About Michael McDowell
Born 1984. Michael McDowell is an American racing automobile driver.
Michael Christopher McDowell (born December 21, 1984) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 71 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Spire Motorsports and part-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 7 Chevrolet Silverado RST for Spire Motorsports. He has previously competed in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. He has also raced in open-wheel and sports cars.
McDowell began his career in open-wheel cars, which included competing in Formula Renault and Champ Car, and in sports cars like the Rolex Sports Car Series and 24 Hours of Daytona. He moved to stock car racing in 2006, and his first Cup Series season came in 2008, the latter of which saw him attract attention for a violent qualifying crash at Texas Motor Speedway. However, after losing his ride at Michael Waltrip Racing, much of McDowell's Cup career in the following years was with smaller teams, oftentimes as a start and park driver. McDowell won at Road America during the 2016 NASCAR Xfinity Series. McDowell did not run full-time in the Cup Series again until 2017 with Leavine Family Racing when he ran all 36 races. McDowell joined Front Row Motorsports in 2018, scoring his first Cup victory at the 2021 Daytona 500 with them. He moved to Spire Motorsports for 2025.
Early career McDowell started his career at the age of three racing BMX bicycles. He would always win his division because there were no other three or four-year-olds to compete against. At the start of each race, someone would have to hold him in the starting gate because his feet did not reach the ground. Then, when McDowell was eight years old, he moved to karting with help from his mother, Tracy, his father, Bill, and his older brother, Billy, who were all avid race fans. After ten years in karts, he would win not only the World Karting Association championship, but he would also take back-to-back International Kart Federation championships, along with 18 consecutive feature wins.
Open wheel From karts, McDowell moved into Formula Renault with World Speed Motorsports in 2002 and won the Infineon Raceway, Las Vegas, and Firebird International Raceway events in his rookie season. Moving up the ladder, McDowell would move to the Star Mazda Series in 2003. He took victories at Sebring and Road America en route to a runner-up finish in the points. McDowell won seven races in 2004 en route to winning the series championship. McDowell would be picked up by Champ Car team Rocketsports for Surfer's Paradise and Mexico City, but decided to move on in 2005 to the Grand-Am Cup Series.
Grand-Am During his run for the Star Mazda Championship, McDowell met businessman Rob Finlay at the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving, where McDowell was an instructor. McDowell and Finlay soon established a partnership, and McDowell would drive his first sports car, a Porsche 996 in the Grand-Am Cup Series for Finlay Motorsports. In 2005, McDowell would stay at Finlay, but moved up to the Rolex Sports Car Series, joining veteran Memo Gidley in a BMW powered Riley sponsored by the Make A Wish Foundation. Together, they finished sixth in the overall points and took the team's first victory at Mexico City. McDowell made history by becoming the youngest driver to stand on the podium for a Grand-Am race at Barber Motorsports Park,, and became the first driver since Mario Andretti to compete in both an open-wheel race and a sports car race in the same weekend. McDowell would also drive the team's No. 60 BMW M3 in the Grand-Am Cup series to a podium finish at Daytona International Speedway. McDowell would stick with Finlay for 2006 and was again partnered with Gidley. The duo would improve to fourth in points despite being winless. McDowell also drove a No. 15 Ford Mustang with owner Finlay, driving the car to a win at Barber Motorsports Park. He would cap off his Grand-Am year with a second-place finish at Miller Motorsports Park.
McDowell returned to the series for the 2012 24 Hours of Daytona, driving for Michael Shank Racing with drivers Jorge Goncalvez, Felipe Nasr, and Gustavo Yacamán. The four drivers would end up finishing third.
ARCA ARCA RE/MAX Series owner Eddie Sharp put McDowell behind the wheel of his No. 2 Dodge for five races of the 2006 season, starting with the Governor's Cup 200 at the Milwaukee Mile, where he scored a 34th-place finish. McDowell finished in sixth place at Salem, fifth at Talladega, and fourth at Iowa.
