{{short description|American racing driver}} {{BLP sources|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox NASCAR driver | name = David Gravel | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1992|6|23}} | birth_place = Watertown, Connecticut, U.S. | achievements = 2024, 2025 World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series Champion<br>2019 Knoxville Nationals Winner | awards = 2013 World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series Rookie of the Year<ref name="WOOBio">{{cite web |title=David Gravel |url=https://worldofoutlaws.com/drivers/driver-info/?driver=David+Gravel |website=World of Outlaws |access-date=February 13, 2020}}</ref> | Truck_Car_Team = | Total_Truck_Races = 2 | Years_In_Truck = 1 | Prev_Truck_Pos = 50th | Prev_Truck_Year = 2020 | Best_Truck_Pos = 50th (2020) | First_Truck_Race = 2020 Henry Ford Health System 200 (Michigan) | Last_Truck_Race = 2020 Clean Harbors 200 (Kansas) | First_Truck_Win = | Last_Truck_Win = | Truck_Wins = 0 | Truck_Top_Tens = 1 | Truck_Poles = 0 | Total_ARCA_Races = 1 | Years_In_ARCA = 1 | ARCA_Car_Team = | Best_ARCA_Pos = 63rd (2020) | First_ARCA_Race = 2020 Lucas Oil 200 (Daytona) | Last_ARCA_Race = | First_ARCA_Win = | Last_ARCA_Win = | ARCA_Wins = 0 | ARCA_Top_Tens = 0 | ARCA_Poles = 0 | updated = November 9, 2025 | module = {{Infobox racing driver|embed=yes | current_series = World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series | current_team = No. 2 (Big Game Motorsports) | last_finish = 1st (2025) | best_finish = 1st | year = 2024, 2025 | championships = 2 (2024, 2025) | first_year = 2008 | starts = 962 | wins = 120 | poles = 156 }} }} '''David Gravel''' (born June 23, 1992) is an American professional racing driver. He competes full-time in the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series, driving the No. 2 Maxim for Big Game Motorsports. Gravel won the 2024 and 2025 World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Championship along with the Knoxville Nationals in 2019.<ref name="KnoxvilleWin">{{cite web |title=David Gravel claims emotional Knoxville Nationals win |url=https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2019/08/11/david-gravel-claims-emotional-knoxville-nationals-win/ |website=NASCAR.com |access-date=February 13, 2020}}</ref>

==Racing career== ===Early years=== Growing up in Connecticut, Gravel started his racing career in quarter midgets before moving up to Legends cars on asphalt and then to dirt micro-sprints.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Walters |first1=Shane |title=David Gravel is looking for a shot in NASCAR |url=https://racingnews.co/2018/05/20/david-gravel-is-looking-for-a-shot-in-nascar/ |website=Racing News |access-date=February 13, 2020 |date=May 20, 2018}}</ref>

===Dirt racing=== In 2008, Gravel competed full-time with the United Racing Club and became the youngest winner in the history of the series.<ref name="WOOBio" /> For the next four years, he raced in the All Star Circuit of Champions, scoring three top-three points finishes.<ref name="WOOBio" />

Gravel started making sporadic World of Outlaws appearances in 2008; he eventually won the series' Rookie of the Year award in 2013.<ref name="WOOBio" /> He ran for Roth Motorsports in 2014, Destiny Motorsports in 2015 and from 2016 to 2018 drove for CJB Motorsports.<ref name="WOOBio" />

Gravel raced with Jason Johnson Racing in 2019, driving the team's No. 41 car to a third-place finish in the season-long point standings and winning the Knoxville Nationals and Jason Johnson Classic.<ref name="JJR2020">{{cite web |last1=Seelman |first1=Jacob |title=Gravel Back With JJR, Eyeing Move To Trucks |url=https://speedsport.com/sprints-midgets/world-of-outlaws-sprint-cars/gravel-back-with-jjr-eyeing-move-to-trucks/ |website=Speed Sport |access-date=February 13, 2020 |date=November 11, 2019}}</ref> He also participated in the 2019 Chili Bowl Midget Nationals, advancing to the A-main.<ref name="Yahoo" /> After the season, he confirmed a return to JJR for another full-season effort in 2020,<ref name="JJR2020" /> although that was eventually slimmed down to about 85 percent of the season's schedule after Gravel signed with NASCAR team GMS Racing for 2020.<ref name="Yahoo">{{cite web |last1=Utter |first1=Jim |title=Sprint car star David Gravel wants to 'be in the hunt' in NASCAR |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/sprint-car-star-david-gravel-170530165.html |website=Yahoo! Sports |access-date=February 13, 2020 |date=January 13, 2020 |archive-date=February 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200213210611/https://sports.yahoo.com/sprint-car-star-david-gravel-170530165.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

