page_title: Scott Heckert
section_title: Xfinity Series
hierarchical_section_title: Scott Heckert / Racing career / Xfinity Series
caption_attribution_description: English: The Ford Mustang of Scott Heckert at the NASCAR Xfinity Series Road America 180.
context_page_description: Scott Heckert is an American professional racing driver who currently competes part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series as a road course ringer, driving cars for B. J. McLeod Motorsports. He previously drove full-time in NASCAR for three years in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East. In the last of those years, 2015, he finished second in the point standings. Heckert has also driven in the ARCA Racing Series and the Blancpain GT World Challenge America during his career.
context_section_description: Heckert debuted in 2016 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, where he finished twenty sixth, driving for B. J. McLeod Motorsports. Three races later at Watkins Glen International, he recorded his first top twenty finish with a sixteenth. Running another road course race at Road America, Heckert was running inside the top 20 until contact with James Davison in the final corner of the race relegated him to 29th. Two years later, Heckert returned to McLeod team, and drove the No. 78 for the team at Chicagoland Speedway, his first Xfinity start on an oval, and the No. 8 at both Watkins Glen International and Road America. He would run the No. 5 (the renumbered No. 8 car from 2018) at Watkins Glen in 2019, where he picked up his career-best 13th place finish, and Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in the No. 78. In both races, he drove an entry for the team instead of their full-time driver Matt Mills. Heckert returned to BJMM again in 2020, making it his third year in a row and the fourth of the previous five years running at least one of the road course races for the team. His first start of the season came at Road America, where he drove the No. 78 again, replacing the full-time driver of that car, Vinnie Miller.
caption: Heckert's 2016 Road America car
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