Matt DiBenedetto

Matthew Guido DiBenedetto (born July 27, 1991)[1] is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 21 Ford Mustang for Wood Brothers Racing.

Matt DiBenedetto
DiBenedetto at Richmond Raceway in 2019
Born	Matthew Guido DiBenedetto July 27, 1991 Grass Valley, California
Awards	2007 UARA-Stars Rookie of the Year
NASCAR Cup Series career
212 races run over 6 years
Car no., team	No. 21 (Wood Brothers Racing)
2020 position	13th
Best finish	13th (2020)
First race	2015 CampingWorld.com 500 (Phoenix)
Last race	2020 Season Finale 500 (Phoenix)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 22 0
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
69 races run over 6 years
2019 position	100th
Best finish	21st (2014)
First race	2009 Kroger On Track for the Cure 250 (Memphis)
Last race	2019 CTECH Manufacturing 180 (Road America)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 2 0
Statistics current as of November 8, 2020.

Racing career

Early career

DiBenedetto first showed an interest in auto racing after receiving his little league trophy around age 8. His father, Tony, who raced an Opel Manta in SCCA and IMSA in the late 1970s and early 1980s, noticed he preferred watching automobile racing on television over baseball.[2] DiBenedetto's father knew that another player on his son's little league team was competing in mini kart racing so he bought him a used kart which a young DiBenedetto drove to his first victory. He later moved up to the UARA-Stars series, racing late models.[3] In 2007, DiBenedetto's family sold all their equipment due to financial stress, from then on starting in 2008 Dibenedetto drove for Fat Head Racing Driver Development Program in the UARA-Stars as a teammate to Darrell Wallace, Jr., Brennan Poole, and FHR team owner Jamie Yelton. There, he caught the attention of Joe Gibbs Racing, and later ran in the NASCAR Camping World East Series for them.[4]

Joe Gibbs Racing: 2009–2010, 2019

2010 Nationwide car at Road America

DiBenedetto made his NASCAR Nationwide Series debut in 2009 at the Memphis Motorsports Park and drove the No. 20 Pizza Ranch-sponsored Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. DiBenedetto raced part-time in the No. 20 car in 2010.

His first race of 2010 came at Nashville Speedway. DiBenedetto had a solid car and ran well all night. Eventually scoring a 10th-place finish. His next race came at Road America. While running 11th he had an axle problem due to running over the curbs too hard, and that led to him falling many laps down. DiBenedetto ran six races for Joe Gibbs in 2010, with two top ten finishes.

Nine years after his last start in the series with JGR, he returned to the team in August 2019 for the Road America race.[5] He led the most laps and was in second position, when he spun off the track on the final lap at the final corner of the race.

Multiple teams: 2012–2016

After being forced out of K&N Pro Series East team X Team Racing due to lack of sponsorship, DiBenedetto then joined The Motorsports Group midway through 2012 and ran as a start and park driver for seven races finishing 79th in points.

In 2013, DiBenedetto joined Vision Racing to drive the No. 37 car part-time in the Nationwide Series[6] and also started and parked the few races he was in. Dibenedetto later looked back at the start-and-park time as valuable for the seat time it gave him, which paid off later in his career.[7]

During the 2014 season's Subway Firecracker 250 at Daytona, DiBenedetto replaced Jeffrey Earnhardt in the No. 4 JD Motorsports Chevy during the first caution due to Earnhardt suffering a fractured collarbone in a motorcycle accident during the week.[8] For the second race he joined the Motorsports Group, where he start-and-parked the No. 46 Chevrolet for 12 races and raced the rest with the No. 40. He scored two top-15 place finishes at Road America and Mid-Ohio. DiBenedetto finished a career high 21st in points.

In 2016, he made his return in the Xfinity Series driving the No. 10 Camry for TriStar Motorsports at Fontana, where he started 33rd and finished 40th after starting and parking. At the Fall Texas race he crashed into the outside wall in turn 4 ending in a concussion and not racing in the Cup race the following day.

BK Racing: 2015–2016

DiBenedetto at the 2015 Irwin Tools Night Race

DiBenedetto moved up to the Sprint Cup Series in 2015. He was originally intended to drive the No. 83 Dustless Blasting and No. 93 Toyotas for BK Racing on a part-time basis; he split the No. 83 during the year with Camping World Truck Series driver Johnny Sauter. After Sauter drove the No. 83 in the Daytona 500, DiBenedetto failed to qualify in his first two attempts at Atlanta and Las Vegas before finally qualifying for his Sprint Cup debut at Phoenix. When Sauter eventually decided not to race at any other Cup race after the Daytona 500, DiBenedetto took over the No. 83 full-time and declared for ROTY contention.

