CONCORD, N.C. — Legacy Motor Club made it clear on Thursday that the goal is to celebrate the past and the present while making major moves in the future.
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This includes picking up and moving to a more centralized location before the start of the 2028 Cup Series season. The team has purchased a concrete, pre-fab building in Mooresville, North Carolina, that will soon become its new home.
This is a move that team owner Jimmie Johnson believes will pay immense dividends as it continues with the expansion plans.
"From a recruitment standpoint, being in Mooresville is super important," Johnson told media members after announcing Riley Herbst as the team's newest full-time driver.
"It also shortens my drive by 30 plus minutes, which I'm excited about (laughs). ...Toyota's very close by. Our other Toyota teammates are very close by.
"We spend a lot of time looking out of a windshield. All our people do is move around just to take meetings and interact with their counterparts of different teams and even with the league. So cutting down on windshield time is going to be nice."
Legacy Motor Club currently resides in Statesville, North Carolina, nearly 48 miles north of Charlotte Motor Speedway. This shop is also more than 22 miles north of the Toyota Performance Center in Mooresville, North Carolina.
Neither of these destinations is an easy commute considering the notorious traffic on Interstate 77, the main route heading north and south.
The new location certainly cuts down on the commute time. This shop is near Team Penske and Spire Motorsports, meaning that it is approximately four miles from the Toyota Performance Center.
Instead of spending more than 30 minutes in the car, members of Legacy Motor Club can now make the trip in about 10 minutes.
Along with being much closer to the central hub of NASCAR, this new 110,000-square-foot shop will provide future expansion options for Legacy Motor Club.
"There's additional space that we can build build on the box itself," Johnson said. "The primary floor is at (110,000), but it could turn into a three-story-tall building if we wanted it to.
"So we'll have a second floor with business ops and leadership up there. Bottom floor, you know, nice big generous space where engineering, car chiefs, crew chiefs, workforce is all right there on that same space."
This is not a new move for Legacy Motor Club. He said that the team has considered moving into a new building for multiple years, and he even had a tour of 23XI Racing's Airspeed facility in nearby Huntersville.
This tour gave Johnson and co. a better idea for storage options, something that is often a pressing need for all NASCAR teams. It also gave him a glimpse of the future, when Legacy Motor Club will move into its own new facility.
But for now, he will just focus on completing the 2026 season, welcoming two new drivers into the mix before 2027, and then trying to put at least one car in the Chase.
