Jeff Green
Green atDover International Speedway in 2018
Born	Jeffrey Lynn Green (1962-09-06)September 6, 1962 (age 63) Owensboro, Kentucky, U.S.
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Weight	190 lb (86 kg)
Achievements	2000 NASCAR Busch SeriesChampion 1990Nashville Speedway USA Track Champion 2003Daytona 500pole winner
NASCARCup Series career
270 races run over 15 years
2015 position	74th
Best finish	17th (2002)
First race	1994Miller Genuine Draft 400 (Richmond)
Last race	2015Toyota Owners 400 (Richmond)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 16 2
NASCARO'Reilly Auto Parts Series career
535 races run over 30 years
2020 position	54th
Best finish	1st (2000)
First race	1990Autolite 200 (Richmond)
Last race	2020Pocono Green 225 (Pocono)
First win	1997Las Vegas 300 (Las Vegas)
Last win	2002Carquest Auto Parts 300 (Charlotte)
Wins Top tens Poles 16 131 23
NASCARCraftsman Truck Series career
10 races run over 3 years
2012 position	104th
Best finish	33rd (2008)
First race	1997Virginia Is For Lovers 200 (Richmond)
Last race	2012American Ethanol 225 (Chicago)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 1 0
Statistics up to date as of January 29, 2021.

Jeffrey Lynn Green (born September 6, 1962) is an American former professionalstock car racing driver andcrew chief. He most recently worked forRSS Racing as the crew chief for their No. 28 car in theARCA Menards Series, driven byKyle Sieg, and also competed part-time in theNASCAR Xfinity Series as astart and park driver for the team.

Green's 1990Nashville Speedway USA championship led to his first foray in NASCAR. For several years, he raced part time in the Busch Series before thriving as a full-time driver in 1995 and 1996. He then went through a two-year Cup stint withDiamond Ridge Motorsports andFelix Sabates.

Green returned to the Busch Series in1999 for three seasons. He won the2000championship by 616 points, a series record which stood until2006, and finished second in points twice. Green participated inIROC's25th season in 2001 and has raced full time with four different Sprint Cup teams since2002.

Green was born inOwensboro,Kentucky on September 6, 1962, as the youngest of three brothers;^[1]Mark andDavid Green would also become NASCAR drivers. He currently resides inDavidson,North Carolina with his wife Michelle.^[2] In 2002, he and Mark founded The Green Foundation, a nonprofit charity assisting people with severe injuries and life-threatening illnesses.

Green dominated the field to win the 1990 track championship atNashville Speedway USA. In 22 races, he won fifteen times and had only one finish below third. After the season,John Boatman approached Green about competing in theAutolite Platinum 200, a NASCARBusch Series event taking place atRichmond International Raceway. Green would start 23rd and finish 22nd in the event, exceeding the team's goal of simplyqualifying for the race.^[3]

Green ran a limited schedule from1991 to1994, sporadically appearing in Busch Series races and making Cup starts forSadler Brothers andJunior Johnson in1994. He became a full-time driver in the Busch Series in 1995 forDale Earnhardt, Inc., and after consecutive Top 5 finishes in the points standings, he made a pair of Cup races for DEI in1996. At the end of the season, he signed to drive the unsponsored No. 8 Chevy forDiamond Ridge Motorsports, and won his first career race at Las Vegas. He later made twenty Winston Cup series starts in1997 for the No. 29Cartoon NetworkChevrolet Monte Carlo, owned by Diamond Ridge, finishing just behind his brother David for Rookie of the Year honors. Green planned to race full time for the team in1998, but only raced in the No. 29 for three of the first six races. He was later released by Diamond Ridge, who suspended operations for the Winston Cup team in an effort to focus on the Busch Series.^[4] Green substituted a race forDerrike Cope, and later signed a contract to drive the No. 46First Union/The Money Store Chevrolet, owned byFelix Sabates, for the rest of the year. Overall, he would race in 22 of 33 season events and finished fortieth in points.

Green turned his focus back to the Busch Series afterwards, finishing in the top-two in points for the next three years. He finished second in the standings, 280 points behindDale Earnhardt Jr., in1999 driving the No. 32Kleenex Chevy forProgressive Motorsports. It was his first full-time Busch series season since 1996.

As his team became the No. 10Nesquick/Nestlé Chevy and was rebrandedppc Racing in2000, Green became the heavy favorite to win the championship after Earnhardt andMatt Kenseth departed for the Winston Cup.^[5] After dueling withTodd Bodine for the points lead early in the season, Green pulled away with fourteen consecutive top-ten finishes, a streak which included five wins.^[6] At the end of the year, Green had won the Busch Series championship by 616 points overppc Racing teammateJason Keller. This final victory margin was the largest in series history until2006. Green set a series record for most Top 5's in a season (25), and withDavid Green, the1994 Busch Series champion, became the first brothers to both win NASCAR championships.^[7]

