Chad Bryant Racing

Owner	Chad Bryant
Base	Mooresville, North Carolina
Series	ARCA Menards Series ARCA Menards Series West ZMAX CARS Tour
Manufacturer	Ford
Opened	2018
Career
Debut	ARCA Menards Series: 2018Lucas Oil 200 (Daytona) ARCA Menards Series West: 2019Arizona Lottery 100 (Phoenix)
Race victories	Total: 4 ARCA Menards Series: 4

Chad Bryant Racing is an American professionalstock car racing team that competed in theARCA Menards Series and theARCA Menards Series West. They currently compete in thezMAX CARS Tour Presented By SoundGear withTreyten Lapcevich as their driver.

The team was formed on January 9, 2018^[1] by ARCA crew chief Chad Bryant, who purchased the assets of the team he had been working for in the series,Cunningham Motorsports, which was being sold by its retiring owner Briggs Cunningham, who was age 85 at the time. His co-owner, 68-year-old Kerry Scherer, also decided to step away from team ownership and did not continue with the team after it was sold to Bryant.

The team was nearly the same as it was in 2017 before the change in ownership, as Bryant retained all personnel who remained with the team. However, since Cunningham's 2017 driversShane Lee andDalton Sargeant both moved up to the NASCAR Xfinity and Truck Series, in 2018, Bryant needed new drivers for the team's No. 22 and No. 77 cars.

Bo LeMastus signed with the team to run atDaytona in the No. 77, and rookieJoe Graf Jr. joined CBR for what was initially set to be a part-time schedule starting at the second race of the season atNashville. However, the team later decided to keep him on for the rest of the season. Due to lack of sponsorship and focusing on the transition in ownership, the team did not field the No. 22 at Daytona and they let Fast Track Racing use their owner points to field an additional entry at that race for Ed Pompa.Tyler Dippel drove the No. 22 atNashville andJosh Berry atSalem. Due to a lack of sponsorship, the team withdrew fromTalladega and only ran part-time for the remainder of the season. Dippel made another start in the car atCharlotte andTom Hessert, who formerly drove the No. 77 full-time for their predecessor Cunningham team, ran atIRP as a replacement forChase Briscoe. Briscoe was scheduled to be in the No. 22 for that race, but could not compete after the race was postponed to a month later due to rain, and the new race date conflicted with his Xfinity schedule.^[2]

Graf andChad Finchum had driven for the team at ARCA's Daytona test in January. Finchum did not end up running any races with the team, and was in the car then to get approval to run at the track in his full-time Xfinity Series ride withMBM Motorsports.^[3]

Graf would go on to finish eighth in points in his first full-season in ARCA (minus one race), picking up one win atBerlin Raceway on August 25, 2018. He almost scored his first win atTalladega earlier that year, but lost to the No. 41MDM MotorsportsToyota driven byZane Smith in a photo finish at the line.

In their second season as a team, Graf returned to the CBR No. 77 car full-time. The team was able to run the No. 22 car full-time again. That car would have a rotation of drivers during the season, with Connor Hall starting the season at Daytona with sponsorship from Marlow Yachts. Following that,CARS Super Late Model Tour driver Corey Heim began his slate of races in the No. 22. The team signed him in October 2018 to run the short track races.^[4] Crew chiefPaul Andrews switched teams from Graf's No. 77 to the No. 22 for 2019, with Graf now having team owner Bryant as his crew chief. In the remaining races where Heim was not eligible to run,Ty Majeski — aFord development driver who had previously competed forRoush Fenway Racing'sNASCAR Xfinity Series team, which closed down after2018, drove the team's No. 22 in six races.^[5] He returned to ARCA for the first time in two years, and doing so this time in an effort to rebuild his career after losing his ride. In dominant fashion, Majeski finished in the top five in every single one of his starts, which included three wins, which came atCharlotte,Pocono andChicago. In his other three races, he finished once in second atMichigan, third atKansas and fourth atNashville. His very strong performances led him to secure a full-time ride in2020 in the Truck Series driving the No. 45Chevrolet forNiece Motorsports, meaning he would leave Ford and CBR. Before he signed this deal, he ran one race for them in2019 atPhoenix.

In addition, Chad Bryant Racing made their debut in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West (which was soon to be renamed the ARCA Menards Series West), fielding two cars in the series' season-finale atPhoenix in preparation for when ARCA would visit the track for the first time in2020. Majeski was entered in the No. 2^[6] and Heim in the No. 22. It was both drivers' debuts in the West Series.

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