page_title: Tom Hessert III
section_title: Racing career
hierarchical_section_title: Tom Hessert III / Racing career
caption_attribution_description: English: Tom Hessert III's No. 52 Federated Auto Parts Chevrolet at Pocono Raceway in 2011
context_page_description: Thomas "Tom" Hessert III is an American professional stock car racing driver. He most recently competed part-time in the ARCA Menards Series, driving the No. 55 Toyota Camry for Venturini Motorsports and the No. 22 Ford Fusion for Chad Bryant Racing. He has raced in the series for over a decade and also made two NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series starts in 2010 for Germain Racing. In his eight full-time seasons in ARCA, he has finished in the top-10 in points every year, including in the top-5 in five of those eight years. He finished second in the ARCA point standings in 2016, his most recent full-time season in ARCA.
  Raised in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Hessert attended Cherry Hill High School East.
context_section_description: Despite after coming off the heels of a second-place points finish, Hessert decided to only run part-time in 2017 in order to spend more time with his family. He ended up running five races that season, sharing the Venturini No. 25 with Spencer Davis, Raphaël Lessard, Natalie Decker, Tanner Thorson and Christopher Bell.
  He returned to Venturini for the season-opener at Daytona in 2018, this time in the No. 55 as Decker was driving the No. 25 full-time that year.
  Hessert's next start and only other of 2018 did not come until the race at IRP in the No. 22 for Chad Bryant Racing at that race as a replacement for Chase Briscoe, who could not compete after the race was rescheduled a month later than it was supposed to be run due to rain, and the new race date conflicted with his Xfinity schedule. CBR is the successor team to Cunningham Motorsports, who Hessert drove the No. 77 for full-time previously.
  Hessert returned to ARCA in a January 2020 test session, returning for Chad Bryant Racing in the No. 2 car.
caption: Hessert's No. 52 Ken Schrader Racing ARCA car at the second Pocono race in 2011.
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