McDowell returned to ESR to run the full schedule for Rookie of the Year honors in 2007. McDowell was involved in controversy at Toledo Speedway when his ESR teammate, Ken Butler III, spun him late in the race. Butler would take his first win while McDowell would rally for a top ten finish. McDowell got his first stock car win at Kentucky Speedway. He followed that up with wins at Pocono, Chicagoland, and the season finale at Toledo. Although McDowell was in contention for the ARCA Re/Max Series championship all season, he was unable to pose a serious threat to Frank Kimmel for Kimmel's ninth championship. McDowell scored a second-place finish in the points along with Rookie of the Year honors, as well as scoring nine pole positions during the season. As McDowell moved to NASCAR, his ESR ride was taken over by former Formula One driver Scott Speed.
NASCAR
2007–2008 McDowell made his NASCAR debut in the Craftsman Truck Series. Driving the No. 17 for Darrell Waltrip Motorsports, McDowell qualified 29th and finished 30th after a late wreck. McDowell moved to the Busch Series as a developmental driver for Nextel Cup Series team Michael Waltrip Racing. Driving the No. 00 Toyota, McDowell drove at Texas, Phoenix, and Homestead, finishing respectively twentieth, fourteenth, and 32nd.
McDowell was chosen to drive the No. 00 Cup Series car in 2008 after Dale Jarrett's retirement; David Reutimann replaced Jarrett in the No. 44 UPS-sponsored car. McDowell started 34th and finished 26th in his Sprint Cup debut, the Goody's Cool Orange 500, after a flat tire near the end of the race. After the race, he was criticized by veteran driver Jeff Burton for having blocked Burton's way to the leader Denny Hamlin near the end of the race (McDowell was racing for the Lucky Dog free pass, which Burton did not realize at the time of his comments). In early August 2008, McDowell was pulled from the No. 00 Toyota Camry Sprint Cup car in favor of veteran NASCAR driver Mike Skinner for three races. Skinner helped evaluate the team's progress while trying to get the No. 00 into the Top 35 in owner points, though McDowell returned to the ride at Richmond on September 6, 2008. McDowell was again pulled from the No. 00 Toyota Camry when he failed to qualify for the Camping World RV 400 at Kansas on September 28. McDowell's contract was not renewed by MWR for 2009 when Michael Waltrip decided not to retire, and the team did not have a sponsorship for another car.
Crash at Texas Motor Speedway
While performing a qualifying attempt for the 2008 Samsung 500 at Texas Motor Speedway on April 4, 2008, McDowell had an accident that was strikingly similar to that of another racer with a road-racing background, Gordon Smiley, who died in a crash during Indianapolis 500 time trials in 1982. McDowell's right front sway bar broke entering Turn 1, which caused the car to hit the SAFER barrier almost head-on at approximately , according to data obtained and reported by SPEED channel (185 mph to zero mph in one foot, as reported by SPEED's Bob Dillner, before accelerating in the other direction). The car spun around once while tipping onto its roof, and then barrel-rolled eight times with fire coming out of the engine compartment, shedding debris in all directions, until coming to a stop back onto its tires. A large, dark impact mark was seen on the SAFER barrier, which showed how hard the car hit the barrier, which had to be repaired (the barrier moved inward when the car hit it), and as a result, qualifying for the race was delayed by an hour. The safety features of the barrier, the HANS device and the Car of Tomorrow racecar protected him. It formed a partnership with Whitney Motorsports and Mike Curb to field McDowell's car, which carried the No. 98.
In the 2013 Daytona 500, McDowell recorded a then-career high ninth-place finish. Later in the season in the Nationwide Series, McDowell won the pole for the inaugural Nationwide Children's Hospital 200 at Mid-Ohio. McDowell finished second behind A. J. Allmendinger.
2014: Leavine Family Racing In October 2013, it was announced that McDowell would be moving to Leavine Family Racing's No. 95 Ford for the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. McDowell failed to qualify for the 2014 Daytona 500. McDowell had a Sprint Cup career-best seventh-place finish in the Coke Zero 400.
At the Cheez-It 355 at The Glen, on lap 64, Greg Biffle came up on Ryan Newman's front bumper, turning him into the outside retaining wall. His car ricocheted off the wall into McDowell's path, where Newman barely clipped McDowell in the right rear of his car, and with the force of the impact, the rear end housing snapped, causing him to get airborne. The car bounced twice in the air before it hit the wall. His housing was forced against the wall. The race was red-flagged, though both drivers were unharmed.
