Grant Enfinger
Grant Enfinger | |||||||
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Born | Fairhope, Alabama |
January 22, 1985 ||||||
Achievements | 2015 ARCA Racing Series Champion | ||||||
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career | |||||||
8 races run over 4 years | |||||||
Truck no., team | No. 33 (GMS Racing) | ||||||
Best finish | 46th (2012) | ||||||
First race | 2010 Mountain Dew 250 (Talladega) | ||||||
Last race | 2016 Great Clips 200 (Atlanta) | ||||||
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Statistics current as of February 27, 2016. |
Grant Enfinger (born January 22, 1985 in Fairhope, Alabama) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes part-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, driving the No. 33 Chevrolet Silverado for GMS Racing. Enfinger won the ARCA Racing Series Bill France Four Crown award in 2014.[1]
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Personal life and early career
Enfinger was born in Fairhope, Alabama, located in Baldwin County on the Gulf of Mexico, in 1985.[2][3] Competing on short tracks in the southeastern United States, Enfinger posted the fastest lap in the 2007 Snowball Derby.[2]
Enfinger got married on January 16, 2016 in Fairhope, Alabama.
ARCA Racing Series
Enfinger began competing in the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards in 2008, competing in four races during that season, and continued racing in the series on a limited basis during the next two seasons. His best finish, second, occurring twice in 2009 at Chicagoland Speedway and Kentucky Speedway.[2] During this period he primarily drove for a family-owned team, which merged with RAB Racing in 2010.[4]
Moving to Allgaier Motorsports for 2011, Enfinger competed in his first full season in the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards, winning one pole at Berlin Raceway and finishing fourth in series standings at the conclusion of the 2011 season.[5][6]
Enfinger would race a limited schedule in 2012, running events for Allgaier Motorsports, BRG Motorsports and TEAM BCR.[7] In what would be a breakout season, he would make 9 starts for TEAM BCR in 2013, collecting his first ARCA Racing Series win at his home track of Mobile Speedway and following that with a win at Iowa later in the season.[8]
2014 would start off in record fashion, with Enfinger winning the first 3 races of the season (Daytona, Mobile and Salem).[9] He would follow that up with a win at Elko for his 4th win of the season.[10] Prior to the race at Lucas Oil Raceway in July, it was announced that Enfinger, who was second in points at the time, would be moving from the Team BCR Ford to GMS Racing, taking his #90 and sponsor Motor Honey with him. Allegiant Travel will provide additional sponsorship.[11] Enfinger finished 4th in his first race for GMS at IRP, but crashed at Pocono with Frank Kimmel. The next race at Berlin Raceway, Enfinger dominated, leading 181 of 200 laps to win the Federated Auto Parts 200 and move within 25 points of the points leader Mason Mitchell.[12] He would move within 20 points of the lead after winning at DuQuoin State Fairgrounds Racetrack, earning him the Bill France Four Crown Award.[1] In spite of his six wins, Enfinger would finish second in points to Mitchell after an engine failure and a crash in the final two races respectively.
Enfinger won the season-opening race at Daytona again in 2015.[13] After winning five additional races, he won his first ARCA championship at the end of the season.[14]
NASCAR
In 2010, Enfinger made his first career start in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series,[15] finishing 22nd.[16] Enfinger attempted to compete in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season-opening event at Daytona International Speedway, but failed to qualify for the event.[17] In October, he ran in the truck races at Talladega Superspeedway and Martinsville Speedway.[18][19]
In October 2011, it was announced that Enfinger would be moving up to the top level of American stock car racing competition, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, with Sinica Motorsports, a start-up team founded by Argentine businessman George Sinica. The team intends to run a limited schedule in the series during the 2012 season.[3][6] Enfinger attempted his first race for the team at the 2011 Sprint Cup Series finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway,[20] where he failed to qualify for the event.[21]
Before the start of the 2012 season, Enfinger was released from his contract by Sinica Motorsports. He ran in the Camping World Truck Series in 2012 for Bragg Racing Group at Daytona International Speedway,[22] and also competed at Rockingham Speedway in the No. 60 for Turn One Racing.[23] He returned to the series in August at Bristol with Allgaier Motorsports. He raced at Las Vegas for Brad Keselowski Racing in the no. 29.
Enfinger returned to the Truck Series in 2016, driving the No. 33 Chevrolet Silverado full-time for GMS Racing.[24] He began the year off with a bang winning his first career pole for the NextEra 250 at Daytona, the season opener, he would finish 20th though in the race after being caught up in the "big one" with six laps to go of the race.
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.)
Sprint Cup Series
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | 36 | NSCC | Pts | |||
2011 | Sinica Motorsports | 93 | Chevy | DAY | PHO | LVS | BRI | CAL | MAR | TEX | TAL | RCH | DAR | DOV | CLT | KAN | POC | MCH | INF | DAY | KEN | NHA | IND | POC | GLN | MCH | BRI | ATL | RCH | CHI | NHA | DOV | KAN | CLT | TAL | MAR | TEX | PHO | HOM DNQ |
84th | 01 |
Camping World Truck Series
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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 | ||||||||||||||
2010 | Team Gill Racing | 95 | Ford | DAY | ATL | MAR | NSH | KAN | DOV | CLT | TEX | MCH | IOW | GTY | IRP | POC | NSH | DAR | BRI | CHI | KEN | NHA | LVS | MAR | TAL 22 |
TEX | PHO | HOM | 99th | 97 | ||||||||||||||
2011 | Rosenblum Racing | 28 | Chevy | DAY DNQ |
PHO | DAR | MAR | NSH | DOV | CLT | KAN | TEX | KEN | IOW | NSH | IRP | POC | MCH | BRI | ATL | CHI | NHA | KEN | LVS | 52nd | 56 | ||||||||||||||||||
Bragg Racing Group | 82 | Ford | TAL 12 |
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Allgaier Motorsports | 36 | Ram | MAR 20 |
TEX | HOM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012 | Bragg Racing Group | 82 | Ford | DAY 12 |
MAR | 46th | 73 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turn One Racing | 60 | Chevy | CAR 36 |
KAN | CLT | DOV | TEX | KEN | IOW | CHI | POC | MCH | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Allgaier Motorsports | 36 | Ram | BRI DNQ |
ATL | IOW | KEN | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brad Keselowski Racing | 29 | Ram | LVS 12 |
TAL | MAR | TEX | PHO | HOM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016 | GMS Racing | 33 | Chevy | DAY 20 |
ATL 5 |
MAR | KAN | DOV | CLT | TEX | IOW | GTW | KEN | ELD | POC | BRI | MCH | MSP | CHI | NHA | LVS | TAL | MAR | TEX | PHO | HOM | -* | -* |
* Season still in progress
1 Ineligible for series points
References
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- ↑ http://www.racing-reference.info/drivdet/enfingr01/2012/A
- ↑ http://www.racing-reference.info/drivdet/enfingr01/2013/A
- ↑ http://grantenfinger.com/enfinger_news/2014/4-28-14.html
- ↑ http://www.racing-reference.info/drivdet/enfingr01/2014/A
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External links
- Official website
- Grant Enfinger driver statistics at Racing-Reference