Todd Parrott

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Todd Parrott
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Parrott in 1997
Personal information
Nationality American
Born (1964-02-09) February 9, 1964 (age 60)
Charlotte, North Carolina
Residence North Carolina
Spouse(s) Billie Kiser-Parrott
Sport
Country United States
Sport NASCAR Xfinity Series
Team Richard Childress Racing

Todd Parrott (born February 9, 1964) is an American stock car racing crew chief. He acts as Competition Director for Richard Childress Racing in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. He was the 1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series champion crew chief, working the Robert Yates Racing No. 88 Ford of Dale Jarrett.

Career

He was the championship crew chief of the #88 with Dale Jarrett in 1999.[1] He is also the third most winning active crew chief in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series with 31 career wins as of 2013. Parrott is the son of former Richard Petty crew chief Buddy Parrott and a brother of former Carl Edwards crew chief Brad Parrott.[2][3]

Parrott's first crew chief position was working for Ernie Irvan in 1995 at Yates Racing. In his time at Yates he has also worked with Dale Jarrett, Elliott Sadler and David Gilliland. In 2006, Parrot was crew chief for Bobby Labonte at Petty Enterprises.[4]

He was working the speedway program in the Research and Development department of Roush Fenway Racing prior to joining Kenseth on the #17. After a poor performance at the 2010 Daytona 500 Parrott replaced Drew Blickensderfer as crew chief for the rest of the season.[5] Midway through the season however Parrott was released; he joined Richard Petty Motorsports starting at Chicagoland Speedway as crew chief for Elliott Sadler's No. 19. He moved to the No. 9 team and driver Marcos Ambrose to start the 2011 season; two-thirds through the 2012 season RPM's teams switched crew chiefs with Parrott going to the No. 43 of Aric Almirola,[6] where he remained for 2013.

On October 17, 2013, it was announced that Parrott had been indefinitely suspended due to failing to meet NASCAR's substance abuse policy.[7] He was released by Richard Petty Motorsports on October 21.[1]

On February 3, 2014, Parrott was named the crew chief of the No. 36 of Tommy Baldwin Racing,[8] driven by Reed Sorenson.[9] On December 13, 2014, it was announced that Parrott would be the Competition Director for Richard Childress Racing in the NASCAR Xfinity Series.[10] On May 6, 2015, after RCR's final appeal for the 31 team suspensions was upheld in wake of Luke Lambert being suspended as part of RCR's penalties for Tire Manipulation, it was announced Todd Parrott would be the Interim Crew Chief for the No. 31.[11]

History

Year # Team
1995–2002 #88 Robert Yates Racing
2004–2005 #38 Robert Yates Racing
2005 #88 Robert Yates Racing
2006 #43 Petty Enterprises
2006–2007 #38 Robert Yates Racing
2008 #28 Yates Racing
2009 #96 Hall of Fame Racing with Yates Racing
2010 #17 Roush Fenway Racing
2010 #19 Richard Petty Motorsports
2011–9/10/2012 #9 Richard Petty Motorsports
9/10/2012 #43 Richard Petty Motorsports
2014 #36 Tommy Baldwin Racing
2015 #31 Richard Childress Racing


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