🇺🇸 Christian Eckes

Christian Eckes is an established professional racing in American national stock car championships. He competes full-time in NASCAR's Truck Series for McAnally Hilgemann Racing, driving primarily on oval tracks; he also races the Xfinity Series and ARCA Menards West. Eckes won the 2019 ARCA Menards Series championship with JBL Audio in his fourth season in that series, taking seven wins across 46 starts.[1]

His Truck Series career spans nine seasons from 2018 onward, accumulating nine wins and 35 podiums from 134 starts, the vast majority on ovals. In 2025 he moved to the Xfinity Series for a full campaign, finishing 13th in the championship standings with two podiums from 33 rounds. His record against established and elite professionals is mixed. He has finished ahead of Christopher Bell, a 2017 Truck champion and 2024 Cup Series champion, four times across their meetings; against Ty Gibbs, a two-time ARCA champion now racing in the Cup Series, he holds five finishes ahead. Against Grant Enfinger, the 2014 and 2015 ARCA champion and a regular Truck Series opponent, he runs closely matched in their head-to-heads. He shares regular company with Ben Rhodes, a professional with over 250 Truck Series starts, on roughly equal terms.[2]