NASCAR Truck Series: Brett Moffitt tipped to replace Johnny Sauter at GMS Racing

Reigning NASCAR Truck Series champion Brett Moffitt has been tipped to replace Johnny Sauter at GMS Racing for the 2019 season.

Brett Moffitt, who won the 2018 NASCAR Truck Series championship in his first season as a full-time driver in series, was released by his team, Hattori Racing Enterprises, shortly after the season reached its conclusion.

In fact, it was announced on Tuesday that Austin Hill, who competed full-time in the Truck Series for the first time in his career in the 2018 season as well and drove the #02 Young’s Motorsports Chevrolet, is set to replace Moffitt behind the wheel of the #16 Toyota in the 2019 season.

However, Moffitt has been tipped to return to the Truck Series in the 2019 season after all. He has been tipped to replace Johnny Sauter as the driver of the #21 GMS Racing Chevrolet after Sauter was released by GMS Racing on Wednesday.

Sauter was the person who revealed this. Here is what he had to say about Moffitt potentially replacing him at GMS Racing in the 2019 season, according to Autoweek.

"“Obviously, I was down here at the race shop and sat down with [GMS Racing president Mike] Beam and he told me we weren’t racing this year. He said it came down to financial problems, I guess. So, I think everyone knows this sport is expensive and I don’t bring any money to the table. I come from the school where you get paid to race.”“Having said that, Moffitt is going into the truck from what I understand, and I don’t know anything beyond that. I was just told that it’s purely financial. I didn’t get into financial with them, but if he’s bringing something, he’s bringing more than I am.”“I had actually heard this rumor about a month ago at the banquet and nothing was ever mentioned about it. It’s definitely late in the game and you don’t want it to go down like this. But there isn’t a whole hell of a lot I can do about it.“What’s next for me? I don’t have a clue. You see a lot of good drivers get sidelined. It’s the nature of the beast. Team owners need sponsorship money and I can’t begrudge them for that. I know what it costs. I hate it. We had our best year last year and came up just short. All the good rides are scarce, the rides you want.”"

This is an interesting development as it is, but what makes it more interesting is the fact that Sauter was told that GMS Racing’s supposed decision to sign Moffitt was “purely financial”.