Chad McCumbee

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**Chad McCumbee**

Born:	October 15, 1984 (1984-10-15) (age 23)
Birthplace:	Supply, North Carolina
Achievements:	—
Awards:	—
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Statistics
Car #, Team	#45 - Petty Enterprises
First Race:	2007 Pocono 500 (Pocono)
Last Race:	2007 3M Performance 400 (Michigan)
Wins	Top Tens	Poles
0	0	0
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Statistics
Car #, Team	#8 - MRD Motorsports
2007 NCTS Position:	18th
Best NCTS Position:	17th - 2006 (Craftsman Truck Series)
First Race:	2006 racetickets.com 200 (California)
Wins	Top Tens	Poles
0	8	0
Statistics current as of May 16th, 2008.

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 #8 Unsponsored Chevrolet Silverado for MRD Motorsports in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.

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

1 Early career
2 NASCAR career
3 References
4 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] Myrtle Beach Speedway

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

[edit] ARCA

He finished fourth in the ARCA RE/MAX 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

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[edit] NASCAR career

[edit] 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.

[edit] 2007

Craftsman Truck Series

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 and Garmain 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]

NEXTEL 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^[7]. Goody's Cool Orange Headache Powders sponsored the car. Chad finished 25th in his Nextel Cup debut.

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 50 laps resulting in a 41st place finish.^[8]

[edit] 2008

Chad will be in the Team MRD #8 for the full Truck Season and will make Sprint Cup appearances for Petty Enterprises during TNT's six race series when Kyle goes into the booth at Dover and Chicagoland^[9]. There is also a slim possibility that Chad will also run a part-time Nationwide Series schedule.^[10] 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^[11], 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.

2008 Season - Races 1 - 25
#	Date	Race	Track	Start	Finish	Rank	Behind
1	02/16/2008	Chevy Silverado 250	Daytona International Speedway	10th	7th	7th	-49
2	02/23/2008	San Bernardino County 200	Auto Club Speedway	27th	18th	7th	-110
3	03/07/2008	American Commercial Lines 200	Atlanta Motor Speedway	2nd	5th	4th	-140
4	03/29/2008	Kroger 250	Martinsville Speedway	30th	32nd	13th	-163
5	04/25/2008	O'Reilly Auto Parts 250	Kansas Speedway	2nd	7th	8th	-142
6	05/16/2008	North Carolina Education Lottery 200	Lowe's Motor Speedway	7th	2nd	6th	-66
7	05/24/2008	Ohio 250	Mansfield Motorsports Park	33rd	24th	10th	-102
8	05/30/2008	AAA Insurance 200	Dover International Speedway	11th	12th	10th	-105

Bold means the current best starting/finishing position

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Petty Enterprises
Sprint Cup Drivers	Bobby Labonte (#43) \| Kyle Petty (#45)
Driver development program Drivers	Chad McCumbee \| Tim Andrews
Partnerships and Affiliations	Gillett Evernham Motorsports
Other
Notable former drivers	Richard Petty \| Lee Petty \| Adam Petty \| John Andretti

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