Carl Long
Long atRoad America in 2018
Born	James Carlyle Long (1967-09-20)September 20, 1967 (age 58) Roxboro, North Carolina, U.S.
Achievements	1987South Boston Speedway Track Champion
NASCARCup Series career
26 races run over 7 years
2017 position	62nd
Best finish	53rd (2005)
First race	2000MBNA.com 400 (Dover)
Last race	2017First Data 500 (Martinsville)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCARO'Reilly Auto Parts Series career
128 races run over 17 years
2020 position	68th
Best finish	31st (2011)
First race	2001Aaron's 312 (Atlanta)
Last race	2020Draft Top 250 (Martinsville)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCARCraftsman Truck Series career
20 races run over 9 years
2013 position	109th
Best finish	41st (2010)
First race	1998Loadhandler 200 (Bristol)
Last race	2013Chevrolet Silverado 250 (Mosport)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
Statistics up to date as of November 9, 2020.

James Carlyle Long (born September 20, 1967)^[1] is an American former professionalstock car racing driver,mechanic, and team owner. He last competed part-time in theNASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 66Toyota Supra forMBM Motorsports. In the past, he served as a mechanic forMansion Motorsports,Spears Motorsports, andTravis Carter Motorsports. He was a crew chief at Front Row Motorsports forEric McClure and Competition director at Rick Ware Racing.

Long began racing in 1983 atOrange County Speedway andSouth Boston Speedway. He won the track championship at South Boston in 1987 and the Street Stock championship at Orange County in 1990. In 1992, he raced in NASCAR-sanctioned competition for the first time, earning Rookie of the Year honors at Orange County in the Winston Racing Series, and was awarded the Best Sportsmanship award the following season. After competing at various Winston Racing tracks in the 90's, he moved up to theSlim Jim All Pro Series in 1997, grabbing a win atBristol Motor Speedway in the No. 15Austin Foods Chevy.

In 1998, he began running ARCA and Craftsman Truck races forMansion Motorsports. Most recently, he won the championship race atOrange County Speedway on November 12, 2006.

Long made his NASCAR debut in1998 in the Craftsman Truck Series. at Bristol, starting 21st but finishing 31st after the engine in his No. 91 Mansion MotorsportsFord F-150 expired.

Long began running the Cup races in1999 with the No. 85 Mansion Motorsports team, but DNQ'd for every attempt throughout that year. He ran Bristol again the following year, in the Truck Series posting a career-best ninth place qualifying effort, as well as atLouisville Speedway, where he wrecked very early in the race. After more struggles in 2000, he finally qualified to make his Cup Series debut in one of its most prestigious races, theCoca-Cola 600. However,Darrell Waltrip, one of the top drivers in series history, who was retiring at the end of the 2000 season, failed to qualify. Long gave up his ride to Waltrip for the race. He made another truck race in2000 atTexas, where he started 33rd but finished seventeenth in a truck fielded byTeam 23 Racing. Long would eventually make his Cup debut at Dover, qualifying 42nd but finishing 41st after a crash on lap twelve. He made one more start that year, atRockingham Speedway, finishing 32nd. He ran three races in2001, his best finish being a 29th at theUAW-GM Quality 500. He also made his Busch Series debut in2001 in theAaron's 312 atAtlanta. Driving the No. 49 forJay Robinson Racing, Carl started 41st but came across handling problems during the race, relegating him to 42nd.

In2002, Long ran forRookie of the Year, but failed to earn the award mainly due to an incomplete season. Long attempted a group of the races, but failed to qualify for all except two. He started the season with Mansion Motorsports again, but when that team ran out of money, Long departed the team, originally toGlenn Racing, then toWare Racing Enterprises, and then finally the No. 59Foster Price team, with whom he finished 39th atAtlanta Motor Speedway. In addition, he had a sixteenth-place start at Dover for Mansion in the Truck Series (during which Long ran in the top-ten before an engine failure), and a thirtieth-place finish atRichmond forRick Ware in the Revival Soy truck.

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He made two Busch races in 2003 forRobert Creech, his best finish a 28th at Rockingham. He had another 28th at Rockingham the following year, as well as running the No. 07 forMoy Racing atLoudon, where his engine expired early in the race. He also ran another race for Ware at New Hampshire, but finished last. He made his first race as a team owner that season, whenMatt Carter drove his No. 96 truck to a seventeenth-place finish atMartinsville Speedway. After failing to make a Cup race in2003, Long returned to the Glenn Racing Dodge in2004. In their first race together, Long's car flipped several times in a violent accident at theSubway 400, the final Cup race ever held atNorth Carolina Speedway inRockingham, North Carolina. Long was uninjured and returned to the series in the following Cup event atLas Vegas Motor Speedway, driving for fellow independentHermie Sadler. Long then drove atPocono Raceway for theMcGlynn Racing operation, finishing 41st. After a final race for Glenn he ran two races withHover Motorsports.

