CR7 Motorsports

CR7 Motorsports
Owner(s)Codie Rohrbaugh
Thomas Rohrbaugh
Larry Berg
SeriesNASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
ARCA Menards Series
ARCA Menards Series East
Race driversTruck Series:
9. Grant Enfinger
97. Codie Rohrbaugh (part-time)
ARCA Menards Series:
97. Jason Kitzmiller, Landen Lewis (part-time)
ARCA Menards Series East:
97. Landen Lewis (part-time)
SponsorsTruck Series:
9. Grant County Mulch, Champion Power Equipment
97. Grant County Mulch
ARCA Menards Series:
97. A.L.L Construction
ARCA Menards Series East:
97. A.L.L Construction
ManufacturerChevrolet
Opened2014 (East Series)
2016 (ARCA)
2018 (Truck)
Career
DebutTruck Series:
2018 UNOH 200 (Bristol)
ARCA Menards Series:
2016 Crosley 150 (Kentucky)
ARCA Menards Series East:
2014 Pensacola 150 (Five Flags)
ARCA Menards Series West:
2023 Desert Diamond Casino West Valley 100 (Phoenix)
Races competed185
Truck: 115
ARCA: 50
ARCA East: 19
ARCA West: 1
Drivers' Championships0
Race victories2
Pole positions0

CR7 Motorsports (also sometimes known as Grant County Mulch Racing) is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, fielding the No. 9 full-time Chevrolet Silverado for Grant Enfinger and the No. 97 part-time for Codie Rohrbaugh. CR7 also operates in the ARCA Menards Series with the No. 97 Chevrolet part-time for Jason Kitzmiller. The team has a technical alliance with McAnally-Hilgemann Racing.[1]


History

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

Truck No. 9 history

Blaine Perkins in the No. 9 at Sonoma Raceway in 2022

Rohrbaugh did qualify for the race in his and the team's first Truck Series attempt, at Bristol in 2018. As Korbin Forrister's team was already using the No. 7, they picked the No. 9 to use for their Truck Series team. They finished with a top-20 in their first race (16th) in No. 9 Chevrolet Silverado. Returning for the race at Texas in November, now driving a Ford truck, Rohrbaugh was able to make the race again, and he impressively picked up another top-20, finishing 17th. The team did announce they would be attempting Homestead, but they changed their mind to focus on preparing for the ARCA season-opener at Daytona in 2019.[2]

Returning in 2019, CR7 attempted twelve races, about half of the season, and all with Rohrbaugh as the driver. The team used Silverados in all races they attempted. Rohrbaugh qualified for nine of twelve races. His DNQs came at Daytona, Martinsville in March, and Bristol. He crashed in each of the first three races he did qualify for, which were at both Texas races (in March and June) and Charlotte. His other DNF that year came when he was involved in the big one at Talladega. Despite not qualifying for some of his races and not finishing in others, he scored a top-10 finish in the second Martinsville race in October.[3] Also in 2019, the team worked with three different crew chiefs. They started the year with Michael Shelton before he left to crew chief the No. 46 Kyle Busch Motorsports team. Their general manager and ARCA team crew chief Mark Huff worked with the truck team for the first Martinsville race. They then picked up Doug George, who came over after starting the season with the Niece Motorsports No. 44 team.[4] Rohrbaugh returned and ran 17 races in 2020. The season started with him finishing third in the NextEra Energy 250. Other than that, Rohrbaugh posted 5 top 20 finishes, including a 5th-place finish at Talladega Superspeedway and a 6th-place finish at Richmond Raceway. In 2021, Rohrbaugh got another top-10 in the season opener NextEra Energy 250, finishing 8th. Grant Enfinger drove the No. 9 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, finishing 7th. At the end of the year Colby Howard would make 3 starts for the team. In 2022, Blaine Perkins would drive the No. 9 truck full-time. Perkins scored only one top 20 finish that season, an 18th-place finish at Nashville. Perkins ended the season 32nd in the standings and left the team at the conclusion of the season. In 2023, Colby Howard would drive the entry full-time. He finished 24th in the final standings. In 2024, Grant Enfinger will return to drive the No. 9 full-time in a multi-year deal.

Enfinger started the 2024 season with a 17th-place finish at Daytona. Despite not scoring a win during the regular season, he stayed consistent with five top-fives and eight top-10 finishes to make the playoffs. Enfinger gave CR7 its first win at Talladega and made the Championship 4.[5] He followed it up with another win at Homestead.[6]

