Kevin Hamlin
Kevin Hamlin at Nashville in 2007
Born (1979-06-22) June 22, 1979 (age 44)
Snohomish, Washington, U.S.
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
43 races run over 6 years
2010 position95th
Best finish45th (2005)
First race2005 ITT Industries & Goulds Pumps Salute to the Troops 250 (Pikes Peak)
Last race2010 5-Hour Energy 250 (Gateway)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 2 0
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career
6 races run over 3 years
2007 position49th
Best finish49th (2007)
First race2005 O'Reilly Auto Parts 250 (Kansas)
Last race2007 Smith's Las Vegas 350 (Las Vegas)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 1 0
Statistics current as of October 1, 2013.

Kevin Hamlin (born June 22, 1979) is an American professional stock car racing driver who has competed in the NASCAR Nationwide Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series divisions. He currently is a spotter for Alex Bowman in the NASCAR Cup Series.

He is not related to former Richard Childress Racing crew chief Kevin Hamlin or current NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin.

Racing career

Starting at Pikes Peak in 2005, he piloted the No. 4 GEICO Dodge for the Biagi Brothers Racing team, scoring several top fifteen finishes, and was rumored to be in the car full-time for the 2006 season, but was released in late November 2005, replaced by Mark Green when team owner Fred Biagi declined to renew his relationship with Chip Ganassi Racing. He remains under a driver development program contract with Chip Ganassi Racing.

Hamlin's driving career starting in the Pacific Northwest at the age of 3, racing dirt ovals on a 50cc 3-wheeler. By the age of 6, he had moved up to Quarter midgets where he won 8 regional and 1 national championship. At age 14, his family purchased a late model to pursue Kevin's career. In 1996 Hamlin began racing at the Super Stock division at Evergreen Speedway becoming the youngest winner in the division capturing three feature victories in 1997.

In 1998 Hamlin moved up to the NASCAR Northwest Series, where in 103 career starts he captured 11 wins, 41 top 5 and 62 top 10 finishes. He was also crowned the 2001 and 2002 Northwest Series Champion and also was named the 2001 and 2003 Most Popular Driver. Hamlin owns NASCAR Northwest Series records for the youngest ever race winner at 19 years 11 months, youngest ever champion at 21 years 6 months and most consecutive laps led at 275 spanning over 3 races.

In 2006, Hamlin ran Daytona in the Craftsman Truck Series driving the No. 04 Dodge Hemi Dodge for Bobby Hamilton Racing. He also drove the No. 4 Biagi Brothers Racing Dodge in the Daytona Winn-Dixie 250, due to Biagi's driver Auggie Vidovich not having superspeedway clearance. Hamlin also practiced and qualified the No. 41 Ganassi Busch car for several races that Sorenson could not attend due to schedule conflicts with the Cup Series events. During the year, he filled in for teammate Reed Sorenson in 5 non-companion Nextel Cup/Busch Series events, practicing and qualifying Reed's No. 41 Busch car which resulted in two top 5 finishes and three top 10 finishes for Sorenson.

In early 2007, it was announced that Hamlin and Nextel Cup rookie Juan Pablo Montoya would split time driving the No. 42 Texaco Havoline Dodge for Ganassi in the Busch Series. During the Gateway 250, Hamlin earned his first career top 10 finish, a 7th, despite a spin caused by Carl Edwards near the later stages of the race. The next week he followed up with a solid 8th-place finish at the Kroger 200 at O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis. It was announced later the next week that the #42 Busch team would be shutting down, effectively ending Kevin's season. However, Ganassi said that he would keep Hamlin in the car for the following two races at Michigan and Bristol, but the week after the Michigan race, David Stremme was slated to drive the car at Bristol due to a last minute sponsor change.

Hamlin ran three Nationwide races in 2008 for Pat MacDonald. He finished 24th at Fontana, 21st in Dover, and crashed at Memphis.

In 2009, Hamlin ran a limited Nationwide schedule for a number of teams. At Kentucky, he led two laps while driving for Jay Robinson. Hamlin, normally a spotter for John Andretti, failed to qualify for the Kansas Sprint Cup race for Bob Jenkins.

Starting at Texas in the Fall of 2010 and through the 2011 season, Kevin was the spotter for NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Clint Bowyer. He started 2012 as the spotter for Ty Dillon in the Camping World Truck Series and occasionally for Brendan Gaughan in the Nationwide series. In July 2012, he became the full-time spotter for Kasey Kahne.[1]

Hamlin was a spotter[clarification needed] for Change Racing in the 2016 and 2017 24 Hours of Daytona.[2]

Hamlin will move to the #88 team in 2018, spotting for Alex Bowman.[3]

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.)

