Part-time NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series competitor Clay Greenfield announced Tuesday night that industry veteran and former NASCAR Cup Series championship crew chief Jeff Hammond will lead his team beginning with the NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway next month.
Before joining FOX Sports in 2001 as a NASCAR analyst, Hammond had a historic path as a crew chief in the NASCAR Cup Series especially during the 1980s where he guided Darrell Waltrip to the 1985 Cup Series championship and a victory in the 1989 Daytona 500 with Waltrip at Hendrick Motorsports.
While he has never turned a wrench as a crew chief in the Truck Series, Hammond was tightly knitted with the now-defunct Red Horse Racing.
Outside of his analyst roles, Hammond is also a partner in Performance Instruction and Training or PIT, a pit crew training program that has trained the most sought-after pit crew members in Motorsports since 2001.
Graduates have gone on to win series championships in all forms of stock car racing and PIT graduates tout four consecutive individual All-Star Pit Crew Challenge championships. Alumni of the program are now in pit crew coordinator positions at many of racing’s most competitive teams.
“It’s like coming full circle to be able to return to the top of the box for such a first-class team and a hungry driver like Clay Greenfield,” Hammond said in a press release. “I believe this Rackley Roofing No. 68 team is going to turn some heads and prove that we’re a team to respect!”
Greenfield, 35, is hoping that Hammond’s knowledge and insight will help take his team to the next level.
“We are thrilled to have a legendary crew chief like Jeff join our team and help take us to the next level,” Greenfield said. “With the addition of Jeff combined with equipment upgrades Rackley Roofing has allowed us to make, we are poised to have the most successful season in CGM’s history.”
CGM will continue to have an affiliation with Kyle Busch Motorsports this season, as well as moving into a new shop just outside Nashville.
In 46 Truck Series races since 2010, Greenfield has two career top-10 finishes, including a career-best eighth at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway in 2017. He ran four races last season highlighted by a 12th-place finish at Daytona after starting ninth.
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