Doug George

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Doug George
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George in 1996
BornDouglas Paul George
(1960-11-05) November 5, 1960 (age 63)
Atwater, California, U.S.
Achievements1990 NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Tour Champion
1995 NASCAR Winston West Series Champion
Awards1990 NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Tour Rookie-of-the-Year West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame (2009) [1]
NASCAR Cup Series career
2 races run over 1 year
1995 position55th
Best finish55th (1995)
First race 1995 Save Mart Supermarkets 300 (Sears Point)
Last race 1995 Dura Lube 500 (Phoenix)
WinsTop tens Poles
000
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career
56 races run over 5 years
2000 position78th
Best finish12th (1996)
First race 1996 Florida Dodge Dealers 400 (Homestead)
Last race 2000 Kroger 225 (Kentucky)
WinsTop tens Poles
0100
Statistics current as of November 12, 2018.

Douglas Paul George (born November 5, 1960) is an American professional stock car racing driver and mechanic. He most recently served as the crew chief of the No. 46 Faction46 Chevrolet Silverado driven by Thad Moffitt in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.

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Racing career

He began racing professionally in the 1980s, driving for his own team. In 1990, he won the NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Series Rookie of the Year award. He later moved to the NASCAR Winston West Series, where he won Rookie of the Year honors and later, the 1995 series championship.

George made his NASCAR debut in 1995 at Sears Point International Raceway. Driving the No. 07 Olson Technology Ford Thunderbird, he qualified 42nd and finished 31st in the Winston Cup race. He ran an additional race that season at Phoenix International Raceway, where he finished 41st after a wreck. In 1996, he ran the Craftsman Truck Series in the No. 21 Ortho Ford F-150. He had a fifth-place run at Sears Point, and finished 12th in the standings, runner-up to Bryan Reffner in the Rookie of the Year battle.

In 1997, George began driving the No. 12 Chevrolet Silverado for Bob Blake. He drove for a variety of teams that season, his best finish an eighth at Sonoma for Charles Hardy. He began the 1998 in the No. 26 MB Motorsports Ford, posting two thirtieth-place finishes. Late in the season, he joined Liberty Racing, driving the No. 84 Porter-Cable Power Tools Ford and had a tenth at Sonoma, before finishing the season in Liberty's No. 98 Big Daddy's BBQ Sauce Ford, where he had his worst finish with Liberty, fifteenth.

In 1999, George drove a pair of races for Conely Racing, finishing seventeenth at Gateway International Raceway. He joined Impact Motorsports as the crew chief of the No. 12 Hot Wheels Dodge Ram for Carlos Contreras in 2000. During the season, he drove Impact's No. 86 R.C. Cola truck at Gateway following the release of Mike Cope, finishing 33rd after a wreck. He drove the No. 12 truck filling in for Contreras at Kentucky, finishing sixteenth.

In 2009, George was inducted into the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame.

Crew chiefing career

Following his driving career, George worked at Morgan-Dollar Motorsports, and later at Joe Gibbs Racing, serving as crew chief for Coy Gibbs. In 2005, he joined Xpress Motorsports and was named crew chief for the No. 19 for Regan Smith, but the team shut down after two races. He joined the No. 89 team driven by Morgan Shepherd in 2006 before the team was purchased by CJM Racing. In 2007, he returned to NASCAR as crew chief for Billy Ballew Motorsports from 2008 to 2010, working most notably with Kyle Busch. He left BBM for Kevin Harvick Incorporated in 2010 to crew chief the No. 2 truck split by Kevin Harvick and Elliott Sadler. He moved to the No. 32 Turner Motorsports team in 2011 but then left for Jason White's GB Racing team for the 2012 season. After White shut down his truck team and moved to the Nationwide Series in 2013, he served as the crew chief for rookie Gray Gaulding at NTS Motorsports in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East. However, in September, he went back to the Truck Series crew chiefing for Dakoda Armstrong at Turn One Racing.

George returned to the K&N Series in 2014, starting the year as crew chief for Australian Brodie Kostecki's family team. After a few races, he left to return to Turner Scott Motorsports as Ron Hornaday's crew chief. When Hornaday's No. 30 team shut down in August due to lack of sponsorship, he was named crew chief for teammate Ben Kennedy's No. 31 truck, replacing Michael Shelton, who went to become the first crew chief for John Wes Townley's new team, Athenian Motorsports.

TSM closed down their truck team in 2015 and George moved to the No. 98 ThorSport Racing truck as Johnny Sauter's crew chief for the entire season. Although the team didn't win any races that year, they still finished 4th in points. Sauter left for GMS Racing in 2016, and was replaced by Rico Abreu. George remained the crew chief, but was released with a few races left in the season after the team was winless again and missed the playoffs. He was picked up by Hattori Racing Enterprises, becoming Ryan Truex's crew chief. Hattori replaced him with Scott Zipadelli in 2017, and he went to MB Motorsports to crew chief the No. 63 truck for the Donahue brothers (Kyle and Kevin) and a rotation of other drivers. He then joined BK Racing as crew chief for Corey LaJoie and the No. 83 Cup Series team, replacing Doug Richert, the team's competition director who was serving temporarily as crew chief to start the year on top of that. Later in the year, BK mostly cut back to one car due to sponsorship and financial issues with the team's owner, leaving George without a team again.