Sprint Cup Series

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 NSCC Pts Ref
2009 Front Row Motorsports 37 Dodge DAY CAL LVS ATL BRI MAR TEX PHO TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV POC MCH SON NHA DAY CHI IND POC GLN MCH BRI ATL RCH NHA DOV KAN
DNQ 		CAL CLT MAR TAL TEX PHO HOM NA - [4]

Nationwide Series

NASCAR Nationwide Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 NNSC Pts Ref
2005 Biagi Brothers Racing 4 Dodge DAY CAL MXC LVS ATL NSH BRI TEX PHO TAL DAR RCH CLT DOV NSH KEN MLW DAY CHI NHA PPR
17 		GTY
23 		IRP
26 		GLN MCH
31 		BRI
22 		CAL
42 		RCH
20 		DOV
34 		KAN
31 		CLT
15 		MEM
14 		TEX
28 		PHO
23 		HOM
35 		45th 1204 [5]
2006 DAY CAL MXC LVS ATL BRI TEX NSH PHO TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV NSH KEN MLW DAY
27 		CHI NHA 120th 82 [6]
Chip Ganassi Racing 41 Dodge MAR
QL† 		MEM
QL† 		TEX PHO HOM
FitzBradshaw Racing 12 Dodge GTY
DNQ 		IRP GLN MCH BRI CAL RCH DOV KAN CLT
2007 Chip Ganassi Racing 42 Dodge DAY CAL MXC LVS ATL BRI NSH
18 		TEX PHO TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV NSH
23 		KEN
21 		MLW
16 		NHA DAY CHI GTY
7 		IRP
8 		CGV GLN MCH
42 		BRI CAL RCH DOV KAN CLT MEM TEX PHO HOM 54th 748 [7]
2008 MacDonald Motorsports 81 Dodge DAY CAL LVS ATL BRI NSH TEX PHO MXC TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV NSH KEN MLW NHA DAY CHI GTY IRP CGV GLN MCH BRI CAL
24 		RCH DOV
21 		KAN CLT 83rd 249 [8]
Chip Ganassi Racing 40 Dodge MEM
35 		TEX PHO HOM
2009 MacDonald Motorsports 81 Dodge DAY CAL LVS BRI
33 		TEX
31 		NSH DAR
26 		CLT
35 		DOV NSH CLT
36 		MEM TEX 70th 589 [9]
Means Racing 52 Chevy PHO
41 		TAL CHI
DNQ 		KAN
DNQ
Ford RCH
DNQ
Jay Robinson Racing 49 Chevy KEN
36 		MLW NHA DAY
Smith-Ganassi Racing 42 Dodge GTY
43 		IRP
Front Row Motorsports 34 Chevy IOW
QL‡ 		GLN
Rick Ware Racing 31 Chevy MCH
41 		BRI CGV ATL RCH
41 DOV
43 		CAL
38
Baker-Curb Racing 37 Ford PHO
37 		HOM
43
2010 Means Racing 52 Chevy DAY CAL LVS BRI NSH PHO TEX TAL RCH DAR DOV
41 		CLT NSH KEN ROA NHA DAY 95th 183 [10]
TriStar Motorsports 36 Chevy CHI
DNQ 		GTY GLN
42 		MCH BRI CGV GTY
43 		TEX PHO HOM
RAB Racing 09 Ford IRP
27 		IOW
Baker-Curb Racing 43 Ford ATL
42 		RCH DOV KAN CAL CLT
† - Qualified for Reed Sorenson · ‡ - Qualified for Tony Raines

Craftsman Truck Series

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 NCTC Pts Ref
2005 Green Light Racing 07 Chevy DAY CAL ATL MAR GTY MFD CLT DOV TEX MCH MLW KAN
23 		KEN MEM IRP NSH BRI RCH NHA LVS MAR ATL TEX PHO HOM 80th 94 [11]
2006 Bobby Hamilton Racing 04 Dodge DAY
11 		CAL ATL MAR GTY CLT MFD DOV TEX MCH MLW KAN KEN MEM IRP NSH BRI NHA LVS TAL MAR ATL TEX PHO HOM 72nd 135 [12]
2007 4 DAY CAL ATL MAR KAN CLT
25 		MFD
10 		DOV TEX MCH MLW MEM
21 		KEN IRP NSH BRI GTW NHA LVS
17 		TAL MAR ATL TEX PHO HOM 49th 434 [13]

ARCA Re/Max Series

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

ARCA Re/Max Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 ARMC Pts Ref
2005 Ken Schrader Racing 99 Dodge DAY NSH SLM KEN
5 		TOL LAN MIL POC MCH
8 		KAN KEN BLN POC GTW LER NSH MCH ISF TOL DSF CHI SLM TAL 70th 400 [14]

References

  1. ^ Pockrass, Bob (July 14, 2012). "Kasey Kahne tabs Kevin Hamlin as full-time spotter". Sporting News. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  2. ^ "NASCAR Meets IMSA as Kevin Hamlin and TJ Majors Return to Rolex 24 Spotters Stand with Change Racing". changeracing.com. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  3. ^ "Spotter shuffle: Bowman, Kevin Hamlin paired in 2018; Majors with Logano". Official Site Of NASCAR. 16 October 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  4. ^ "Kevin Hamlin – 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
  5. ^ "Kevin Hamlin – 2005 NASCAR Busch Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  6. ^ "Kevin Hamlin – 2006 NASCAR Busch Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  7. ^ "Kevin Hamlin – 2007 NASCAR Busch Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  8. ^ "Kevin Hamlin – 2008 NASCAR Nationwide Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  9. ^ "Kevin Hamlin – 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  10. ^ "Kevin Hamlin – 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  11. ^ "Kevin Hamlin – 2005 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
  12. ^ "Kevin Hamlin – 2006 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
  13. ^ "Kevin Hamlin – 2007 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
  14. ^ "Kevin Hamlin – 2005 ARCA Re/Max Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 5, 2023.

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