Our Motorsports to cease operations after parting with driver Kris Wright

After parting ways with driver Kris Wright earlier this season, Our Motorsports has announced that it will close up shop. This weekend at Dover Motor Speedway is the final hurrah for the NASCAR Xfinity Series team as they will cease operations immediately.

Kaz Grala gets the final start in the Our Motorsports No. 5 car. This season, Kris Wright has fallen well short of expectations. It appears that there were even deeper issues with running the operation behind the scenes. Compared to Anthony Alfredo only a year ago, who was on the playoff bubble much of the year, it was a huge step back.

Bob Pockrass of FOX Sports reported on the closure. This feels like a very similar story to JD Motorsports only a year ago.

“Our Motorsports and Kris Wright have officially parted ways following the Sonoma race on July 15, 2025. Our Motorsports will complete its season on Saturday in Dover, Del., with Kaz Grala behind the wheel of the number 5 Ferguson Chevrolet,” Pockrass wrote in one tweet.

In a follow-up, Our made its intentions clear. This is the end of the road.

“Our Motorsports will cease operations in NASCAR racing moving forward. Thank you to NASCAR, Chevrolet, the fans, employees, and drivers, for a good ride over the last 6 years.”

Both times Anthony Alfredo was behind the wheel of an Our Motorsports car, he overperformed. Whatever was working with that pairing was working. Alfredo is now at Young’s Motorsports in their first Xfinity Series season as a team and is trying to repeat that success with this new team.

Our Motorsports fell prey to Xfinity Catch 22

For many of these one and two-car Xfinity Series teams that are independently owned and don’t have a Cup Series team above them, the margins are razor thin. On the track, and in the bank, a few wrecks in one season can make a massive difference.

Last season, Anthony Alfredo was great with Our Motorsports. His P4 at Michigan was remarkable. He ended up winning a Dash 4 Cash event. Maybe that would have come in handy this season as well. He had seven top-10s and two top-fives in a car that is now last in points among full-time drivers up to this point.

Kris Wright has not had a great season from inexplicably plowing into cars on pit road to wrecking Justin Allgaier while he was leading a race. Wright finished P9 at Martinsville this season and that was in a wreck, chaos-filled race. Other than that, he has four DNFs, and he failed to qualify for the Chicago Street Race. Considering that he is a road course racer by his background, that’s not acceptable.

We will likely never know the true reason why Our Motorsports came crashing down. But it is a reminder of the Catch-22 that these teams find themselves in many times. Can you get performance from big money? Or will good performances bring that money in? We’ve seen teams go under trying both strategies. Racing is not a great money-making business. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t?