YouTuber Garrett “Cleetus McFarland” Mitchell fails upwards into O’Reilly at Rockingham

Look. I said before Daytona that I was glad Cleetus was running the truck race there because I was ready to rip the bandaid off the question of whether influencers who drive little beaters around tracks they made themselves can jump straight into NASCAR. He had run ARCA, and his results had been uninteresting, but fine. Put him in a truck and see how he does, so we can get this over with. Well, we did. He was completely overwhelmed and wrecked almost immediately. So, that settles it, I thought. The dude does not know how to race at a high level yet.

Oh, no. It’s not over. On the contrary, Richard Childress is now putting him in the No. 33 O’Reilly car to race at Rockingham. Notice how the press release calls him a “skilled driver and motorsports enthusiast” but a “genius marketer.” They aren’t even hiding why they’re doing this.