Paul Menard

For the hockey player, see Paul Menard (ice hockey).

John Paul Christian Menard (born August 21, 1980) is an American semi-retired professional stock car racing driver who currently competes full-time in the Trans-Am Series, driving the No. 3 Ford Mustang for 3GT Racing. Menard is the 2024 Trans-Am Series champion in the TA class.

Paul Menard
Menard at the 2018 Can-Am 500
Born	John Paul Christian Menard (1980-08-21) August 21, 1980 (age 44) Eau Claire, Wisconsin, U.S.
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight	180 lb (82 kg)[1]
Achievements	2024 SCCA Trans-Am TA Series Champion 2011 Brickyard 400 winner
NASCAR Cup Series career
471 races run over 16 years
2019 position	19th
Best finish	14th (2015)
First race	2003 Sirius Satellite Radio at the Glen (Watkins Glen)
Last race	2019 Ford EcoBoost 400 (Homestead)
First win	2011 Brickyard 400 (Indianapolis)
Wins Top tens Poles 1 69 2
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
220 races run over 16 years
2019 position	84th
Best finish	5th (2010)
First race	2003 Trace Adkins Chrome 300 (Nashville)
Last race	2019 ROXOR 200 (Loudon)
First win	2006 AT&T 250 (Milwaukee)
Last win	2015 Road America 180 (Road America)
Wins Top tens Poles 3 102 6
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career
8 races run over 3 years
2021 position	45th
Best finish	42nd (2003)
First race	2003 GNC 200 (Milwaukee)
Last race	2021 United Rentals 176 (Watkins Glen)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 2 0
Statistics current as of November 4, 2024.

Menard competed full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series from 2007 to 2019, driving for Dale Earnhardt Inc., Yates Racing, Richard Petty Motorsports, Richard Childress Racing, and Wood Brothers Racing. He retired from full-time competition after the 2019 season. He has also competed in the NASCAR Xfinity Series in the past, including running part-time with Andy Petree Racing in 2003 and 2004, full-time with DEI in 2005 and 2006, and full-time with Roush Fenway Racing in 2010. He has won 1 Cup Series race (the 2011 Brickyard 400), 3 Xfinity Series races, and 1 ARCA Menards Series race.

He is the son of entrepreneur John Menard Jr., the founder of the Menards chain of home improvement stores.

Racing career

Early career

Menard in his No. 15 at Homestead-Miami Speedway in 2006

Menard leads at Talladega in 2006

Menard's racing career began at the age of eight when he won the Briggs Junior Karting Class Championship in his native Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He later won the Briggs Medium Class Champion before working his way up to higher level racing. He began ice racing at the age of 15 and won 10 International Ice Racing Association events in his career. He continues to compete in IIRA events in and around Wisconsin. In the summers he raced legends cars on short tracks in Wisconsin.^[2] He borrowed Bryan Reffner's Late Model for a week winning his heat race and placing around fourth in the feature.^[2] He decided to build his own late model and raced the car three to four times per week.^[2] In an interview with Motorsports Minute, Menard said he chose stock cars over Indy Cars because there was no feeder series for Indy Car in his native Wisconsin.^[2]

In 2000, he began racing a limited schedule in the NASCAR Re/Max Challenge Series, finishing 13th in points. During his rookie season in 2001, he earned a pole and victory at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, finishing ninth in points. The 2002 season saw Menard compete in ReMax Challenge (two poles, seventh in points), SCCA Trans-Am (one front-row start, four top-10 finishes), Grand Am Cup (victories at Fontana and Phoenix) and the NASCAR Southwest Tour. He capped his season in the latter series with a last-lap pass of veteran Ken Schrader for the Phoenix victory.

In 2003, Menard joined Andy Petree Racing to compete in NASCAR Cup Series, Busch, and Truck Series events while still competing in ARCA. In his first ARCA start at Salem Speedway, he qualified second and finished fourth. Later that year, he started on the pole at Winchester, Indiana, and then scored his first ARCA victory at Talladega Superspeedway. He also had top finishes of ninth in the Busch race at Indianapolis Raceway Park and eighth in the Truck race at the Kansas Speedway.

