Chase Austin
| Chase Austin | |
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Austin at Nashville Superspeedway in 2007
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| Born |
October 3, 1989 Eudora, Kansas, U.S. |
| NASCAR Xfinity Series career | |
| 6 races run over 3 years | |
| 2010 position | 135th |
| Best finish | 89th - 2009 |
| First race | 2007 Sam's Town 250 (Memphis) |
| Last race | 2010 Carfax 250 (Michigan) |
| NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career | |
| 3 races run over 2 years | |
| 2010 position | 118th |
| Best finish | 63rd - 2009 |
| First race | 2009 NextEra Energy Resources 250 (Daytona) |
| Last race | 2010 VFW 200 (Michigan) |
| Statistics current as of November 19, 2011. | |
Chase Austin (born October 3, 1989) is an American race-car driver. He is a former development driver with Hendrick Motorsports and Rusty Wallace Racing. He is currently a part-time driver in the Firestone Indy Lights series.
Austin started racing when he was 8, in an old worn out go kart he built with his father. He earned over 60 wins while racing karts in the late 1990s to early 2000s. In 2001, he raced in micro sprint cars and won 16 features in two years. Then he moved up to full size sprint cars, dirt track racing modifieds, and late models on dirt and asphalt. While competing in the Kansas area, he won over 100 features in karts, sprint cars and stock cars. He won the "Future Dirt Track World Championship", a dirt late model race for around a dozen of the United States' top teenaged drivers.
In late 2004, at age 14, Austin signed a driver development deal with Hendrick Motorsports. Hendrick assigned him to race for the team's ally SS Racing in the ASA Late Model Series.
In 2005, he won two races, with one top five, six top ten finishes and a pole position.
Hendrick dissolved its driver development program in 2006. Originally backed by the new STAR Motorsports team, the deal fell through after STAR failed to fulfill its financial obligations. Austin's family was given a race shop and car parts, so they used the parts to race in numerous series. While a 16-year-old in high school, Austin was the driver and crew chief for the family effort. He raced in 23 events in the season, with 3 wins, six top fives, and eight top tens. He competed on dirt and asphalt. He competed in his first USAR Hooters Procup Series race.
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