Three years later, Hot Wheels joined the Craftsman Truck Series team of Carlos Contreras and the No. 12 truck. In 2004, Hot Wheels sponsored the No. 99 car of Jeff Burton for one race at Darlington Raceway. Six years later, the company returned to NASCAR to sponsor the No. 7 JR Motorsports car of Danica Patrick at Michigan International Speedway. In 1999, Hot Wheels partnered with five Formula One teams to manufacture scale model Formula One cars. In 2016, Hot Wheels opened the "Race to Win" exhibit at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis to promote the 100th Indianapolis 500. During 1999—2018 Hot Wheels had a Monster Jam license to release monster truck diecasts and had a real-life trucks competing in the shows. After the partnership ended, diecast production have stopped and Hot Wheels' team have retired. Soon, Hot Wheels created the Hot Wheels Monster Trucks line and the Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live show with non-Monster Jam owned Bigfoot truck as a competitor. Monster Jam claimed this as a plagiarism, which caused a controversy  At the 2002 Le Mans 24 Hours, Hot Wheels logos appeared on the sidepods of the pair of MG-Lola EX257 prototypes entered by MG Sport & Racing. Hot Wheels is a partner and sponsor of Australian stunt rider Matt Mingay's Stuntz Inc team, and also sponsors him in the Stadium Super Trucks. After Mingay suffered serious facial injuries at the Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix in 2016, Robby Gordon drove the No. 2 Hot Wheels truck at the Townsville Street Circuit. Hot Wheels and Castrol returned to support Mingay when he made his racing return in 2020. Various video games based on Hot Wheels have been released for numerous consoles. A coin-operated pinball machine based on Hot Wheels cars and the Hot Wheels City YouTube series was released by American Pinball in June 2020.