2015–2016
McDowell returned to the LFR No. 95 car for a twenty-race schedule in 2015. The team merged with Circle Sport in 2016 and switched to Chevrolet, with McDowell splitting the schedule with Ty Dillon with sponsorship from Thrivent Financial, Cheerios, and WRL Contractors, among others. The season started with McDowell placing 15th in the 2016 Daytona 500, a best for LFR in the Great American Race. McDowell was able to get a tenth-place finish in the 2016 Coke Zero 400, his best finish of the season. At the end of the season at Homestead, McDowell drove the No. 59 Chevrolet after CSLFR purchased a charter from the closing Tommy Baldwin Racing. McDowell ran decent all night, and towards the end, he was able to avoid the big wreck involving Championship contender Carl Edwards and was able to get a tenth-place finish, his first non restrictor plate top-ten finish.
McDowell drove for Richard Childress Racing in the No. 2 Rheem Chevrolet in a one-race deal at Road America, which got McDowell his first NASCAR victory. McDowell led the final 24 laps en route to the win.
2017
McDowell returned to Leavine Family Racing's No. 95 Chevrolet in 2017. He started the season with a fifteenth-place finish in the Daytona 500. At Kansas, McDowell scored a season-best thirteenth-place finish. At Dover, McDowell scored his third straight top-twenty finish, a career first, when he finished nineteenth upon avoiding a last-lap crash. At Daytona for the Coke Zero 400, McDowell spent most of the race towards the front and competed late for the win, as he was in second place on the last lap before ending the race with a career-best fourth-place finish, his first career top-five finish. It was also the best finishing result for Leavine Family Racing as a team.
McDowell completed 99 percent of the laps in 2017, the most among any full-time driver in the Cup Series that season, and finished a career-best 26th in the standings. It would be his final season with LFR.
2018: Front Row Motorsports On September 19, 2017, Leavine announced Kasey Kahne would be replacing McDowell in the No. 95 car for the 2018 season. On November 24, 2017, Front Row Motorsports announced that McDowell would drive their No. 34 car full-time in 2018, replacing Landon Cassill. In the first race of the season, McDowell raced up front late and finished ninth in the 2018 Daytona 500, his fifth straight top-fifteen finish at Daytona (and third top ten in the last four races at the track) and tied his career-best finish in the race. McDowell would have a strong run in the 2018 Coke Zero Sugar 400, leading twenty laps, a career-best, and would finish second in stage 2 behind Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Unfortunately, with seven laps to go, McDowell would crash out of the race and finish 26th. McDowell would later tie his best finish in the Cup series points standings of 26th after leading laps at his final race of the season in Homestead.
2019
In 2019, McDowell returned to the No. 34 car for Front Row Motorsports. McDowell's longtime sponsor K-Love took a year-long break from being a primary sponsor of his car. In the 2019 Daytona 500, the first race of the season, he qualified in 34th and finished in fifth, which would become his career-best finish in the Daytona 500 as well as his second-best finish in a Cup Series race. After the race, 2018 champion Joey Logano confronted McDowell for not helping him win the Daytona 500, in which McDowell stated, "My team doesn't pay me to push you." During qualifying for the 2019 TicketGuardian 500 at ISM Raceway, McDowell had an on-track incident with Daniel Suárez, which resulted in a fight on pit road.
Two days before the 2019 Bank of America Roval 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, McDowell was rushed to the hospital after complaining of abdominal pain. He was cleared to race after passing kidney stones during the examination. McDowell would go on to run up front in the 1000bulbs.com 500 at Talladega Superspeedway, and even had a chance to win the race being in third place on the final lap of the race, and would finish fifth, capturing his second top-five of 2019, the first time he would have multiple top-fives in a single cup series season in his career.
