Chad McCumbee

Chad McCumbee (born October 15, 1984) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He is a co-owner and driver for McCumbee-McAleer Racing in the Michelin Pilot Challenge, the team also competes in the Mazda MX-5 Cup and the IMSA Ford Mustang Challenge. He also owns and drives for Chad McCumbee Racing, a Late Model Stock Car team that competes in the CARS Tour, Virginia Triple Crown, and other big LMSC events. He is also known for his portrayal of Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story.

Early career McCumbee began his career racing go-karts at the age of ten. He has more than one-hundred victories in local, regional and national World Karting Association Dirt Series events, all which he accomplished in the five-year span from 1995 to 2000. He was also Allison Legacy Series National and Regional championship along with Rookie of the Year in his very first full season in the series in 2001. He also won the 2002 national title

McCumbee made his ARCA RE/MAX Series in 2004 at Michigan International Speedway for Hillenburg, but flipped the No. 10 Fast Track Driving School Chevy in spectacular fashion after 21 laps and finished 37th. He finished fourth in the point standings in 2005, his first full year of competition, continuing to drive for Hillenburg, winning one pole and gathering ten top-ten finishes.

NASCAR McCumbee moved to the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series in 2006, initially as driver of the No. 06 Chevrolet Silverado for MRD Motorsports. After failing to qualify for the season opening event at Daytona International Speedway, he had two consecutive top-fifteen finishes before MRD closed, moving him to the No. 08 Green Light Racing Chevy owned by Bobby Dotter. He finished ninth in his first race with the team at Texas Motor Speedway, and split time in the next five races between Green Light's No. 07 and No. 08 entries with occasional sponsorship from U.S. Restoration, before moving to the No. 08 permanently with Garmin/The GPS Store as sponsor. He had two seventh-place finishes through the year and finished seventeenth in season points. During the season, he briefly was a member of Chevrolet's driver development program, but his contract was not renewed at the end of the season.

McCumbee drove first 15 Craftsman Truck Series races in the 2007 season for Green Light Racing. his best finish with Green Light was 13th twice at Daytona and Dover. On August 14, he left Green Light Racing, and on the 20th announced he would drive for MRD Motorsports replacing Blake Bjorklund with The GPS Store and Garmin coming with him to sponsor the No. 8. With The No. 8 team, he scored his first top ten of the year at Las Vegas. McCumbee took the truck to a near upset victory at Texas before spinning his tires on a restart which led to being wrecked while leading with two laps to go and he finished thirteenth. On 2 May 2007, Petty Enterprises announced McCumbee would make his NEXTEL Cup debut, filling in for Kyle Petty while he was in the TNT broadcast booth, for one race at Pocono on 10 June 2007 in the Pocono 500. Goody's Cool Orange Headache Powders sponsored the car, and McCumbee finished 25th in that race. Petty tabbed him again for Michigan in the 3M Performance 400 because of Petty's broken hand. Clutch problems after a spin and forced the team behind the wall for more than fifty laps resulting in a 41st place finish. He also won his first two ARCA races, at Nashville Superspeedway and Pocono Raceway respectively, driving for Andy Belmont.

McCumbee started the 2008 season with a seventh at Daytona, and had a then career-best finish of fifth at Atlanta, before picking up his career best finish of second place at Charlotte in the Malcomson Construction truck. He ended the season 11th in the points standings. He also continued to run part-time for Petty's No. 45 entry with Marathon American Spirit Motor Oil sponsoring, making a total of six starts but failing to qualify on three occasions. His best finish was seventeenth at Pocono. He was the top choice for Kyle Petty's replacement in the No. 45, and signed a contract to drive for Petty full-time in 2009. A deal was made to merge Gillett Evernham Motorsports and Petty Enterprises which formed Richard Petty Motorsports, and as a result, McCumbee lost his Sprint Cup ride.

For the 2009 Camping World Truck Series season, McCumbee rejoined SS-Green Light Racing to be driver of the No. 7 Chevy with sponsorship from ASI Limited and The GPS Store. He had two top-ten finishes early in the season, and despite funding from Tiwi and Valvoline, he was replaced for four races during the season by other drivers bringing funding, and fell to nineteenth in points. He reunited with Hillenburg to drive the No. 49 Fast Track Racing truck for two races in 2010. In April 2010, McCumbee made his NASCAR Nationwide Series debut at Texas Motor Speedway. Driving the No. 09 Ford for RAB Racing, he finished 31st after starting 20th. Also in April, it was announced that McCumbee had signed with Andy Belmont to run the remainder of the 2010 ARCA Remax Series season in the No.1 Ford.

McCumbee then moved to sports cars, driving in the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge for C.J. Wilson. He won the 2015 championship in the ST division with co-driver Stevan McAleer.

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.)