After the 2000 season, Green was again a championship favorite in the2001 season after switching to Ford. He eventually caught up to Harvick and, with a win in theCarquest Auto Parts 300, Green took a fourteen-point lead over Harvick fourteen races into the season. However, he would suffer a 29th and two 31st-place finishes in the next four races, crippling his chances in the points race as he fell to fourth-place, 302 points behind Harvick. Green finished 124 points behind Harvick and earned his second runner-up finish in three seasons. He had seven finishes outside the Top 20 compared to only two the previous season. In all, during his three-year full-time return to the Busch Series, Green had thirteen wins and 72 top-tens — both the most of any driver during that period — and averaged three top-tens in every four races.^[2] Later that season Green began driving forRichard Childress Racing part time in the No. 30America Online Chevrolet in Winston Cup (oddly enough as a replacement for Harvick, who was supposed to drive this car before thedeath of Dale Earnhardt caused him to be promoted to Childress' Winston Cup team much earlier than planned). Green competed in eight races, winning one pole and scoring one top-ten finish. After the season, he left the Busch Series to drive for Childress full time.

In Green's first full Winston Cup season in 2002, he picked up four top-five finishes, and six top-tens to finish 17th in points.^[8] One of these finishes which was his best career finish in theNew England 300, finishing 2nd to race winnerWard Burton. The second-place finish brought him up to eighteenth in the points standings, and Green stayed in the top-twenty for the rest of the year.

Green began2003 by winning the pole for theDaytona 500 and had a seventh-place finish atTexas Motor Speedway, but otherwise failed to finish higher than 20th and crashed twice. After an incident with teammate Harvick atRichmond, Richard Childress Racing fired Green on May 5. Two days later, he was picked up by DEI to drive the No. 1Pennzoil Chevrolet, replacingSteve Park, who was hired by Childress to drive the No. 30. Green fared no better than sixteenth in twelve races and was replaced byJohn Andretti. He was also replaced in the road-course races byRon Fellows. In reaction, Green said he was not given the opportunity to improve the situation.^[9] After missing three races, Green drove the No. 43Cheerios/Betty CrockerDodge Intrepid forPetty Enterprises in theDover 400 after the original driver,Christian Fittipaldi, had a commitment to drive the No. 44 in four races. After driving the Dodge again in theEA Sports 500 the next week, he became the driver for the rest of the season on a race-to-race basis. Green's best finish with the team was 16th atDover International Speedway; team ownerRichard Petty expressed anticipation that the team could work well together after a few months.^[10] Green finished 34th in the points standings, and was signed to drive full time for the team for the next season.

Green had four top-fifteen finishes in 2004 (including a 7th-place finish in theSubway 500) and he would fail to finish in eleven races, the most DNF's in one season of his career; five were caused byengine failures while the other six were caused by crashes. The eventual thirtieth-place finish in the standings remains the lowest result for Green in a full-time season. He would continue to struggle in2005. He failed to finish in the Top 10 the entire year, with his best finish being eleventh in theCoca-Cola 600. Green's 29th-place finish allowedPetty Enterprises to announce on November 11, 2005, thatBobby Labonte would replace him following the season's end.^[11]

Green signed withHaas CNC Racing and became the successor ofMike Bliss in the No. 66Best Buy Chevrolet, which had been changed from No. 0 to celebrate the sponsor's fortieth anniversary.^[12] His new crew chief wasRobert "Bootie" Barker, who had been subject to rumors of replacement before the2006 season.^[13] In theDaytona 500, Green crashed midway through the race whenDale Jarrett clipped the right-rear of his car; Green would call this "stupid" and a "rookie" move.^[14] He rebounded from the 42nd-place finish in the next nine races, finishing no lower than 26th and rising to 21st in points. After finishing four laps down atDarlington, he recovered from a pit zone infraction penalty atLowe's Motor Speedway and finished 12th. Green's best race came at theUAW Ford 500 atTalladega Superspeedway, in which he finished seventh after starting 35th, breaking a seventy-race streak without a top-ten. After another top-ten finish atMartinsville Speedway, he ended the season 28th in the final points standings.

Green returned to Haas in 2007, and had three sixth-place finishes but was released with four races to go in the season. In 2008, he attempted four Cup races withWood Brothers Racing andFront Row Motorsports respectively, but did not qualify for any of those races. He did qualify for three races in the Nationwide Series in the No. 31Key Motorsports Chevy with a best finish of 28th, and ran eight races with their No. 40 truck team. His best finish was seventh at Las Vegas.

In 2009, Green continued his part-time schedule in the Nationwide Series, running for Day Racing,MSRP Motorsports,MacDonald Motorsports, and Key. His best finish was 21st atNashville Superspeedway.

As the 2010 NASCAR season began Green had a ride in theNationwide Series for theCamping World 300 at Daytona for Wayne Day's 05 car. Green also drove at Talladega finishing 16th and at Nashville finishing 24th for Key Motorsports. He later ran a handful of Cup Series races forLatitude 43 Motorsports andGunselman Motorsports with a best finish of 24th. Green also started and parked Tri Star's No. 36 in the Nationwide Series.

Green started and parked forTriStar Motorsports in 2011. In his lone Sprint Cup Start of the season, he finished 43rd in the debut of theFront Row Motorsports No. 55 atNew Hampshire International Speedway.