Dale Earnhardt, Inc. (2004–2008)

2008 NASCAR Cup Series car

In 2004, Menard began the NASCAR Busch Series season driving the No. 33 Chevrolet. Midway through the season, he moved to Dale Earnhardt, Inc. in the No. 11 Chevy. 10 races later, Menard won his first career pole position at Kansas Speedway and finished 23rd in points despite no top-tens and missing seven races. With Dan Stillman as crew chief beginning in 2005, they started out by leading 57 laps at Daytona. Winning the Bud Pole Award at Talladega also had them running up front until getting caught up in a wreck. He got his first top-10 and top-five by placing fifth at the Kentucky Speedway. From there, the team went from 20th to the top-10 in points before finishing in sixth place overall, for the season.

In 2006, driving the No. 15 car part-time for DEI, Menard scored his first top-10 finish in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series by coming in seventh place at the Golden Corral 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Menard also won his first Busch Series race on June 24 at his home track of the Milwaukee Mile by holding off a late race charge and bump from Cup regular Kevin Harvick. Harvick eventually caused a multi-car wreck attempting to bump him out of the way.^{[citation needed]} Menard finished off 2006 with a sixth-place finish in the standings, tying his best finish in the standings last year (2005). He scored 16 top-10 finishes and 7 top-5 finishes in the Busch Series.

In 2007, Menard ran his first full-time Cup season. He failed to qualify for six races that season, but after DEI's merger with Ginn Racing, the owner's points were transferred from Sterling Marlin's No. 14 car to Menard, who was then locked into the rest of the races. His best finish of 2007 was in the Citizens Bank 400 where he finished 12th. In the Busch Series, he picked up 5 top-5 finishes. After the fall race at Charlotte, in which Menard and Tony Stewart made contact on pit road, a feud between the drivers ensued; Stewart had driven for John Menard in the Indy Racing League's early years.

In 2008, Menard won his first Sprint Cup Series pole at Daytona International Speedway in early July and remained in the top 35 in owner's points for the entire season. At Talladega in the fall, Menard had the best run of his career leading laps and coming home with a strong second-place finish. He also was up front for a good part of the day in the other. He finished up the season with $3,559,130 in earnings and finished 26th in points standings, a career high.

Yates Racing/Richard Petty Motorsports (2009–2010)

2010 Sprint Cup Series car at Charlotte Motor Speedway

2010 Nationwide Series car at Road America

For the 2009 season, Menard moved over to the No. 98 Ford Fusion operated by Yates Racing. Menard showed limited improvement in 2009, running in the top 10 many times, only to later have problems. For example, he crashed at Las Vegas Motor Speedway while running very well, and was involved in a wreck with only 40 laps to go, while running 7th. These issues lead to the team being in danger of falling out of the top 35 in points standings for much of the year. Menard's best finishes included two 13th-place finishes in the Aarons 499 at Talladega Superspeedway as well as the Samsung 500 at Texas Motor Speedway, and a 15th-place finish in the Southern 500. At the second Dover race, Menard started 10th and ran in the top 10 for most of the day, only to find his car tighten up near the end of the race and come home 19th. At the end of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Menard was the only driver to not score a top 10 finish who ran all of the races. Menard ended up finishing 31st in the final point standings.

For the 2010 season, his No. 98 team moved over to Richard Petty Motorsports, due to its merger with Yates Racing. In his first start with RPM he finished 13th in the 2010 Daytona 500. He then went on to have Top 20s at Las Vegas and Fontana. The following race at Atlanta Motor Speedway Menard posted his second highest career Cup series finish with a fifth place showing followed by a few more top 20s. After that, he fell from the Top 12 in points. At Charlotte, he finished eighth after running in the top 10 all race long. Menard also posted another top 10 in the circuit's 19th race at Chicagoland Speedway. At Dover International Speedway in September he ended up with a 7th-place finish. The following week he started from the second position at Kansas. While most publications rated him around 30th in the 2010 preseason, he finished 23rd in points.

