Chad Boat

Chad Boat (born January 30, 1992) is an American professional dirt track racing driver and team owner. The son of former driver Billy Boat, he has raced in Indy Lights and NASCAR.

Racing career

Sprint cars and midgets Boat began his racing career in quarter midgets at the age of five. At age seven, he won the Arizona state quarter midget championship, and the following year won the Light Modified and Light 160 midget championships.

Stock cars After competing in USAC competition, Boat moved to NASCAR in 2010, running in seven K&N Pro Series West events between 2010 and 2012, with a best finish of fourth in 2010 at Iowa Speedway; he also ran 19 K&N Pro Series East events with a best finish of ninth at Bowman Gray Stadium in 2011. Boat also competed in ten ARCA Racing Series events in 2012 and 2013, posting third-place finishes twice at Iowa. Boat finished 29th in points with a best finish of 22nd at Iowa Speedway. In 2015, he raced in both the Xfinity (formerly Nationwide) Series and Camping World Truck Series for Billy Boat Motorsports. He made three Xfinity starts and four Truck Series starts. He ran for the Truck Series championship and finished 38th in points with a best finish of ninth at Talladega Superspeedway, his best NASCAR finish to date.

Indy Lights On June 27, 2017, it was announced that Boat would compete in the Indy Lights series with Belardi Auto Racing competing at the oval events at Iowa Speedway and Gateway Motorsports Park in the latter half of the 2017 season. Chad's father Billy also competed in Indy Lights, then called the American Racing Series, in 1986 and 1987.

Team ownership Boat co-owned a USAC National Midget car team Tucker/Boat Motorsports and the team won the 2020 championship in their first season with driver Chris Windom. With the championship, Boat became the first person who had won a USAC National Midget race to own the season-championship-winning car with another driver.

Boat married Casey Haimes on January 26, 2019. Casey was a co-host of the podcast Door Bumper Clear on Dirty Mo Media. The couple has two daughters, Chloe, who was born in 2020 and Carter, who was born in 2024.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Xfinity Series NASCAR Xfinity Series results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Pts Ref 2014 Billy Boat Motorsports 84 Chevy DAY24 PHO LVS BRI CAL TEX31 DAR RCH TALDNQ IOW29 CLT26 DOV MCH ROA KENDNQ DAY26 NHA CHI28 IND27 IOW22 GLN MOH BRI37 ATL RCH34 CHI KEN DOV KAN CLT28 TEX28 PHO25 HOM 29th 227 TAL25 2015 84 DAY36 ATL LVS PHO CAL TEX BRI RCH TAL35 IOW CLT25 DOV MCH CHI DAY KEN NHA IND IOW GLN MOH BRI ROA DAR RCH CHI KEN DOV CLT KAN TEX PHO HOM 105th 01

Camping World Truck Series NASCAR Camping World Truck Series results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Pts Ref 2015 Billy Boat Motorsports 15 Chevy DAY ATL MAR KAN CLT DOV TEX GTW IOW KEN ELD31 POC MCH BRI MSP 38th 99 16 CHIDNQ NHA LVS25 TAL9 MAR TEX PHO12 HOM

K&N Pro Series East NASCAR K&N Pro Series East results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Pts Ref 2010 Billy Boat Motorsports 36 Chevy GRE SBO IOW MAR NHA LRP LEE JFC NHA17 DOV 55th 112 2011 Curb Racing 98 Chevy GRE23 SBO20 RCH21 IOW11 BGS9 JFC30 LGY14 NHA15 COL12 GRE28 NHA20 DOV27 16th 1278 2012 BRI34 GRE26 RCH31 IOW11 BGS JFC29 LGY CNB COL IOW15 NHA DOV GRE CAR 27th 118

K&N Pro Series West NASCAR K&N Pro Series West results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Pts Ref 2010 Billy Boat Motorsports 36 Chevy AAS PHO IOW4 DCS SON 34th 303 30 IRW17 PIR MRP CNS MMP AAS PHODNQ 2011 Curb Racing 98 PHO11 AAS MMP IOW LVS SON IRW EVG PIR CNS7 MRP SPO AAS5 PHO7 22nd 577 2012 PHO7 LHC MMP S99 IOW BIR LVS SON EVG CNS IOW PIR SMP AAS PHO 58th 37

ARCA Racing Series (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.) ARCA Racing Series results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Pts Ref 2012 Curb Racing 98 Chevy DAY MOB SLM TAL TOL ELK POC MCH WIN NJE IOW3 CHI IRP8 POC BLN ISF MAD SLM DSF 48th 455 Ken Schrader Racing 52 Chevy KAN37 2013 Curb Racing 52 Chevy DAY10 MOB SLM TAL TOL ELK POC 18th 1430 Venturini Motorsports 55 Toyota MCH15 ROA WIN Billy Boat Motorsports 84 Toyota CHI5 NJE POC30 BLN ISF MAD DSF IOW3* SLM KEN5 KAN23

Season still in progress Ineligible for series points

Indy Lights Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Rank Points 2017 Belardi Auto Racing STP STP ALA ALA IMS IMS INDY RDA RDA IOW TOR TOR MOH MOH GMP14 WGL 16th 7