Long announced he would merge his No. 46 team with the McGlynn Racing team to run in 2005. Although he drove only the No. 00 from McGlynn, Long ran nine races that year, and had a career-best qualifying effort of 20th at Atlanta. Unfortunately, sponsors wanted 1990 Daytona 500 winnerDerrike Cope to drive the car, which forced McGlynn to release Long. Long closed out the year running atHomestead-Miami Speedway in a personally owned chassis originally purchased fromPetty Enterprises. The car was prepared inStan Hover's shop with mostly volunteers, and a leased motor fromBill Davis Racing was dropped into the car. Unfortunately, a crash in qualifying ended his weekend prematurely. That season Long was also announced as a driver for a new team, Victory Motorsports, owned byTerance Mathis, but the team never ran.

In 2006, Long ran the No. 80 forHover Motorsports at theDaytona 500, but missed the race. He attempted three races forR&J Racing but also failed to qualify for those events. He returned to the Busch Series, driving the No. 23 forKeith Coleman Racing in six races before being replaced, and also ran a Truck Series race forJim Rosenblum Racing. He attempted a race atBristol withLong Brothers Racing, but did not qualify. Long joined a new Nextel Cup team,Cupp Motorsports, in the No. 46Millstar Tools-sponsored Dodge. Long attempted three races for Cupp, but failed to qualify for each of them. He returned with help from McGlynn to attempt theFord 400 at the end of 2006, but did not make the race.

In2007, Long ran a limited schedule forLong Brothers Racing in theUSAR Hooters Pro Cup Series, posting a best finish of second. He ran two races forCarter 2 Motorsports in the Busch Series, before the team closed down. He attempted the2008 Daytona 500 for E&M Motorsports with sponsorship from Millstar andRhino's Energy Drink, but did not qualify. He began fielding his own car withRed Line Oil sponsoring in the Nationwide Series, making his first start of the season at Darlington Raceway.

Long attempted the2009 Daytona 500 with sponsorship from Romeo Guest Construction, one of Long's first sponsors in the mid-1990s when he was competing in Late Models.

In May 2009, Long was fined $200,000 after his engine was discovered to be 0.17 cubic inches over the regulation size during practice for theSprint Showdown. It was the largest fine in NASCAR history until 2013, whenMichael Waltrip Racing was fined $300,000 for allegedly manipulating the outcome of theFederated Auto Parts 400. In addition to the fine, Long's team was penalized two-hundred driver and two-hundred owner points, suspended for twelve Cup races, suspended from all NASCAR races until August 18, and placed on probation until December 31. Because Long was unable to pay the fine, he was barred from participating in the Cup series.^[2][3][4] Prior to his suspension, he was a crew member on the No. 34 Front Row Motorsports Cup team. He has driven for numerous independent teams in theSprint Cup,Nationwide Series, andCamping World Truck Series, as well as theAuto Racing Club of America. In 2010, Long was named to drive the No. 01 Chevrolet for Daisy Ramirez's Truck Series team and the No. 68 Nationwide Series car forFleur-de-lis Motorsports. For 2011, he drove forRick Ware Racing in the Nationwide Series.

In 2014, Long partnered withDerek White to form Motorsports Business Management, fielding a team in the Nationwide Series under the nameMBM Motorsports.^[5] The team made its debut at Bristol withMatt Carter as driver of the No. 13.^[6] For six more races in 2014, Long fielded rides for himself, White, andMike Wallace, failing to qualify for four and not finishing all six races they had qualified.^[7][8][9]

In May 2017, Long announced he had reached an agreement with NASCAR to allow him to return to the Cup Series garage. He also declared his intention to field the No. 66Chevrolet SS at theGo Bowling 400 in Kansas under the MBM Motorsports banner.^[10] The number was selected as tribute to MBM driverMark Thompson, while the paint scheme was nearly identical to the No. 46 car Long drove in the Cup Series prior to his ban from the Cup garage in 2009; the green and yellow colors remained, though the red roof number was changed to yellow.^[3] Although the team received sponsorship from marijuana vaping manufacturerVeedverks, NASCAR prevented the company from appearing on the car after Long misspelled the company name in his sponsor submission to NASCAR, spelling it with an "o" instead of a "d"; upon further investigation by NASCAR, the sanctioning body ordered Long to remove the sponsorship. Long missed the first practice session before running 14 laps in the second session, followed by being unable to set a qualifying lap as he was one of 11 cars stuck in inspection during the session. This relegated Long to a 40th-place starting spot, from which he finished 31st.

Since 2014, Long has ownedMBM Motorsports. The team competes full time in theNASCAR Xfinity Series and part-time in theNASCAR Cup Series.

In February 2021, Long calledNoah Gragson an "over-entitled mouthpiece who did not have the talent to avoid the wreck." This was in response to Gragson calling his driver,David Starr, a "dipshit" after Gragson ran into him after Starr blew a tire. Following the season finale weekend at Phoenix, Long, Starr, and seven team members tested positive forCOVID-19.^[11]

Long is seen as a 'working man's' driver who never had the family corporate money that many of today's stars in racing have behind them.^[12]

Long was a former manager at aRaleigh/DurhamDomino's Pizza, where he was named manager of the year in 1988. He has a wife and 4 kids.^[13] Additionally, he holds the record for most pizzas delivered in one night at that location.^[14]

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

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¹ Ineligible for series points

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

^* Season still in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

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