Justin Marks confirms Trackhouse Project 91 car will be back 'sooner rather than later'

Trackhouse Racing co-owner Justin Marks is a man who thinks in big-picture terms. Next year we could see four Trackhouse cars. That is if the NASCAR organization brings back the Project 91 car for the 2025 season.

Project 91 is the open car that Trackhouse Racing fielded in 2022 and 2023. It is the car and team that Shane van Gisbergen won the inaugural Chicago Street Race with. Kimi Raikkonen raced in it a couple of times as well.

Speaking with Brad Gillie as part of Race Industry Week, Marks was asked about Project 91. Good news for you Trackhouse fans, it won’t be sitting in the garage for too long.

“It’s certainly – Project 91 is certainly not dead,” said Marks. “I would expect to see that on the racetrack sooner rather than later. What I love about it is, you know, it’s like our first Project 91 graduate. You know, we did this deal and turned it into, from an amazing kind of one-off or two-off even in 23, great little program for Project 91 turning into like a real thing in the sport. A real, some great star power, great new personality, someone who’s committed full time. Shane moved to the States, changed his complete life to be a Cup driver. I think that’s really, really fun and one that’s resonated with a lot of people. We’ve got great partners on that car.

“As far as the future, lot of opportunity. I mean, a ton of opportunity. I get phone calls all the time from some of the greatest drivers around the world about coming and doing it, and that’s really exciting for us. The only reason it wasn’t on the racetrack in 2024 this year was that we just had so much going on. We had so much going on with the third car that we prepared for a few races for SVG and then helping him over at Kaulig. Kind of all this stuff going on. We just didn’t really have the bandwidth at the time for it. But now as we’re kind of just focused again on our three cars next year, full-time. Then Project 91 can come back and I would expect to see it sooner rather than later.”

Shane van Gisbergen showed what Project 91 can do. So, it’s not a shock that Justin Marks wants to do it again. Even Kimi Raikkonen had moments in the car, although his finishes don’t show it.

When Marks created Trackhouse Racing, he did it with his own vision in mind. Every driver fits the culture at the organization and that should show up with results on the track. Who do you think Trackhouse should put in the 91 car next?