In early 2010, Menard drove in the No. 90 Daytona Prototype for Spirit of Daytona Racing in the Rolex 24 hours at Daytona International Speedway. In 2010 he came close to winning the Nationwide Series race at Road America in his hometown of Wisconsin. Menard was running 7th when he was spun out on the final lap by road course specialist Tony Ave. It appeared that Menard was to blame, but footage captured by a fan showed that Owen Kelly was at fault.

Richard Childress Racing (2011–2017)

2012 Sprint Cup car

Menard moved to Richard Childress Racing in 2011, driving the No. 27.^[3] On July 31, 2011, Menard won his first and only Sprint Cup race in his 167th start, in the Brickyard 400 at the prestigious Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He did so by making his last pit stop with 36 laps to go. He led late, but with 9 laps to go, he was passed by Jamie McMurray. With four to go, he regained the lead and held off Jeff Gordon, the winner of the inaugural Brickyard 400 in the final laps, having enough fuel to do so. He is the first member of the Menard family to win at Indianapolis, in any event, held at the track. He also joins Trevor Bayne, Regan Smith, David Ragan, and Marcos Ambrose as first-time winners in the 2011 season.

In September 2011 at Richmond, Menard and RCR became the center of controversy when Menard spun in the waning laps. It was believed that his accident was intentional, intended to assist his teammate Kevin Harvick who later won the race against Jeff Gordon who would have won if the caution did not come out.^[4]

In 2012, Menard did not perform well. He crashed during the Aaron's 499 at Talladega and went winless for 2012. In 2013, he slightly improved when he was briefly in Chase for the Sprint Cup contention. A blown engine early in the Coke Zero 400^[5] caused him to be knocked out of the Chase with a few races left before the Chase began. In the season-ending Ford EcoBoost 400, Menard's tire exploded upon stopping in his pit box; Menard stated, "About a lap later, they told me I was on fire. I lost my brakes, and the damned wheel blew right off."^[6]

Fans waving to Menard, celebrating his third Xfinity Series win at Road America.

In 2014 Menard scored 13 top tens (a career high) and held a chase spot for most of the regular season but two consecutive 18th place finishes at Atlanta and Richmond (final race of the regular season) dropped him out of contention.

Menard won the Nationwide race at Michigan for his first NNS win since 2006 in June 2014. He won after Joey Logano blew a tire with 4 laps to go.

In the 2015 Sprint Unlimited at Daytona, Menard won the pole for the race by drawing. He led the first 7 laps until he was involved in a big wreck, finishing 21st. The race was later won by Matt Kenseth. Menard later finished in the top 5 in Auto Club and in Talladega and got 5 top 10s and 22 top 15s. He made the Chase for the first time in his career mostly because he had only one DNF (a blown engine in Texas), grabbing the final spot by 17 points over Aric Almirola. He was eliminated in the first round, but with Matt Kenseth's two-race suspension, Menard passed him and finished in a career-best of 14th in the standings. Also in August 2015, Menard took the checkers at Road America, holding off Blake Koch and Ryan Blaney for his third Xfinity Series win. Aside from the 2011 Brickyard 400, the win was Menard's biggest of his career, as Menard had grown up a few miles from the track.

In the 2016 Sprint Unlimited, Menard finished in a career best 3rd place, after surviving several big ones.

To start of 2017, Menard survived wrecks in the Daytona 500 and brought home a 5th place finish after a few cars ran out of gas. The next week at Atlanta, he finished 25th. Menard scored his 2nd top 10 of the year in the GEICO 500 at Talladega, finishing 9th. In the Coke Zero 400, Menard ran up front late and came home 3rd, barely behind Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Clint Bowyer. Menard survived most of the carnage in the Brickyard 400 but crashed in a late big one.

Wood Brothers Racing (2018–2019)

On July 26, 2017, Menard was announced as the replacement for Ryan Blaney in the No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford starting in 2018.^[7]

Menard's 2018 No. 21 car

On June 30, 2018, almost 10 years to the day, Menard got his second ever NASCAR Cup Series Pole Award at Chicagoland Speedway for the Overton's 400.