2020 On December 12, 2019, Front Row Motorsports announced that McDowell would return to the No. 34 for the 2020 season. McDowell started the year off with a fourteenth-place finish in the 2020 Daytona 500, his fifth consecutive top-fifteen in the Daytona 500 and his eighth top-fifteen in his last nine Daytona races. McDowell would go on to qualify 3rd for the second Charlotte race due to the random draw, and McDowell has boomed onto the scene since coming off of NASCAR's break. McDowell would capture an eighth-place finish at Pocono and, following a DNF, a seventh-place finish at Indianapolis, marking the first time in his career he earned two top-tens two weeks in a row. McDowell would set a career-best for most top-fifteens in a season in just sixteen races with six, and has finished higher than his qualifying effort in fifteen of his twenty starts. In his first twenty starts, McDowell had more lead lap finishes than the likes of Kyle Busch, Erik Jones, Jimmie Johnson, William Byron, Alex Bowman, and Ryan Blaney, finishing on the lead lap fifteen of the first twenty races that season. During the All-Star Open at Bristol Motor Speedway, McDowell would win the pole and run up front most of the day before an on-track incident with driver Bubba Wallace, which led to an angry interview from Wallace, as well as leaving the front bumper of his car by McDowell's garage. McDowell and Wallace later set aside their differences and, along with McDowell's sponsor carparts.com, used the front bumper to raise over $34,000 for multiple charities, including Victory Junction, and eventually gave away the front bumper to a fan. McDowell would capture his first top-ten finish on a road course in his career at the Daytona road course and would earn his new best career points standings finish in the Cup Series in 23rd. It was announced a month before the 2021 season started that McDowell had signed a one-year contract extension with FRM to return to the No. 34 for the following season.
2021: Daytona 500 win and first playoff appearance
McDowell remained in FRM's No. 34 for a fourth year in 2021. He won the season-opening Daytona 500 after avoiding a crash involving the leaders Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski on the final lap. Before his big victory, McDowell had the second-most Cup Series starts before his first win. It was his first Cup Series win in his 358th start, second only to Michael Waltrip, whose first win came in his 463rd start. He would go on to finish the first three races of the season inside the top ten. McDowell also nearly won at Talladega in the spring, finishing a close third behind Keselowski and Byron. McDowell would follow this performance with a strong seventh-place finish at the inaugural Cup Series race at Circuit of the Americas after early contact with Martin Truex Jr.. McDowell's win at Daytona locked him into the All-Star Race and the NASCAR playoffs for the first time in his fourteen-year Cup Series career. McDowell was eliminated from the playoffs following the conclusion of the Round of 16 at Bristol. He finished the season with one win, two top-fives, five top-tens, an average finish of 20.5, and finished sixteenth in the points standings.
2023: Return to the playoffs
McDowell began the 2023 season with a 28th-place finish at the 2023 Daytona 500. He dominated the Indianapolis road race, landing him in the playoffs and earning him his second career win, as well as his first career stage win in the first stage of the race. He was eliminated at the conclusion of the Round of 16. He finished the season with one win, two top-fives, eight top-tens, an average finish of 19.0, and finished fifteenth in the point standings.
2024: First career pole and final year with FRM McDowell began the 2024 season with a 36th-place finish at the 2024 Daytona 500. McDowell had his first pole at Atlanta after 467 Cup Series starts. At the race at Talladega, McDowell was leading on the final lap when he spun out trying to block Brad Keselowski. He finished 31st, not crossing the start-finish line and being marked with a DNF. On May 8, 2024, McDowell announced he would leave FRM at the end of the 2024 season, and he had signed a multi-year contract with Spire Motorsports to drive the No. 71 Chevrolet starting in 2025. On June 1, 2024, McDowell won his third pole of the season for the Enjoy Illinois 300 at Gateway. He set a track record in Round 1 of qualifying with a 32.318s (139.241 mph) lap time. McDowell finished his final year with FRM in 23rd place in the final point standings. McDowell also finished the season with a career best six poles, the most of any driver on the season.
2025: First year at Spire Motorsports
McDowell began the 2025 season with an eleventh-place finish at the Daytona 500. At Las Vegas, McDowell would score his first pole of the season and Spire's first Cup Series pole. McDowell would have an up-and-down year, having many close calls.
Kaulig Racing's Josh Williams was released by the team on July 30, McDowell would drive the No. 11 for the team at Watkins Glen in his place.
On January 29, it was announced that McDowell would return to the Truck Series after sixteen years, driving the No. 07 truck for Spire Motorsports at Daytona and Atlanta.
