Josh Reaume Bio
Joshua Robert Reaume (born October 11, 1990) is an American professional stock car racing driver, engineer, and team owner. Competing part-time as a driver, he is best known as the founder and operator of Reaume Brothers Racing, now branded as Team Reaume, a family-owned organization that has fielded entries across the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series (formerly the Xfinity Series), and the NASCAR Cup Series. Beyond driving, Reaume has built a parallel career in race engineering, holding technical roles with several lower-tier NASCAR teams throughout the 2010s.
Born in Redlands, California, Reaume spent part of his childhood abroad before returning to North America and climbing the short-track ladder. His journey from missionary-kid go-karter to team owner-driver illustrates the modern stock car path, where engineering credentials, family support, and self-funded operations often determine who reaches the national series.
Early Life and Background
Joshua Robert Reaume was born on October 11, 1990, in Redlands, California. He is the son of John Reaume and Wendy Reaume, both missionaries who specialized in humanitarian aid. Shortly after his birth, the family relocated to Nigeria as part of their parents’ mission work, and Reaume lived there for roughly thirteen years before returning to North America.
While growing up, Reaume, his father, and his grandfather regularly watched Formula One and NASCAR broadcasts together, an experience he has credited with sparking his lifelong interest in motorsports. After completing high school, Reaume enrolled at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, where he earned a degree in mechanical engineering in 2012. As part of his university studies, he completed engineering internships with several NASCAR teams, blending his classroom training with hands-on shop experience.
Path to NASCAR
Reaume began racing go-karts at the age of six in the Canadian province of Ontario after his mother became ill, and he continued to compete in karting events, primarily across Europe, throughout his early years. At fifteen, he moved to Vancouver Island, where he began racing late models at Western Speedway, capturing the track’s stock car rookie of the year honors in 2007.
In 2009, Reaume was selected as one of twenty drivers for the Winner’s Circle driver development program created by Ron Sutton, a respected figure in NASCAR’s short-track development world. The following year, he began pursuing a professional racing career in earnest, entering local NASCAR late model events in 2010. Although he initially dreamed of reaching Formula One, a lack of funding pushed him toward stock car racing, where he believed corporate sponsorship opportunities were more accessible.
Josh Reaume Career
Early Career (2012–2014)
Reaume made his first start in a regional NASCAR series in 2012 at Miller Motorsports Park, finishing twenty-fifth in the K&N Pro Series West (now the ARCA Menards Series West) for car owner Gregory Rayl. He added additional starts that year, posting a best finish of fifteenth at Evergreen Speedway. During the 2012 season at Portland, he suffered carbon monoxide poisoning after his car’s exhaust was damaged in a crash, an early reminder of the risks associated with grassroots racing.
In 2013, Reaume made his national NASCAR debut in the Craftsman Truck Series with SS-Green Light Racing at Iowa Speedway, finishing twenty-fifth. The following season, he signed a six-race deal with Rick Ware Racing to compete part-time in the second-tier Nationwide Series (now the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series), with his debut delayed by engine issues at RWR. He ultimately debuted at Richmond, finishing thirtieth, and later scored a season-best twenty-fifth at Dover.
Craftsman Truck Series Breakthrough (2018–2021)
In February 2018, Reaume announced the expansion of his family’s race team, then known as Reaume Brothers Racing, to the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. The early results were turbulent. Reaume failed to qualify for the season-opener at Daytona, crashed at Atlanta, and missed several races during the year, later admitting that he wrecked more in his first owner-driver season than in all his previous team drives combined.
Reaume’s 2019 season marked a clear step forward. He opened the year with his only career top-ten in the Truck Series to date, finishing sixth at Daytona, and during the season he was able to enter a second truck at select events while reducing his crash rate. He also served as a crew chief for several teams that year, including MBM Motorsports’ No. 42 and RSS Racing’s No. 93.
In 2020, Reaume expanded the team to two full-time entries, signing Angela Ruch to drive the No. 00, and he also entered a partnership with RSS Racing to oversee day-to-day operations of its No. 93 Xfinity Series entry. However, on November 10, 2020, NASCAR indefinitely suspended Reaume over a discriminatory public statement. After completing sensitivity training, he was reinstated on March 31, 2021, and returned to competition at Richmond that April.
O’Reilly Auto Parts Series and Cup Series Expansion (2022–2023)
Following the sale of RSS Racing to Our Motorsports early in the 2021 Xfinity Series season, Reaume entered a partnership with MBM Motorsports to field two Xfinity Series races for Dutch driver Loris Hezemans. In 2022, Reaume teamed with Loris Hezemans’s father, Toine, and Dutch businessman Ernst Berg to form Team Hezeberg, a part-time Cup Series effort. The team qualified for the 2022 Daytona 500 with Formula One champion Jacques Villeneuve, who finished twenty-second despite pre-race inspection problems and a last-minute engine change.
