Grant Enfinger

Grant McArthur Enfinger (born January 22, 1985) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series, driving the No. 98 Ford F-150 for ThorSport Racing. Enfinger won the ARCA Racing Series Bill France Four Crown award in 2014.[1]

Grant Enfinger
Enfinger at Martinsville Speedway in 2019
Born	Grant McArthur Enfinger (1985-01-22) January 22, 1985 Fairhope, Alabama
Achievements	2015 ARCA Racing Series Champion Most consecutive seasons with a win in the ARCA Menards Series (2013–2017) 2019 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series Regular Season Champion
NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series career
95 races run over 8 years
Truck no., team	No. 98 (ThorSport Racing)
2019 position	7th
Best finish	5th (2018)
First race	2010 Mountain Dew 250 (Talladega)
Last race	2020 Sunoco 159 (Daytona)
First win	2016 Fred's 250 (Talladega)
Last win	2020 Vet Tix/Camping World 200 (Atlanta)
Wins Top tens Poles 4 59 5
Statistics current as of August 16, 2020.

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 attended University of South Alabama.

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 No. 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

Enfinger at Rockingham Speedway in 2012

In 2010, Enfinger made his first career start in the 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 Sprint Cup Series, with Sinica Motorsports, a start-up team founded by Argentine businessman George Sinica. The team intended to run a limited schedule of 10 to 15 races in the Cup 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]

In December 2011, Enfinger was released from his contract by Sinica Motorsports. Neither he nor the Sinica-owned team attempted any Sprint Cup starts in 2012. Instead, Enfinger 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 Energy Resources 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. He finished in the top 5 in the next race, at Atlanta. But, he was still demoted to a part-time role with the No. 24, and replaced by Kaz Grala and Ben Kennedy in the No. 33. Enfinger ran 5 races later in the season for Gallagher's No. 24 team. For the running of the Fred's 250 at Talladega, Enfinger would start 2nd and would run great all race long, leading the most laps and getting his first career Truck win.[25] This proved to be Enfinger's last race for Gallagher, although he ran the last race of the season at Homestead with RBR Enterprises.

ThorSport Racing hired Enfinger to drive the No. 98 Toyota Tundra full-time in 2017.[26] He finished 11th in the standings.

In 2018, ThorSport Racing switched to the Ford F-150. Enfinger scored his second career win at Las Vegas and finished fifth in the standings.

In 2019, Enfinger clinched the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series Regular Season Championship following the Michigan race.[27] He was eliminated from the playoffs at Las Vegas when he finished 31st after experiencing an engine failure that also plagued three other trucks. Ilmor, the manufacturer of the engines, took responsibility for the NT1 engines that suffered from severe detonation due to the combination of the high engine load condition combined with the extreme weather conditions in Las Vegas.[28] Despite Ilmor's announcement, NASCAR denied ThorSport's request to reinstate Enfinger and Johnny Sauter into the playoffs.[29] He finished 7th in the final points standings despite winning no races, with teammate Matt Crafton claiming his 3rd career Championship also with no wins.

In 2020, Enfinger broke a 28-race winless streak by winning the season-opener at Daytona over Jordan Anderson by 0.010 seconds in overtime, his 3rd career victory and 100th win for Ford in the Series.

Other racing

In March 2019, Enfinger made his Michelin Pilot Challenge sports car debut at Sebring International Raceway, driving a Ford for Multimatic Motorsports alongside ThorSport Racing teammates Matt Crafton, Ben Rhodes, and Myatt Snider.[30]

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
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	Ref
2011	Sinica Motorsports	93	Chevy	DAY	PHO	LVS	BRI	CAL	MAR	TEX	TAL	RCH	DAR	DOV	CLT	KAN	POC	MCH	SON	DAY	KEN	NHA	IND	POC	GLN	MCH	BRI	ATL	RCH	CHI	NHA	DOV	KAN	CLT	TAL	MAR	TEX	PHO	HOM DNQ	84th	0^1	[31]

Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series

NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors 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	NGTC	Pts	Ref
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	[32]
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	[33]
	Bragg Racing Group	82	Ford																						TAL 12
	Allgaier Motorsports	36	Ram																							MAR 20	TEX	HOM
2012	Bragg Racing Group	82	Ford	DAY 12	MAR																								46th	73	[34]
	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			MAR DNQ	TEX	PHO	HOM
	Brad Keselowski Racing	29	Ram																	LVS 12	TAL
2016	GMS Racing	33	Chevy	DAY 20	ATL 5	MAR	KAN	DOV	CLT	TEX	IOW	GTW																	22nd	185	[35]
		24											KEN 12	ELD	POC	BRI	MCH 8	MSP	CHI 6	NHA	LVS 10	TAL 1*	MAR	TEX	PHO
	RBR Enterprises	92	Ford																							HOM 23
2017	ThorSport Racing	98	Toyota	DAY 16	ATL 8	MAR 16	KAN 11	CLT 7	DOV 3	TEX 3	GTW 5	IOW 4	KEN 28	ELD 4	POC 13	MCH 8	BRI 4	MSP 13	CHI 5	NHA 4	LVS 9	TAL 4	MAR 12	TEX 7	PHO 24	HOM 8			11th	718	[36]
2018			Ford	DAY 6	ATL 9	LVS 4	MAR 4	DOV 14	KAN 8	CLT 12	TEX 4	IOW 11	GTW 21	CHI 8	KEN 6	ELD 2	POC 6	MCH 7	BRI 10	MSP 17	LVS 1*	TAL 19*	MAR 14	TEX 12	PHO 4	HOM 2			5th	2284	[37]
2019				DAY 2	ATL 3	LVS 11	MAR 7	TEX 4	DOV 4	KAN 7	CLT 9	TEX 4*	IOW 4	GTW 6	CHI 16	KEN 24	POC 10	ELD 3	MCH 7	BRI 5	MSP 13	LVS 31	TAL 10	MAR 4	PHO 5	HOM 7			7th	2236	[38]
2020				DAY 1*	LVS 31	CLT 12	ATL 1	HOM 17	POC 11	KEN 12	TEX 8	KAN 3	KAN 3	MCH 33*	DAY 7	DOV	GTW	DAR	RCH	BRI	LVS	TAL	KAN	TEX	MAR	PHO			-*	-*	[39]

^* Season still in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

ARCA Racing Series

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

ARCA Racing 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	ARSC	Pts	Ref
2008	Andy Belmont Racing	14	Ford	DAY	SLM	IOW 39	KAN 36	CAR	KEN 39	TOL	POC	MCH	CAY	KEN	BLN	POC	NSH	ISF	DSF	CHI	SLM DNQ	NJE	TAL	TOL 33	58th	460	[40]
2009	RAB Racing	09	Ford	DAY	SLM	CAR 19																			23rd	1625	[41]
	Enfinger Racing	83	Ford				TAL 3	KEN	TOL	POC	MCH	MFD	IOW	KEN 2				CHI 2	TOL	DSF	NJE	SLM	KAN 3	CAR 7
	Andy Belmont Racing	1	Ford												BLN 13	POC	ISF
2010	RAB Racing	09	Ford	DAY 30	PBE	SLM	TEX 3	TAL 6*	TOL	POC	MCH 35	IOW 3	MFD	POC	BLN	NJE	ISF	CHI 3	DSF	TOL	SLM	KAN	CAR 9		24th	1185	[42]
2011	Allgaier Motorsports	36	Dodge	DAY 9	TAL 13	SLM 10	TOL 2		CHI 8	POC 3		WIN 9	BLN 3*	IOW 4	IRP 9	POC 5		MAD 14		SLM 22	KAN 3	TOL 5			4th	4590	[43]
			Chevy					NJE 10									ISF 12		DSF 10
			Ford								MCH 14
2012	BRG Motorsports	61	Ford	DAY	MOB 13	SLM	TAL																		27th	1120	[44]
	Allgaier Motorsports	99	Ford					TOL 3	ELK	POC	MCH	WIN	NJE			IRP 27
		36	Dodge											IOW 2	CHI
	Team BCR Racing	09	Ford														POC 8	BLN	ISF	MAD	SLM	DSF	KAN 3
2013				DAY 39																					15th	1970	[45]
		90			MOB 1*	SLM 7	TAL 16	TOL 15	ELK	POC	MCH 5	ROA	WIN	CHI	NJE	POC	BLN	ISF	MAD	DSF	IOW 1	SLM	KEN 4	KAN 32
2014				DAY 1*	MOB 1*	SLM 1*	TAL 9*	TOL 12*	NJE 4	POC 8	MCH 8	ELK 1*	WIN 5	CHI 7											2nd	4985	[46]
	GMS Racing		Chevy												IRP 4	POC 26	BLN 1*	ISF 3*	MAD 15*	DSF 1*	SLM 4	KEN 30	KAN 17
2015		23		DAY 1*	MOB 1*	NSH 1*	SLM 13	TAL 28	TOL 19*	NJE 4	POC 2	MCH 8	CHI 2	WIN 2	IOW 8	IRP 8	POC 2	BLN 1*	ISF 20	DSF 1	SLM 1	KEN 5	KAN 3		1st	5085	[47]
2016				DAY	NSH	SLM	TAL	TOL	NJE	POC	MCH	MAD	WIN	IOW	IRP	POC 1	BLN	ISF							62nd	400	[48]
	Cunningham Motorsports	22	Ford																DSF 17*	SLM	CHI	KEN	KAN
2017	Allgaier Motorsports	16	Chevy	DAY	NSH	SLM	TAL	TOL	ELK	POC	MCH	MAD	IOW	IRP	POC	WIN	ISF 1*	ROA	DSF	SLM	CHI	KEN	KAN		71st	245	[49]
2018	Mason Mitchell Motorsports	78	Chevy	DAY	NSH	SLM	TAL	TOL 12	CLT	POC	MCH	MAD	GTW	CHI	IOW	ELK	POC	ISF	BLN	DSF	SLM	IRP	KAN		87th	170	[50]

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External links

• Official website
• Grant Enfinger driver statistics at Racing-Reference