Chris Bailey Jr.

Chris Bailey Jr. (born August 10, 1989) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He has competed in the ARCA Menards Series from 2011 to 2016. Before this, he won the ARCA Truck Series championship in 2010.

Racing career Bailey's first foray into major stock car competition came in 2007 in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series driving in the Pennsylvania State Championship at Lake Erie Speedway. He also ran two races in the Mid-Atlantic Asphalt Racing Alliance. He would run one year in the All American Series before moving to the ARCA Truck Series for one race in 2009 at Lake Erie, finishing fifth. He would return to the series in 2010, winning the series championship in his first year of full-time competition with two wins at Lorain County Speedway and Skyline Speedway. He would run the full schedule for the next two years, finishing runner-up in points in 2011, and fourth in 2012.

Bailey would make his ARCA Racing Series debut in the No. 15 Chevrolet for Venturini Motorsports at Winchester Speedway in 2011, finishing 31st and last after completing only one lap due to handling issues.

After not running in the series the following year, Bailey would return in 2013, running in eleven races that year, with his first start coming with Wayne Peterson Racing and the rest coming with various Kimmel Racing entries. He would earn a career best finish of 14th at Kentucky Speedway, and would finish 19th in the overall standings. For 2014, he would return with the Kimmel outfit, first running in the season opening race at Daytona International Speedway, finishing 16th, although he would spend the rest of the year in a start and park role in his 12 starts that year (including a start for Carter 2 Motorsports at the third race at Salem Speedway).

Bailey would run only five races for Kimmel Racing in 2015, with the best finish of 19th at Talladega Superspeedway. He would move over to Max Force Racing for 10 of the 20 races for 2016, coming with a season best result at the season finale at Kansas Speedway, where he would finish 16th. For 2017, Jent Motorsports announced that they would partner with Bailey for the full season, although they would not run a race that season. He has not competed in the series since.

Motorsports results

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 2011 Venturini Motorsports 15 Chevy DAY TAL SLM TOL NJE CHI POC MCH WIN BLN IOW IRP POC ISF MAD DSF SLM KAN TOL 153rd 75 2013 Wayne Peterson Racing 06 Ford DAY MOB SLM TAL TOL ELK 19th 1365 Kimmel Racing 69 Ford POC MCH ROA KEN 67 WIN CHI NJM SLM 68 POC BLN ISF MAD DSF IOW KAN 2014 DAY MOB POC MCH ELK WIN CHI IRP POC BLN ISF MAD DSF 25th 1250 Carter 2 Motorsports 40 Dodge SLM TAL Kimmel Racing 69 Ford TOL NJE SLM KEN KAN 2015 80 DAY MOB NSH SLM 46th 490 68 TAL MCH CHI WIN IOW IRP POC BLN ISF DSF SLM KEN KAN 67 TOL NJE POC 2016 Max Force Racing 11 Ford DAY NSH SLM TAL TOL NJE POC IRP BLN ISF DSF 28th 965 23 MCH MAD WIN IOW POC CHI 30 SLM 5 KEN KAN