Timmy Hill is set to return to Garage 66’s No. 66 Ford at Charlotte Motor Speedway, giving the Carl Long-owned team its fourth different driver in 2026 and putting Hill back in the lineup for the second crown jewel race of the year. Josh Bilicki, who became the team’s fourth driver of the season when he ran the road course race at Watkins Glen International, will not be in the car this time.

Garage 66, the team formerly known as MBM Motorsports, has already used a rotation of drivers in 2026. Casey Mears finished 32nd in the Daytona 500, the team’s first appearance in the Great American Race since 2020, Chad Finchum finished 28th at Talladega Superspeedway and 33rd at Texas Motor Speedway, and Bilicki’s 35th-place finish at Watkins Glen was the team’s worst result of the year outside Timmy Hill’s DNF at Darlington Raceway and Finchum’s DNF at Bristol Motor Speedway.

The return matters because Charlotte is one of the few races where an open team can still make the field on merit. Hill is locked into the race because only two other open cars are locked in, and Garage 66 skipped the exhibition All-Star Race at Dover Motor Speedway before turning its attention to the 600-mile race. For a non-chartered team, that makes the Charlotte entry one of the more valuable chances to collect mileage, attention and prize money in a crowded Cup calendar.

Hill’s own path back to Charlotte has been narrow. His three most recent Cup Series starts, in 2024, 2025 and 2026, all came at Darlington. His only other Cup start since the end of the 2021 season came at Circuit of the Americas in 2024, and he had not competed in a non-Darlington oval race since the 2021 season finale at Phoenix Raceway. His most recent Cup start at Charlotte came on the Roval in October 2021, while his last Coca-Cola 600 start was in May 2020.

That history leaves Charlotte as more than another open-entry stop. It is the first real chance in years for Hill to re-enter a major oval race with Garage 66, and the team’s year has already shown how much depends on simply getting the right driver in the right seat at the right moment.