Green began the 2012 Nationwide Series schedule year driving the year in the new No. 10 for TriStar, but after an injury toEric McClure after the 2012 Talladega race, Green was named interim driver of the No. 14. Green finished nineteenth in his first relief start at Darlington, but finished 32nd at Iowa and Charlotte due to a crash and an engine failure, respectively. In his fourth relief start, Green posted his best finish of the year, seventeenth, atDover International Speedway In his final relief start, Green finished on the lead lap in 18th atMichigan International Speedway. He has since returned to the No. 10.

Green attempted oneSprint Cup Series race in 2012, but failed to qualify atKansas Speedway driving for Joe Falk's No. 33.

In 2013, Green returned to the start-and-park No. 10 Toyota forTri-Star Motorsports, though he replaced McClure in the 14 for four races. Unlike the 10, Green ran full races in the 14. In 2014 at Mid-Ohio, Green was battling for the lead with eventual race winnerChris Buescher but a mechanical failure ruined his best chance at his first Nationwide Series win since 2002. He would finish 29th. In 2015, Green joined the #30 car forThe Motorsports Group, replacing the firedRon Hornaday Jr. In his debut for TMG, Green qualified 33rd and finished 40th-the best finish for TMG. Green failed to qualify in his next two attempts. Green joinedRick Ware Racing to race the season opener at Daytona, where he didn't start and park as he usually does, however engine problems caused him to finish 36th. Green drove the #17 Toyota Camry at the 2016 Subway Firecracker 250. He ran in the top-fifteen most of the race and avoided many wrecks including a wreck on the last lap, where he spun polesitterDavid Ragan. He finished seventh in the race, his first top-ten in eleven years. Green returned to full-time Xfinity competition in 2017 driving forB. J. McLeod Motorsports. However he parted in ways with the team in the middle of the season (but returned with them at Daytona in July). He joinedRSS Racing and start and parks with them.^[15]

Green completed his full 2018 season for all 33 races with RSS, mostly in the No. 93. The following year, Green competed in the first half of the2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series season before missing the rest starting in July as he underwentrotator cuff surgery after the Kentucky race. He served as a crew chief for RSS Racing for the remainder of the year.^[16]

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For 2021, Green revealed his plans for the year in a response to a fan's question on Twitter, who asked him if he had plans to compete in any Xfinity races for RSS as he did in 2020. Green stated that he did not have any races scheduled for the season, and that he would continue as a crew chief with RSS, moving from the Xfinity Series to their part-timeARCA Menards Series car, the No. 28, driven by Ryan's younger brotherKyle Sieg.^[17] On May 21, Green announced that he would be retiring from driving and crew chiefing NASCAR effective immediately. He made his announcement after the conclusion of Sieg's part-time ARCA schedule, which was the first 4 races ofthe season. Green's final race ended up being as crew chief for Kyle Sieg in his Xfinity Series debut atDover.^[18]

During the1998 NASCAR Winston Cup Series in the1998 Pontiac Excitement 400 atRichmond International Raceway, Green was involved in an early crash withTed Musgrave, rendering him out of the race. Green climbed from his car during the caution period and stood on the track and angrily pointed at Musgrave as he passing by. Green then ran to the pit area to confront Musgrave's crew before being restrained by a NASCAR official. His team owner,Felix Sabates, then went to confront the crew and radioed his other two drivers,Sterling Marlin andJoe Nemechek, to try and wreck Musgrave at every opportunity for the remainder of the race.^[19]

While in the Busch Series, Green developed a rivalry with Kevin Harvick. The drivers were prime contenders for the2000 and2001 championships, with Harvick beating Green out in the latter year. Green would become a teammate of Harvick's in the Winston Cup in2002; both rejected the notion that they could not get along. While their first season together passed without incident, the second did not end well. During the2003Pontiac Excitement 400, Harvick ran into the rear of Green's car while Green was attempting to avoid a conflict betweenRyan Newman andWard Burton. Harvick began apologizing for the spin-out, and cameras showed that Green's car had hesitated before the collision. Green was outraged by the incident and confronted Harvick's crew chief,Todd Berrier, later saying, "Tough to be teammates when it seems like there's only one car at RCR."^[20] He was fired byChildress the next day, who said that change was needed after the relationship had gone awry.^[21]

After a relatively quiet2004, Green took part in a much-publicized feud with his former high school schoolmate and off-track friend,Michael Waltrip during the early2005 season, especially during races atMartinsville andDarlington, where Green and Waltrip wrecked each other on several occasions.^[22] While no penalties were assessed against the drivers, NASCAR ordered them to discontinue the incidents.

During the 2006 season, at theChevy Rock and Roll 400, after being involved in a crash withJimmie Johnson on lap 252, Green drove back onto the track, and, while 51 laps down while repairs were made, then slammed into Johnson just after he had spun off the bumper ofReed Sorenson on lap 322, resulting in his car being ordered to the garage for the final 78 laps (resulting in a 41st-place finish).^[23][24]

(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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(key) (Bold – Pole position. * – Most laps led.)