🇺🇸 Jesse Little

Jesse Hardin Little is an American stock car racing driver who competed primarily in the NASCAR Truck Series before his retirement from full-time competition. The son of former NASCAR driver Chad Little, he grew up around the sport and later became involved on the ownership side of racing, having partnered with his father and Jason Little to run a Truck, East, and West Series operation known first as Team Little Racing and later as JJL Motorsports from 2012 to 2019. Over the course of his driving career, Little made 91 starts in the NASCAR Truck Series, a body of work that did not yield a win, a podium finish, or a championship. His Racer Rating of 2,833 places him 1,218th among active drivers on a scale where the sport's top competitors typically sit in the range of 10,000 to 11,500, reflecting a career spent largely outside the series' front-running tier.[1]

In what is recorded as his final season, Little ran a full slate of 23 rounds, finishing 17th in the standings without recording a win or a podium, consistent with the steady but unspectacular results that defined much of his time behind the wheel. Beyond his own driving statistics, Little's background includes stints in equipment fielded by organizations such as Young's Motorsports in the Truck Series and Jesse Iwuji Motorsports in the Xfinity Series, part of a broader career that blended competition with growing business responsibilities in the sport. Since stepping away from full-time racing, he has moved into a management role as vice president of business development for Sam Hunt Racing, continuing his involvement in NASCAR from an executive capacity rather than the cockpit.[2]