Sprint Cup Series NASCAR Sprint Cup 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 34 35 36 Pts Ref 2007 Petty Enterprises 45 Dodge DAY CAL LVS ATL BRI MAR TEX PHO TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV POC25 MCH SON NHA DAY CHI IND POC GLN MCH41 BRI CAL RCH NHA DOV KAN TAL CLT MAR ATL TEX PHO HOM 61st 128 2008 DAY CAL LVS ATL BRI MAR TEXDNQ PHO TAL RCH DAR CLT DOVDNQ POC MCH SON NHA DAY CHI IND POC17 GLN MCH BRI CAL RCH NHA42 DOV KAN TAL CLT35 MAR25 ATL35 TEXDNQ PHO HOM36 52nd 396 2010 Gunselman Motorsports 64 Toyota DAY CAL LVS ATL BRI MAR PHO TEX TAL RCH DAR DOV CLT POC42 MCH SON NHA DAY CHI IND POC GLN MCH BRI ATL RCH NHA DOV KAN CAR CLT MAR 61st 134 TRG Motorsports 71 Chevy TAL22 TEX PHO HOM

Nationwide Series NASCAR Nationwide 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 34 35 Pts Ref 2010 RAB Racing 09 Ford DAY CAL LVS BRI NSH PHO TEX31 TAL RCH DAR28 DOV32 CLT27 NSH KEN ROA NHA DAY CHI GTY IRP IOW GLN MCH BRI CGV ATL RCH DOV KAN CAL CLT GTY TEX PHO HOM 85th 298

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 24 25 Pts Ref 2006 MRD Motorsports 06 Chevy DAYDNQ CAL25 ATL27 MAR21 GTY11 CLT15 MFD31 DOV23 17th 2515 Green Light Racing 08 Chevy TEX9 MCH18 KAN13 KEN18 IRP17 NSH7 BRI25 NHA20 LVS34 TAL30 MAR27 ATL7 TEX13 PHO29 HOM13 07 MLW14 MEM22 2007 08 DAY13 CAL27 ATL18 MAR24 KAN27 CLT18 MFD14 DOV13 TEX MCH19 MLW23 MEM26 KEN20 IRP34 NSH32 18th 2172 MRD Motorsports 8 Chevy BRI35 GTW15 NHA26 LVS10 TAL24 MAR ATL27 TEX13 PHO HOM22 2008 DAY7 CAL18 ATL5 MAR32 KAN7 CLT2 MFD24 DOV12 TEX6 MCH9 MLW27 MEM15 KEN30 IRP31 NSH10 BRI11 GTW11 NHA11 LVS11 TAL10 MAR24 ATL15 TEX23 PHO12 HOM13 11th 2999 2009 SS-Green Light Racing 07 Chevy DAY19 CAL3 ATL6 MAR28 KAN8 CLT15 DOV7 TEX13 MCH24 MLW25 MEM KEN11 IRP32 NSH BRI27 CHI7 IOW15 GTW NHA29 LVS16 MAR TAL24 TEX20 PHO15 HOM11 19th 2410 2010 Fast Track Racing 49 Chevy DAY33 ATL35 MAR NSH KAN DOV CLT TEX 60th 340 SS-Green Light Racing 21 Dodge MCH30 Fast Track Racing 48 Chevy IOW31 GTY IRP FDNY Racing 28 Chevy POC31 NSH DAR BRI CHI KEN NHA LVS MAR TAL TEX PHO HOM 2011 Chase Mattioli Racing 99 Ford DAY35 PHO 62nd 27 Eddie Sharp Racing 45 Toyota DARDNQ MAR NSH DOV CLT KAN TEX KEN IOW NSH IRP SS-Green Light Racing 07 Toyota POC26 MCH BRI ATL CHI NHA KEN LVS TAL MAR TEX HOM 2012 Turn One Racing 60 Chevy DAY MAR CAR KAN30 CLT31 DOV TEX KEN IOW 42nd 92 RBR Enterprises 92 Chevy CHI20 POC MCH BRI23 ATL25 IOW KEN LVS TAL MAR TEX PHO HOM 2013 T3R2 99 Ford DAY MAR CAR KAN CLT DOV TEX KEN IOW ELD POC MCH BRI MSP IOW CHI LVS TAL MAR TEX PHO HOM33 79th 11

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 22 23 Pts Ref 2004 Fast Track Racing 10 Pontiac DAY NSH SLM KEN TOL CLT KAN POC MCH SBO BLN KEN GTW POC LER NSH ISF TOL DSF CHI SLM TAL 185th 45 2005 11 Chevy DAY NSH SLM KEN MIL POC MCH KAN KEN BLN POC GTW LER NSH MCH ISF TOL DSF CHI SLM TAL 4th 4720 Pontiac TOL LAN 2006 Chevy DAY NSH SLM WIN KEN TOL POC MCH KAN KEN BLN POC GTW NSH MCH ISF MIL 66th 515 1 TOL DSF CHI SLM TAL IOW 2007 Andy Belmont Racing 62 Chevy DAY USA NSH SLM KAN WIN KEN TOL IOW 49th 650 Petty Enterprises Dodge POC MCH BLN KEN POC NSH ISF MIL GTW DSF CHI SLM TAL TOL 2008 Fast Track Racing 10 Chevy DAY SLM IOW KAN CAR KEN TOL POC MCH CAY KEN BLN POC NSH ISF DSF CHI SLM NJE TAL TOL 95th 200 2010 Mark Gibson Racing 59 Chevy DAY PBE SLM TEX 15th 3280 Andy Belmont Racing 1 Ford TAL TOL POC MCH IOW MFD POC BLN NJE ISF CHI DSF TOL SLM KAN CAR 2011 DAY TAL SLM TOL NJE CHI POC MCH WIN BLN IOW IRP POC ISF MAD DSF SLM KAN TOL 5th 4465

CARS Late Model Stock Car Tour (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. ** – All laps led.)

CARS Super Late Model Tour (key)

Complete British GT Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)