Kevin Hamlin

Kevin Hamlin (born June 22, 1979) is an American professional stock car racing driver who has competed in the NASCAR Nationwide Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series divisions. He currently is a spotter for Alex Bowman in the NASCAR Cup Series and Cleetus McFarland in the ARCA Menards Series.

Starting at Pikes Peak in 2005, he piloted the No. 4 GEICO Dodge for the Biagi Brothers Racing team in the Busch Series, scoring several top fifteen finishes, and was rumored to be in the car full-time for the 2006 season, but was released in late November 2005, replaced by Mark Green when team owner Fred Biagi declined to renew his relationship with Chip Ganassi Racing.

He is not related to former Richard Childress Racing crew chief Kevin Hamlin or current NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin.

Racing career Hamlin's driving career starting in the Pacific Northwest at the age of three, racing dirt ovals on a 50cc 3-wheeler. By the age of six, he had moved up to Quarter midgets where he won eight regional and one national championship. At the age of fourteen, his family purchased a late model to pursue Kevin's career. In 1996, Hamlin began racing at the Super Stock division at Evergreen Speedway becoming the youngest winner in the division capturing three feature victories in 1997.

In 1998, Hamlin moved up to the NASCAR Northwest Series, where in 103 career starts he captured eleven wins, 41 top-five and 62 top-ten finishes. He was also crowned the 2001 and 2002 Northwest Series Champion and also was named the 2001 and 2003 Most Popular Driver. Hamlin owns NASCAR Northwest Series records for the youngest ever race winner at nineteen years and eleven months, the youngest ever champion at 21 years and six months and most consecutive laps led at 275 spanning over three races.

In 2006, Hamlin ran Daytona in the Craftsman Truck Series driving the No. 04 Dodge Hemi Dodge for Bobby Hamilton Racing. He also drove the No. 4 Biagi Brothers Racing Dodge in the Daytona Winn-Dixie 250, due to Biagi's driver Auggie Vidovich not having superspeedway clearance. Hamlin also practiced and qualified the No. 41 Ganassi Busch car for several races that Sorenson could not attend due to schedule conflicts with the Cup Series events. During the year, he filled in for teammate Reed Sorenson in five non-companion Nextel Cup/Busch Series events, practicing and qualifying Sorenson's No. 41 Busch car which resulted in two top-five finishes and three top-ten finishes for Sorenson.

In early 2007, it was announced that Hamlin and Nextel Cup rookie Juan Pablo Montoya would split time driving the No. 42 Texaco Havoline Dodge for Ganassi in the Busch Series. During the Gateway 250, Hamlin earned his first career top-ten finish, a sixth, despite a spin caused by Carl Edwards near the later stages of the race. The next week he followed up with a solid eighth place finish at the Kroger 200 at O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis. It was announced later the next week that the No. 42 Busch team would be shutting down, effectively ending Hamlin's season. However, Ganassi said that he would keep Hamlin in the car for the following two races at Michigan and Bristol, but the week after the Michigan race, David Stremme was slated to drive the car at Bristol due to a last minute sponsor change.

Hamlin ran three Nationwide races in 2008 for Pat MacDonald. He finished 24th at Fontana, 21st in Dover, and crashed at Memphis.

In 2009, Hamlin ran a limited Nationwide schedule for a number of teams. At Kentucky, he led two laps while driving for Jay Robinson. Hamlin, normally a spotter for John Andretti, failed to qualify for the Kansas Sprint Cup race for Front Row Motorsports.

Starting at Texas in the Fall of 2010 and through the 2011 season, Kevin was the spotter for NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Clint Bowyer. He started 2012 as the spotter for Ty Dillon in the Camping World Truck Series and occasionally for Brendan Gaughan in the Nationwide series. In July 2012, he became the full-time spotter for Kasey Kahne.

Hamlin was a spotter for Change Racing in the 2016 and 2017 24 Hours of Daytona.

