Ron Hornaday Jr., a four-time Camping World Truck Series champion, will be returning to the Sprint Cup Series for the first time in over a decade this year. Hornaday has signed with The Motorsports Group to drive their first Cup car, the #30 Chevrolet SS. Before this announcement, it was rumored that a younger, less experienced driver, most notably former Swan Racing driver Parker Kligerman, would land the ride. Hornaday will attempt the Daytona 500 in February via the Budweiser Duels and will also be entered in several other races.
Hornaday has won 51 truck races, more than any other driver in the 20-year history of the series, and last visited victory lane in 2011. He won his first two championships in 1996 and 1998 driving for Dale Earnhardt, and his second two in 2007 and 2009 in a truck owned by Kevin Harvick. He lost his ride with the recently defunct Turner Scott Motorsports when their #30 truck team suddenly shut down. Hornaday has also driven in what is now the Xfinity Series for Earnhardt and Harvick as well as Richard Childress, a brief stint with Rick Hendrick and several other teams. Hornaday ran for the Rookie of the Year award in what was then the Winston Cup Series in 2001 driving for A.J. Foyt, to date his only full-time season in NASCAR's top series. Hornaday's most recent Cup start was at Homestead in November of 2003 in a research and development car for Richard Childress.
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