“I need to buy one now”: Noah Gragson makes his feelings known after daring off-roading escapade in a Ford

Noah Gragson absolutely loved driving the new Ford Bronco. So much so that just one off-road test drive had him wondering if he should buy one for himself.

What impressed him even more was the auto-drive feature that the SUV comes with. As the car descended carefully down a hilly trail while Gragson’s hands were completely off the steering and his feet off the pedals, the 26-year-old Las Vegas native was completely blown away.

Gragson shared a video of the same, besides a few other snaps from his trip, through a recent post on Instagram. He captioned the post, saying,

“Yo the @broncooffroadeo is so sick🔥 I had an absolute blast rippin the trails in the Bronco👊🏼 I think I need to buy one now. How do I look in a bronco?”

The brand-new Ford Bronco comes in nine different models with their prices ranging between $39,630 and $90,035. Although it’s hard to say which model Gragson was driving, it was one of the open-roof ones as seen on his Instagram story.

Gragson, a former Stewart-Haas Racing driver, is expected to join Front Row Motorsports in 2025. This will reunite him with Todd Gilliland, driver of the No. 38, who used to be Gragson’s teammate through 2017 and 2018 at the now-defunct Kyle Busch Motorsports.

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Noah Gragson looking forward to rekindling relationship with former Truck Series teammate

Todd Gilliland with Noah Gragson after receiving his diploma on stage prior to the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series PPG 400 at Texas Motor Speedway on June 8, 2018 - Source: Getty

Todd Gilliland, son of former NASCAR driver and team owner David Gilliland, will return behind the wheel of the No. 38 Mustang in 2025 as he eyes his third season in the Cup Series. Paired with his former crew chief at SHR, Drew Blickensderfer, the Statesville native will start his engine at the season-opening Clash, scheduled for February 2 at Bowman Gray Stadium.

This means Gragson will get to drive alongside Gilliland and that too, under the banner of Front Row Motorsports. The duo have been racing each other for years and this time around, Gragson longs to rekindle his friendship with Gilliland.

“Todd and I have been racing each other for the past, probably, 10 years,” Noah Gragson said in an older interview (via NASCAR). “We had some fierce battles on the race track, became teammates over at Kyle Busch Motorsports and it’s going to be nice to be able to rekindle that relationship on the race track as teammates now.”

“It’s been a few years in between, but I think from all our learnings from the past organizations that we both had been at we can definitely work together and help each other to become better,” Noah Gragson added.

Noah Gragson closed 2024 24th in points with one top-5 and seven top-10s. He is yet to win his first Cup Series race, but his achievements in the Xfinity Series are quite remarkable.

During his stint with JR Motorsports at the Xfinity level, Gragson won 13 races and made the coveted Championship 4 twice (2021 and 2022). Notably, his first NASCAR win came in 2018 when he used to drive for two-time Cup Series champion Kyle Busch.