DiBenedetto's No. 83 at Martinsville Speedway in 2016

At Martinsville Speedway during a practice session, DiBenedetto was involved in an incident with three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart. The incident occurred when DiBenedetto tried to merge on the track behind Carl Edwards and the gap closed ahead of him. With Stewart fast approaching down the backstretch, DiBenedetto moved up the track in turn three to let Stewart pass. "When I got to (turn) three I didn't want to hold him up, so I just pulled up high and let him go by," DiBenedetto told Foxsports.com. "I got completely out of his way, but that wasn't enough. He tried to wreck me a few times, brake-checking me and flipping me off around the whole track." After the incident, DiBenedetto called Stewart "an arrogant prick".[9]

DiBenedetto returned full-time with BK Racing in 2016, though he ran the No. 93 for the Daytona 500 since Michael Waltrip was in the No. 83 for the race.[10] At Daytona, DiBenedetto crashed with Chris Buescher on lap 92 in what Buescher called the "hardest hit of his career", though the two were not injured.[11] In the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, DiBenedetto finished sixth, a career-best at the time,[2] his first career top ten and the first for BK Racing since Travis Kvapil's eighth-place finish at the 2012 Good Sam Roadside Assistance 500 at Talladega Superspeedway.[12] He returned to the No. 93 for the Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond while Dylan Lupton drove the No. 83,[13] while also driving the No. 93 at Talladega's Hellmann's 500[14] as Jeffrey Earnhardt was in the No. 83.[15] DiBenedetto missed the AAA Texas 500 after suffering a concussion during the previous day's Xfinity Series race[16] and was replaced by Earnhardt.[17] He was cleared to return at the following race in Phoenix.[18] For the season-ending Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead, he drove the No. 49 to promote the video game NASCAR Heat Evolution's price change to $49.99.[19]

On December 8, 2016, DiBenedetto announced he had parted ways with BK Racing.[20] Two days later he announced that he would drive a single-car effort for Go Fas Racing in 2017.[21] Go Fas is one of the charter teams and as a result, DiBenedetto would make every race in the No. 32 Go Fas Racing Ford Fusion.

Go Fas Racing: 2017–2018

DiBenedetto in the No. 32 at the 2017 Toyota/Save Mart 350

In the 2017 Daytona 500, his first for Go Fas, DiBenedetto finished 9th for his second career top 10. Statistically, DiBenedetto has been Go Fas Racing's best driver since co-owner Frank Stoddard founding the team in 2011, with him picking up several top twenty and top thirty finishes. DiBenedetto had a great race in the 2017 Food City 500 when he picked up a top twenty finish, his best finish since Daytona. At the Monster Energy Open leading up to the All-Star Race, DiBenedetto drove a Reddit-sponsored car; he learned of the site when driver Josh Wise was voted into the 2014 All-Star Race by the community, who nearly voted DiBenedetto into the 2016 race.[22] The community then repeated their near-feat by having another close call in the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR All-Star Race. After the campaign, DiBenedetto remained an active member of the community, interacting with its users in the NASCAR subreddit on a regular basis.

At the 2017 Brickyard 400, DiBenedetto qualified near the back of the field. Despite this, he managed to avoid the late-race melee to pick up another top ten finish for the No. 32, finishing 8th. Soon after the race, DiBenedetto, crew chief Gene Nead, and Go Fas extended their contract to the 2018 season, allowing DiBenedetto to remain in the No. 32 for 2018.[23] However, Nead left for personal reasons in late February.[24]

Before the spring ISM race, DiBenedetto reached out on Twitter that his team has no sponsors for that race and needed a last-minute sponsor. Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick and Darrell Waltrip began to donate money to fund a sponsor, and the team later received Zynga Poker sponsorship.[25] Go Fas eventually launched #TeamBurrito, a program that allows fans to encourage businesses to sponsor the No. 32 car in exchange for various rewards.[26] Later that season, in July, at Daytona, DiBenedetto drove the No. 32 Zynga Poker Ford Fusion to another top ten finish, this time 7th, for the team's best finish.

