Kevin Conway
Conway in 2010
Born	(1979-04-15)April 15, 1979 (age 46) Cornelius, North Carolina, U.S.
Awards	2010NASCAR Sprint Cup SeriesRookie of the Year
NASCARCup Series career
31 races run over 2 years
Best finish	35th (2010)
First race	2010Auto Club 500 (Fontana)
Last race	2011Good Sam Roadside Assistance 500 (Talladega)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCARO'Reilly Auto Parts Series career
34 races run over 6 years
Best finish	36th (2011)
First race	2003Aaron's 312 (Atlanta)
Last race	2011Ford 300 (Homestead)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCARCraftsman Truck Series career
1 race run over 1 year
Best finish	86th (2009)
First race	2009Lucas Oil 150 (Phoenix)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
Statistics up to date as of August 16, 2025.

Kevin Conway (born April 15, 1979) is an American professionalstock car racing driver who currently races in theBlancpain Super Trofeo Championship. He is the 2010 NASCARSprint Cup Series Rookie of the Year (ROTY), 2014 Super Trofeo World Champion, and two-time North American Super Trofeo Series Champion.^[1] Conway has raced inmotocross,legends, theWorld Karting Association,United States Automobile Club (USAC),American Speed Association (ASA), NASCAR's regionalK&N Pro Series West, and all three of NASCAR's national touring series.

A protege of Cup Series winnerErnie Irvan and longtime test driver for Cup teams,^[2][3] Conway is best known for his association with the male enhancement productExtenZe from 2009 to 2011. The sponsorship led ultimately to Conway's first full-time NASCAR season and ROTY effort in 2010, but also led to lawsuits from former teams due to unpaid sponsorship funds.^[4][5] Conway appeared onShark Tank in 2021 as a business partner for the company “Phoozy”, which made specializedsmartphone cases.^[6]

Conway began his career racing at age six, runningAMA motocross,go-karts, and winged midget cars. Moving toCharlotte, North Carolina as a teenager, Conway became the youngestlegends car national champion in 1994, at the age of fifteen.^[3][2] Conway would later race late model stock cars inNASCAR's regionalDodge Weekly Racing Series.^[2]

Conway moved to major-leaguestock car racing in 2002, when he made his debut in theARCA RE/MAX Series.^[3] His first race came in the No. 17Eagle One/ValvolineChevrolet forA. J. Henriksen,Ernie Irvan, and George deBidart atAtlanta Motor Speedway, where he started fifth and finished thirteenth after a rear axle problem late in the race.^[3] In his next race that fall atLowe's he finished seventh. Conway also served as a test driver forNASCARWinston Cup Series teamMB2 Motorsports.^[3]

In 2003, Conway made his NASCARBusch Series debut at Atlanta in the No. 22 forBost Racing, qualifying 27th and finishing 33rd.^[3] In 2004 he made his career debut in theWinston West Series atFontana in the No. 28 Ford owned byErnie Irvan, racing against Cup Series regularKen Schrader and future Cup driversClint Bowyer andDavid Gilliland. Conway qualified and finished fifth after leading much of the race.^[7][8] Conway attempted three Busch Series races in 2004, failing to qualify for all three.^[9] In 2005, Conway signed to run the No. 03 Chevrolet for Gary Keller andMark Smith,^[10] but failed to qualify for the first two races of the season. He made his only start of the season atDarlington Raceway in the No. 43Channellock/Supra Boats Dodge for theCurb Agajanian Performance Group, where he finished 29th.^[11]

In2006, Conway declared for Busch Series Rookie of the Year honors, driving the No. 58Carver Racing Dodge, which was in the process of purchasing equipment fromGlynn Motorsports.^[12][3] After the team switched to the No. 40 for Richmond,^[12] the team suspended operations, leaving Conway out of a ride after four starts.^[13] He competed in the West Series once again atIrwindale Speedway for James Pritchard, where he finished eighth.