Hamlin would move to the No. 88 team in 2018, spotting for Alex Bowman.

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 2009 Front Row Motorsports 37 Dodge DAY CAL LVS ATL BRI MAR TEX PHO TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV POC MCH SON NHA DAY CHI IND POC GLN MCH BRI ATL RCH NHA DOVKANDNQ CAL CLT MAR TAL TEX PHO HOM NA -

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 2005 Biagi Brothers Racing 4 Dodge DAY CAL MXC LVS ATL NSH BRI TEX PHO TAL DAR RCH CLT DOV NSH KEN MLW DAY CHI NHA PPR GTY IRP GLN MCH BRI CAL RCH DOV KAN CLT MEM TEX PHO HOM 45th 1204 2006 DAY CAL MXC LVS ATL BRI TEX NSH PHO TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV NSH KEN MLW DAY CHI NHA 120th 82 Chip Ganassi Racing 41 Dodge MAR MEM TEX PHO HOM FitzBradshaw Racing 12 Dodge GTY IRP GLN MCH BRI CAL RCH DOV KAN CLT 2007 Chip Ganassi Racing 42 Dodge DAY CAL MXC LVS ATL BRI NSH TEX PHO TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV NSH KEN MLW NHA DAY CHI GTY IRP CGV GLN MCH BRI CAL RCH DOV KAN CLT MEM TEX PHO HOM 54th 748 2008 MacDonald Motorsports 81 Dodge DAY CAL LVS ATL BRI NSH TEX PHO MXC TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV NSH KEN MLW NHA DAY CHI GTY IRP CGV GLN MCH BRI CAL RCH DOV KAN CLT 83rd 249 Chip Ganassi Racing 40 Dodge MEM TEX PHO HOM 2009 MacDonald Motorsports 81 Dodge DAY CAL LVS BRI TEX NSH DAR CLT DOV NSH CLT MEM TEX 70th 589 Means Racing 52 Chevy PHO TAL CHI KAN Ford RCH Jay Robinson Racing 49 Chevy KEN MLW NHA DAY Smith-Ganassi Racing 42 Dodge GTY IRP Front Row Motorsports 34 Chevy IOW GLN Rick Ware Racing 31 Chevy MCH BRI CGV ATL RCH 41 DOV CAL Baker-Curb Racing 37 Ford PHO HOM 2010 Means Racing 52 Chevy DAY CAL LVS BRI NSH PHO TEX TAL RCH DAR DOV CLT NSH KEN ROA NHA DAY 95th 183 TriStar Motorsports 36 Chevy CHI GTY GLN MCH BRI CGV GTY TEX PHO HOM RAB Racing 09 Ford IRP IOW Baker-Curb Racing 43 Ford ATL RCH DOV KAN CAL CLT† - Qualified for Reed Sorenson · ‡ - Qualified for Tony Raines

Craftsman Truck Series NASCAR Craftsman 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 2005 Green Light Racing 07 Chevy DAY CAL ATL MAR GTY MFD CLT DOV TEX MCH MLW KAN23 KEN MEM IRP NSH BRI RCH NHA LVS MAR ATL TEX PHO HOM 80th 94 2006 Bobby Hamilton Racing 04 Dodge DAY11 CAL ATL MAR GTY CLT MFD DOV TEX MCH MLW KAN KEN MEM IRP NSH BRI NHA LVS TAL MAR ATL TEX PHO HOM 72nd 135 2007 4 DAY CAL ATL MAR KAN CLT25 MFD10 DOV TEX MCH MLW MEM21 KEN IRP NSH BRI GTW NHA LVS17 TAL MAR ATL TEX PHO HOM 49th 434

ARCA Re/Max Series (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.) ARCA Re/Max 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 2005 Ken Schrader Racing 99 Dodge DAY NSH SLM KEN5 TOL LAN MIL POC MCH8 KAN KEN BLN POC GTW LER NSH MCH ISF TOL DSF CHI SLM TAL 70th 400