Jeff McClure

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Jeff McClure
BornJeffrey McClure
(1967-01-22) January 22, 1967 (age 57)
Harrisburg, North Carolina
NASCAR Cup Series career
1 race run over 1 year
Best finish79th (1992)
First race 1992 Champion Spark Plug 400 (Michigan)
WinsTop tens Poles
000
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
20 races run over 5 years
Best finish52nd (1997)
First race 1988 Pennsylvania 300 (Nazareth)
Last race 1997 Sears Auto Center 250 (Milwaukee)
WinsTop tens Poles
000
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career
3 races run over 1 year
Best finish62nd (2000)
First race 2000 Line-X 225 (Portland)
Last race 2000 Chevy Silverado 200 (Nazareth)
WinsTop tens Poles
000
Statistics current as of July 26, 2020.

Jeffrey McClure (born January 22, 1967) is an American former stock car racing driver who raced for multiple years in all three major NASCAR series as well as what is now the ARCA Menards Series. McClure has been involved in the ARCA after his driving days are over, working as a team owner and most recently as a crew chief.

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Racing career

Driving career

McClure made his Busch debut in 1988, running his own No. 83 Oldsmobile in four races. His series debut came at Nazareth, falling out due to an engine failure. McClure's finishes improved drastically every race and by the race at Langley, McClure earned his best finish of the year in 18th. Also, his best start of the year ended up 12th at Myrtle Beach.

McClure made two starts in 1989. He finished 19th at Charlotte and 25th at Rockingham.

McClure had one start in 1990. He started 41st at Daytona, but was caught up in a crash. However, McClure still managed 22nd and the season opener at Daytona would prove to be his only 1990 start.

McClure only made one career start in NASCAR's Winston Cup Series, which came in 1992 at the 1992 running of the Champion Spark Plug 400. He qualified the Jim Rosenblum Racing 39th at Michigan. He did finish the race, however, it was only a 31st-place finish.

McClure returned after a six-year hiatus in 1996, running three races for Moy Racing. After finishing 26th and 31st, McClure finished 16th at the Milwaukee Mile. It would prove to be his best career finish in the series.

McClure was then invited back for ten races in 1997 for Moy. McClure's team struggled in his starts. His best start was 32nd and his best finish was 23rd at Las Vegas. The poor results can be explained by his five DNFs in ten starts.

McClure reappeared on the NASCAR scene in 2000, running three CTS races for Albernaz Racing. He started 29th and finished 26th at Portland. His next start at Texas proved to be his best. He was 21st in that race. At Nazareth, McClure earned his best career start of 28th and looked to be in good shape for bettering his previous starts. However, a late engine failure ended his CTS career in 23rd.

McClure's start at Nazareth in 2000 ended up being his last NASCAR race as a driver.

Crew chiefing career

In 2008, McClure worked for Fast Track Racing in the ARCA Series, crew chiefing the No. 11 car full time for Bryan Silas. In addition, he crew chiefed FTR's part-time Truck Series team, the No. 48, when Silas and Hermie Sadler made a combined three starts in that truck.

Cal Boprey replaced McClure as the crew chief of the No. 11 of Silas for 2009, and McClure moved to the No. 15 Venturini Motorsports Chevy/Toyota, a part-time car, to crew chief drivers Ryan Fischer, Alex Yontz, Dakoda Armstrong, Justin Marks, Justin Lloyd, Jesse Smith, Josh Richards, and Steve Arpin. [1] He left after one year to crew chief Brazilian rookie Miguel Paludo's No. 77 car for Hattori Racing Enterprises in the K&N East Series.

McClure was crew chief for rookie T. J. Bell's partial Cup Series schedule in 2011 in the No. 50 Toyota/Chevy for LTD Powersports (a team owned by Joe Falk, before he owned Circle Sport). The team shut down after just one year, and McClure went back to ARCA crew chiefing for Andy Belmont Racing's No. 1 Ford and driver Mikey Kile in 2012.