In2007, Conway joinedJoe Gibbs Racing's Busch program, signing on for eight races in the team's No. 18 Chevrolet. Conway brought sponsorship fromZ-Line Designs, who partnered with him on the recommendation of former driverLake Speed, and shared the ride with driversTony Stewart,Denny Hamlin,Brad Coleman andAric Almirola.^[3][13] Conway struggled in the ride, having an average finish of 29.4, nine positions worse than his teammates in the same ride. He was released at the end of the 2007 season, though Z-Line would continue to sponsor JGR.

After spending the 2008 season out of NASCAR, Conway returned in 2009 with sponsorship from hismale enhancement productExtenZe.^[14] He began racing midway through the season in the No. 87 forBraun Racing (using the No. 87 owners points fromNEMCO Motorsports), and had a career-best fifteenth-place finish atKentucky Speedway.^[15] He also ran a race forR3 Motorsports^[14] and laterK Automotive Racing to finish out the Nationwide season. He made his firstCamping World Truck Series race at Phoenix, finishing nineteenth in Rob Fuller's truck, as well as an unsuccessful attempt to qualify for a Sprint Cup race in the No. 70TRG Motorsports Chevy.

Initially planning to run full-time in the Nationwide Series, in2010 Conway signed to drive the No. 37 ExtenZe Ford in theSprint Cup Series forFront Row Motorsports as a teammate toTravis Kvapil andDavid Gilliland. Conway's lack of superspeedway experience caused him to delay his Rookie of the Year campaign, as NASCAR would not give him approval to compete in theDaytona 500. Kvapil raced the 37 at Daytona, whileJohn Andretti ran Kvapil's 34 car. Conway earned a career best finish of 14th atDaytona International Speedway in July, one of only three finishes better than thirtieth in 2010. As the only fully sponsored driver in the Front Row stable, he rotated among the team's No. 34, No. 37, and No. 38 cars in order to remain in a Top 35-ranked car that would guarantee a starting spot.^[16] Prior to the August race at Michigan, Conway and the ExtenZe sponsor logos were removed from the car, withTony Raines replacing him. Conway and ExtenZe would go on to be sued by Front Row Motorsports for lack of payment, which they cited as the reason Conway was removed from the car.^[4][17]

Conway returned to competition withRobby Gordon Motorsports atBristol,^[4] and ran seven races in the No. 7 car,^[18] as well as attempting one in the teams No. 07 car, missing the race at Charlotte. OwnerRobby Gordon would also get into a sponsorship dispute with Conway andExtenze, which turned violent the next season.^[18]

Conway won theNASCAR Rookie of the Year award for 2010 by default, as his only competitor,Terry Cook, ran only three of the first ten races during the year. It was the least competitive rookie of the year battle in modern NASCAR history up to that point.^[1][5][19] Conway ran 28 races in 2010.

For 2011, it was announced that Conway would enter the Budweiser Shootout (eligible due to winning Rookie of the Year in 2010), Daytona 500, and possibly a few more races forJoe Nemechek andNEMCO Motorsports in the No. 97 Toyota with sponsorship from ExtenZe. Conway attempted four races, qualifying for three of them, in which he finished last in each.

Conway also ran nine races in theNationwide Series for NEMCO,^[15] with an average finish of 28.1. He was released from NEMCO at the end of the season and has not competed in NASCAR since.^[1]

In 2013 Conway competed in the North American Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Series. Over the course of the season he drove a race prepared, lightweight, four-wheel-drive, 570 horsepower version of theLamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4^[20] to win the series championship in the Pro-Am division. The final Super Trofeo Series race weekend was held in conjunction with the IndyCar season finale race weekend at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA.^[21]

A native ofLynchburg, Virginia, Conway earned a marketing degree at theUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte.^[3][13] Conway started the marketing company Exclaim Racing, which organized his sponsorship deals.^[13][4] He also served as an instructor at theRichard Petty Driving Experience.^[3] Conway's father Sam was a former team manager forDarrell Waltrip Motorsports, and a board member forMotor Racing Outreach. Sam died fromlung cancer in 2007 at age 58.^[8]

(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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(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position; results initalics indicate fastest lap)

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