Joey Coulter

**Joseph Coulter** (born June 8, 1990) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He last competed in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for Kaulig Racing in 2019 driving the #10 car part-time. He currently competes in the NASCAR Craftmans Truck Series in the #10 truck for his own team. He currently owns and operates Coulter Motorsports in the NASCAR Craftmans Truck Series since 2020 and racing Late Models for his team in the Cars Tour and Whelen Modified Tour Series. Once he left Kaulig Racing after 2019, he formed a partnership to develop young racers for the Kaulig program.

## Racing Career

### Early career

A native of Miami Springs, Florida, Coulter started his racing career in 1998, racing go-karts at West Coast Kart way in Naples, Florida. In 1999, Coulter entered the national Karting circuit in the WKA Horstman Gold Cup series while he was still competing in the Florida WKA Championship series. In his first two years of Karting Coulter won over 50 events, winning two state championships. In 2000, Coulter received CJ Marvin Sportsman of the year award. In 2005 he won the Summer Nationals at the G & J Kartway in Camden, Ohio. He also finished second national championship and won both state championships in Florida running Briggs Junior light and heavy, and also won the Naples championship for the second year in a row.

In late 2005, he ventured into the Florida FASTRUCK racking up 4 top five finishes in his first 5 starts. In 2006, Coulter moved up to the FASTRUCK Pro series competing against more experienced veterans. In Coulter's first 8 races in the series, he won 4 races ultimately finishing 4th in the final points standings. Coulter started racing stock cars in 2007 entering the USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series. He didn't qualify for his first race at USA International Speedway but was permitted to race anyway and finished with a top 20.

Coulter started gaining attention in 2007 and 2008 by finishing in the top-ten multiple times throughout the Carolinas and Virginia, including top-tens at the 2007 Thanksgiving Classic at Kenly and the Baileys 300 at Martinsville Speedway. Coulter also finished 4th at the Iowa Speedway Pro Cup championship series event.

2009 was Coulter's rookie season in the ARCA Re/Max Series. It was met with much success, as Coulter accumulated 7 top-five's, 13 top-ten's, 2 poles, led 156 laps and finished fourth in the point standings. In 2010, Coulter won his first ARCA race, beating Patrick Sheltra in the Berlin ARCA 200 on August 7 at Berlin Raceway after leading 54 of the 200 laps in the race.

### NASCAR

In 2010, Kyle Busch Motorsports was a new truck series team owned by NASCAR star, Kyle Busch. The team is supplied by Hendrick Motorsports and is the Hendrick Motorsports development team. Joey Coulter was chosen as the first full-time developmental driver in the #15 Monster Energy or Dollar General Chevy. In his 25 races for 2010, Coulter was able to get 5 top 5 finishes, 12 top 10 finishes, and finished 8th in the final standings. Although Kyle Busch said Coulter was expected to win races, he still looked high of the young driver and would keep him in the #15 for 2011, Monster Energy and Dollar General also wanted Coulter back.

2011, Coulter was entering his sophomore season. It would either be a great success or the infamous sophomore slump. But 2011 was an even better year for Coulter. Coulter scored a total of 8 top 5 finishes, 15 top 10 finishes, and his first career win in the 2011 Fast Five 225 At Chicagoland. He finished 8th again in the standings. Coulter also debuted for 5 races in the #54 Monster Energy and Dollar General Chevy for Kyle Busch Motorsports. His finishes were 18th, 21st, 10th, 14th, and 4th.

In 2012, Coulter was announced as the full-time driver for the #54 Monster Energy and Dollar General Chevy. Monster Energy and Dollar General formed a sponsorship together to both be the primary sponsor for the car, Monster Energy took the front half of the car while Dollar General took the back half. Some people loved the idea of split sponsors and others said the scheme didn't turn out well. Coulter had a solid rookie season, he was able to get 5 top 5s and 11 top 10s. He finished 8th in the final standings, just like his previous two truck seasons.

