Brandon Grosso

 ( 2000 Births ) 

Brandon Grosso (born March 30, 2000) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He most recently competed part-time in the ARCA Menards Series in both 2017 and 2018, driving the No. 11 and No. 52 cars for Ken Schrader Racing. Since then, he has been without a ride in that series, but he does currently compete in crate modified racing.

Raised in Montgomery Township, New Jersey, Grosso attended Montgomery High School.Radebaugh, Don. "High school dirt modified ace Grosso preps for full pull ahead with KSR" , ARCA Menards Series, February 22, 2018. Accessed January 25, 2020. "Seventeen-year-old Brandon Grosso will soon be graduating from Montgomery High School with his well-earned diploma. However, the New Jersey native won't be around for the ceremony in June because he'll be strapped into the No. 52 Ken Schrader Racing ARCA car at Gateway Motorsports Park."

He drove a full season in the CARS Late Model Stock Tour in 2017, driving a car owned by NASCAR on NBC pit reporter Marty Snider.

He made his first start in the ARCA Series later that year at the dirt track of DuQuoin, earning a fifth place finish driving the No. 11 car for Ken Schrader Racing in a partnership with Andy Hillenburg's Fast Track Racing team.

Schrader later signed him on for a full season the following year in his primary No. 52 car, replacing 2017 champion Austin Theriault, who was released from the team due to sponsorship issues. With big shoes to fill, Grosso made his first start at the second race of the season at Nashville due to not being old enough to run the season-opener at Daytona which was before his 18th birthday on March 30. However, under ARCA rules, Grosso was allowed to participate in the series' testing at the track in January as well as run one lap in practice for the race there in February before being required to withdraw, the same situation Riley Herbst was faced with in 2017. Theriault was supposed to replace him for Daytona, but later in the offseason, the team signed Will Rodgers to drive for them, and he brought sponsorship.

Grosso was eventually released from Schrader's team, and he was replaced by his teammate Rodgers, who after subbing for Grosso at Daytona had been running a part-time schedule in the No. 11 KSR-Hillenburg car, but was moved over to Schrader's No. 52 to run the remainder of his schedule.

Although Grosso did not make any ARCA or stock car starts for another team for the rest of 2018 or in 2019, he was still racing. He ran in Saturday night crate modified events in his own No. 32 car at New Egypt and other tracks in the area.

Season still in progress

Ineligible for series points