Background
Son of National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing competitor Joe Nemechek, he was the 2012 champion in the Allison Legacy Series.
Son of National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing competitor Joe Nemechek, he was the 2012 champion in the Allison Legacy Series.
He currently competes full-time in the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Camping World Truck Series, driving the Number. 8 Chevrolet Silverado for NEMCO Motorsports. Nemechek began his racing career at the age of 5, competing in go-karts, quarter midget cars and in dirt bike competition.
He moved up to stock car competition in 2010, competing in the Allison Legacy Series with sponsorship from England Stove Works.
In 2012, Nemechek moved up to late model and super late model competition, competing in the Champion Racing Association Super Series and American Speed Association Midwest Tour. He also competed in the World Series of Asphalt at New Smyrna Speedway during Speedweeks.
He finished 23rd in the event. In 2013, Nemecheck moved to competing in the Southern Super Series as well as in selected races in the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing K&North Pro Series East, starting with the UNOH Battle at the Beach at Daytona International Speedway in February.
In late 2013, he made his debut in the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Camping World Truck Series, driving the Number.
22 Toyota for SWM-NEMCO Racing. He competed in two events, with a best finish of 16th. In January 2014, Nemechek announced he would be competing in ten Camping World Truck Series events during the 2014 season.
On November 29, Nemechek was voted the Most Popular Driver for the 2015 season in the Truck Series.
Nemechek won praise from Sprint Cup Series driver Kyle Busch following a CRA Super Series race in which both drivers competed. In June 2012, Nemechek won the pole for the Howie Lettow Memorial 150, an American Statistical Association Midwest Tour event, at the Milwaukee Mademoiselle (Miss) He was scheduled to take a driver"s education course the following week as he had just passed his fifteenth birthday. After competing in the 2012 Snowball Derby, starting second and finishing tenth, Nemechek won the 2012 Allison Legacy Series championship, winning 15 of the season"s 18 races. After the season ended, he won the 300-lap Snowball Derby. On September 19, 2015, 16 years to the day Joe Nemechek won his first Cup race, John Hunter Nemechek won his first Truck Series race at Chicagoland.
