Nicholas Tucker (born August 26, 1985) is an American professional stock car racing driver and team owner. He currently owns an ARCA Menards Series and a Trans-Am Series team Nitro Motorsports and as a driver most recently competed in the ARCA Menards Series East in 2026. Tucker is the cousin of former driver Derrike Cope.

Career Tucker began racing at age five, starting out by racing flat track four-wheelers and go-karts. At age 14, he came to the point where he had to move up to racing late models to advance his career. However, because of Washington state regulations, he could not compete in those cars in his home state. As a result, he and his family moved to North Carolina in the Charlotte metropolitan area where most NASCAR teams are located, where he began to race those cars there.

Tucker was a late entry to the 2009 rookie of the year class in the Truck Series. Joining the new GunBroker Racing team to drive their No. 21 Dodge, he drove nearly the entire season starting at the Michigan race. (The only race he did not run was Talladega, with Sean Murphy in the truck instead.) Unfortunately, Tucker had to start-and-park in almost all of those starts due to lack of sponsorship and the team's focus on fielding their primary truck, the No. 23, driven by Jason White. The only race he was running at the finish of was the season-finale at Homestead, where the team found sponsorship from the Denny Hamlin Foundation and ran the whole race. Tucker finished five laps down in 26th in what would turn out to be his final start in the Truck Series.

Tucker served as a crew chief for Carter 2 Motorsports in the ARCA Series in 2012, but gave up that role for three races (Salem, Elko, and the first Pocono race) to be a driver for the team in them. At the first two of those races, Tucker drove C2M's No. 40, and for Pocono, he was in the No. 97. His cars were sponsored by Ron Paul's Republican presidential campaign that year.

After his time driving in NASCAR and ARCA, Tucker returned to the go-kart racing industry and founded a cadet karting race team called Nitro Kart in 2016 to help up-and-coming go-kart drivers move up the racing ladder.

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.)

Nationwide Series NASCAR Nationwide 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 Pts Ref 2008 Ege Motorsports 57 Dodge DAY CAL LVS ATL BRI NSH TEX PHO MXC TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV NSH KEN MLW NHA DAY CHI GTY IRP CGV GLN MCH N/A 0 CFK Motorsports 78 Dodge BRI CAL RCH DOV KAN CLT MEM TEX PHO HOM

Season still in progress Ineligible for series points

Camping World Truck Series NASCAR Camping World 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 24 25 Pts Ref 2004 Ron Rhodes Racing 48 Dodge DAY ATL MAR MFD CLT DOV TEX MEM MLW KAN KEN GTW MCH IRP NSH BRI RCH NHA LVS CAL TEX MAR PHO DAR HOM 89th 103 2005 Brevak Racing 31 Chevy DAY CAL ATL MAR GTY MFD CLT DOV TEX MCH MLW KAN KEN MEM IRP NSH BRI RCH NHA LVS MAR ATL TEX PHO HOM 56th 334 2006 DAY CAL ATL MAR GTY CLT MFD DOV TEX MCH MLW KAN KEN MEM IRP NSH BRI NHA LVS TAL MAR ATL TEX PHO HOM N/A 0 2008 Derrike Cope Inc. 73 Dodge DAY CAL ATL MAR KAN CLT MFD DOV TEX IRP NSH BRI GTW NHA LVS TAL 62nd 192 74 MCH MLW MAR ATL TEX PHO HOM Lafferty Motorsports 89 Chevy MEM KEN 2009 DAY CAL ATL MAR KAN CLT DOV TEX 30th 1065 GunBroker Racing 21 Dodge MCH MLW MEM KEN IRP NSH BRI CHI IOW GTW NHA LVS MAR TAL TEX PHO HOM

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 20 21 22 23 Pts Ref 2007 James Hylton Motorsportswith Carter 2 Motorsports 48 Dodge DAY USA NSH SLM KAN WIN KEN TOL IOW POC MCH BLN KEN POC NSH ISF MIL GTW DSF CHI 37th 900 Prototype Racing 67 Dodge SLM TAL TOL 2008 Mark Gibson Racing 59 Dodge DAY SLM IOW KAN CAR KEN TOL POC MCH CAY KEN BLN POC NSH ISF DSF CHI SLM NJM TAL TOL 113th 150 2011 Carter 2 Motorsports 04 Dodge DAY TAL SLM TOL NJE CHI POC MCH WIN BLN IOW IRP POC ISF MAD DSF SLM KAN TOL 164th 0 2012 40 DAY MOB SLM TAL TOL ELK 69th 315 97 POC MCH WIN NJE IOW CHI IRP POC BLN ISF MAD SLM DSF KAN 2013 40 DAY MOB SLM TAL TOL ELK POC MCH ROA WIN 62nd 410 97 CHI NJE POC BLN ISF MAD DSF IOW SLM KEN KAN

ARCA Menards Series East ARCA Menards Series East results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Pts Ref 2026 Nitro Motorsports 70 Toyota HCY CAR NSV TOL IRP FRS IOW BRI 47th 39

ASA STARS National Tour (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. ** – All laps led.) ASA STARS National Tour results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Pts Ref 2026 Dan Fredrickson 36 Chevy NSM FIF HCY14 SLG MAD NPS OWO TRI WIN NSV NSM -* -*

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