In 2013, Coulter signed a two year contract extension to be in the #54 car for 2013 and 2014. Coulter would slightly improve in the 2013 season. He would score 8 top 5s and 18 top 10s. 2 of those top 5s were second place finishes at Pocono and Indianapolis. Coulter once again finishes in the 8th position. 2014 saw Coulter break out. His #54 Monster Energy/Dollar General Chevy was up front most of the races. He scored 10 top 5s, 21 top 10s, and ended up 6th in the final standings with his first 2 career Nationwide Series wins in the 2014 ToyotaCare 250 at Richmond and the 2014 Virginia 529 College Savings 250 at Richmond again.

Sweeping the Nationwide Series Richmond races was enough for Coulter to earn another 2 year contract for the 2015 and 2016 seasons. Coulter's 2015 season was even better than his 2014 one. He only won 1 race in the 2015 Food City 300 at Bristol. He was however able to score 14 top 5s and 24 top 10s. He was able to secure 5th in the final point standings.

In 2016, Coulter was once again able to score 1 victory, the 2016 Alsco 300 at Kentucky. He would score 12 top 5s and 21 top 10s. He would make the first ever Xfinity Series playoffs and finish 5th again in the standings, he barely missed the championship 4.

In 2017, Monster Energy wanted Grant Enfinger to replace Coulter in the #54 after Enfinger won 10 races in the 2016 Truck Series Season. They wanted to move Coulter up to a Cup team to promote themselves in Cup more. However, Coulter wasn't finding any of the smaller team offers good so he decided to depart from KBM and the Hendrick Motorsports developmental line. He joined Dale Earnhardt Incorporated in the #1 car in the Xfinity Series for 2017. He scored 14 top 5s and 18 top 10s. He went winless for the season and finished 8th in the final standings. At the end of the season, he was replaced in favor of Tyler Reddick.

In 2018, Coulter went to drive the #33 car for Richard Childress Racing with Dollar General carrying over as a sponsor. Coulter was able to get 15 top 5s and 18 top 10s. He finished 5th in the final standings once again missing the Championship 4. He was released at the end of 2018 due to Dollar General leaving the sport of NASCAR.

In 2019, Coulter went to Kaulig Racing to drive the #10 car for 5 races in 2019. He finished: 19th, 29th, 5th, 1st, and 4th in the races. He won the 2019 Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200 at Darlington.

## Team Owner/Racing Career

In 2020, it was surprising for Coulter to decline a full-time ride chance at Kaulig Racing but instead formed a partnership with Kaulig to help develop future drivers for the team in the ARCA and Truck Series'. Coulter founded Coulter Motorsports in 2020 to field a single car in the ARCA Menards Series and the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoor Truck Series. They were both with the number 14. Coulter signed Whelen Late Model Racing Ron Silk to drive the ARCA car full-time along with 10 truck starts. Coulter himself would drive the other 13 races in the Truck Series. Coulter would get 2 top 5s and 5 top 10s in his starts while Silk got 0 top 5s and 2 top 10s in his starts. Silk would get 2 top 5s and 8 top 10s in the ARCA Menards Series finishing 8th in the final standings.

In 2021, Silk went full-time in the #14 truck while Coulter instead ran the #10 in the ARCA Series full-time. Coulter saw this as a way to keep racing while growing the team more without racing too much. Coulter would score 8 top 5s and 15 top 10s with a 5th place points finish. Silk had failed to finish the first 5 races of the season in the truck series and then was released from the team. The #14 truck only ran 5 more times in the season with Coulter finishing: 8th, 20th, 30th, 5th, and 8th in those races.

In 2022, Kaulig poured multiple resources into Coulter's truck team. He signed Thad Moffitt to the #14 in the truck series full-time. Coulter would run the #10 truck in the Daytona season opener where he finished 8th while he ran the full ARCA schedule getting 15 top 5s and 18 top 10s. He was very consistent and ended up coming home in second to Nick Sanchez in the championship.

In 2023, Moffitt returned to the #14 for the team but Coulter moved up to the #10 truck full-time for 2023 while he and Moffitt are splitting the ARCA car full-time. So far Moffitt sits 10th in the standings and Coulter sits 14th.

## List Of Wins

### Xfinity

1. 2014 ToyotaCare 250
2. 2014 Virginia 529 College Savings 250
3. 2015 Food City 300
4. 2016 Alsco 300
5. 2019 Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200