Personal life McDowell is married to Jami and they have five children. McDowell is a Christian. He is a native of Glendale, Arizona.
McDowell and Justin Marks currently own a karting facility called the Trackhouse Motorplex, located 30 miles north of Charlotte, North Carolina. The facility opened in October 2012 and is inspired by another karting track located in Parma, Italy.
Motorsports career results
American Open-Wheel series (key)
Champ Car Champ Car results Year Team No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Rank Points Ref 2005 Rocketsports Racing 31 LBH MTY MIL POR CLE TOR EDM SJO DEN MTL LVS SRF MXC 21st 19
NASCAR (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
Cup Series 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 2008 Michael Waltrip Racing 00 Toyota DAY CAL LVS ATL BRI MAR TEX PHO TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV POC MCH SON NHA DAY CHI IND POC GLN MCH BRI CAL RCH NHA DOV KAN TAL CLT MAR ATL TEX PHO HOM 40th 1466 2009 Prism Motorsports 66 Toyota 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 52nd 326 Tommy Baldwin Racing 36 Toyota RCH NHA DOV KAN CAL CLT MAR TAL TEX PHO HOM 2010 Prism Motorsports 55 Toyota DAY CAL LVS ATL BRI MAR RCH DAR DOV CLT POC MCH SON NHA DAY CHI IND POC GLN MCH BRI 45th 870 66 PHO TEX TAL Whitney Motorsports 46 Chevy ATL KAN CAL CLT TAL TEX PHO HOM Dodge RCH NHA DOV MAR 2011 HP Racing 66 Toyota DAY PHO LVS BRI CAL MAR TEX TAL RCH DAR DOV CLT KAN POC MCH SON DAY KEN NHA IND POC GLN MCH BRI ATL RCH CHI NHA DOV KAN CLT TAL MAR TEX PHO HOM 36th 139 Joe Gibbs Racing 18 Toyota TEX 2012 Phil Parsons Racing 98 Ford DAY PHO LVS BRI CAL MAR TEX KAN RCH TAL DAR CLT DOV POC MCH SON KEN DAY NHA IND POC GLN MCH BRI ATL RCH CHI NHA DOV TAL CLT KAN MAR TEX PHO HOM 37th 187 2013 DAY PHO LVS BRI CAL MAR TEX KAN RCH TAL DAR CLT DOV POC MCH SON KEN DAY NHA IND POC BRI ATL RCH CHI DOV KAN CLT TAL MAR TEX PHO HOM 37th 210 Front Row Motorsports 35 Ford GLN MCH HScott Motorsports 51 Chevy NHA 2014 Leavine Family Racing 95 Ford DAY PHO LVS BRI CAL MAR TEX DAR RCH TAL KAN CLT DOV POC MCH SON KEN DAY NHA IND POC GLN MCH BRI ATL RCH CHI NHA DOV KAN CLT TAL MAR TEX PHO HOM 37th 255 2015 DAY ATL LVS PHO CAL MAR TEX BRI RCH TAL KAN CLT DOV POC MCH SON DAY KEN NHA IND POC GLN MCH BRI DAR RCH CHI NHA DOV CLT KAN TAL MAR TEX PHO HOM 39th 213 2016 Circle Sport –Leavine Family Racing 59 Chevy DAY HOM 30th 500 95 ATL LVS PHO CAL MAR TEX BRI RCH TAL KAN DOV CLT POC MCH SON DAY KEN NHA IND POC GLN BRI MCH DAR RCH CHI NHA DOV CLT KAN TAL MAR TEX PHO 2017 Leavine Family Racing DAY ATL LVS PHO CAL MAR TEX BRI RCH TAL KAN CLT DOV POC MCH SON DAY KEN NHA IND POC GLN MCH BRI DAR RCH CHI NHA DOV CLT TAL KAN MAR TEX PHO HOM 26th 542 2018 Front Row Motorsports 34 Ford DAY ATL