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Chad McCumbee
NASCAR Cup Series career
Car no., team
  1. 45 - Petty Enterprises
First race2007 Pocono 500 (Pocono)
Last race2008 Ford 400 (Homestead)
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career
Truck no., team
  1. 07 - SS-Green Light Racing
2007 position18th
Best finish11th - 2008 (Craftsman Truck Series)
First race2006 racetickets.com 200 (California)
Wins Top tens Poles
13

Chad McCumbee (born October 15, 1984) is an American stock car driver who also has acting experience. He was born in Supply, North Carolina.

McCumbee currently drives the #07 ASI Limited Chevrolet Silverado for SS-Green Light Racing in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.

He is also known for his portrayal of Dale Earnhardt, Jr. in 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story.

Early career

Like a lot of NASCAR stars, Chad McCumbee started out behind the wheel of a cart at the age of ten.

McCumbee has more than 100 victories in local, regional and national WKA Dirt Series events, all which he accomplished in the five-year span from 1995–2000.

Allison Legacy Series

Chad was also Allison Legacy Series National and Regional championship along with “Rookie of the Year” in his very first full season in the series in 2001. He also won the 2002 national title becoming the first and so far only 2-time champion of the series

Myrtle Beach Speedway

In 2003, Chad started late model racing at Myrtle Beach Speedway. McCumbee became the youngest winner at the track.

ARCA

He finished fourth in the ARCA Racing Series point standings in 2005, his first full year of competition. He has also won 2 ARCA races in the 2007 season on a limited schedule, April 7 at Nashville Superspeedway and June 9 at Pocono Raceway. During an ARCA race in 2004 at Michigan International Speedway, Chad flipped 6 times when C.W. Smith spun around in turn 1 after being tagged by A.J. Hendrickson. [1]

NASCAR career

2006

In 22 starts in 2006, McCumbee's best finish was seventh at Nashville Superspeedway and again at Atlanta Motor Speedway, finishing second in Rookie of the Year points. During the season, he briefly was a member of Chevrolet's driver development program, but his contract was not renewed at the end of the season.

Chad Started the year in the #06 MRD Motorsports truck and then moved over to the #08 Green Light Racing truck after the first 8 races.

2007

McCumbee drove first 15 Craftsmen Truck races in the 2007 season, for Green Light Racing. his best finish with Green Light was 13th twice at Daytona[2] and Dover[3].

On August 14, 2007 Chad left Green Light Racing[4], and on the 20th announced he would drive for MRD Motorsports replacing Blake Bjorklund with [the GPS Store]http://www.thegpsstore.com and Garmin coming with him to sponsor the #8. With The #8 team, Chad scored his first top ten of the year at Las Vegas.[5] McCumbee took the truck to a near upset victory at Texas before spinning his tires on a restart which lead to being wrecked while leading with two laps to go and he finished 13th. [6]

2008

McCumbee started the season tying his career best finish (at the time) of 7th at Daytona. Then at the 3rd race of the season at Atlanta, Chad showed a fast truck all race and finished career best (at the time) 5th. After a disappointing battery issuse at Martinsville[7], McCumbee picked up a 7th place at Kansas. At Lowe's, McCumbee picked up his career best finish of 2nd place, runner up to Matt Crafton. The Season Ended with Chad 11th in Points

2009

For the 2009 Camping World Truck Series Season, McCumbee rejoined SS-Green Light Racing to be driver of the #07 Chevy [8] with sponsorship from ASI Limited and The GPS Store.

Chad found some success early in the season with 3rd place finish at Auto Club Speedway. Chad currently sits 8th in the Camping World Truck Series Points [9]

Sprint Cup

On May 2, 2007 Petty Enterprises announced McCumbee will make his NEXTEL Cup debut, filling in for Kyle Petty while he is in the TNT broadcast booth, for one race at Pocono on June 10, 2007 in the Pocono 500.[10]. Goody's Cool Orange Headache Powders sponsored the car. Chad finished 25th in that race.

Petty tabbed him again for Michigan in the 3M Performance 400 because of Kyle Petty's broken hand. Clutch problems after a spin and forced the team behind the wall for more than fifty laps resulting in a 41st place finish.[11]

In 2008 McCumbee drove the #45 for Petty Enterprises in six Sprint Cup events. His best finish came in the Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono in which he finished in 17th place.

Chad McCumbee was the top choice for Kyle Petty's replacement in the forty-five. A deal was made to merge Gillet Evernham Motorsports and Petty Enterprises which formed Richard Petty Motorsports, as a result, McCumbee lost his Sprint Cup ride.

References

  1. ^ http://www.chadmccumbee.net/bio.html Chad McCumbee Bio
  2. ^ http://www.nascar.com/races/truck/2007/1/data/results_official.html Daytona Results
  3. ^ http://www.nascar.com/races/truck/2007/8/data/results_official.html Dover Results
  4. ^ http://www.greenlightracing.com/mccumbeepr2.htm
  5. ^ Nascar.Com
  6. ^ NASCAR.COM - Musgrave wins wild finish as four crash in final laps - Nov 3, 2007
  7. ^ McCUMBEE: Dead Battery Kills Top 10 at Martinsville
  8. ^ http://www.ssracingonline.com/Content.asp?ActionID=9&ItemID=537
  9. ^ http://www.nascar.com/races/truck/2009/data/standings_official.html
  10. ^ NASCAR.COM - McCumbee, Andretti to fill in during Petty's TNT stint - May 2, 2007
  11. ^ :: PettyRacing.com - The Official Petty Racing Website ::
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