Bobby Gerhart

Bobby Gerhart

Gerhart in the 1980s
Nationality United States American
Born July 21, 1958
Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U.S.
ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards career
Debut season 1988
Current team Bobby Gerhart Racing
Car no. 5
Starts 304
Wins 9
Poles 9
Best finish 2nd in 2006
Awards
1988 ARCA Permatex Super Car Series Rookie of the Year
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career
24 races run over 9 years
Best finish 44th (1985)
First race 1983 Van Scoy Diamond Mine 500 (Pocono)
Last race 1992 DieHard 500 (Talladega)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
13 races run over 6 years
Car no., team No. 85 (Bobby Gerhart Racing)
2014 position 68th
Best finish 68th (2014)
First race 2001 Jani-King 300 (Texas)
Last race 2014 Aaron's 312 (Talladega)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career
3 races run over 1 year
Best finish 66th (1996)
First race 1996 Stevens Beil/Genuine Parts 200 (Flemington)
Last race 1996 Pennzoil / VIP Tripleheader (Loudon)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0
Statistics current as of September 20, 2014.

Bobby Gerhart (born July 21, 1958, in Lebanon, Pennsylvania) is a driver on the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards. He has won nine times on the circuit, eight of those victories coming in the season-opening ARCA Daytona 200 at Daytona International Speedway (2012, 2010, 2006, 2005, 2002 and 1999). Presently, he drives the #5 Lucas Oil Chevrolet owned by his brother on a part-time basis.

Racing career

Gerhart in 1984 at Pocono

Early racing career

Gerhart began racing at Linda's Speedway, where he won his first feature race. He eventually competed in many dirt modified series throughout his home state of Pennsylvania, often competing at Penn National and Susquehanna Speedway. He eventually moved to ashpalt racing and competed at Pocono Raceway.

ARCA Racing Series

Gerhart's #5 car competing at Kentucky Speedway.

In 1988, Gerhart began competing in the ARCA series and was named Rookie of the Year that season. He has competed in that series on a regular basis since then, returning to NASCAR in 1996 to drive in the Craftsman Truck Series. He and his #85 Chevrolet Silverado qualified three times and had a best finish of 15th. He returned to Cup in 1998 attempting to qualify the #54 and eventually the #89 Chevrolet after picking up sponsorship from Kewadin Casinos. He was unable to qualify for those three attempts, but was able to win the season-opening ARCA race at Daytona in 1999, and went on to finish 3rd in points that year.

Since that time, Gerhart has competed in a mostly limited schedule in ARCA. The lone exception was the 2006 season where he ran full-time and finished second in points. From 2005–2007 and again in 2010, he won the season opening race at Daytona.

NASCAR

He made his NASCAR debut in 1983 at Pocono, finishing thirty-eighth in the Henley Gray-owned Buick. He ran Winston Cup races at Pocono, Dover International Speedway, North Wilkesboro Speedway, Michigan International Speedway, and Daytona International Speedway over the next five years in the #71, #85, #25, and #59 Chevrolets with a best finish of 19th.

He made his first starts in the NASCAR Busch Series in 2001, driving four times in his #65 and having a best finish of 22nd. In 2009, Gerhart returned again to NASCAR in the Nationwide Series to drive the #75 for Bob Schacht. At his first race at Talladega Superspeedway, he qualified fifth and ran in the top-twenty for most of the day before wrecking. In 2013, it was announced that Gerhart would attempt to qualify for the DRIVE4COPD 300 in a car owned by him and his brother William Gerhart, numbered 85. However, Gerhart failed to qualify.[1] Gerhart ran a few Nationwide Series races later in the year.

He qualified for the 2014 DRIVE4COPD 300, finishing 33rd.[2]

Personal life

Gerhart owns Bobby Gerhart's Truck World, a used truck dealership in his hometown.

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.)

Winston Cup Series

Xfinity Series

Craftsman Truck Series

References

  1. ↑ "2013 DRIVE4COPD 300". Racing-Reference. USA Today Sports Media Group. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
  2. ↑ "2014 DRIVE4COPD 300". Racing-Reference. USA Today Sports Media Group. Retrieved 2014-02-22.

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