Owner(s) | Jeff Bolen |
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Base | Mooresville, North Carolina |
Series | Camping World Truck Series |
Car numbers | 66 |
Race drivers | 66. Ross Chastain |
Sponsors | 66. Waterfront Services Inc. |
Manufacturer | Chevrolet |
Opened | 2016 |
Career | |
Debut | 2016 NextEra Energy Resources 250 (Daytona) |
Latest race | 2017 North Carolina Education Lottery 200 (Charlotte) |
Races competed | 18 |
Drivers' Championships | 0 |
Race victories | 0 |
Pole positions | 0 |
Bolen Motorsports is an American professional team that currently competes in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. The team currently fields the No. 66 Chevrolet Silverado for Ross Chastain.
Owner Jeff Bolen (a former amateur driver himself) had met driver Jordan Anderson in various levels of racing, including two Camping World Truck Series events in 2015. Bolen contacted Anderson in the 2015 off-season about forming a team together, and they unveiled the team, along with sponsor Columbia, South Carolina (Anderson's hometown), at Darlington Raceway on January 27, 2016.
The team debuted in the 2016 NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona International Speedway with Jordan Anderson behind the wheel. Due to rear gear problems, the team was dropped to 30th that race. The team continued with Anderson for most of the season, with a best finish of 11th at Gateway Motorsports Park, but towards the end of the season Anderson was trying to make a name in the Xfinity Series and the team substituted in drivers like Tim Viens,Ross Chastain,Josh Reeves, and Austin Wayne Self. The team led one lap its first year (Anderson at Gateway), and finished 24th in owner points.
Near the end of the 2016 offseason, Bolen Motorsports announced that Anderson would not pilot the No. 66 in 2017. Naming drivers on a week-to-week basis, the 66 truck was driven by Ross Chastain, who had run the Talladega Superspeedway race in 2016 for Bolen. After getting caught up in a large second-lap melee at Daytona, Chastain handed the team its first top ten finish, a tenth at Atlanta Motor Speedway driving an unsponsored truck. Chastain has tried to find a full-time driver for the truck after the Atlanta race.