LVS PHO CAL MAR TEX BRI RCH TAL DOV KAN CLT POC MCH SON CHI DAY KEN NHA POC GLN MCH BRI DAR IND LVS RCH ROV DOV TAL KAN MAR TEX PHO HOM 26th 493 2019 DAY ATL LVS PHO CAL MAR TEX BRI RCH TAL DOV KAN CLT POC MCH SON CHI DAY KEN NHA POC GLN MCH BRI DAR IND LVS RCH ROV DOV TAL KAN MAR TEX PHO HOM 27th 485 2020 DAY LVS CAL PHO DAR DAR CLT CLT BRI ATL MAR HOM TAL POC POC IND KEN TEX KAN NHA MCH MCH DRC DOV DOV DAY DAR RCH BRI LVS TAL ROV KAN TEX MAR PHO 23rd 588 2021 DAY DRC HOM LVS PHO ATL BRD MAR RCH TAL KAN DAR DOV COA CLT SON NSH POC POC ROA ATL NHA GLN IRC MCH DAY DAR RCH BRI LVS TAL ROV TEX KAN MAR PHO 16th 2152 2022 DAY CAL LVS PHO ATL COA RCH MAR BRD TAL DOV DAR KAN CLT GTW SON NSH ROA ATL NHA POC IRC MCH RCH GLN DAY DAR KAN BRI TEX TAL ROV LVS HOM MAR PHO 23rd 663 2023 DAY CAL LVS PHO ATL COA RCH BRD MAR TAL DOV KAN DAR CLT GTW SON NSH CSC ATL NHA POC RCH MCH IRC GLN DAY DAR KAN BRI TEX TAL ROV LVS HOM MAR PHO 15th 2185 2024 DAY ATL LVS PHO BRI COA RCH MAR TEX TAL DOV KAN DAR CLT GTW SON IOW NHA NSH CSC POC IND RCH MCH DAY DAR ATL GLN BRI KAN TAL ROV LVS HOM MAR PHO 23rd 624 2025 Spire Motorsports 71 Chevy DAY ATL COA PHO LVS HOM MAR DAR BRI TAL TEX KAN CLT NSH MCH MXC POC ATL CSC SON DOV IND IOW GLN RCH DAY DAR GTW BRI NHA KAN ROV LVS TAL MAR PHO 22nd 734 2026 DAY ATL COA PHO LVS DAR MAR BRI KAN TAL TEX GLN CLT NSH MCH POC COR SON CHI ATL NWS IND IOW RCH NHA DAY DAR GTW BRI KAN LVS CLT PHO TAL MAR HOM -* -*
Daytona 500 Year Team Manufacturer Start Finish 2010 Prism Motorsports Toyota 29 33 2011 HP Racing DNQ 2012 Phil Parsons Racing Ford 11 30 2013 38 9 2014 Leavine Family Racing Ford DNQ 2015 23 31 2016 Circle Sport – Leavine Family Racing Chevrolet 39 15 2017 Leavine Family Racing 22 15 2018 Front Row Motorsports Ford 22 9 2019 34 5 2020 26 14 2021 17 1 2022 6 7 2023 11 28 2024 2 36 2025 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet 25 11 2026 10 22
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 2007 Michael Waltrip Racing 00 Toyota 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 94th 291 2008 DAY CAL LVS ATL BRI NSH TEX PHO MXC TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV NSH KEN MLW NHA DAY CHI GTY IRP CGV 112th 119 MSRP Motorsports 91 Chevy GLN MCH BRI CAL RCH DOV KAN CLT MEM TEX PHO HOM 2009 JTG Daugherty Racing 47 Toyota DAY CAL LVS BRI TEX NSH PHO TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV NSH KEN MLW NHA DAY KAN 13th 3449 MacDonald Motorsports 81 Dodge CHI GTY IRP Whitney Motorsports 26 Dodge IOW GLN MCH BRI RCH CAL 96 CGV ATL DOV KAN CLT MEM TEX PHO HOM 2010 MacDonald Motorsports 81 Dodge DAY CAL LVS BRI NSH PHO TEX TAL RCH DAR DOV CLT NSH KEN ROA NHA DAY CHI GTY IRP IOW GLN MCH BRI CGV ATL RCH DOV KAN CAL CLT GTY TEX PHO HOM 21st 2770 2011 Joe Gibbs Racing 18 