Truck No. 9 results

Year Driver No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Owners Pts
2018 Codie Rohrbaugh 9 Chevy DAY ATL LVS MAR DOV KAN CLT TEX IOW GTW CHI KEN ELD POC MCH BRI
16
MSP LVS TAL MAR 47th 41
Ford TEX
17
PHO HOM
2019 Chevy DAY
DNQ
ATL LVS MAR
DNQ
TEX
23
DOV KAN CLT
29
TEX
30
IOW GTW CHI KEN
14
POC ELD MCH
17
BRI
DNQ
MSP LVS
16
TAL
24
MAR
10
PHO HOM
26
32nd 144
2020 DAY
3
LVS
18
CLT
18
ATL
33
HOM
28
POC
39
KEN
39
TEX
22
KAN
24
KAN
29
MCH
18
DAY
29
DOV GTW DAR
25
RCH
6
BRI
31
LVS TAL
5
KAN TEX MAR
34
PHO 31st 225
2021 DAY
8
DAY
16
ATL
29
BRI
27
RCH
36
DAR
38
TEX NSH KNX
34
TAL
16
24th 326
Grant Enfinger LVS
7
KAN
17
COA
4
CLT
14
POC
36
GLN
38
GTW
25
LVS
7
PHO
13
Colby Howard DAR
13
BRI
15
MAR
38
2022 Blaine Perkins DAY
31
LVS
35
ATL
29
COA
35
MAR
DNQ
BRI
25
DAR
31
KAN
32
TEX
26
CLT
30
GTW
22
SON
21
KNX
25
NSH
18
MOH
30
POC
29
IRP
26
RCH
34
KAN
30
BRI
28
TAL
27
HOM
22
PHO
25
32nd 203
2023 Colby Howard DAY
4
LVS
18
ATL
27
COA
24
TEX
20
BRD
27
MAR
17
KAN
35
DAR
17
NWS
24
CLT
20
GTW
12
NSH
29
MOH
36
POC
15
RCH
24
IRP
35
MLW
17
KAN
19
BRI
22
TAL
23
HOM
30
PHO
21
24th 340
2024 Grant Enfinger DAY
17
ATL
25
LVS
9
BRI
9
COA
12
MAR
22
TEX
29
KAN
12
DAR
16
NWS
2
CLT
3
GTW
17
NSH
6
POC
2
IRP
3
RCH
4*
MLW
13
BRI
17
KAN
9
TAL
1*
HOM
1
MAR
9
PHO
5
4th 4032
2025 DAY ATL LVS HOM MAR BRI CAR TEX KAN NWS CLT NSH MCH POC LRP IRP GLN RCH DAR BRI NHA ROV TAL MAR PHO -* -*

Truck No. 97 history

In 2022, the team announced that Jason Kitzmiller would make his truck series start in the 2022 NextEra Energy 250, driving the No. 97, which is his main ARCA number, for a second entry.[7] However, he withdrew from the event after crashing his primary truck in practice and not having a backup truck.

Truck No. 97 results

Year Driver No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Owners Pts
2022 Jason Kitzmiller 97 Chevy DAY
Wth
LVS ATL COA MAR BRI DAR KAN TEX CLT GTW SON KNO NSH MOH POC IRP RCH KAN BRI TAL HOM PHO 57th 0
2023 Codie Rohrbaugh DAY
33
LVS ATL COA TEX BRD MAR KAN DAR NWS CLT GTW NSH MOH POC RCH IRP MLW KAN BRI TAL HOM PHO 47th 4
2024 DAY
23
ATL LVS BRI COA MAR TEX KAN DAR NWS CLT GTW NSH POC IRP RCH MLW BRI KAN TAL HOM MAR PHO 45th 14

ARCA Menards Series

Car No. 7 history

In addition to their K&N East races in 2016, Rohrbaugh's team made their ARCA debut that year, running the last two races of the year at Kentucky and Kansas. The same as how he did in his first East Series start, Rohrbaugh finished 13th in his ARCA Series debut. However, Rohrbaugh did not finish the race at Kansas due to electrical issues and ended up 32nd.

For 2017, Rohrbaugh and his No. 7 team attempted an expanded schedule of eight races in ARCA after dropping their K&N program. The team ran Chevrolets in all races, except for Daytona and Talladega that they ran Dodges. Rohrbaugh finished every race no worse than 16th except for when he crashed out at Chicago, finishing 29th. His best finishes were a pair of 8th-place runs at Michigan and Kansas.

The team started out the 2018 season now driving a Chevrolet SS but crashed at Daytona and rebuilt the same car in time to attempt Talladega.[8]

At the ARCA Daytona test in January 2019, Rohrbaugh announced he would compete in all the speedway races that year.[9] However, Rohrbaugh eventually decided to focus on the Truck Series team, and they cut back their ARCA schedule for the rest of the 2019 season. Eric Caudell bought the team's owner points and switched his team's car number from the No. 2 to the No. 7, which Rohrbaugh's team had been running.

