The team's roots stretch back to a partnership with Arnold Motorsports, operating as Germain-Arnold Racing until the 2005 season. Germain entered the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series early, fielding the No. 30 Toyota Tundra with Todd Bodine, who won the Truck Series championship in 2006 and again in 2010 under the Germain banner. Bodine and the team accumulated five wins together in trucks during that span.
Germain entered Sprint Cup racing in 2008 through a technical alliance with Michael Waltrip Racing, which supplied Toyota Camrys and technical support for the No. 13 with Italian driver Max Papis. In 2009 the team attempted a limited Cup schedule with Papis; GEICO came aboard as the primary sponsor — a partnership that would define the team for over a decade.
Papis was replaced after the 2010 season and Casey Mears took over the No. 13 full-time from 2011. Under Mears the team operated at a mid-field level, missing the Daytona 500 in 2011 but avoiding further DNQs. The team switched from Toyota to Ford in 2012 and 2013, then in 2014 moved to Chevrolet and formed a technical alliance with Richard Childress Racing. That alliance helped raise performance; Mears finished tenth at the 2014 Daytona 500 — the start of four consecutive top-ten finishes for the team at Daytona — and recorded fourteen top-20s during the season.
In 2015 Mears opened the year with a sixth-place finish at Daytona. Ty Dillon replaced him beginning with the 2017 season. Dillon's four-year tenure included notable runs such as a near-lead at the 2017 Coke Zero 400 and a sixth-place finish at the 2018 Coke Zero Sugar 400. In 2019 he started with a sixth at the Daytona 500 and scored the team's first stage win at Bristol. In the team's final season, Dillon managed a third-place finish at the fall Talladega race.
Germain fielded entries in the NASCAR Xfinity Series under car numbers 7 and 15. Mike Wallace drove the No. 7 in 2008, finishing eighth in series points with one top-five and eight top-tens; GEICO's move to the Cup Series ended the team's full-time Xfinity effort. Michael Annett drove the No. 15 from 2009 to 2010, finishing tenth in points in 2009.
In trucks, the No. 9 Toyota Tundra was driven by Ted Musgrave in 2006 and 2007; Musgrave won at Texas in 2007 before being suspended for one race after an on-track incident, with Brad Keselowski substituting — an early moment in Keselowski's career. Max Papis ran the No. 9 full-time in 2011 before Germain shut down truck operations after the 2011 season due to insufficient sponsorship.
Following the announcement that GEICO would not renew its sponsorship after the 2020 season, Germain Racing sold its Cup Series charter to Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan on 21 September 2020. Hamlin and Jordan used the charter to launch 23XI Racing in 2021 with driver Bubba Wallace.
At its peak Germain Racing was a consistent, if modestly funded, mid-field NASCAR Cup presence defined by its long-running GEICO sponsorship and multi-series operation. The team's Truck Series programme produced two championships with Todd Bodine and briefly launched Brad Keselowski's career. The sale of its charter directly enabled the creation of one of NASCAR's most prominent newer teams.
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