Kyle Larson

Kyle Miyata Larson is an American racing driver, born 31 July 1992 in Elk Grove, California. He drives the No. 5 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports and won the NASCAR Cup Series championship in 2021 and 2025.

Two, in 2021 and 2025, both with Hendrick Motorsports.

32, from 428 starts. His first was the 2016 Pure Michigan 400 at Michigan, driving Chip Ganassi Racing's No. 42.

In April 2020, four races into a season already paused by the COVID-19 pandemic, he used a racial slur during an iRacing broadcast. NASCAR suspended him indefinitely, Chip Ganassi Racing dismissed him and sponsors withdrew. He completed sensitivity training, apologised publicly, and NASCAR reinstated him effective 1 January 2021.

He won ten of thirty-six races, took twenty top fives and twenty-six top tens, and won both the regular season championship and the title — in his first season with Hendrick Motorsports and his first year back from suspension.

Extensively. He won the Rolex 24 at Daytona outright in 2015, has won the Chili Bowl Nationals and the Knoxville Nationals multiple times on dirt, and in 2024 attempted the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on the same day, taking Indy 500 Rookie of the Year.

The No. 5 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports. He drove the No. 42 for Chip Ganassi Racing and the No. 51 for Phoenix Racing on debut.

Elk Grove, California. His middle name, Miyata, comes from his mother's family.