Chris Cook

Chris Cook (born December 23, 1971) is an American professional race car driver and driving instructor, who instructs at the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving and competes irregularly in NASCAR and other racing series, specializing in road course racing as a road course ringer.

Racing career Cook was the youngest driver to become a chief instructor at the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving. He has competed in the IMSA Firestone Firehawk Endurance Championship and in late model stock cars at Nashville Speedway USA, as well as in selected NASCAR events, and in the Formula D championship. Cook is best known in drifting for a wreck at the 2007 NOPI Drift Los Angeles in which his Dodge Viper flipped, knocking Cook unconscious.

After making a name for himself as an instructor for NASCAR drivers in road course racing, Cook made his debut in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series in 2005 at Infineon Raceway, driving for Joe Nemechek and finishing 28th. He failed to qualify for several other races in 2005, 2006 and 2011 before qualifying for the 2011 Sprint Cup Series race at Infineon, substituting for Tomy Drissi in the Max Q Motorsports No. 37, and finishing 27th. He is one of the drivers referred to as a "road course ringer", specialist drivers who often replace regular NASCAR drivers at the two road course races on the tour schedule.

Cook has also competed in twelve races in the NASCAR Nationwide Series (formerly the NASCAR Busch Series) between 1999 and 2009, with a best finish of 20th at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City in 2006 while driving for John McNelly.

Cook has also competed in the 24 Hours of Daytona, running for Rick Ware Racing in the 2012 edition of the event; he finished 38th in the race. Later in 2012 he returned to the Sprint Cup Series, driving the No. 19 Toyota for Humphrey Smith Racing at Sonoma Raceway, finishing 42nd; he also drove for Rick Ware Racing in the Nationwide Series at Watkins Glen International in August.

In 2018, Cook returned to the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series with Ware, driving his No. 51 entry.

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.)

Monster Energy Cup Series Monster Energy NASCAR 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 2005 NEMCO Motorsports 87 Chevy DAY CAL LVS ATL BRI MAR TEX PHO TAL DAR RCH CLT DOV POC MCH SON28 DAY CHI NHA POC IND GLNDNQ MCH BRI CAL RCH NHA DOV TAL KAN CLT MAR ATL TEX PHO HOM 72nd 79 2006 BAM Racing 49 Dodge DAY CAL LVS ATL BRI MAR TEX PHO TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV POC MCH SONDNQ DAY CHI NHA POC IND GLNDNQ MCH BRI CAL RCH NHA DOV KAN TAL CLT MAR ATL TEX PHO HOM NA - 2009 Front Row Motorsports 37 Dodge DAY CAL LVS ATL BRI MAR TEX PHO TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV POC MCH SONDNQ NHA DAY CHI IND POC GLN MCH BRI ATL RCH NHA DOV KAN CAL CLT MAR TAL TEX PHO HOM 79th 0 2011 Max Q Motorsports 37 Ford DAY PHO LVS BRI CAL MAR TEX TAL RCH DAR DOV CLT KAN POC MCH SON27 DAY KEN NHA IND POC GLN MCH BRI ATL RCH CHI NHA DOV KAN CLT TAL MAR TEX PHO HOM 48th 17 2012 Humphrey Smith Racing 19 Toyota DAY PHO LVS BRI CAL MAR TEX KAN RCH TAL DAR CLT DOV POC MCH SON42 KEN DAY NHA IND POC GLN41 MCH BRI ATL RCH CHI NHA DOV TAL CLT KAN MAR TEX PHO HOM 74th 5 2018 Rick Ware Racing 51 Ford DAY ATL LVS PHO CAL MAR TEX BRI RCH TAL DOV KAN CLT POC MCH SON31 CHI DAY KEN NHA POC GLN MCH BRI DAR IND LVS RCH CLT DOV TAL KAN MAR TEX PHO HOM 45th 6

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 34 35 Pts Ref 1999 Sasser Motorsports 65 Chevy DAY CAR LVS ATL DAR TEX NSVDNQ BRI TAL CAL NHA RCH NZH CLT DOV SBO GLN39 MLW MYB PPR GTY IRP MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV CLT CAR MEM PHO HOM 128th 46 2005 NEMCO Motorsports 7 Chevy DAY CAL MXC26 LVS ATL NSH BRI TEX PHO TAL DAR RCH CLT DOV NSH KEN MLW DAY CHI NHA PPR GTY IRP GLN24 MCH BRI CAL RCH DOV KAN CLT MEM TEX PHO HOM 96th 176 2006 Mac Hill Motorsports 56 Dodge DAY CAL MXC20 LVS ATL BRI TEX NSH 78th 316 Chevy PHODNQ TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV Curb Agajanian Performance Group 43 Dodge NSH28 KEN30 MLW DAY CHI NHA MAR GTY IRP GLN34 MCH BRI CAL RCHDNQ DOV KAN CLT MEM TEX PHO HOM 2008 MSRP Motorsports 90 Chevy DAY CAL LVS ATL BRI NSH TEX PHO MXC40 TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV NSH KEN MLW NHA DAY CHI GTY IRP CGV GLN43 MCH BRI CAL RCH DOV KAN CLT MEM TEX PHO HOM 123rd 77 2009 R3 Motorsports 23 Chevy DAY CAL LVS BRI TEX NSH PHO TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV NSH KEN MLW NHA DAY CHI GTY IRP IOW GLN31 114th 144 MSRP Motorsports 90 Chevy GLNQL† MCH BRI CGV41 ATL RCH DOV KAN CAL CLT MEM TEX JTG Daugherty Racing 47 Toyota PHO43 HOM 2011 Rick Ware Racing 75 Ford DAY PHO LVS BRI CAL TEX TAL NSH RCH DAR DOV IOW CLT CHI MCH ROA DAY KEN NHA NSH IRP IOW GLNQL CGVQL BRI ATL RCH CHI DOV KAN CLT TEX PHO HOM NA - 2012 15 Chevy DAY PHO LVS BRI CAL TEX RCH TAL DAR IOW CLT DOV MCH ROA KEN DAY NHA CHI IND IOW GLN37 CGV39 BRI ATL RCH CHI KEN DOV CLT KAN TEX PHO HOM 97th 5 2016 MBM Motorsports 40 Dodge DAY ATL LVS PHO CAL TEX BRI RCH TAL DOV CLT POC MCH IOW DAY KEN NHA IND IOW GLN40 MOH BRI ROA DAR RCH CHI KEN DOV CLT KAN TEX PHO HOM 84th 1 † - Qualified for Mike Bliss· ‡ - Qualified for Tomy Drissi

K&N Pro Series West Season still in progress Ineligible for series points

24 Hours of Daytona (key) 24 Hours of Daytona results Year Class No Team Car Co-drivers Laps Position Class Pos. 2012 GT 15 Rick Ware Racing Ford Mustang Timmy Hill Jeffrey Earnhardt Doug Harrington John Ware 256 51 38