Matthew Guido DiBenedetto (born July 27, 1991)[1] is an American professional stock car racing driver.

Prior to that, DiBenedetto competed full-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series for two years which included making the playoffs in 2023.

[3] In 2007, DiBenedetto's family sold all their equipment due to financial stress, from then on starting in 2008 Dibenedetto drove for Fat Head Racing Driver Development Program in the UARA-Stars as a teammate to Darrell Wallace Jr., Brennan Poole, and FHR team owner Jamie Yelton.

There, he caught the attention of Joe Gibbs Racing, and later ran in the NASCAR Camping World East Series for them.

[4] DiBenedetto made his NASCAR Nationwide Series debut in 2009 at the Memphis Motorsports Park and drove the No.

Nine years after his last start in the series with JGR, he returned to the team in August 2019 for the Road America race.

4 JD Motorsports Chevy during the first caution due to Earnhardt suffering a fractured collarbone in a motorcycle accident during the week.

[11] DiBenedetto scored 2 more Top 10 finishes both being 7th place runs at the 2024 Hy-Vee PERKS 250 at Iowa Speedway and the 2024 Cabo Wabo 250 at Michigan.

At Martinsville Speedway during a practice session, DiBenedetto was involved in an incident with three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart.

The incident occurred when DiBenedetto tried to merge on the track behind Carl Edwards and the gap closed ahead of him.

[15] In the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, DiBenedetto finished sixth, a career-best at the time,[2] his first career top ten and the first for BK Racing since Travis Kvapil's eighth-place finish at the 2012 Good Sam Roadside Assistance 500 at Talladega Superspeedway.

[19] DiBenedetto missed the AAA Texas 500 after suffering a concussion during the previous day's Xfinity Series race[20] and was replaced by Earnhardt.

[26] The community then repeated their near-feat by having another close call in the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR All-Star Race.

After the campaign, DiBenedetto remained an active member of the community, interacting with its users in the NASCAR subreddit regularly.

Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick and Darrell Waltrip began to donate money to fund a sponsor, and the team later received Zynga Poker sponsorship.

[29] Go Fas eventually launched #TeamBurrito, a program that allows fans to encourage businesses to sponsor the No.

On October 10, it was announced that DiBenedetto signed a two-year contract with Leavine Family Racing to drive the No.

[33] In the race, DiBenedetto pitted off sequence, completing his stops before the two stages and again with 25 laps remaining to score a fourth-place finish.

[34] On August 15, 2019, DiBenedetto announced via Twitter that Leavine Family Racing had informed him that he would be dropped from the team following the 2019 season.

Two days after the announcement, DiBenedetto led 93 laps at the Bristol Night Race, and appeared late in the final stage that he would finally get his first career win, but damage after contact with Ryan Newman would cause him to lose the position to Denny Hamlin with 11 laps to go.

[39] In the later weeks of the regular season, DiBenedetto battled with seven-time Cup champion Jimmie Johnson and William Byron for the final spots in the playoffs.

DiBenedetto would ultimately qualify for his first playoffs when he finished 12th in the regular-season finale at Daytona and edged out Johnson for the 16th and last seed by six points.

The next week at Talladega, DiBenedetto would run in the top 15 for the majority of the day, and made heavy gambles on fuel mileage to get to the top five for most of the final ten laps, and would make the pass on Chase Elliott to get the race lead with two laps to go, before Bubba Wallace would trigger the Big One.

On the final restart, DiBenedetto would hold his line and maintain the lead until turn 4 on the final lap, when a block he would make on William Byron would give Denny Hamlin enough room to pass him on the bottom lane, with Hamlin winning over DiBenedetto by only twenty-three one-thousandths of a second (.023).

[44] At the 2022 NextEra Energy 250 at Daytona, in only his first Truck start, DiBenedetto dodged many wrecks en route to a tenth-place finish, the second one ever for Rackley W.A.R.

In the 2022 Rackley Roofing 200 at Nashville Superspeedway, DiBenedetto was running in the Top 10 when ThorSport Racing driver Ty Majeski took Matt and 2 other trucks 4 wide coming into Turn 3 causing him and the 2 other trucks to crash ending DiBenedetto's day and putting him in a must-win to make the playoffs.

[46] On October 1, DiBenedetto achieved his first national series win in the 2022 Chevrolet Silverado 250 at Talladega Superspeedway.

Despite finishing 17th in the 2023 Worldwide Express 250 at Richmond Raceway, DiBenedetto was able to qualify for the 2023 Truck Series Playoffs.

removed DiBenedetto from the team and announced plans for a replacement driver for the final three races of the season.

* Season still in progress 1 Ineligible for series points (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time.