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class="infobox-label">Birth name</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Michael Ford</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States"><img alt="United States" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></a></span></span> American</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1970-04-13</span>) </span>April 13, 1970<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 54)</span><br /><span class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Morristown,_Tennessee" title="Morristown, Tennessee">Morristown, Tennessee</a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #CCCC99;">Sport</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Sport</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/NASCAR" title="NASCAR">NASCAR</a> <a href="/wiki/Xfinity_Series" class="mw-redirect" title="Xfinity Series">Xfinity Series</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Team</th><td class="infobox-data org"><a href="/wiki/RSS_Racing" title="RSS Racing">RSS Racing</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Michael “Mike” Ford</b> (born April 13, 1970) is an American <a href="/wiki/NASCAR" title="NASCAR">NASCAR</a> crew chief from <a href="/wiki/Morristown,_Tennessee" title="Morristown, Tennessee">Morristown, Tennessee</a> who most recently was known to be working for <a href="/wiki/RSS_Racing" title="RSS Racing">RSS Racing</a> in the <a href="/wiki/NASCAR_Xfinity_Series" title="NASCAR Xfinity Series">NASCAR Xfinity Series</a>. </p><p>Ford resides in <a href="/wiki/Stanley,_North_Carolina" title="Stanley, North Carolina">Stanley, North Carolina</a> with his wife, Robin, and their two children Alex and Austin.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mike_Ford_(NASCAR)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ford's racing career began in the late 1980s when he worked at <a href="/wiki/SABCO_Racing" class="mw-redirect" title="SABCO Racing">SABCO Racing</a> under the direction of <a href="/wiki/Gary_Nelson_(NASCAR)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gary Nelson (NASCAR)">Gary Nelson</a>, who now works as NASCAR's vice president of research and development. Ford's duties included a little bit of everything, including suspension work and car set-up.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1990s–2005:_Dale_Jarrett_and_Bill_Elliott_(Yates_and_Evernham)"><span id="1990s.E2.80.932005:_Dale_Jarrett_and_Bill_Elliott_.28Yates_and_Evernham.29"></span>1990s–2005: Dale Jarrett and Bill Elliott (Yates and Evernham)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mike_Ford_(NASCAR)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 1990s–2005: Dale Jarrett and Bill Elliott (Yates and Evernham)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Before landing his first crew chiefing job with <a href="/wiki/Bill_Elliott" title="Bill Elliott">Bill Elliott</a>’s <a href="/wiki/Bill_Elliott_Racing" title="Bill Elliott Racing">team</a> in <a href="/wiki/2000_NASCAR_Winston_Cup_Series" title="2000 NASCAR Winston Cup Series">2000</a>, Ford worked as a mechanic and jackman with <a href="/wiki/Dale_Jarrett" title="Dale Jarrett">Dale Jarrett</a>'s No. 88 team for <a href="/wiki/Robert_Yates_Racing" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Yates Racing">Robert Yates Racing</a> from 1996 to 1999. During that time, Jarrett never finished lower than third in points, won the <a href="/wiki/1999_NASCAR_Winston_Cup_Series" title="1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series">1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series</a> championship, the <a href="/wiki/1996_NASCAR_Winston_Cup_Series" title="1996 NASCAR Winston Cup Series">1996</a> <a href="/wiki/Daytona_500" title="Daytona 500">Daytona 500</a>, and scored victories in the <a href="/wiki/Brickyard_400" title="Brickyard 400">Brickyard 400</a> in 1996 and 1999. The team won a total of 18 races during the four-year period. </p><p>2000 was the last year of Elliott's tenure as an owner/driver, and when he moved to the new <a href="/wiki/Evernham_Motorsports" title="Evernham Motorsports">Evernham Motorsports</a> team starting in <a href="/wiki/2001_NASCAR_Winston_Cup_Series" title="2001 NASCAR Winston Cup Series">2001</a> (and continuing through <a href="/wiki/2003_NASCAR_Winston_Cup_Series" title="2003 NASCAR Winston Cup Series">2003</a>), Ford continued as his crew chief. With Evernham, Elliott and Mike Ford won four races, including the <a href="/wiki/2002_Brickyard_400" title="2002 Brickyard 400">2002 Brickyard 400</a>. </p><p>When Elliott semi-retired after the 2003 season, Ford did not continue with the No. 9 team for Evernham with their new driver, rookie <a href="/wiki/Kasey_Kahne" title="Kasey Kahne">Kasey Kahne</a>, and Ford instead rejoined Yates and Jarrett's No. 88 team, this time as crew chief. Ford led Jarrett to a victory in the 2004 <a href="/wiki/Budweiser_Shootout" class="mw-redirect" title="Budweiser Shootout">Budweiser Shootout</a> at <a href="/wiki/Daytona_International_Speedway" title="Daytona International Speedway">Daytona</a> to start the year. Ford hired Russ Salerno as his Pit Crew Coach in 2004<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> to help with pit crew performance. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2005–2011:_Joe_Gibbs_Racing_(Jason_Leffler_and_Denny_Hamlin)"><span id="2005.E2.80.932011:_Joe_Gibbs_Racing_.28Jason_Leffler_and_Denny_Hamlin.29"></span>2005–2011: Joe Gibbs Racing (Jason Leffler and Denny Hamlin)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mike_Ford_(NASCAR)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 2005–2011: Joe Gibbs Racing (Jason Leffler and Denny Hamlin)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After 11 races in <a href="/wiki/2005_NASCAR_Nextel_Cup_Series" title="2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series">2005</a>, Ford left RYR<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was later announced as the new crew chief for <a href="/wiki/Jason_Leffler" title="Jason Leffler">Jason Leffler</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Joe_Gibbs_Racing" title="Joe Gibbs Racing">Joe Gibbs Racing</a> No. 11 team starting at <a href="/wiki/Dover_International_Speedway" class="mw-redirect" title="Dover International Speedway">Dover</a>, replacing rookie crew chief <a href="/wiki/Dave_Rogers_(NASCAR)" title="Dave Rogers (NASCAR)">Dave Rogers</a>, who was taken and reassigned within JGR after the team did not qualify for the Coca-Cola 600. After the team still was not improving to the level the team wanted and expected, Leffler was also released and was replaced on an interim basis by <a href="/wiki/Terry_Labonte" title="Terry Labonte">Terry Labonte</a> (whose brother <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Labonte" title="Bobby Labonte">Bobby</a> was driving for Gibbs in the No. 18 at the time), and later their Busch Series drivers <a href="/wiki/J._J._Yeley" title="J. J. Yeley">J. J. Yeley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Denny_Hamlin" title="Denny Hamlin">Denny Hamlin</a>. Ford worked with Hamlin full-time in 2006 when he got the ride. The two started off on a high note, winning the Budweiser Shootout, and sweeping both races at <a href="/wiki/Pocono_Raceway" title="Pocono Raceway">Pocono</a>. Hamlin won Rookie of the Year in 2006 and finished an impressive third in points. </p><p>In 2007, Ford and Hamlin won one race at <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire_Motor_Speedway" title="New Hampshire Motor Speedway">New Hampshire</a> in June and finished twelfth in points, their lowest points finish together. They had a similar year in 2008, winning once at the spring <a href="/wiki/Martinsville_Speedway" title="Martinsville Speedway">Martinsville</a> race but improving to eighth in points. </p><p>As crew chief of the No. 11 car, Mike Ford won 17 races and had championship finishes of 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 8th, 9th, and 12th. Ford and Hamlin never missed the chase in their six years paired together. On Dec 6th, 2011, Joe Gibbs Racing released Ford after a dismal year in <a href="/wiki/2011_NASCAR_Sprint_Cup_Series" title="2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series">2011</a>, only winning one race and dropping to ninth in points. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2012–present_(Richard_Petty_Motorsports,_BK_Racing,_Athenian_Motorsports,_RSS_Racing)"><span id="2012.E2.80.93present_.28Richard_Petty_Motorsports.2C_BK_Racing.2C_Athenian_Motorsports.2C_RSS_Racing.29"></span>2012–present (Richard Petty Motorsports, BK Racing, Athenian Motorsports, RSS Racing)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mike_Ford_(NASCAR)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 2012–present (Richard Petty Motorsports, BK Racing, Athenian Motorsports, RSS Racing)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On April 30, 2012, he replaced <a href="/wiki/Greg_Erwin" title="Greg Erwin">Greg Erwin</a> as crew chief for the No. 43 <a href="/wiki/Richard_Petty_Motorsports" title="Richard Petty Motorsports">Richard Petty Motorsports</a> <a href="/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company" title="Ford Motor Company">Ford</a>, driven by <a href="/wiki/Aric_Almirola" title="Aric Almirola">Aric Almirola</a>, for the rest of the <a href="/wiki/2012_NASCAR_Sprint_Cup_Series" title="2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series">2012 season</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-mikefordrpm_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mikefordrpm-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On September 10, 2012, Richard Petty Motorsports announced that they would swap crew chiefs between their two teams, with Ford moving from Almirola's No. 43 to the No. 9 of <a href="/wiki/Marcos_Ambrose" title="Marcos Ambrose">Marcos Ambrose</a>, while Ambrose's crew chief, <a href="/wiki/Todd_Parrott" title="Todd Parrott">Todd Parrott</a>, would become the new crew chief for the No. 43. However, after just seven races, Richard Petty Motorsports announced on October 30, 2012, that Ford was no longer with the organization and would be replaced by <a href="/wiki/Drew_Blickensderfer" title="Drew Blickensderfer">Drew Blickensderfer</a> as Ambrose's crew chief.<sup id="cite_ref-crew_chief_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crew_chief-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2012, Ford was hired as the competition director for <a href="/wiki/BK_Racing" title="BK Racing">BK Racing</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He left BK Racing in October 2014 for <a href="/wiki/Athenian_Motorsports" title="Athenian Motorsports">Athenian Motorsports</a> through the majority of 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ford returned to BK in a crew chief role for the <a href="/wiki/2016_Daytona_500" title="2016 Daytona 500">2016 Daytona 500</a>, working with the part-time No. 26 and No. 93 teams as crew chief for <a href="/wiki/Robert_Richardson,_Jr._(racing_driver)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Richardson, Jr. (racing driver)">Robert Richardson, Jr.</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ryan_Ellis_(racing_driver)" title="Ryan Ellis (racing driver)">Ryan Ellis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2017, he was hired as the competition director for <a href="/wiki/GMS_Racing" title="GMS Racing">GMS Racing</a>’s No. 23 team in the Xfinity Series.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On April 10, 2018, it was announced that Ford had rejoined Sieg's team in some sort of consultant role.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is unclear if Ford is still working for them today. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mike_Ford_(NASCAR)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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