On September 7, 2018, DiBenedetto announced that he will not be returning to Go Fas Racing in 2019. On October 10, it was announced that DiBenedetto signed a two-year contract with Leavine Family Racing to drive the No. 95 Toyota Camry starting in 2019.[27] The deal, which was a one-year contract with a possible extension, came after LFR failed to extend Kasey Kahne and after a deal with Daniel Hemric fell through to drive the No. 95 car.[4]

Leavine Family Racing: 2019

DiBenedetto's No. 95 car during the 2019 Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race

In his first race with Leavine Family Racing, DiBenedetto nearly pulled off the victory at the 2019 Daytona 500. DiBenedetto took the lead mid-way in the race and led a race-high 49 laps before being collected in the Big One with less than 15 laps to go.[28]

For Sonoma Raceway's Toyota/Save Mart 350, DiBenedetto drove a Darrell Waltrip tribute scheme resembling his 1974 car; the race was Waltrip's final as a commentator for Fox NASCAR before his retirement.[29] In the race, DiBenedetto pitted off sequence, completing his stops before the two stages and again with 25 laps remaining to score a fourth-place finish.[30]

On August 15, 2019, DiBenedetto announced via Twitter that Leavine Family Racing had informed him that he would be dropped from the team following the 2019 season.[31] At the time of the announcement, DiBenedetto stood 23rd in the standings. Two days after the announcement, DiBenedetto led 93 laps at the Bristol Night Race, but damage after contact with Ryan Newman would cause him to lose the position to Denny Hamlin with 11 laps to go. DiBenedetto would go on to earn a career-best second-place finish.[32]

Wood Brothers Racing: 2020–2021

DiBenedetto's No. 21 car at Dover International Speedway in 2020

On September 10, 2019, Wood Brothers Racing signed DiBenedetto to drive for the No. 21 Ford full-time for the 2020 season, following Paul Menard's announcement that he will retire from full-time racing after the 2019 season.[33][34] DiBenedetto started the season with a 19th place finish at the 2020 Daytona 500, but he rebounded a week later to tie a career-best second place finish at Las Vegas.[35]

In the later weeks of the regular season, DiBenedetto battled with seven-time Cup champion Jimmie Johnson and William Byron for the final spots in the playoffs. DiBenedetto would ultimately qualify for his first playoffs when he finished 12th in the regular season finale at Daytona and edged out Johnson for the 16th and last seed by six points.[36] He was eliminated following the third race of the opening round at Bristol.[37] DiBenedetto tied his career-best finish of second the following week later at Las Vegas for the third time in his career and second time in a row at the track; this time to Kurt Busch. DiBenedetto ended his first season with the Wood Brothers 13th in the final standings with a career-high 11 top tens.

DiBenedetto returned to WBR in 2021, though it was his final year with the team as Austin Cindric of WBR ally Team Penske was set to take over the No. 21 the following year.[38]

Personal life

DiBenedetto was born in Nevada City, California but raised in Grass Valley, California to parents Sandy and Tony DiBenedetto. He has three siblings, Austin, Katie, Kelley. Austin is a member of the United States Air Force.

In 2015, DiBenedetto married his childhood friend Taylor Carswell. They currently reside in Hickory, North Carolina. They own a dog named Brian.

In 2018, he made a cameo in the television series Lethal Weapon (S2, E13) as a character named Carl Edwards, which DiBenedetto noted was coincidental and not a nod to the driver of the same name.[39]

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. ** – All laps led.)

