2021 Stadium Super Trucks Series
# 2021 Stadium Super Trucks Series

The 2021 Stadium Super Trucks Series was the ninth season of the Stadium Super Trucks. The season began with the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg on April 24–25 and ended at the Grand Prix of Long Beach on September 24–26.

Matthew Brabham finished on the podium in each of the ten races and won twice to claim his third consecutive championship. This broke a three-way tie with Robby Gordon and Sheldon Creed for the most titles, and the former finished second in points.

## Drivers

| No. | Driver | Races |
| - | - | - |
| 2 | Sheldon Creed | 1–4 |
| 3 | Aaron Bambach | 3–6 |
| 4 | Jeff Ward | 7–10 |
| 5 | Ricky Johnson | 7–8 |
| 7 | Robby Gordon | All |
| 8 | Brandon Parrish | 9–10 |
| 9 | Christian Sourapas | 9–10 |
| 16 | Greg Biffle | 3–4 |
| 21 | Zoey Edenholm | 9–10 |
| 22 | Zach Van Matre | 7–8 |
| 25 | Arie Luyendyk Jr. | 1–2, 7–8 |
| 27 | Jerett Brooks | 5–6, 9–10 |
| 28 | Robert Stout | All |
| 31 | Stanton Barrett | 7–8 |
| 40 | Jacob Abel | 7–8 |
| 42 | Bo LeMastus | 5–10 |
| 50 | Jett Noland | 1–2, 5–8 |
| 51 | Jacob Abel | 9–10 |
| 57 | Bill Hynes | 1–2, 5–10 |
| 68 | Bo LeMastus | 1–4 |
| 77 | Max Gordon | All |
| 83 | Matthew Brabham | All |
| 96 | Mads Siljehaug | 9–10 |
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## Schedule

The Grand Prix of Long Beach, which had hosted the trucks since the inaugural season in 2013 but was canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, returned for 2021. As a precaution with the pandemic ongoing, the race was moved from its traditional April slot to September. The Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, also an IndyCar Series street circuit, returned to the SST schedule for the first time since 2017. June and July weekends at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course with the NASCAR Xfinity Series and IndyCar, respectively, both of which last took place in 2019, were also added to the slate. The series also joined IndyCar at the inaugural Music City Grand Prix in Nashville.

On March 18, SST announced it had partnered with the newly formed Great American Shortcourse (GAS) series to hold a season finale together in Southern California in November. However, GAS ultimately conducted its own weekend at Glen Helen Raceway without SST involvement while series head Robby Gordon was at the Baja 1000.

| Round | Track | Location | Date | Supporting |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Streets of St. Petersburg | St. Petersburg, Florida | April 24–25 | Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg |
| 2 | Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course | Lexington, Ohio | June 5–6 | B&L Transport 170 |
| 3 | Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course | Lexington, Ohio | July 3–4 | Honda Indy 200 |
| 4 | Nashville Street Circuit | Nashville, Tennessee | August 6–8 | Music City Grand Prix |
| 5 | Streets of Long Beach | Long Beach, California | September 24–26 | Grand Prix of Long Beach |

## Season summary

In addition to series regulars Gordon, Matthew Brabham, and Bill Hynes, the season opener at St. Petersburg marked the returns of Jett Noland and Gordon's 12-year-old son Max, both of whom debuted in 2020; Arie Luyendyk Jr., who won in the trucks' most recent race weekend; and reigning NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion Sheldon Creed, the winningest driver in SST history. Robert Stout, a sports car racer and the 2019 Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Production 1000 UTV champion, made his SST debut in the first race of a full-time season, while former NASCAR Truck Series driver Bo LeMastus was a late entrant. Creed held off Brabham to win both races.

Preceding the first Mid-Ohio weekend, Xfinity Series driver Justin Allgaier participated in practice and qualifying; he was sixth of eight drivers. Creed won the first race but retired from the second with a transmission failure that enabled Gordon to win. Other drivers in the field included Aaron Bambach, who was running his first race since 2018, and NASCAR Cup Series veteran Greg Biffle. The second weekend at Mid-Ohio saw Hynes return after skipping the first due to scheduling conflicts; Noland and LeMastus also made their returns along with Jerett Brooks, who last made an SST start at the 2019 Race of Champions. Brabham swept the weekend. The end of the first race saw a fight between Hynes and LeMastus regarding LeMastus' aggressive driving against Max Gordon, with LeMastus removing his helmet and throwing his steering wheel at Hynes before the latter spiked the former's helmet.