On July 12, 2019, Menard announced he had a contract for the 2020 season, indicating that he plans to stay with Wood Brothers.^[8] On September 10, 2019, Menard announced his retirement from full-time racing after the 2019 season.^[9]

ThorSport Racing (2021)

On May 17, 2021, Truck Series team ThorSport Racing announced that Menard would return to NASCAR and compete in a fifth part-time truck for the team, the No. 66, in the series' new race at Circuit of the Americas. It is his first NASCAR start in his semi-retirement, and his first Truck Series start since 2007 when he competed in the spring Martinsville race in the No. 51 for Billy Ballew Motorsports.^[10]

Personal life

A native of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Menard is the son of Menards founder John Menard Jr. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire,^[11] majoring in business. He currently resides in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area with his wife Jennifer.^[12] The couple had their first child, a daughter, on March 18, 2014.^[13] The family later welcomed another child, a son, in November 2017. Menard is a Roman Catholic and a fan of power metal music. Paul Menard doesn't have any social media and he chooses to stay away from it because "it is nothing good and there's so much more to life than looking at other people's lives behind a screen."^[14]

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.)

Monster Energy Cup Series

NASCAR 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	Rank	Pts	Ref
2003	Andy Petree Racing	33	Chevy	DAY	CAR	LVS	ATL	DAR	BRI	TEX	TAL	MAR	CAL	RCH	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	SON DNQ	DAY	CHI	NHA	POC	IND	GLN 29	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	NHA	DOV	TAL	KAN	CLT	MAR	ATL	PHO	CAR	HOM	66th	76	[15]
2005	Dale Earnhardt, Inc.	1	Chevy	DAY	CAL	LVS	ATL	BRI	MAR	TEX	PHO	TAL	DAR	RCH	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	SON	DAY	CHI	NHA	POC	IND	GLN 27	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	NHA	DOV	TAL	KAN	CLT	MAR	ATL	TEX	PHO		71st	82	[16]
	Robby Gordon Motorsports	7	Chevy																																				HOM QL†
2006	Dale Earnhardt, Inc.	15	Chevy	DAY DNQ	CAL	LVS	ATL 7	BRI	MAR	TEX	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT 14	DOV	POC	MCH	SON	DAY	CHI DNQ	NHA	POC	IND DNQ	GLN 29	MCH 20	BRI	CAL	RCH	NHA	DOV	KAN	TAL 34	CLT	MAR	ATL	TEX 41	PHO	HOM 17	45th	669	[17]
2007				DAY DNQ	CAL 20	LVS 32	ATL 31	BRI DNQ	MAR DNQ	TEX 15	PHO 25	TAL 43	RCH 16	DAR 31	CLT DNQ	DOV DNQ	POC 28	MCH 12	SON DNQ	NHA 39	DAY 21	CHI 42	IND 20	POC 26	GLN 19	MCH 39	BRI 24	CAL 24	RCH 26	NHA 24	DOV 21	KAN 27	TAL 38	CLT 22	MAR 24	ATL 27	TEX 30	PHO 22	HOM 35	34th	2496	[18]
2008				DAY 22	CAL 27	LVS 22	ATL 19	BRI 32	MAR 16	TEX 17	PHO 21	TAL 14	RCH 31	DAR 36	CLT 41	DOV 22	POC 25	MCH 11	SON 34	NHA 29	DAY 15	CHI 26	IND 41	POC 42	GLN 28	MCH 24	BRI 16	CAL 37	RCH 34	NHA 21	DOV 21	KAN 27	TAL 2	CLT 26	MAR 27	ATL 31	TEX 22	PHO 26	HOM 30	26th	3151	[19]