Cup Series

NASCAR Cup 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	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	NCSC	Pts	Ref
2015	BK Racing	83	Toyota	DAY	ATL DNQ	LVS DNQ	PHO 35	CAL 42	MAR 31	TEX 34	BRI 21	RCH 37	TAL 18	KAN 25	CLT 34	DOV 32	POC 32	MCH 39	SON 29	DAY 26	KEN 42	NHA 35	IND 32	POC 29	GLN 26	MCH 30	BRI 33	DAR 25	RCH 36	CHI 39	NHA 30	DOV 34	CLT 29	KAN 30	TAL 40	MAR 30	TEX 35	PHO 28	HOM 37	35th	399	[40]
2016		93		DAY 40																									RCH 37						TAL 27	MAR 32				35th	386	[41]
		83			ATL 29	LVS 31	PHO 20	CAL 27	MAR 29	TEX 34	BRI 6	RCH 30	TAL 36	KAN 30	DOV 40	CLT 32	POC 40	MCH 34	SON 31	DAY 33	KEN 38	NHA 31	IND 40	POC 28	GLN 34	BRI 17	MCH 32	DAR 26		CHI 30	NHA 28	DOV 27	CLT 25	KAN 24			TEX INQ^†	PHO 25
		49																																					HOM 27
2017	Go Fas Racing	32	Ford	DAY 9	ATL 28	LVS 26	PHO 29	CAL 29	MAR 35	TEX 31	BRI 19	RCH 28	TAL 18	KAN 32	CLT 37	DOV 29	POC 32	MCH 28	SON 23	DAY 13	KEN 25	NHA 30	IND 8	POC 37	GLN 28	MCH 26	BRI 26	DAR 27	RCH 31	CHI 31	NHA 31	DOV 31	CLT 23	TAL 31	KAN 22	MAR 39	TEX 25	PHO 27	HOM 30	32nd	363	[42]
2018				DAY 27	ATL 31	LVS 22	PHO 25	CAL 31	MAR 32	TEX 16	BRI 21	RCH 16	TAL 19	DOV 29	KAN 22	CLT 37	POC 37	MCH 36	SON 17	CHI 29	DAY 7	KEN 37	NHA 28	POC 27	GLN 33	MCH 24	BRI 22	DAR 38	IND 36	LVS 24	RCH 34	CLT 13	DOV 27	TAL 30	KAN 23	MAR 36	TEX 38	PHO 21	HOM 26	29th	368	[43]
2019	Leavine Family Racing	95	Toyota	DAY 28*	ATL 26	LVS 21	PHO 28	CAL 18	MAR 20	TEX 26	BRI 12	RCH 24	TAL 31	DOV 20	KAN 36	CLT 39	POC 17	MCH 21	SON 4	CHI 27	DAY 8	KEN 16	NHA 5	POC 17	GLN 6	MCH 20	BRI 2*	DAR 8	IND 18	LVS 21	RCH 14	CLT 11	DOV 7	TAL 30	KAN 15	MAR 16	TEX 14	PHO 13	HOM 20	22nd	699	[44]
2020	Wood Brothers Racing	21	Ford	DAY 19	LVS 2	CAL 13	PHO 13	DAR 14	DAR 9	CLT 17	CLT 15	BRI 31	ATL 25	MAR 7	HOM 14	TAL 26	POC 13	POC 6	IND 19	KEN 3	TEX 17	KAN 36	NHA 6	MCH 15	MCH 7	DAY 15	DOV 20	DOV 17	DAY 12	DAR 21	RCH 17	BRI 19	LVS 2	TAL 21	CLT 22	KAN 12	TEX 8	MAR 10	PHO 8	13th	2249	[45]
2021				DAY	DAY	HOM	LVS	PHO	ATL	BRI	MAR	RCH	TAL	KAN	DAR	DOV	COA	CLT	SON	NSH	POC	POC	ROA	ATL	NHA	GLN	IND	MCH	DAY	DAR	RCH	BRI	LVS	TAL	CLT	TEX	KAN	MAR	PHO
^† – Replaced by Jeffrey Earnhardt

Daytona 500

Year	Team	Manufacturer	Start	Finish
2016	BK Racing	Toyota	20	40
2017	Go Fas Racing	Ford	25	9
2018			36	27
2019	Leavine Family Racing	Toyota	9	28*
2020	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	16	19
2021

