Adam Stevens (NASCAR)
| Adam Stevens | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Adam Stevens July 22, 1978 Portsmouth, Ohio |
| Residence | Huntersville, North Carolina, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | College |
| Alma mater | Ohio University |
| Occupation | Crew Chief |
| Years active | 1999 – present |
| Employer | Joe Gibbs Racing |
| Known for | Kyle Busch's crew chief. |
| Notable work | Winning the 2015 Sprint Cup Series championship. |
| Home town | Portsmouth, Ohio, United States |
| Spouse(s) | Aubrey Stevens |
| Children | Carter and Ryan Stevens |
| Parent(s) | Greg Stevens (Father) |
| Awards | 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion crew chief. |
Adam Stevens (born July 22, 1978) is a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series crew chief for Kyle Busch. In 2015, he became the first crew chief since Jeff Hammond in 1982 to win the championship during his rookie season.
Stevens caught the racing bug at a tender, young age from his father Greg Stevens, who raced dune buggies and dirt late model cars. Together, they would go to a nearby race shop with any spare time that they had and they would tinker. Stevens raced at Skyline Speedway in Stewart, Ohio and other dirt tracks in his home state throughout high school and college. In 1999 Stevens for one of the biggest dirt Late Model races in the country – The Dirt Late Model Dream at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio. Stevens attended Ohio University on his way to earning his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 2002. After realizing during his college years that a driving career wasn’t for him, Stevens headed south during the summer break from school to the heart of the NASCAR industry, Charlotte, North Carolina. There, he would go door-to-door, handing out resumes at race shops with hope of landing a job with a NASCAR team upon graduation.
After graduating from Ohio University in the spring of 2002 with his mechanical engineering degree in hand, Stevens’ persistence paid off in August when he landed his first job in NASCAR with Petty Enterprises as a designer. Stevens worked at Petty Enterprises for three years when the man that hired him there came calling again in 2005. That season, Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) was undergoing an expansion from a two-car team with the Nos. 18 and 20 cars to a third team with the No. 11 car with Jason Leffler. It was looking for race engineers, where he landed with the No. 20 car driven by former JGR driver Tony Stewart and crew chief Greg Zipadelli. After serving as race engineer with Zipadelli and Stewart from 2005 to 2008 – a stint that included 18 wins and a Sprint Cup championship in 2005, Stewart left the team after the 2008 season to become a team owner at Stewart-Haas Racing. This gave Stevens the opportunity to work with rookie driver Joey Logano as his team engineer, with Zipadelli remaining as crew chief for the 2009 and 2010 seasons.
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