McClure rejoined Venturini Motorsports' ARCA Racing Series team in 2013. [2] He had one win as crew chief for Todd Gilliland in 2015 and two wins with Christopher Bell in 2016. For 2017, he was the crew chief for the No. 15 driven by Christian Eckes and other drivers.

McClure eventually left Venturini (again) and joined Empire Racing as the crew chief for the No. 46 car of Thad Moffitt. The team has an alliance with Richard Petty Motorsports. In 2018, he also served as crew chief for dirt racer Ryan Unzicker at Springfield and DuQuoin (when he needed a crew chief and Moffitt was not running those races).

For the 2020 season, McClure worked for two teams, serving as the crew chief for John Ferrier's family team in ARCA's season-opening race at Daytona, and also for Connor Okrzesik's part-time ARCA Menards Series East team.

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.)

Winston Cup Series

NASCAR Winston Cup Series results
YearTeamNo.Make123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930NWCCPtsRef
1992 Linro Motorsports 27 Chevy DAY CAR RCH ATL DAR BRI NWS MAR TAL CLT DOV SON POC MCH DAY POC TAL GLN MCH
31		 BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR NWS CLT CAR PHO ATL 79th70 [3]
1993 McClure Racing 29 Chevy DAY CAR RCH ATL DAR BRI NWS MAR TAL SON CLT DOV POC MCH DAY NHA POC TAL GLN MCH BRI DAR
DNQ		 RCH DOV MAR NWS N/A0 [4]
58 CLT
DNQ		 CAR PHO ATL

Busch Series

NASCAR Busch Series results
YearTeamNo.Make1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132NBSCPtsRef
1988 McClure Racing 83 Olds DAY HCY CAR MAR DAR BRI LNG NZH
35		 SBO NSV CLT DOV ROU LAN LVL MYB
29		 OXF SBO
21		 HCY LNG
18		 IRP ROU BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR CLT CAR MAR 73rd134 [5]
1989 Pontiac DAY CAR MAR HCY DAR BRI NZH SBO LAN NSV CLT
DNQ		 DOV ROU LVL VOL MYB SBO HCY DUB IRP ROU BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR CLT
19		 CAR
25		 MAR 71st194 [6]
1990 Chevy DAY
22		 RCH CAR MAR HCY DAR BRI LAN SBO NZH HCY CLT
DNQ		 DOV ROU VOL MYB OXF NHA SBO DUB IRP ROU BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR CLT NHA CAR MAR 88th97 [7]
1991 DAY RCH CAR MAR VOL HCY DAR BRI LAN SBO NZH CLT DOV ROU HCY MYB GLN OXF NHA SBO DUB IRP ROU BRI DAR RCH DOV CLT
DNQ		 NHA CAR MAR N/A0 [8]
1996 CPR Motorsports 36 Ford DAY CAR
DNQ		 RCH ATL NSV DAR BRI HCY 59th270 [9]
Bobby Jones Racing 50 Ford NZH
26		 CLT
DNQ		 DOV SBO MYB
31		 GLN MLW
16		 NHA TAL IRP MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV CLT CAR HOM
1997 John Walsh77 Ford DAY
DNQ		 CAR
30		 RCH
DNQ		 ATL
DNQ		 LVS
23		 DAR
DNQ		 HCY
DNQ		 TEX
42		 BRI
37		 NSV
29		 TAL
30		 NHA
28		 NZH
24		 CLT
DNQ		 DOV
36		 SBO
DNQ		 GLN
36		 MLW
39		 MYB GTY IRP MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV CLT CAL CAR HOM 52nd603 [10]
1999 Key Motorsports 13 Ford DAY
DNQ		 CAR LVS ATL DAR TEX NSV BRI TAL CAL NHA RCH NZH CLT DOV SBO GLN MLW MYB PPR GTY IRP MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV CLT CAR MEM PHO HOM N/A0 [11]