2009	Yates Racing	98	Ford	DAY 38	CAL 37	LVS 35	ATL 28	BRI 25	MAR 25	TEX 13	PHO 23	TAL 13	RCH 30	DAR 15	CLT 29	DOV 32	POC 29	MCH 34	SON 21	NHA 30	DAY 23	CHI 35	IND 29	POC 26	GLN 19	MCH 26	BRI 24	ATL 15	RCH 28	NHA 34	DOV 19	KAN 30	CAL 27	CLT 27	MAR 23	TAL 42	TEX 29	PHO 29	HOM 26	31st	2979	[20]
2010	Richard Petty Motorsports			DAY 13	CAL 18	LVS 17	ATL 5	BRI 18	MAR 14	PHO 29	TEX 35	TAL 25	RCH 27	DAR 30	DOV 21	CLT 8	POC 16	MCH 25	SON 22	NHA 28	DAY 18	CHI 10	IND 14	POC 13	GLN 16	MCH 35	BRI 21	ATL 35	RCH 26	NHA 28	DOV 7	KAN 8	CAL 22	CLT 24	MAR 13	TAL 13	TEX 10	PHO 29	HOM 19	23rd	3776	[21]
2011	Richard Childress Racing	27	Chevy	DAY 9	PHO 17	LVS 12	BRI 5	CAL 16	MAR 38	TEX 5	TAL 12	RCH 37	DAR 22	DOV 24	CLT 29	KAN 19	POC 14	MCH 4	SON 17	DAY 8	KEN 24	NHA 24	IND 1	POC 10	GLN 32	MCH 26	BRI 30	ATL 18	RCH 34	CHI 20	NHA 20	DOV 16	KAN 12	CLT 17	TAL 12	MAR 24	TEX 15	PHO 9	HOM 16	17th	947	[22]
2012				DAY 6	PHO 31	LVS 7	BRI 10	CAL 19	MAR 26	TEX 18	KAN 18	RCH 13	TAL 17	DAR 13	CLT 15	DOV 17	POC 9	MCH 22	SON 20	KEN 12	DAY 14	NHA 17	IND 14	POC 11	GLN 12	MCH 9	BRI 10	ATL 8	RCH 23	CHI 15	NHA 12	DOV 22	TAL 28	CLT 27	KAN 3	MAR 12	TEX 27	PHO 9	HOM 11	16th	1006	[23]
2013				DAY 21	PHO 20	LVS 10	BRI 9	CAL 8	MAR 19	TEX 17	KAN 10	RCH 13	TAL 26	DAR 19	CLT 13	DOV 20	POC 30	MCH 14	SON 14	KEN 30	DAY 43	NHA 17	IND 12	POC 32	GLN 17	MCH 4	BRI 6	ATL 24	RCH 5	CHI 22	NHA 22	DOV 18	KAN 7	CLT 24	TAL 4	MAR 22	TEX 15	PHO 16	HOM 39	17th	949	[24]
2014				DAY 32	PHO 23	LVS 3	BRI 21	CAL 9	MAR 10	TEX 9	DAR 41	RCH 24	TAL 6	KAN 17	CLT 8	DOV 10	POC 26	MCH 4	SON 5	KEN 15	DAY 16	NHA 19	IND 34	POC 33	GLN 32	MCH 4	BRI 9	ATL 18	RCH 18	CHI 21	NHA 15	DOV 16	KAN 9	CLT 42	TAL 36	MAR 14	TEX 17	PHO 23	HOM 4	21st	944	[25]
2015				DAY 25	ATL 13	LVS 12	PHO 14	CAL 4	MAR 23	TEX 41	BRI 11	RCH 15	TAL 3	KAN 18	CLT 14	DOV 8	POC 31	MCH 8	SON 13	DAY 16	KEN 15	NHA 25	IND 14	POC 11	GLN 13	MCH 12	BRI 24	DAR 26	RCH 26	CHI 17	NHA 15	DOV 25	CLT 36	KAN 19	TAL 6	MAR 15	TEX 13	PHO 13	HOM 21	14th	2262	[26]
2016				DAY 18	ATL 18	LVS 15	PHO 38	CAL 15	MAR 8	TEX 26	BRI 15	RCH 22	TAL 26	KAN 40	DOV 11	CLT 17	POC 33	MCH 18	SON 16	DAY 36	KEN 18	NHA 18	IND 10	POC 35	GLN 22	BRI 32	MCH 18	DAR 16	RCH 40	CHI 21	NHA 25	DOV 22	CLT 34	KAN 20	TAL 13	MAR 25	TEX 28	PHO 10	HOM 14	25th	678	[27]
2017	DAY 5	ATL 25	LVS 19	PHO 21	CAL 28	MAR 19	TEX 36	BRI 16	RCH 25	TAL 9	KAN 35	CLT 13	DOV 33	POC 20	MCH 22	SON 11	DAY 3	KEN 21	NHA 22	IND 16	POC 19	GLN 18	MCH 34	BRI 16	DAR 16	RCH 28	CHI 14	NHA 20	DOV 26	CLT 19	TAL 12	KAN 12	MAR 20	TEX 23	PHO 15	HOM 16	23rd	631	[28]
2018	Wood Brothers Racing	21	Ford	DAY 6	ATL 17	LVS 9	PHO 36	CAL 19	MAR 13	TEX 30	BRI 13	RCH 24	TAL 30	DOV 34	KAN 6	CLT 14	POC 11	MCH 5	SON 26	CHI 13	DAY 28	KEN 11	NHA 17	POC 21	GLN 28	MCH 16	BRI 36	DAR 17	IND 9	LVS 10	RCH 22	CLT 33	DOV 16	TAL 9	KAN 32	MAR 22	TEX 13	PHO 29	HOM 25	19th	692	[29]
2019				DAY 29	ATL 14	LVS 15	PHO 17	CAL 20	MAR 15	TEX 19	BRI 6	RCH 10	TAL 16	DOV 17	KAN 24	CLT 14	POC 18	MCH 13	SON 22	CHI 21	DAY 16	KEN 11	NHA 13	POC 18	GLN 18	MCH 15	BRI 23	DAR 9	IND 10	LVS 14	RCH 27	CLT 16	DOV 12	TAL 16	KAN 18	MAR 21	TEX 20	PHO 12	HOM 17	19th	777	[30]
† – Qualified for Robby Gordon