Car No. 7 results

Year Driver No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Owners Pts
2016 Codie Rohrbaugh 7 Chevy DAY NSH SLM TAL TOL NJE POC MCH MAD WIN IOW IRP POC BLN ISF DSF SLM CHI KEN
13
KAN
32
2017 Dodge DAY
14
NSH SLM TAL
14
TOL ELK
Chevy POC
12
MCH
8
MAD IOW IRP POC
11
WIN ISF ROA DSF SLM CHI
29
KEN
16
KAN
8
2018 DAY
38
NSH SLM TAL
24
TOL CLT
9
POC
17
MCH
10
MAD GTW CHI
8
IOW ELK POC
7
ISF BLN DSF SLM IRP KAN
12
2019 DAY
7
FIF SLM TAL NSH TOL CLT
16
POC MCH MAD GTW CHI ELK IOW POC ISF DSF SLM IRP KAN

Car No. 97 history

For 2020, the team returned to ARCA, entering a car in the series' testing at January in January with newcomer Jason Kitzmiller driving the No. 97[10] (since Caudell was continuing to use the No. 7).[11] The team then filed an entry for the race there in February.[12] The team has yet to announce whether they will attempt more races throughout the year after Daytona.

Car No. 97 results

Year Driver No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Owners Pts
2020 Jason Kitzmiller 97 Chevy DAY
32
PHO TAL
8
POC
14
IRP KEN
10
IOW KAN
11
TOL TOL MCH
8
DAY GTW L44 TOL BRI
13
WIN MEM ISF KAN
2021 DAY
11
PHO TAL
15
KAN TOL CLT
11
MOH POC
17
ELK BLN IOW WIN GLN MCH
12
ISF MLW DSF BRI
22
SLM KAN
2022 DAY
34
PHO TAL
14
KAN CLT IOW BLN ELK MOH POC
9
IRP MCH
12
GLN ISF MLW DSF KAN BRI SLM TOL
2023 DAY
19
PHO TAL
26
KAN
23
POC
11
MCH
13
IRP GLN ISF
Grant Enfinger CLT
4
BLN ELK MOH IOW MLW
5
DSF KAN
Landen Lewis BRI
20
SLM TOL
2024 Jason Kitzmiller DAY
6
PHO TAL
33
DOV KAN CLT
9
IOW MOH BLN IRP SLM ELK MCH
7
ISF MLW DSF GLN KAN
10
TOL
Landen Lewis BRI
2

ARCA Menards Series East

Car No. 05 history

Rohrbaugh's family team made their first NASCAR starts in 2014 in what was then the K&N Pro Series East while also competing full-time in the X-1R Pro Cup Series that year. With his grandfather Larry Berg as the listed owner, the team fielded the No. 05 Toyota in three races: Five Flags, New Hampshire, and Dover. Their best finish was in their debut at Five Flags, where Rohrbaugh finished 13th.

Car No. 05 results

Year Driver No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Owners Pts
2014 Codie Rohrbaugh 05 Toyota NSM DAY BRI GRE RCH IOW BGS FIF
13
LGY NHA
23
COL IOW GLN VIR GRE DOV
29

Car No. 7 history

They returned for another part-time schedule in 2015, switching numbers from the No. 05 to the No. 7 and manufacturers from Toyota to Chevrolet. The team ran New Hampshire and Dover again, and also for the first time attempted New Smyrna, Bristol, and Richmond. The other race they entered that year was the East Series’ first and to-date only race at Motordrome Speedway, where Rohrbaugh and his team earned their first top-10 with a 9th place finish.

The team attempted five East Series races the following year. They attempted mostly the same schedule, but with Motordrome and Richmond off the schedule for 2016, they attempted the new race at Mobile instead. Rohrbaugh crashed out in two of his five starts and finished in the top-20 (two 19ths and a 13th) in his remaining races.

Car No. 7 results

Year Driver No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Owners Pts
2015 Codie Rohrbaugh 7 Chevy NSM
13
GRE BRI
22
IOW BGS LGY COL NHA
19
IOW GLN MOT
9
VIR RCH
13
DOV
17
2016 NSM
19
MOB
19
GRE BRI
26
VIR DOM STA COL NHA
13
IOW GLN GRE NJM DOV
22

Car No. 97 history

The team returned to the east series in 2020. They fielded the No. 97 car in a combination event with the ARCA Menards Series at the Bush's beans 200 with Jason Kitzmiller as the driver. He finished 13th.

Kitzmiller would race in the next year's Bristol race, this time finishing 22nd.

Car No. 97 results

Year Driver No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Owners Pts
2020 Jason Kitzmiller 97 Chevy NSM TOL DOV
DNS
TOL BRI
13
FIF
2021 NSM FIF NSV DOV SNM IOW MLW BRI
22
2023 Grant Enfinger FIF DOV NSV FRS IOW IRP MLW
5
Landen Lewis BRI
20
2024 FIF DOV NSV FRS IOW IRP MLW BRI
2

ARCA Menards Series West

Car No. 97 history

The team made their ARCA West debut in 2023, fielding the No. 97 car for Landen Lewis at Phoenix. He finished 6th.

Car No. 97 results

Year Driver No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Owners Pts
2023 Landen Lewis 97 Chevy PHO IRW KCR PIR SON IRW SHA EVG AAS LVS MAD PHO
6

References

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