Front Row Motorsports General Manager Jerry Freeze shared an update on Noah Gragson’s future with the team. Freeze asserted that contract talks with Gragson are in their final stages.
Driving the No.4 Ford, Gragson is currently in the second season of his multi-year deal with FRM. Lately, his on-track performance hasn’t been something to boast about.
Gragson is 31st in points and has finished 25th or worse in seven straight races, and many believed his time with FRM was nearing its end. The Athletic also speculated that a shift to Richard Childress Racing was a possibility.
Amidst the rumours, Freeze took an interview with SiriusXM and clarified their stance.
“We want Noah back at front row and I feel pretty good about it,” Freeze said, “You know, we’re working through kind of the last details in his agreement, so I feel pretty good about it. You know. I look for something out of us in a few weeks on that, but you these programs, there’s a lot of moving pieces to it and you got to put all of it together and we believe in his talent.”
“He’s kind of like Zane, you know, ends up in our group, but we just haven’t found the consistent speed with that car. Last year. I felt like we had a little more speed. We just got caught up in a lot of accidents and this year, you know, we’re just lacking a little bit of speed,” he added.
Freeze reiterated that Noah Gragson will be at FRM for the ‘foreseeable future’. The No.4 driver’s best result this season comes from a ninth-place finish at Talladega.
He scored a respectable 11th at another drafting track, the Daytona International Speedway.
Noah Gragson comments on his Kevin Magnussen dust-up
At NASCAR’s inaugural race at San Diego, Noah Gragson nearly came to blows with former F1 driver Kevin Magnussen. The two drivers clashed for multiple laps before Magnussen dumped Gragson and advanced.
A frustrated Gragson confronted Magnussen post-race, causing a heated verbal spat in front of on-track media. In a recent episode of the Dale Jr. Download podcast, Gragson discussed the issue with Chase Briscoe.
The JGR driver asked why Gragson didn’t throw a punch, and the FRM driver replied,
“I’m trying to get a job next year. There’s a lot more consequences than just the monetary fine.”
Noah Gragson also addressed the online backlash he’d received for clashing with Kevin Magnussen. He explained how the former F1 driver was no better than him if he was also running among the backmarkers.
Notably, Magnussen drove under Trackhouse Racing’s ‘Project 91’, a program that provides seat time for international drivers.
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