Daytona 500

Year	Team	Manufacturer	Start	Finish
2006	Dale Earnhardt, Inc.	Chevrolet	DNQ
2007			DNQ
2008			21	22
2009	Yates Racing	Ford	19	38
2010	Richard Petty Motorsports		32	13
2011	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	19	9
2012			37	6
2013			16	21
2014			10	32
2015			21	25
2016			37	18
2017			33	5
2018	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	16	6
2019			7	29

Xfinity Series

NASCAR Xfinity 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	NXSC	Pts	Ref
2003	Andy Petree Racing	55	Chevy	DAY	CAR	LVS	DAR	BRI	TEX	TAL	NSH	CAL	RCH	GTY	NZH	CLT	DOV	NSH 12	KEN 14	MLW	DAY	CHI 37	NHA	PPR 23	IRP 9	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH DNQ	DOV	KAN	CLT	MEM	ATL	PHO 22	CAR	HOM		60th	629	[31]
2004		33		DAY 32	CAR 22	LVS 21	DAR 26	BRI 28	TEX 14	NSH 16	TAL 16	CAL 28	GTY 22	RCH 33	NZH 13	CLT 19	DOV 21	NSH																					23rd	2742	[32]
	Michael Waltrip Racing	99	Chevy																KEN QL†	MLW	DAY	CHI
	Dale Earnhardt, Inc.	11	Chevy																				NHA 18	PPR 12	IRP 20	MCH DNQ	BRI 36	CAL 21	RCH 13	DOV 15	KAN 17	CLT DNQ	MEM 11	ATL 19	PHO 14	DAR 12	HOM 34
2005				DAY 17	CAL 20	MXC 34	LVS 37	ATL 24	NSH 36	BRI 22	TEX 18	PHO 15	TAL 27	DAR 30	RCH 36	CLT 12	DOV 28	NSH 13	KEN 5	MLW 3	DAY 6	CHI 9	NHA 7	PPR 12	GTY 5	IRP 7	GLN 8	MCH 6	BRI 41	CAL 10	RCH 2	DOV 10	KAN 36	CLT 3	MEM 6	TEX 17	PHO 13	HOM 5	6th	4101	[33]
2006				DAY 38	CAL 17	MXC 5	LVS 20	ATL 10	BRI 16	TEX 7	NSH 9	PHO 17	TAL 9	RCH 8	DAR 13	CLT 24	DOV 35	NSH 5	KEN 9	MLW 1*	DAY 37	CHI 39	NHA 4	MAR 12	GTY 35	IRP 9	GLN 18	MCH 25	BRI 10	CAL 4	RCH 4	DOV 37	KAN 10	CLT 13	MEM 23	TEX 27	PHO 37	HOM 3	6th	4075	[34]
2007		15		DAY 17	CAL 37	MXC	LVS 36	ATL 18	BRI	NSH	TEX 9	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR 22	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	NHA	DAY	CHI 6	GTY	IRP	CGV	GLN 4	MCH 7	BRI	CAL	RCH 40	DOV	KAN 7	CLT	MEM	TEX	PHO	HOM	43rd	1208	[35]
2009	Yates Racing	98	Ford	DAY	CAL	LVS	BRI 11	TEX 5	NSH	PHO 14	TAL	RCH	DAR DNQ	CLT 21	DOV 6	NSH	KEN	MLW	NHA 35	DAY	CHI 14	GTY	IRP	IOW	GLN 29	MCH 10	BRI 9	CGV 15	ATL 12	RCH 13	DOV	KAN	CAL 11	CLT	MEM	TEX	PHO 30	HOM 14	25th	1876	[36]
