Justin Grant

Justin Michael Grant^[1] (born November 12, 1990)^[2] is an American racing driver from Ione, California. Grant is the 2020 USAC Silver Crown National Champion and the 2022 USAC National Sprint Car Champion.

Racing career

Midget Racing

Grant spent his early career racing midgets in California. At the age of 16, he was crowned the 2007 Bay Cities Racing Association (BCRA) Midget champion.^[3]

Chili Bowl

Grant was tapped to drive the #39BC for Clauson-Marshall Racing in the 2017 Chili Bowl. He won his preliminary qualifying night and started on the pole of the Saturday night feature, where he ultimately finished third behind Christopher Bell and Daryn Pittman.

In 2019, Grant started racing the RAMS Racing/Rockwell Security in the 4a Bullet by Spike/SR-11. In his first Chili Bowl with the new team, Justin won his Friday night preliminary race. On Saturday he started 5th, and finished 3rd behind, Christopher Bell and Kyle Larson.

Sprint Car racing

Grant moved to Indiana in 2009 at the age of 18, initially living and working in sprint car owner Jeff Walker's shop.^[4] In 2010, he was named USAC National Sprint Car Series Rookie of the Year, driving for car owner Kenny Baldwin. Over the next several years, he spent time driving for owners Walker, Baldwin, Mark Hery, Rick Pollock, Andrew Elson, Tony Epperson, and Steve & Carla Phillips.

At the tail end of the 2016 season, Grant joined Sam McGhee Motorsports and entered the most successful period of his USAC career, recording 18 top-five finishes in his first 21 USAC races with the team.^[5]

Silver Crown Racing

In 2017, Grant's car owner Chris Carli teamed up with Hemelgarn Racing in the USAC Silver Crown series.^[6] After becoming the first driver in USAC history to win the midget and sprint car openers in the same year, Grant had a chance to become the only driver to win the opener for all three series, but engine trouble in the Sumar Classic at the Terre Haute Action Track left that honor unclaimed.^[7]

Grant won 2020 USAC Silver Crown championship; he had no wins during the season.^[8]

Motorsports career results

(key)

USAC Sprint Car results

Year	Team	Car #	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	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	Rank	Points
2012	Hery	40	OCA	OCA C	OCA 3	GAS	ELD	LAW C	LPS	TSS	BLM	THAT	LER	GRND DNP	NES DNP	BDS	PRS	WIL	ANG	GAS DNQ	KOK DNQ	LAW	THAT	LPS	BLM	TSS	EAG 10	VAL	US36	OSK	OSK	I96	HAR	KOK DNQ	KOK 21	KOK DNQ	TCS	THAT	RIV	TSS	ELD DNP	LAW	DCRP	DCRP	CAN	CAN	PAS DNP	PAS DNP
2013	Walker	11	OCA 16	OCA 21	OCA 13	LAW 13	ELD C	GAS 20	US36 C	EAG C																		KOK DNQ	KOK DNP	KOK DNP	34R 4	THAT 14	I30 DNP	RIV DNP	TSS DNP
	Pollock	21x									TSS DNQ	BLM DNP	GRND DNP	PVS C	PRS DNP	SUS DNP	THAT C	I96 DNP	LPS DNP				THAT 23	LPS DNQ	BLM 7	TSS C	OSK 5
	Elson	27a																		GAS 14	KOK 24	LAW 7														ELD 8	LAW 5
	Baldwin	5																																				CAN 15	CAN 3	PAS 10	PAS DNF
2014	Hery	40	OCA 6	OCA 2	LAW 1	ELD 8	GAS 12	TSS 6	EAG 2	JUN 10	THAT 20	GRND 4	LIN C	NES 7	PRS 7	SUS C	AMS C	DCS 8	ANG 14	LPS DNP	GAS 2	KOK 2	LAW C	THAT 6	LPS DNF	BLM 7	TSS 20	KOK 22	KOK 2	KOK 6	TSS DNP	THAT 13	ELD 3	LAW 4	PAS 15	PAS 26	CAN 10	CAN 6											7th	1508
2015	Hery	40	OCA 5	OCA 12	OCA 6	EAS 22	EAS 4	LAW 9	BLM 15	TSS 19	EAG DNP	LAK DNP	ELD DNF	ELD 1	GAS 11	NES 12	PRS 8	SUS 7	LPS DNP	GAS 19	LAW 3																												10th	1282
2015	Baldwin	5																				THAT 8	LPS DNQ	TSS 8	AMS DNF	CED 4	ANG 6	KOK DNP	KOK 13	KOK 24	KOK 7	THAT 14	TSS 21	ELD DNQ	LAW 13	PAS 9	PAS 18	PAS 11	ARI DNQ	ARI 17									10th	1282
2016	Baldwin	5	OCA 7	OCA 6	OCA 5	LAW 9	BLM 15	TSS 12	MON 10	ELD 17	ELD DNP																																						14th	1073
	Epperson	2E										GAS 15	BRO DNP	THAT 10	GRND DNP	LIN DNP	LIN DNP	NES DNP	PRS DNP	SUS DNP	JAC DNP	EAG DNP	LAK DNP	LAK DNP	LPS DNP
	Phillips	71p																								GAS 15	KOK DNQ	LAW 6	LPS 17	BLM DNQ	TSS DNP	THAT DNP
	Sam McGhee	17																															BAD 3	BAD 2	KOK 5	KOK 8	KOK 6	KOK 2	TSS 8	ELD 1	LAW 5	THAT 5	ARI DNP	ARI DNP	PAS DNP	PAS DNP	PAS DNP
2017	Sam McGhee	11	OCA C	OCA 1	OCA 2	LAW 3	BLM 4	TSS 3	PLY 1	MON C	ELD 1	ELD 4	GRA C	PEV C	THAT C	I80 3	KNX 1	GRND 5	LIN 20	WGS 4	PRS 2	SUS 3	THAT C	LPS C	KOK DNF	LAW 14	GAS 8	BLM 16	TSS 4	LPS 6	LAK 2	RAN 3	KOK DNQ	KOK 22	KOK 8	KOK 6	THAT 4	TSS 10	ELD 5	MON DNF	LAW 3	THAT 7	ARI 19	ARI 8	PAS 9	PAS 4	PAS 2		2nd	2284