Craftsman Truck Series

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results
YearTeamNo.Make123456789101112131415161718192021222324NCTCPtsRef
2000 CJ Racing 21 Ford DAY HOM PHO MMR MAR PIR
26		 GTY MEM PPR EVG 62nd279 [12]
27 TEX
21		 KEN GLN MLW NHA NZH
23		 MCH IRP NSV CIC RCH DOV TEX CAL

ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series

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

ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series results
YearTeamNo.Make12345678910111213141516171819202122232425ABMHSCPtsRef
1991 Bob Schacht Motorsports 54 Buick DAY ATL KIL TAL TOL FRS POC MCH KIL FRS DEL POC TAL HPT MCH ISF TOL DSF TWS ATL
16		 [13]
1992 James Nelson82 Olds DAY
39		 FIF TWS 25th1350 [14]
89 Chevy TAL
5		 TOL KIL POC
2		 POC
3		 HPT FRS ISF TOL DSF TWS
42		 SLM ATL
9
Pontiac MCH
26		 FRS KIL NSH DEL
1993 Chevy DAY
26		 POC
31		 MCH FRS POC KIL ISF DSF TOL SLM WIN ATL [15]
Pontiac TAL
40		 KIL CMS FRS TOL
Shirley Racing 2 Chevy FIF
26		 TWS
1994 McClure Racing 89 Chevy DAY
4		 TAL
33		 FIF
17		 LVL
3		 KIL
16		 TOL
22		 FRS
12		 MCH
5		 DMS
7		 POC
12		 POC
11		 KIL
10		 FRS
9		 INF
13		 I70
6		 ISF
29		 DSF
29		 TOL
8		 WIN
26		 ATL
6		5th4640 [16]
51 SLM
31
1995 89 DAY
28		 ATL
35		 TAL
27		 FIF
15		 KIL MCH
35		 I80 MCS
DNS		 FRS POC
22		 DSF
20		 SLM WIN ATL 29th1205 [17]
Pontiac FRS
12
AAG Racing 3 Chevy POC
37		 KIL FRS SBS LVL ISF
1996 Bobby Jones Racing 50 Ford DAY
6		 ATL
10		 SLM [18]
Chevy TAL
5		 FIF LVL CLT CLT KIL FRS POC MCH FRS TOL POC MCH INF SBS ISF DSF KIL SLM WIN CLT ATL
2000 Harvill Racing 89 Ford DAY SLM AND CLT
DNQ		 KIL FRS MCH POC TOL KEN BLN POC WIN ISF KEN DSF SLM CLT TAL ATL N/A0 [19]

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  1. ↑ "2009 ARCA Re/Max Team Chart". ThePitLane. Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Snowball Derby winner Christian Eckes signs with Venturini for 2017". ARCA Racing Series . Retrieved 2017-04-28.
  3. ↑ "Jeff McClure – 1992 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Jeff McClure – 1993 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Jeff McClure – 1988 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
  6. ↑ "Jeff McClure – 1989 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
  7. ↑ "Jeff McClure – 1990 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
  8. ↑ "Jeff McClure – 1991 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
  9. ↑ "Jeff McClure – 1996 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
  10. ↑ "Jeff McClure – 1997 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
  11. ↑ "Jeff McClure – 1999 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
  12. ↑ "Jeff McClure – 2000 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
  13. ↑ "Jeff McClure – 1991 ARCA Permatex SuperCar Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
  14. ↑ "Jeff McClure – 1992 ARCA SuperCar Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
  15. ↑ "Jeff McClure – 1993 ARCA Hooters SuperCar Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
  16. ↑ "Jeff McClure – 1994 ARCA Hooters SuperCar Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
  17. ↑ "Jeff McClure – 1995 ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
  18. ↑ "Jeff McClure – 1996 ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
  19. ↑ "Jeff McClure – 2000 ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
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