Driver Profile

Quick Info

HometownMobile, AL
NicknameMobile Missile
Racing Since2011
OccupationRace Car Driver / Driver Coach
Birthday2/6
WebsiteVisit Website

Driver Bio

Grant Thompson

About Grant

AGE: 16 BIRTHDAY: February 6, 2006 RESIDES: Mobile, AL

Grant Thompson is a 17-year-old race car driver from Mobile, AL.

In 2019 Grant also competed in the Jr. Late Model Challenge Camp at Madera Speedway and out of hundreds of applicants across the country was chosen as the winner. He won the Pro Truck Championship at Mobile International Speedway.

In the 2020 race season, Grant completed in the Pro-Truck and Pro-Late Model Series at multiple tracks in the Southeast. Grant finished the 2020 season with 2 track championships, one at Five Flags Speedway and one at Crisp Motorsports, 8 wins and 12 top 5s in 12 starts in the Pro-Truck and 3 top 5s, 7 top 10s in 7 starts in the Pro-Late Model.

In 2021 Grant competed in the Tundra Super Late Model Series where he finished 6th in points and won "Rookie of the Year Honors". Grant also made his debut in the Solid Rock Carriers CARS Tour with a 12th-place finish. He made a trip out west to run a Pro-Late Model race with Naake - Klauer Motorsports at Kern County Raceway and brought home a top ten finish in 6th as well as three starts at Mobile International Speedway recording one win, a 2nd, and a 3rd in three starts.

In 2022 Grant competed in the Pro Late Model for family-owned Proactive Motorsports and won Rookie of the Year at Mobile International Speedway in the Outlaw Late Model with Sotex Motorsports. Grant also ran for Travis Sharpe's Racing Dynamics in the Northwest capped off with a 2nd place finish in the Idaho 200.

2023 Grant will compete at 5-Flags Speedway in the Allen Turner Hyundai Pro-Late Model Series, Zoom Equipment Pro-Trucks, and Advance Auto Parts Pro-Trucks at Mobile International Speedway, and

Career Highlights

2018 Southern Pro-Am Truck Series Rookie of the Year.

2019 youngest driver in history to win a Heat Race and a Feature Race on the same night at Mobile Int'l Speedway at the age of 13

2019 Grant was chosen to work with Bubba Gale and former NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver Cale Gale

2019 Mobile International Speedway Pro Truck Champion

Selected to the 2019 Race Face NEXT Class

2019 Jr Late Model Challenge Camp Winner

1 Hour feature documentary on MavTV "Jr Late Model Camp Champion"

2020 Crisp Motorsports Park and Five Flags Speedway Pro-Truck Champion

2021 Tundra Super Late Model Series "Rookie of the Year" and 6th in championship points.

2022 Outlaw Late Model "Rookie of the Year" and a 2nd place finish in the Idaho 200 with Racing Dynamics.

Hobbies

Riding Dirt Bikes, Collecting Die-Cast, iRacing

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