In 2018, he joined the new All Out Motorsports team as crew chief for Korbin Forrister part time. He began the 2019 season without a crew chiefing job (Wally Rogers replaced him at AOM), but soon after the start of the season, he briefly became the crew chief for the No. 44 truck of Niece Motorsports, later moving to Codie Rohrbaugh's No. 9 team, (ironically for the second time) replacing Michael Shelton after he went to Kyle Busch Motorsports. The team attempted most of the season in 2020 with Rohrbaugh and 2021 with Rohrbaugh and Grant Enfinger. In 2022, Blaine Perkins became the full-time driver of the No. 9 and the team ran a full season for the first time.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

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

Winston Cup Series

NASCAR Winston Cup Series results
YearTeamNo.Make12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031NWCCPtsRef
1994 Olson Technology Racing 37 Ford DAY CAR RCH ATL DAR BRI NWS MAR TAL SON
DNQ		 CLT DOV POC MCH DAY NHA POC TAL IND GLN MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR NWS CLT CAR PHO
DNQ		 ATL N/A0 [2]
1995 07 DAY CAR RCH ATL DAR BRI NWS MAR TAL SON
31		 CLT DOV POC MCH DAY NHA POC TAL IND GLN MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR NWS CLT CAR PHO
41		 ATL 55th110 [3]

Craftsman Truck Series

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results
YearTeamNo.Make123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627NCTCPtsRef
1996 Venable Racing 21 Ford HOM
10		 PHO
19		 POR
14		 EVG
14		 TUS
21		 CNS
10		 HPT
17		 BRI
14		 NZH
22		 MLW
19		 LVL
18		 I70
6		 IRP
28		 FLM
15		 GLN
9		 NSV
6		 RCH
24		 NHA
21		 MAR
13		 NWS
15		 SON
5		 MMR
7		 PHO
9		 LVS
16		12th2883 [4]
1997 Blake Motorsports 12 Chevy WDW
18		 TUS
25		 HOM
17		 PHO
20		 POR
19		 EVG
17		 I70
11		 NHA
26		 TEX
29		 BRI
36		21st2057 [5]
SKB Racing 92 Chevy NZH
17		 MLW
19		 LVL
26		 RCH
DNQ		 MAR PHO
21		 LVS
21
Core Motorsports 32 Ford CNS
29		 HPT IRP
Genzman Racing 25 Ford FLM
24
Doran Racing 77 Chevy NSV
DNQ
MB Motorsports 26 Ford GLN
DNQ
Charles Hardy Motorsports 35 Chevy SON
8
Brevak Racing 34 Chevy MMR
34
65 Ford CAL
36
1998 MB Motorsports 26 Ford WDW HOM
33		 PHO
30		 POR
30		 EVG
32		 I70
DNQ		 GLN
DNQ		34th924 [6]
Unknown93 Chevy TEX
DNQ		 BRI MLW NZH CAL PPR IRP NHA FLM NSV HPT LVL RCH MEM GTY MAR
Liberty Racing 84 Ford SON
10		 MMR
12		 PHO
14
98 LVS
15
1999 Conely Racing 7 Chevy HOM PHO EVG MMR MAR MEM PPR I70 BRI TEX PIR GLN MLW NSV NZH MCH NHA IRP GTY
17		 HPT RCH
35		 LVS LVL TEX CAL 73rd170 [7]
2000 Impact Motorsports 86 Dodge DAY HOM PHO MMR MAR PIR GTY
33		 MEM PPR EVG TEX 78th179 [8]
12 KEN
16		 GLN MLW NHA NZH MCH IRP NSV CIC RCH DOV TEX CAL

Winston West Series

NASCAR Winston West Series results
YearTeamNo.Make123456789101112131415NWWSCPtsRef
1994 Olson Technology Racing 37 Ford MMR
6		 TUS
11		 SON
DNQ		 SGS
4		 YAK
18		 MMR
2		 POR
8		 IND CAJ
3		 TCR
14		 LVS
2		 MMR
2		 PHO
DNQ		 TUS
8		5th1932 [9]
1995 TUS
2		 MMR
2		 CNS
2		 MMR
18		 POR
3		 SGS
2		 TUS
1		 AMP
1*		 MAD
1		 POR
1*		 LVS
5		 SON
1		 MMR
1		1st2295 [10]
07 SON
31		 PHO
41

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References

  1. ↑ "West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame". West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  2. ↑ "Doug George – 1994 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Doug George – 1995 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Doug George – 1996 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Doug George – 1997 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  6. ↑ "Doug George – 1998 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  7. ↑ "Doug George – 1999 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Doug George – 2000 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  9. ↑ "Doug George – 1994 NASCAR Winston West Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  10. ↑ "Doug George – 1995 NASCAR Winston West Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
Achievements
Preceded by NASCAR Winston West Series champion
1995		Succeeded by
Preceded by NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Tour champion
1990		Succeeded by
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