*Season still in progress

USAC Midget results

Year	Team	Car #	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	Rank	Points
2016	Gardner	38	DUQ DNQ	KOK C	KOK C	MON DNP	GAS 13	LPS DNP	BLM DNP	LAW DNP	KOK DNP	RIV DNP	RIV DNP	JEF DNP	SOL DNP	BHB DNP	BHB DNP	SUS C	PVS C	LAN DNP	LIN C	ELD DNP	GRA DNP	GRA DNP	GRA DNP	WCS DNQ	VEN DNP	DUQ DNP	-	-
2017	Clauson-Marshall	39BC	DUQ 1	KOK 6	KOK 20	GRA C	MON 7	GAS 15	LPS 5	BLM 2	LAW 7	KOK 4	MAC 4	LIN 6	SPR 11	JEF 22	SOL 2	BHB 5	BHB 7	SUS 1	PVS DNF	LANC DNF	LIND 5	ELD DNF	WCS C	BAK 5	VEN 7		5th	1316
2018	Clauson-Marshall	17BC	DUQ 5	KOK 5	KOK C	MON 17	GAS C	LPS 2	BLM C	LAW DNF	KOK DNF	RDR 6	SOL 3	JEF 1	JEF 9	SWT 7	PVS DNF	LIND	LANC	SUS	ELD	BAK	VEN						5th*	679*

*Season still in progress

USAC Silver Crown results

Year	Team	Car #	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Rank	Points
2015	Chris Carli	8	TOL DNP	IND 5	IRP DNP	IOW DNP	THAT 6	IRP DNP	BHB 3	SPR 17	DUQ 4	ELD 6	SYR 8	9th	304
2016	Chris Carli	8	THAT 2	TOL C	IND 16	IRP 6	WGS 5	GMP 6	IRP 7	SAL 5	SPR C	DUQ 19	ELD 2	3rd	474
2017	Hemelgarn Racing	91	THAT 22	PHX DNF	IND C	IRP DNF	WGS 9	IRP 6	TOL 10	SAL 7	SPR 1	DUQ 6	ELD 6	4th	470
2018	Hemelgarn Racing	91	PHX 3	THAT 1	TOL 10	IND DNF	IRP 6	MAD 3	SAL 6	SPR 3	DUQ	IRP	ELD	2nd*	446*

*Season still in progress

Chili Bowl results

			Prelim Night				Championship Night
Year	Team	Car #	Heat Start	Heat Finish	Feature Start	Feature Finish	Feature Start	Feature Finish
2012	Gardner	35	1	1		14	C-main	C-main (7)
2015	Gardner	38	3	2	10	17	C-main (14)	C-main (DNF)
2016	Gardner	38	6	2	9	8	23	DNF
2017	Clauson-Marshall Racing	39BC	8	3	1	1	1	3
2018	Clauson-Marshall Racing	39BC	4	1	2	1	4	7

References

^ "Justin Michael Grant, Born 11/12/1990 in California". CaliforniaBirthIndex.org. Retrieved April 30, 2024.
^ "Justin Grant - the Third Turn".
^ "SCRAFAN.COM - Bay Cities Racing Association Midgets". www.scrafan.com.
^ https://speedsport.com/opinion/columns/hedger-justin-grant-turns-heads/ ^{[dead link]}
^ "JUSTIN GRANT AND SAM McGHEE MOTORSPORTS JOIN FORCES FOR RUN AT 2017 USAC SPRINT TITLE - USAC Racing". www.usacracing.com.
^ "NEW LOOK TEAM HAS GRANT EYING REDEMPTION IN SUMAR CLASSIC SUNDAY AT TERRE HAUTE - USAC Racing".
^ "JUSTIN GRANT ON THE BRINK OF HISTORY THIS SUNDAY AT TERRE HAUTE - USAC Racing".
^ "Bettenhausen 100". USAC Silvercrown. October 18, 2020. Event occurs at 15:35. FloRacing.

[californiabirthindex.org-1] "Justin Michael Grant, Born 11/12/1990 in California". CaliforniaBirthIndex.org. Retrieved April 30, 2024.

[2] "Justin Grant - the Third Turn".

[3] "SCRAFAN.COM - Bay Cities Racing Association Midgets". www.scrafan.com.

[4] ttps://speedsport.com/opinion/columns/hedger-justin-grant-turns-heads/ ^{[dead link]}

[5] "JUSTIN GRANT AND SAM McGHEE MOTORSPORTS JOIN FORCES FOR RUN AT 2017 USAC SPRINT TITLE - USAC Racing". www.usacracing.com.

[6] "NEW LOOK TEAM HAS GRANT EYING REDEMPTION IN SUMAR CLASSIC SUNDAY AT TERRE HAUTE - USAC Racing".

[7] "JUSTIN GRANT ON THE BRINK OF HISTORY THIS SUNDAY AT TERRE HAUTE - USAC Racing".

[8] "Bettenhausen 100". USAC Silvercrown. October 18, 2020. Event occurs at 15:35. FloRacing.

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