On 28 May 2024, Stewart-Haas Racing announced it would close its Cup Series and Xfinity Series programmes at the conclusion of the 2024 season. Less than a month later, on 20 June 2024, Gene Haas announced he would retain one of the team's charters and reorganise under the Haas Factory Team name, with Joe Custer serving as president. For 2025, the team competed as a Ford partner with a technical alliance with RFK Racing.
The Cup Series entry is the No. 41 car driven by Cole Custer. Custer started the 2025 season with a 21st-place finish at the Daytona 500. Throughout the year his results were largely mid-pack, with his two best finishes being 4th at the summer Daytona race (the Coke Zero Sugar 400) and 8th at the Mexico City road race. The team finished 32nd in the final points standings with 486 points.
For 2026, HFT announced on 5 September 2025 that it would switch from Ford to Chevrolet, establishing a technical alliance with Hendrick Motorsports, including Hendrick-built engines across both series. This marked a return to Chevrolet for Gene Haas's NASCAR programme, which had campaigned Chevrolets under Stewart-Haas Racing through the 2016 season before switching to Ford in 2017. Custer remained as the Cup Series driver in the No. 41 Chevrolet.
HFT fields two cars in the O'Reilly Auto Parts Series. The No. 00 car was driven in 2025 by Sheldon Creed, who had been signed on 17 August 2024. Creed produced a consistent season: 23 top-ten finishes, 16 top-five finishes including six runner-up results, and two pole positions. He finished 10th in the final points standings.
The No. 41 car was driven by Sam Mayer, who opened his 2025 campaign with a second-place finish at Daytona. He went on to win the Hy-Vee PERKS 250 at Iowa Speedway, earning Ford its first Xfinity-class win of the season. Mayer finished 11th in points. He was suspended for the season-finale at Phoenix after intentionally wrecking Jeb Burton at Martinsville following the checkered flag; Ryan Sieg substituted at Phoenix.
For 2026, Creed and Mayer continued in the same cars, now running Chevrolets. Creed won at Atlanta (EchoPark Speedway) for the team's first O'Reilly Series victory of 2026.
Haas's presence in NASCAR dates to 2002, when he founded Haas CNC Racing. The programme evolved into Stewart-Haas Racing when he partnered with Tony Stewart in 2009. HFT represents the continuation of that lineage as a single-car Cup operation, carrying Haas Automation branding and the familiar No. 41 car number from the SHR era.
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