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Doug George
George in 1996
Born	Douglas Paul George (1960-11-05)November 5, 1960 (age 64) Atwater, California, U.S.
Achievements	1990NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Tour Champion 1995NASCAR Winston West Series Champion
Awards	1990NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Tour Rookie-of-the-YearWest Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame (2009)[1]
NASCARCup Series career
2 races run over 1 year
1995 position	55th
Best finish	55th (1995)
First race	1995Save Mart Supermarkets 300 (Sears Point)
Last race	1995Dura Lube 500 (Phoenix)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCARCraftsman Truck Series career
56 races run over 5 years
2000 position	78th
Best finish	12th (1996)
First race	1996Florida Dodge Dealers 400 (Homestead)
Last race	2000Kroger 225 (Kentucky)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 10 0
Statistics current as of November 12, 2018.

Douglas Paul George (born November 5, 1960) is an American professionalstock car racing driver andcrew chief in NASCAR. He serves as the crew chief of the No. 66ThorSport RacingFord F-150 in theNASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driven byJohnny Sauter,Luke Fenhaus andLuke Baldwin.

He began racing professionally in the 1980s, driving for his own team. In 1990, he won theNASCAR Featherlite Southwest Series Rookie of the Year award. He later moved to theNASCAR Winston West Series, where he won Rookie of the Year honors and later, the 1995 series championship.

George made his NASCAR debut in1995 atSears Point International Raceway. Driving the No. 07Olson TechnologyFord Thunderbird, he qualified 42nd and finished 31st in the Winston Cup race. He ran an additional race that season atPhoenix International Raceway, where he finished 41st after a wreck. In1996, he ran theCraftsman Truck Series in the No. 21OrthoFord F-150. He had a fifth-place run at Sears Point, and finished 12th in the standings, runner-up toBryan Reffner in theRookie of the Year battle.

In1997, George began driving the No. 12Chevrolet Silverado forBob Blake. He drove for a variety of teams that season, his best finish an eighth at Sonoma forCharles Hardy. He began the 1998 in the No. 26MB Motorsports Ford, posting two thirtieth-place finishes. Late in the season, he joinedLiberty Racing, driving the No. 84Porter-Cable Power Tools Ford and had a tenth at Sonoma, before finishing the season in Liberty's No. 98 Big Daddy's BBQ Sauce Ford, where he had his worst finish with Liberty, fifteenth.

In1999, George drove a pair of races forConely Racing, finishing seventeenth atGateway International Raceway. He joinedImpact Motorsports as the crew chief of the No. 12Hot WheelsDodge Ram forCarlos Contreras in2000. During the season, he drove Impact's No. 86R.C. Cola truck at Gateway following the release ofMike Cope, finishing 33rd after a wreck. He drove the No. 12 truck filling in for Contreras at Kentucky, finishing sixteenth.

In 2009, George was inducted into theWest Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame.

Following his driving career, George worked atMorgan-Dollar Motorsports, and later atJoe Gibbs Racing, serving as crew chief forCoy Gibbs. In2005, he joinedXpress Motorsports and was named crew chief for the No. 19 forRegan Smith, but the team shut down after two races. He joined the No. 89 team driven byMorgan Shepherd in2006 before the team was purchased byCJM Racing. In2007, he returned to NASCAR as crew chief forBilly Ballew Motorsports from 2008 to 2010, working most notably withKyle Busch. He left BBM forKevin Harvick Incorporated in 2010 to crew chief the No. 2 truck split by Kevin Harvick and Elliott Sadler. He moved to the No. 32Turner Motorsports team in 2011 but then left forJason White's GB Racing team for the 2012 season. After White shut down his truck team and moved to theNationwide Series in 2013, he served as the crew chief for rookieGray Gaulding atNTS Motorsports in theNASCAR K&N Pro Series East. However, in September, he went back to the Truck Series crew chiefing forDakoda Armstrong atTurn One Racing.

George returned to the K&N Series in 2014, starting the year as crew chief for AustralianBrodie Kostecki's family team. After a few races, he left to return to Turner Scott Motorsports asRon Hornaday's crew chief. When Hornaday's No. 30 team shut down in August due to lack of sponsorship, he was named crew chief for teammateBen Kennedy's No. 31 truck, replacing Michael Shelton, who went to become the first crew chief forJohn Wes Townley's new team,Athenian Motorsports.

TSM closed down their truck team in 2015 and George moved to the No. 98ThorSport Racing truck asJohnny Sauter's crew chief for the entire season. Although the team didn't win any races that year, they still finished 4th in points. Sauter left forGMS Racing in 2016, and was replaced byRico Abreu. George remained the crew chief, but was released with a few races left in the season after the team was winless again and missed the playoffs. He was picked up byHattori Racing Enterprises, becomingRyan Truex's crew chief. Hattori replaced him with Scott Zipadelli in 2017, and he went toMB Motorsports to crew chief the No. 63 truck for the Donahue brothers (Kyle and Kevin) and a rotation of other drivers. He then joinedBK Racing as crew chief forCorey LaJoie and the No. 83 Cup Series team, replacingDoug Richert, the team's competition director who was serving temporarily as crew chief to start the year on top of that. Later in the year, BK mostly cut back to one car due to sponsorship and financial issues with the team's owner, leaving George without a team again.

In 2018, he joined the newAll Out Motorsports team as crew chief forKorbin Forrister part time. He began the 2019 season without a crew chiefing job (Wally Rogers replaced him at AOM), but soon after the start of the season, he briefly became the crew chief for the No. 44 truck ofNiece Motorsports, later moving toCodie Rohrbaugh's No. 9 team, (ironically for the second time) replacing Michael Shelton after he went toKyle Busch Motorsports. The team attempted most of the season in 2020 with Rohrbaugh and 2021 with Rohrbaugh andGrant Enfinger. In 2022,Blaine Perkins became the full-time driver of the No. 9 and the team ran a full season for the first time. In 2025, he joinedThorSport Racing as crew chief forJohnny Sauter,Luke Fenhaus, andLuke Baldwin part-time.

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

• Doug George driver statistics at Racing-Reference
• Doug George crew chief statistics at Racing-Reference

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