Toyota DAY PHO LVS BRI CAL TEX TAL NSH RCH DAR DOV IOW CLT CHI MCH ROA DAY KEN NHA NSH IRP IOW GLN CGV BRI ATL RCH CHI DOV KAN CLT TEX PHO HOM 106th 01 2012 DAY PHO LVS BRI CAL TEX RCH TAL DAR IOW CLT DOV ROA KEN DAY NHA CHI IND IOW GLN CGV BRI ATL RCH CHI KEN 111th 01 20 MCH SR² Motorsports 00 Toyota DOV CLT KAN TEX PHO HOM 2013 27 DAY PHO LVS BRI CAL 100th 01 00 TEX RCH TAL DAR CLT DOV IOW MCH BRI ATL RCH CHI KEN DOV KAN CLT Joe Gibbs Racing 18 Toyota ROA KEN DAY NHA CHI IND IOW GLN MOH TriStar Motorsports 10 Toyota TEX PHO 91 HOM 2014 Joe Gibbs Racing 20 Toyota DAY PHO LVS BRI CAL TEX DAR RCH TAL IOW CLT DOV MCH ROA KEN DAY NHA CHI IND IOW GLN MOH BRI ATL RCH CHI 87th 01 Team Penske 22 Ford KEN DOV KAN CLT TEX PHO HOM 2016 Richard Childress Racing 2 Chevy DAY ATL LVS PHO CAL TEX BRI RCH TAL DOV CLT POC MCH IOW DAY KEN NHA IND IOW GLN MOH BRI ROA DAR RCH CHI KEN DOV CLT KAN TEX PHO HOM 93rd 01 2025 Kaulig Racing 11 Chevy DAY ATL COA PHO LVS HOM MAR DAR BRI CAR TAL TEX CLT NSH MXC POC ATL CSC SON DOV IND IOW GLN DAY PIR GTW BRI KAN ROV LVS TAL MAR PHO 99th 01
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 2007 Darrell Waltrip Motorsports 17 Toyota DAY CAL ATL MAR KAN LOW MFD DOV TEX MCH MLW MEM KEN IRP NSH BRI GTW NHA LVS TAL MAR ATL TEX PHO HOM 117th 0 2009 ThorSport Racing 98 Chevy DAY CAL ATL MAR KAN CLT DOV TEX MCH MLW MEM KEN IRP NSH BRI CHI IOW GTW NHA LVS MAR TAL TEX PHO HOM 111th 0 2025 Spire Motorsports 07 Chevy DAY ATL LVS HOM MAR BRI CAR TEX KAN NWS CLT NSH MCH POC LRP IRP GLN RCH DAR BRI NHA ROV TAL MAR PHO 92nd 01 2026 7 DAY ATL STP DAR CAR BRI TEX GLN DOV CLT NSH MCH COR LRP NWS IRP RCH NHA BRI KAN CLT PHO TAL MAR HOM -* -*
Season still in progress Ineligible for series points
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 2006 Hixson Motorsports 2 Dodge DAY NSH SLM WIN KEN TOL POC MCH KAN KEN BLN POC GTW NSH MCH ISF MIL TOL DSF 40th 965 Eddie Sharp Racing CHI SLM TAL IOW 2007 DAY USA NSH SLM KAN WIN KEN TOL IOW POC BLN KEN POC NSH ISF MIL GTW DSF CHI SLM TAL TOL 2nd 5455 Toyota MCH
24 Hours of Daytona (key) 24 Hours of Daytona results Year Class No Team Car Co-drivers Laps Position Class Pos. 2005 DP 19 Ten Motorsports BMW Riley DP Memo Gidley Michael Valiante Jonathan Bomarito 465 42 19 2006 DP 19 Playboy/Uniden Racing Ford Crawford DP Memo Gidley Alex Barron 716 6 6 2007 DP 19 Finlay Motorsports Ford Crawford DP Rob Finlay Michael Valiante Bobby Labonte 627 10 10 2008 DP 09 Spirit of Daytona Racing Porsche Fabcar DP Guy Cosmo Marc-Antoine Camirand 652 15 10 2011 DP 6 Michael Shank Racing Ford Dallara DP A. J. Allmendinger Justin Wilson 719 7 7 2012 DP 6 Michael Shank Racing Ford Dallara DP Jorge Goncalvez Felipe Nasr Gustavo Yacamán 761 3 3
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