2010	Roush Fenway Racing			DAY 6	CAL 19	LVS 8	BRI 11	NSH 11	PHO 7	TEX 10	TAL 8	RCH 19	DAR 10	DOV 28	CLT 18	NSH 3	KEN 32	ROA 16	NHA 9	DAY 28	CHI 11	GTY 4	IRP 9	IOW 16	GLN 17	MCH 5	BRI 13	CGV 5	ATL 9	RCH 8	DOV 7	KAN 8	CAL 12	CLT 35	GTY 9	TEX 9	PHO 13	HOM 9	5th	4467	[37]
2011	Kevin Harvick Inc.	33	Chevy	DAY	PHO	LVS	BRI	CAL	TEX 3	TAL	NSH	RCH 2	DAR	DOV	IOW	CLT	CHI	MCH 4	ROA	DAY	KEN	NHA	NSH	IRP	IOW	GLN 6	CGV	BRI	ATL	RCH	CHI 9	DOV	KAN 4	CLT 8	TEX	PHO	HOM		102nd	01	[38]
2012	Richard Childress Racing			DAY	PHO	LVS	BRI	CAL	TEX 2*	RCH	TAL	DAR	IOW	CLT	DOV	MCH 8	ROA	KEN	DAY	NHA	CHI	IND 8	IOW	GLN 8	CGV	BRI	ATL	RCH	CHI 5	KEN	DOV 2	CLT	KAN 16*	TEX	PHO	HOM			109th	01	[39]
2013				DAY	PHO	LVS	BRI	CAL	TEX	RCH	TAL	DAR	CLT	DOV	IOW	MCH 3	ROA	KEN	DAY	NHA 32	CHI	IND 6	IOW	GLN	MOH	BRI	ATL	RCH	CHI	KEN	DOV	KAN 2	CLT	TEX	PHO	HOM			98th	01	[40]
2014				DAY	PHO	LVS	BRI	CAL	TEX	DAR	RCH	TAL	IOW	CLT	DOV	MCH 1	ROA	KEN 4	DAY	NHA 19	CHI	IND 6	IOW	GLN 9	MOH	BRI	ATL	RCH	CHI 11	KEN	DOV	KAN 4	CLT	TEX	PHO	HOM 12			83rd	01	[41]
2015				DAY	ATL 6	LVS	PHO	CAL	TEX	BRI	RCH	TAL	IOW	CLT	DOV	MCH 18	CHI	DAY	KEN 6	NHA	IND 4	IOW	GLN 9	MOH	BRI	ROA 1	DAR 25	RCH	CHI 4	KEN	DOV	CLT	KAN	TEX	PHO	HOM			88th	01	[42]
2016		2		DAY	ATL 4	LVS	PHO	CAL	TEX	BRI	RCH	TAL	DOV 29	CLT	POC 7	MCH 3	IOW	DAY	KEN	NHA	IND 3	IOW	GLN 2	MOH	BRI	ROA	DAR 20	RCH	CHI 9	KEN	DOV	CLT	KAN	TEX	PHO	HOM			95th	01	[43]
2017				DAY	ATL	LVS	PHO	CAL 36	TEX	BRI	RCH	TAL	CLT	DOV	POC 31	MCH 7	IOW	DAY	KEN 34	NHA	IND 2	IOW	GLN 5	MOH	BRI	ROA	DAR	RCH 19	CHI	KEN	DOV	CLT	KAN	TEX	PHO	HOM			96th	01	[44]
2018	Team Penske	22	Ford	DAY	ATL	LVS	PHO	CAL	TEX	BRI	RCH	TAL	DOV	CLT	POC 8	MCH 5	IOW	CHI 8	DAY	KEN 9	NHA	IOW	GLN	MOH	BRI	ROA	DAR	IND	LVS	RCH	CLT	DOV	KAN	TEX	PHO	HOM			98th	01	[45]
2019		12		DAY	ATL	LVS	PHO	CAL	TEX	BRI	RCH	TAL	DOV	CLT	POC	MCH 4*	IOW	CHI	DAY	KEN	NHA 5	IOW	GLN	MOH	BRI	ROA	DAR	IND	LVS	RCH	CLT	DOV	KAN	TEX	PHO	HOM			84th	01	[46]
† - Qualified for Michael Waltrip