That same year, Reaume sustained a concussion during a Truck Series race at Bristol when his stationary truck was hit in the driver’s side by the spinning truck of Rajah Caruth. Then, on January 26, 2023, a fire severely damaged Reaume Brothers Racing’s shop and several trucks, injuring three employees. With assistance from GMS Racing and Hattori Racing Enterprises, the team was still able to compete in the season-opener at Daytona, where Reaume scored a season-best nineteenth-place finish.
Team Reaume Era (2024–2025)
For 2024, Reaume expanded Team Reaume to two full-time Truck Series entries, acquiring owner points from Hattori Racing Enterprises’ No. 16, AM Racing’s No. 22, and On Point Motorsports’ No. 30. In 2025, the team grew again to three full-time trucks after purchasing the owner points of Young’s Motorsports’ No. 02 entry. Reaume has continued to split driving duties between his own team and partner organizations while managing the daily operations of a multi-truck operation.
Driving Style and Strengths
Reaume’s background as a mechanical engineer shapes his approach behind the wheel. He is regarded as a thoughtful, setup-oriented driver who communicates well with crew chiefs and engineers, and his strongest performances have typically come at superspeedways, where his Daytona sixth-place finish remains the benchmark. His race craft is built on consistency and mechanical sympathy, traits refined during his years working as an engineer for RSS Racing and MBM Motorsports.
Notable Races and Milestones
His signature result remains the sixth-place finish at Daytona in 2019, his only top-ten in Truck Series competition. Other milestones include qualifying the No. 75 Team Hezeberg entry into the 2022 Daytona 500 with Jacques Villeneuve, surviving the January 2023 shop fire to race at the season-opener later that year, and the steady expansion of Team Reaume from a single-truck program into a multi-car operation across NASCAR’s top three national series.
Josh Reaume Career Wins
Across his national NASCAR career, Reaume has not recorded a victory in the Craftsman Truck Series, the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series, or the ARCA Menards Series, with his best Truck Series result being the sixth at Daytona in 2019 and a best O’Reilly Auto Parts Series finish of twenty-third at Daytona in 2015.
Craftsman Truck Series Highlights
Reaume’s lone top-ten came in the 2019 season-opener at Daytona, where he finished sixth for Reaume Brothers Racing. He has also recorded one career top-ten across his Truck Series starts overall, with no poles, and his best series points finish is twenty-third, recorded in 2019.
Other Wins & Performances
In regional ARCA Menards Series competition, Reaume’s best West Series result was twenty-fourth in 2012, while his lone ARCA Menards Series East start produced a sixty-ninth-best finish in 2015, and a 2023 ARCA Menards Series debut at Kansas rounded out his verified open-loop experience. He has captured rookie of the year honors at Western Speedway’s stock car class in 2007.
Josh Reaume Family
Family Background and Racing Lineage
Reaume is the son of John Reaume and Wendy Reaume, both missionaries involved in humanitarian aid work. He was born alongside an older brother, Jonathan, and the family spent more than a decade in Nigeria before relocating to Canada, where Reaume’s racing roots took hold. The family-run nature of his team reflects that background, with Team Reaume operating as a multi-generational family effort.
Personal Life
Reaume is married to Olivia-Grace Morrison. Public information about his immediate family life remains limited, and he tends to keep personal matters private outside of what he shares through his team and racing platforms.
2025 Season Performance
Entering 2025, Team Reaume expanded to three full-time Truck Series entries following the acquisition of Young’s Motorsports’ No. 02 owner points, joining the existing fleet built around the Nos. 2 and 22 Ford F-150s. The growth of the operation has been a major storyline, with Reaume balancing his own part-time driving duties against the day-to-day management of a multi-truck program.
On track, Reaume has focused on consistency and race completion, prioritizing clean runs and team development over headline results. With the team’s broader technical partnerships and a deeper pool of resources, Team Reaume has positioned itself as a stable underfunded operation capable of finishing races and gathering data across a full Truck Series schedule.
Looking ahead, Reaume’s outlook for 2025 centers on reliability, on-track learning for his driver lineup, and incremental gains in performance. Continued growth of the team’s engineering base and a possible return to selected O’Reilly Auto Parts Series or Cup Series events remain long-term goals, should sponsorship and budgets allow.
