the sport on weekends working on U.S. Legend Cars before working toward his mechanical engineering degree, much the same way the 1992 NASCAR Cup Series champion did.

Prior to his graduation, Overstreet secured an internship at Hendrick Motorsports and later earned a position there in 2004, starting as a post-race teardown mechanic alongside Greg Ives. Ives delivered the 2014 NXS championship—the first for JRM--with Chase Elliott as his driver. In addition, he worked on the setup plate and in the shock room, as well as helping with tires at the track.

While at HMS, Overstreet was also a part of the 2006 NASCAR Cup Series championship team with Jimmie Johnson as the driver.

With no available positions at HMS, Overstreet went on to Red Bull Racing, with a stint at Michael Waltrip Racing, before helping win a pair of NASCAR K&N Series titles with Ryan Truex as a race engineer. During his career, Overstreet has been with several top NASCAR teams, including KBM, Penske Racing, Wood Brothers Racing and Red Horse Racing.

While with Penske, Overstreet was the race engineer on the No. 22 car which ended up winning the NXS owner’s championship.

In 2020, Overstreet joined JRM as a race engineer for several drivers before hooking on with Sam Mayer during his rookie season in 2022.

Overstreet was also the first-man-in as crew chief that season when Taylor Moyer was suspended for a lug-nut violation at Dover in the spring. In the three races he was atop the pit box, Mayer finished third twice (at Darlington and Texas) and fifth at Darlington. In 2023, Mardy Lindley missed a race due to illness and Overstreet got the call again, guiding Mayer to a seventh-place result. Last season, Overstreet again subbed for a suspended Lindley at Charlotte, and Mayer had a chance to win the race before finishing fourth.