Camping World Truck Series

NASCAR Camping World 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	NCWTC	Pts	Ref
2003	Andy Petree Racing	33	Chevy	DAY	DAR	MMR	MAR	CLT	DOV	TEX	MEM	MLW 11	KAN 8	KEN	GTW 21	MCH	IRP	NSH	BRI 21	RCH	NHA	CAL	LVS	SBO 21	TEX	MAR	PHO	HOM	42nd	572	[47]
2007	Billy Ballew Motorsports	51	Chevy	DAY	CAL	ATL	MAR 33	KAN	CLT	MFD	DOV	TEX	MCH	MLW	MEM	KEN	IRP	NSH	BRI	GTW	NHA	LVS	TAL	MAR	ATL	TEX	PHO	HOM	104th	64	[48]
2021	ThorSport Racing	66	Toyota	DAY	DAY	LVS	ATL	BRI	RCH	KAN	DAR	COA 11	CLT	TEX	NSH	POC	KNX	GLN 8	GTW	DAR	BRI	LVS	TAL	MAR	PHO				45th	59	[49]

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
2003	Andy Petree Racing	33	Chevy	DAY	ATL	NSH	SLM 4	TOL	KEN	CLT 34	BLN	KAN	MCH	LER	POC	POC	NSH	ISF	WIN 26	DSF	CHI	SLM	TAL DNQ				43rd	660	[50]
		26																					TAL 1*	CLT	SBO
2004		33		DAY 35	NSH	SLM	KEN	TOL	CLT	KAN	POC	MCH	SBO	BLN	KEN	GTW	POC	LER	NSH	ISF	TOL	DSF	CHI	SLM	TAL		172nd	70	[51]
2007	Dale Earnhardt, Inc.	15	Chevy	DAY	USA	NSH	SLM	KAN	WIN	KEN	TOL	IOW	POC 35	MCH	BLN	KEN	POC	NSH	ISF	MIL	GTW	DSF	CHI	SLM	TAL	TOL	175th	55	[52]
2009	Kimmel Racing	98	Ford	DAY	SLM	CAR	TAL	KEN	TOL 4	POC	MCH	MFD	IOW	KEN	BLN	POC	ISF	CHI	TOL	DSF	NJE	SLM	KAN	CAR			105th	210	[53]

^* Season still in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

24 Hours of Daytona Results

Year	Team	Co-drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2003	Flis Motorsports	Doug Goad Paul Mears Jr. Jim Briody	Chevrolet Corvette	GTS	542	21st	6th
2004	Orison-Planet Earth Motorsports	Joe Nonnamaker Will Nonnamaker Charlie Menard Wayne Nonnamaker	Porsche GT3 Cup	SGS	493	15th	4th
2010	Spirit of Daytona Racing	Antonio Garcia Darren Manning Buddy Rice	Coyote CC/09-Porsche	DP	346	32nd	13th

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External links

• Official website
• Paul Menard driver statistics at Racing-Reference

Achievements
Preceded by Jamie McMurray	Brickyard 400 winner 2011	Succeeded by Jimmie Johnson