Xfinity Series

NASCAR Xfinity 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	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	NXSC	Pts	Ref
2009	Joe Gibbs Racing	20	Toyota	DAY	CAL	LVS	BRI	TEX	NSH	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	NHA	DAY	CHI	GTY	IRP	IOW	GLN	MCH	BRI	CGV	ATL	RCH	DOV	KAN	CAL	CLT	MEM 14	TEX	PHO	HOM	124th	121	[46]
2010				DAY	CAL	LVS	BRI	NSH	PHO	TEX	TAL	RCH	DAR	DOV	CLT	NSH 10	KEN	ROA 29	NHA	DAY	CHI	GTY 29	IRP 31	IOW 9	GLN	MCH	BRI	CGV	ATL	RCH	DOV	KAN	CAL	CLT	GTY 24	TEX	PHO	HOM	64th	585	[47]
2012	The Motorsports Group	46	Chevy	DAY	PHO	LVS	BRI	CAL	TEX	RCH	TAL	DAR	IOW	CLT	DOV 42									GLN 41															79th	21	[48]
		47														MCH 41	ROA 41	KEN	DAY	NHA	CHI	IND	IOW 41		CGV 40	BRI	ATL	RCH	CHI	KEN 41	DOV	CLT	KAN	TEX	PHO	HOM
2013	Vision Racing	37	Dodge	DAY	PHO	LVS	BRI	CAL	TEX	RCH	TAL	DAR	CLT DNQ	DOV 39	IOW	MCH	ROA	KEN	DAY	NHA	CHI 39	IND DNQ	IOW	GLN	MOH	BRI 37	ATL 33	RCH 37	CHI										67th	31	[49]
	The Motorsports Group	46	Chevy																											KEN 36	DOV	KAN	CLT	TEX	PHO	HOM
2014	Vision Racing	37	Dodge	DAY DNQ																																			21st	369	[50]
	The Motorsports Group	46	Chevy		PHO 38	LVS 38	BRI 39	CAL 37	TEX 39	DAR 38	RCH 37	TAL 39			DOV 39	MCH DNQ		KEN 40	DAY DNQ	NHA 40		IND 39
		40											IOW 25	CLT			ROA 11				CHI 34		IOW 30	GLN 32	MOH 13	BRI 19	ATL 26	RCH 26	CHI 27	KEN 26	DOV 30	KAN 16	CLT 36	TEX 31	PHO 24	HOM 38
	JD Motorsports	4	Chevy																DAY RL^†	NHA RL^†
2016	TriStar Motorsports	10	Toyota	DAY	ATL	LVS	PHO	CAL 40		BRI 40	RCH	TAL	DOV 38	CLT 40	POC 40	MCH 40	IOW	DAY	KEN 40	NHA 40	IND 38	IOW	GLN	MOH	BRI 40	ROA	DAR 40	RCH 40	CHI 40	KEN	DOV 40	CLT DNQ			PHO 40	HOM 40			107th	0^1	[51]
	MBM Motorsports	13	Toyota						TEX 32
	TriStar Motorsports	14	Toyota																														KAN 11	TEX 36
2019	Joe Gibbs Racing	18	Toyota	DAY	ATL	LVS	PHO	CAL	TEX	BRI	RCH	TAL	DOV	CLT	POC	MCH	IOW	CHI	DAY	KEN	NHA	IOW	GLN	MOH	BRI	ROA 27*	DAR	IND	LVS	RCH	CLT	DOV	KAN	TEX	PHO	HOM			100th	0^1	[52]
^† – Relieved Jeffrey Earnhardt

K&N Pro Series East

NASCAR K&N Pro Series East results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	NKNPSEC	Pts	Ref
2009	Joe Gibbs Racing	18	Toyota	GRE 10	TRI 1*	IOW	SBO	GLN 5	NHA 1*	TMP 3	ADI	LRP 16	NHA	DOV 11				14th	1099	[53]
2011	X Team Racing	15	Toyota	GRE 5	SBO 2	RCH 10	IOW 13	BGS 1**	GRE 2	LGY 4	NHA 27	COL 4	GRE 10	NHA 4	DOV 22			4th	1741	[54]
2012	Hattori Racing Enterprises	01	Toyota	BRI	GRE	RCH	IOW	BGS	GRE	LGY	CNB	COL	IOW 20	NHA	DOV	GRE	CAR	72nd	24	[55]

^* Season still in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

ARCA Racing Series

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

ARCA Racing 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	ARSC	Pts	Ref
2011	Dave McClure	14	Toyota	DAY	TAL	SLM	TOL	NJE	CHI	POC	MCH	WIN	BLN	IOW	IRP	POC	ISF	MAD	DSF	SLM 6	KAN	TOL 12	62nd	370	[56]

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51. "Matt DiBenedetto – 2016 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
52. "Matt DiBenedetto – 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
53. "Matt DiBenedetto – 2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
54. "Matt DiBenedetto – 2011 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
55. "Matt DiBenedetto – 2012 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
56. "Matt DiBenedetto – 2011 ARCA Racing Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved November 18, 2018.

External links

• Official website
• Matt DiBenedetto driver statistics at Racing-Reference