Nationality American Sport NASCAR Xfinity Series Residence North Carolina Name Todd Parrott | Spouse(s) Billie Kiser-Parrott Team Richard Childress Racing Country United States | |
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Born February 9, 1964 (age 60) ( 1964-02-09 ) Charlotte, North Carolina | ||
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Todd Parrott (born February 9, 1964) is an American stock car racing crew chief. He is currently a crew chief in the NASCAR Monster Energy Series for Michael McDowell on the No. 95 Chevrolet SS for Leavine Family Racing. He was the 1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series champion crew chief, working the No. 88 Robert Yates Racing Ford of Dale Jarrett.
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Career
He was the championship crew chief of the #88 with Dale Jarrett in 1999. He is also the third most winning active crew chief in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series with 31 career wins as of 2013. Parrott is the son of former Richard Petty crew chief Buddy Parrott and a brother of former Carl Edwards crew chief Brad Parrott.
Parrott's first crew chief position was working with Ernie Irvan in 1995 at Yates Racing on the new #88 Ford for two races. When the #88 went full time in 1996, Parrott became the crew chief for Dale Jarrett, winning the 1999 Cup Series championship. After 2002, Parrott worked for periods with several Yates drivers including Jarrett, Elliott Sadler, Travis Kvapil, and David Gilliland. In 2006, Parrot was briefly crew chief for Bobby Labonte at Petty Enterprises before returning to Yates to work with Gilliland. After the 2008 season, Parrott was moved to former Joe Gibbs Racing satellite Hall of Fame Racing, which would begin operating out the Yates shop in 2009. The driver was Bobby Labonte, but once again Parrott and Labonte failed to make it through a full season, while Yates Racing folded following 2009.
He was working the speedway program in the Research and Development department of Roush Fenway Racing prior to joining Matt Kenseth on the #17. After a poor performance at the 2010 Daytona 500 Parrott replaced Drew Blickensderfer as crew chief for the rest of the season. Midway through the season however Parrott was released; he joined Richard Petty Motorsports starting at Chicagoland Speedway as crew chief for Elliott Sadler's No. 19. He moved to the No. 9 team and driver Marcos Ambrose to start the 2011 season; two-thirds through the 2012 season RPM's teams switched crew chiefs with Parrott going to the No. 43 of Aric Almirola, where he remained for 2013.
On October 17, 2013, it was announced that Parrott had been indefinitely suspended due to failing to meet NASCAR's substance abuse policy. He was released by Richard Petty Motorsports on October 21.
On February 3, 2014, Parrott was named the crew chief of the No. 36 of Tommy Baldwin Racing, driven by Reed Sorenson. On December 13, 2014, it was announced that Parrott would be the Competition Director for Richard Childress Racing in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. Parrott was also named the crew chief on RCR's part-time #33 Cup Series car, working nine races for drivers Ty Dillon, Michael Annett, and Brian Scott. Parrott also substituted for Luke Lambert on the RCR #31 Cup car of Ryan Newman for six races, while Lambert served a suspension.
Parrott began 2016 working five races on the #95 Cup entry of Circle Sport – Leavine Family Racing, eventually being named full-time crew chief in October for drivers Ty Dillon and Michael McDowell.