Casey Mears will return to NASCAR Cup Series competition for the first time in six years with Garage 66 later this month at Martinsville Speedway. The team announced on Thursday, one day after

The upcoming Cook Out 400 at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia will mark the return of a beloved driver after more than five years out of the NASCAR Cup Series. On Thursday, Garage 66 & MBM Motorsports announced that longtime NASCAR driver Casey Mears will be getting a start in the No.

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Casey Mears will make his first NASCAR Cup Series outing since 2019 at this month’s Cook Out 500 at Martinsville. The 47-year-old will drive the Garage 66’s No. 66 Ford Mustang in the seventh round of the season, carrying sponsorship from camper and trailer services company HitchGO.

The 47-year-old Mears, who last raced in the NASCAR Cup Series at the 2019 Daytona 500, is entered in the upcoming Cook Out 400 at Martinsville Speedway on March 30. Mears will be racing the No. 66 HitchGo Ford Mustang Dark Horse for the Statesville, N.C.-based Garage 66 race team.

Casey Mears, a veteran of 489 NASCAR Cup Series races and winner of the 2007 Coca-Cola 600, is making an unexpected return to the top level of the sport. Mears, 47, will pilot the Garage 66 entry (formerly MBM Motorsports) at Martinsville Speedway on March 30.

Casey Mears will team up with Garage 66 for his return to NASCAR Cup Series competition at Martinsville Speedway on March 30. Mears, a 47-year-old native of Bakersfield, California, will pilot the No.

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