2015 position 105th Best finish 29th (2014) | Name Chad Boat | |
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Born April 30, 1992 (age 31)
Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. ( 1992-04-30 ) Car no., team No. 84 (Billy Boat Motorsports) First race 2014 DRIVE4COPD 300 (Daytona) Last race 2015 Hisense 300 (Charlotte) Truck no., team No. 16 (Billy Boat Motorsports) Similar People Billy Boat, Mason Mingus, Daniel Hemric Profiles | ||
Chad Boat (born April 30, 1992) is an American professional stock car racing driver and the son of Billy Boat. He currently competes part-time in Indy Lights for Belardi Auto Racing.
Contents
- Chad boat flip 2012 arca in kansas
- Sprint cars and midgets
- NASCARStock cars
- Indy Lights
- Personal life
- NASCAR
- Camping World Truck Series
- References
Chad boat flip 2012 arca in kansas
Sprint cars and midgets
Boat began his racing career in quarter midgets at the age of 5. At 7, he won the Arizona state quarter midget championship, and the following year won the Light Modified and Light 160 midget championships.
NASCAR/Stock cars
After competing in USAC competition, Boat moved to NASCAR in 2010, running in seven K&N Pro Series West events between 2010 and 2012, with a best finish of fourth in 2010 at Iowa Speedway; he also ran 19 K&N Pro Series East events with a best finish of ninth at Bowman Gray Stadium in 2011. Boat also competed in ten ARCA Racing Series events in 2012 and 2013, posting third-place finishes twice at Iowa.
In January 2014, Boat announced that he would be competing for Rookie of the Year in the Nationwide Series in 2014, running 15 events for family-owned Billy Boat Motorsports. Boat finished 29th in points with a best finish of 22nd at Iowa Speedway. In 2015 he raced in both the Xfinity (formerly Nationwide) Series and Camping World Truck Series for Billy Boat Motorsports. He made 3 Xfinity starts and 4 truck series starts. He ran for the Truck Series championship and finished 38th in points with a best finish of ninth at Talladega Superspeedway, his best NASCAR finish to date.
Indy Lights
On June 27, 2017 it was announced that Boat would compete in the Indy Lights series with Belardi Auto Racing competing at the oval events at Iowa Speedway and Gateway Motorsports Park in the latter half of the 2017 season. Chad's father Billy also competed in Indy Lights, then called the American Racing Series, in 1986 and 1987.
Personal life
Boat attended University of North Carolina at Charlotte, majoring in finance.
NASCAR
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
Camping World Truck Series
* Season still in progress
1 Ineligible for series points