Tim McCreadie will have a new look and number driving for Boom Briggs-owned Briggs Transport Racing on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series in 2025, but with a vintage and personal spin. 

• Tim McCreadie Has A New Ride For 2025 Season

Paying homage to his late, great father Bob McCreadie, who died last May at age 73, the 50-year-old McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., will don the No. 9 for the first time in his career this season, the very number his Northeast Dirt Modified Hall of Fame driver sported for most of his career.

"When deciding what number we were going to put on, we were not sure. Between me and Boom Briggs Motorsports, it just kind of sat down and thought, 'How could we do something pretty cool and pretty special?" McCreadie said a minute-long video posted on social media Friday. "And Boom suggested that: 'How about we continue on with your father's legacy number with the No. 9?' I thought, man, that's pretty wild. I never really ran that number a lot.

"The number is famous everywhere I grew up and in the Northeast, and the Midwest and everything of that nature. Everybody knew when McCreadie rolled in with the No. 9, it was one of the cars to beat. For him to suggest that, it just made me feel pretty cool. I can put this number on this car and every time we go onto the track, we can honor him as a father and a great race car driver, and a great family man.

"We'll carry the McCreadie name on further in this sport as long as we can. It's pretty exiting and now we're ready to take it to the next level."

The two-time Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series champion started last year with Paylor Motorsports, which had fielded Longhorn Chassis for McCreadie since 2020, before taking the reins as the Rocket Chassis house car driver in mid March.

That only lasted nine months, though, as the announcement came in November that Brandon Sheppard would return for his second tour of duty with the Rocket Chassis house car team, thus moving McCreadie over to the Rocket-affiliated, Briggs-owned team with Boom Briggs scaling back his driving efforts in 2025. McCreadie also ran the National 100 and World Finals for Viper-Big Frog Motorsports in November.

In November, Rocket1 Racing owner Mark Richards said that McCreadie will "continue to be an important part of the growth and development we have in motion here at Rocket Chassis.”

Briggs of Bear Lake, Pa., added in November that “me and Tim have been really good friends for over 20 years" and that "due to my business obligations and him out of a ride, we decided to put this deal together with the support and assistance of Mark Richards.

"I’m going to still run a limited schedule next year, but our focus sits with giving Tim his best chance to go after another Lucas Oil title and a really successful year," Briggs said in November.