After the COVID-19 pandemic temporarily stopped the WoO season, Gravel won the tour's first race back, held with no fans at Knoxville on May 8.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ryan |first1=Nate |title=David Gravel wins at Knoxville; Kyle Larson 10th in return with Outlaws |url=https://motorsports.nbcsports.com/2020/05/08/kyle-larson-david-gravel-wins-at-knoxville-raceway-world-of-outlaws-covid-19/?partner=Yahoo |website=NASCAR on NBC |publisher=NBC Sports |access-date=May 8, 2020 |date=May 8, 2020}}</ref> He later won a premiere All Star Circuit of Champions race at Eldora Speedway. In his 600th WoO start, Gravel won at Williams Grove Speedway in the National Open preliminary.<ref>{{cite web |last1=O'Brien |first1=Dick |title=David Gravel picks up $10K win in Williams Grove preliminary feature |url=https://www.syracuse.com/sports/2020/10/david-gravel-picks-up-10k-win-in-williams-grove-preliminary-feature.html |website=Syracuse.com |access-date=October 3, 2020 |date=October 3, 2020}}</ref> Gravel started his first USAC Silvercrown race on the dirt at the Springfield Mile; he started last and finished second behind Kyle Larson.<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Bettenhausen 100 |series=USAC Silvercrown |network=FloRacing |date=October 18, 2020 |time=15:25 }}</ref>

In 2024 and 2025, Gravel became the WoO Sprint Car Series Champion.{{citation needed|date=February 2026}}

===Pavement racing=== On January 10, 2020, Gravel announced a six-race slate in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series, driving for GMS Racing. The announced schedule included the series' only dirt race, a July date at Eldora Speedway, but the plan ended up being foiled due to the COVID-19 pandemic canceling the Eldora race. <ref>{{cite web |last1=McFadin |first1=Daniel |title=World of Outlaws driver David Gravel lands part-time Truck ride at GMS Racing|url=https://nascar.nbcsports.com/2020/01/10/world-of-outlaws-driver-david-gravel-lands-part-time-truck-ride-at-gms-racing/ |website=NASCAR on NBC |publisher=NBC Sports |access-date=February 13, 2020 |date=January 10, 2020}}</ref> As part of the deal, Gravel would also run the 2020 ARCA Menards Series season-opener at Daytona International Speedway with GMS affiliate team KBR Development.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Walters |first1=Shane |title=Dirt racer David Gravel to get his shot in NASCAR |url=https://racingnews.co/2020/01/10/dirt-racer-david-gravel-to-get-his-shot-in-nascar/ |website=Racing News |access-date=February 13, 2020 |date=January 10, 2020}}</ref>

==Motorsports career results==

===Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series=== {|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:75%" |- ! colspan=45| NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series results |- ! Year ! Team ! No. ! Make ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 ! 19 ! 20 ! 21 ! 22 ! 23 ! {{Tooltip|NGTC|NASCAR Gander Trucks classification}} ! Pts ! Ref |- ! 2020 ! GMS Racing ! 24 ! Chevy | DAY | LVS | CLT | ATL | HOM | POC | KEN | TEX | KAN | KAN | style="background:#FFDF9F;"| MCH<br><small>10</small> | DAY | DOV | GTW | DAR | RCH | BRI | LVS | TAL | style="background:#EFCFFF;"| KAN<br><small>35</small> | TEX | MAR | PHO ! 50th ! 32 ! <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.racing-reference.info/drivdet/graveda03/2020/C|title=David Gravel – 2020 NASCAR RV & Gander Outdoors Truck Series Results|work=Racing-Reference|publisher=NASCAR Digital Media, LLC|access-date=November 11, 2020}}</ref> |}

===ARCA Menards Series=== (key) (<span style="font-size:85%">'''Bold'''&nbsp;– Pole position awarded by qualifying time. ''Italics''&nbsp;– Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. *&nbsp;– Most laps led.</span>) {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:75%" ! colspan="32" | ARCA Menards Series results |- ! Year ! Team ! No. ! Make ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 ! 19 ! 20 ! {{Tooltip|AMSC|ARCA Menards Series classification}} ! Pts ! Ref |- ! 2020 ! KBR Development ! 28 ! Chevy | style="background:#DFFFDF;"| DAY<br><small>12</small> | PHO | TAL | POC | IRP | KEN | IOW | KAN | TOL | TOL | MCH | DAY | GTW | L44 | TOL | BRI | WIN | MEM | ISF | KAN ! 63rd ! 32 ! <ref>{{cite web |title=David Gravel – 2020 ARCA Menards Series results |url=https://www.racing-reference.info/drivdet/graveda03/2020/A |website=Racing Reference |access-date=February 14, 2020}}</ref> |}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{Racing-Reference driver|David_Gravel}}

{{GMS Racing}} {{KBR Development}}

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