The Music City Grand Prix weekend saw the returns of Ricky Johnson and Jeff Ward, both of whom last raced in 2013, and the debuts of NASCAR's Stanton Barrett and the Indy Pro 2000 Championship's Jacob Abel. Crosley Brands assumed naming rights for the weekend, which dubbed the series the Crosley Stadium Super Trucks, and sponsored the trucks of LeMastus, Johnson, Ward, Luyendyk, and Abel; Ricky Howerton was initially scheduled to drive before being replaced by Abel. Gordon won the first race while Stout scored his maiden series victory in the second ahead of Abel.

Newcomers at Long Beach included rally raid driver Christian Sourapas, former motorcycle racer Brandon Parrish, and GT4 America Series competitor Mads Siljehaug. Zoey Edenholm, who made her SST debut in 2020, returned to the series. Operating on a "pretty smart" strategy of conserving his brakes, Brooks won the first race after starting at the back. Gordon won the second race to score his fourth victory at Long Beach and break a tie with Brabham for the most at the street circuit.

## Results and standings

### Race results

| Round | Race | Event | Fastest qualifier | Pole position | Most laps led | Winning driver |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | St. Petersburg | Matthew Brabham | Bill Hynes | Sheldon Creed | Sheldon Creed |
| 1 | 2 | St. Petersburg | Matthew Brabham | Jett Noland | Sheldon Creed | Sheldon Creed |
| 2 | 3 | Mid-Ohio (NASCAR) | Matthew Brabham | Max Gordon | Sheldon Creed | Sheldon Creed |
| 2 | 4 | Mid-Ohio (NASCAR) | Matthew Brabham | Max Gordon | Robby Gordon | Robby Gordon |
| 3 | 5 | Mid-Ohio (IndyCar) | Matthew Brabham | Bo LeMastus | Jerett Brooks | Matthew Brabham |
| 3 | 6 | Mid-Ohio (IndyCar) | Matthew Brabham | Bill Hynes | Robert Stout Robby Gordon | Matthew Brabham |
| 4 | 7 | Nashville | Matthew Brabham | Stanton Barrett | Robby Gordon | Robby Gordon |
| 4 | 8 | Nashville | Matthew Brabham | Ricky Johnson | Robert Stout | Robert Stout |
| 5 | 9 | Long Beach | Robby Gordon | Bill Hynes | Bill Hynes | Jerett Brooks |
| 5 | 10 | Long Beach | Robby Gordon | Mads Siljehaug | Robby Gordon | Robby Gordon |

### Drivers' championship

Legend :

| Rank Driver STP MOH NSH LBH Points 1 Matthew Brabham 2 2 2 3 1 1 2 3 2 3 296 2 Robby Gordon 4 3 3 1* 4 2* 1* 5 4 1* 270 3 Robert Stout 6 5 5 4 5 4* 3 1* 3 10 208 4 Max Gordon 5 7 7 5 7 5 5 4 5 5 172 5 Sheldon Creed 1* 1* 1* 7 116 6 Jerett Brooks 2* 8 1 2 111 7 Bill Hynes 7 8 8 7 9 10 7* 9 106 8 Jett Noland 8 6 6 6 4 8 95 9 Bo LeMastus 9 9 9 9 11 12 9 8 92 10 Arie Luyendyk Jr. 3 4 7 6 75 11 Aaron Bambach 6 6 3 3 74 12 Jeff Ward 6 7 6 7 59 13 Greg Biffle 4 2 42 14 Jacob Abel 12 2 13 DNS 39 15 Christian Sourapas 8 4 32 16 Brandon Parrish 11 6 25 17 Stanton Barrett 8 11 23 18 Zach Van Matre 10 9 23 19 Zoey Edenholm 10 12 20 20 Mads Siljehaug 12 11 19 21 Ricky Johnson 13 13 16 Rank Driver STP MOH NSH LBH Points Source: | Legend Color Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green 4th–5th place (Top 5) Light Blue 6th–10th place (Top 10) Dark Blue Finished (Outside Top 10) Purple Did not finish (DNF) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Brown Withdrew (Wth) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled or abandoned (C) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Driver replacement (Rpl) Race not held (NH) Not competing In-Line Notation Bold Pole position Italics Ran fastest race lap * Led most race laps miscellaneous notation |
| - | - |
| Points | Position | Position | Position | Position | Position | Position | Position | Position | Position | Position | Position | Position | Position | Position | Position |
| Points | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th |
| Heat | 12 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | | | | | | |
| Final | 25 | 22 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 |

Bonuses :

| Most laps led | 3 |
| - | - |
| Position gained | 1 |
| Fastest qualifier | 1 |
