Danny Efland

Daniel "Danny" Efland (born October 4, 1988 in Irmo, South Carolina)^[1] is an American professional stock car racing driver and racing engineer. He currently works as an engineer for Richard Childress Racing's No. 33 Chevrolet Camaro in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. He formerly also competed in USAR Pro Cup, the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series.

Personal life

Efland graduated with honors from Dutch Fork High School and graduated from the University of South Carolina with a degree in engineering.

Racing career

From 1999–2002, Efland won 7 state championships as well as 5 National World Karting Association championships. Moving on to the Pro 4 Mod class at Florence Motor Speedway in 2002, he won the track championship as well as rookie of the year honors.^[2] He won his first late model race in 2005, and went on to win 8 more races in 2006.

In 2007, Efland made his Busch Series debut at New Hampshire International Speedway. Driving the #01 Chevrolet for JD Motorsports, he started 36th and finished 40th after retiring due to handling problems. He ran two more races that season and failed to finish either of them. In 2008, he returned to JD and competed in 18 races. Success was hard to find and he only managed a best finish of 23rd at Lowe's Motor Speedway.

Efland made two start and park efforts for Corrie Stott Racing in the Camping World Truck Series in 2009, finishing 33rd and 31st. Efland returned to the Nationwide Series to run a limited schedule in 2010 and 2011, scoring a best career finish of 16th at Darlington Raceway.

Efland planned to run a partial 2012 schedule in the No. 4 Chevrolet for JD Motorsports.^[3]

To date in 2012, Danny has finished both Nationwide Daytona races in 13th position. He also picked up a strong finish at Talladega in 16th position.

It was announced on January 21, 2013 that Efland would return to the No. 4 JD Motorsports Chevrolet in 27 of the 33 races for the 2013 NASCAR Nationwide Series season,^[4] but he was released from the team in late March. He also returned to the Truck Series at Kansas Speedway, driving the No. 6 for Eddie Sharp Racing.^[5]

In March 2014, Efland joined Richard Childress Racing, working as an engineer for the team's No. 33 Chevrolet in the Nationwide Series.

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.)

Nationwide Series

NASCAR Nationwide 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	NNSC	Pts
2007	D.D.L. Motorsports	01	Chevy	DAY	CAL	MXC	LVS	ATL	BRI	NSH	TEX	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW DNQ	NHA 40	DAY	CHI	GTY 43	IRP	CGV	GLN	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	DOV 36	KAN	CLT	MEM	TEX	PHO	HOM	122nd	132
2008	JD Motorsports	0		DAY	CAL	LVS	ATL	BRI	NSH 37	TEX	PHO	MXC	TAL	RCH 41	DAR 35	CLT 43	DOV	NSH 39	KEN 42	MLW	NHA	DAY															PHO DNQ		43rd	1152
2008	JD Motorsports	01																					CHI 33	GTY 38	IRP 31	CGV	GLN	MCH 28	BRI 30	CAL 27	RCH 37	DOV 26	KAN 26	CLT 23	MEM	TEX 33		HOM 25	43rd	1152
2010	Corrie Stott Racing	02	Chevy	DAY 21																																			63rd	628
2010	Danny Efland Racing	07	Chevy		CAL 41	LVS 23	BRI	NSH	PHO	TEX 38	TAL	RCH	DAR 26	DOV	CLT 31	NSH	KEN	ROA	NHA	DAY 33	CHI	GTY	IRP	IOW	GLN	MCH 41	BRI	CGV	ATL	RCH DNQ	DOV	KAN	CAL 39	CLT	GTY	TEX 41	PHO	HOM	63rd	628
2011	Jimmy Means Racing	52	Chevy	DAY	PHO	LVS	BRI	CAL	TEX	TAL 21	NSH	RCH																											34th	144
	Go Green Racing	39	Ford										DAR 16	DOV 23	IOW	CLT 19	CHI	MCH 33	ROA				NSH 26	IRP	IOW	GLN	CGV	BRI	ATL	RCH	CHI	DOV	KAN	CLT	TEX	PHO	HOM
	Danny Efland Racing	07	Chevy																	DAY 30
	Key Motorsports	47	Chevy																		KEN DNQ
	Go Green Racing	04	Ford																			NHA 40
2012	JD Motorsports	4	Chevy	DAY 13	PHO	LVS	BRI	CAL	TEX 31	RCH	TAL 16	DAR 20	IOW	CLT 35	DOV	MCH 27	ROA	KEN 34	DAY 13	NHA 29	CHI 32	IND	IOW	GLN	CGV	BRI	ATL 19	RCH	CHI 27	KEN 30		CLT 31	KAN 14	TEX 28	PHO	HOM 31			21st	327
2012	Randy Hill Racing	08	Ford																												DOV 35								21st	327
2013	JD Motorsports	4	Chevy	DAY 25	PHO	LVS	BRI DNQ	CAL	TEX	RCH	TAL																												50th	78
	Mike Harmon Racing	74	Chevy									DAR 27	CLT	DOV 27	IOW	MCH	ROA	KEN	DAY	NHA	CHI	IND
	MAKE Motorsports	50	Chevy																				IOW 34	GLN	MOH	BRI	ATL 35	RCH DNQ	CHI	KEN DNQ	DOV 39	KAN	CLT DNQ	TEX	PHO	HOM

Camping World Truck Series

NASCAR Camping World 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	NCWTC	Pts
2009	Corrie Stott Racing	02	Chevy	DAY	CAL	ATL	MAR	KAN	CLT	DOV	TEX	MCH	MLW	MEM	KEN	IRP	NSH 33	BRI	CHI	IOW	GTW	NHA	LVS 31	MAR	TAL	TEX	PHO	HOM	115th	0
2013	MAKE Motorsports	6	Chevy	DAY	MAR	CAR	KAN 28																						102nd	0¹
		50						CLT 20	DOV 33						MCH 33	BRI	MSP	IOW	CHI 33	LVS	TAL DNQ	MAR	TEX	PHO	HOM
		84								TEX 31	KEN 33	IOW 33	ELD	POC

^* Season still in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

References

↑ Danny Efland Career Statistics
↑ Danny Efland Biography
↑ "JD Motorsports To Field Second Series Team In 2012". SPEEDtv.com. Fox Sports. February 8, 2012. Retrieved 2012-02-09.
↑ "Danny Efland Returns to JD Motorsports for 2013 NNS Season". Catchfence. Danny Efland Press Release. January 21, 2013. Retrieved 2013-01-21.
↑ "Danny Efland Picks Up New Sponsor For Eddie Sharp Racing / MAKE Motorsports Entry At Kansas Speedway". Catchfence.com. April 19, 2013. Retrieved 2013-04-19.

External links

Official website
Danny Efland driver statistics at Racing-Reference
Danny Efland crew chief statistics at Racing-Reference

Richard Childress Racing

Personnel

Drivers

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series	(3) Austin Dillon (27) Paul Menard (31) Ryan Newman
Xfinity Series	(2) Austin Dillon / Paul Menard / Ben Kennedy (3) Ty Dillon / Scott Lagasse Jr. / Brian Scott (21) Daniel Hemric (33) Brandon Jones (62) Brendan Gaughan

Crew chiefs

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series	(3) Gil Martin / Slugger Labbe (27) Justin Alexander (31) Luke Lambert / Todd Parrott
Xfinity Series	(2) Mike Hillman Jr. (3) Danny Stockman Jr. / Nick Harrison (33) Nick Harrison / Danny Stockman Jr. (62) Shane Wilson

Past drivers

Partnerships
and affiliations

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