Chad Boat (born January 30, 1992) is an American professional dirt track racing driver and team owner. The son of former driver Billy Boat, he has raced in Indy Lights and NASCAR.
Boat began his racing career in quarter midgets at the age of five. At age seven, he won the Arizona state quarter midget championship, and the following year won the Light Modified and Light 160 midget championships.[1]
In January 2014, Boat announced that he would be competing for Rookie of the Year in the Nationwide Series in 2014, running 15 events for family-owned Billy Boat Motorsports.[3] Boat finished 29th in points with a best finish of 22nd at Iowa Speedway. In 2015 he raced in both the Xfinity (formerly Nationwide) Series and Camping World Truck Series for Billy Boat Motorsports. He made 3 Xfinity starts and 4 truck series starts. He ran for the Truck Series championship and finished 38th in points with a best finish of ninth at Talladega Superspeedway, his best NASCAR finish to date.
Indy Lights
On June 27, 2017 it was announced that Boat would compete in the Indy Lights series with Belardi Auto Racing competing at the oval events at Iowa Speedway and Gateway Motorsports Park in the latter half of the 2017 season.[4] Chad's father Billy also competed in Indy Lights, then called the American Racing Series, in 1986 and 1987.
Team ownership
Boat co-owned a USAC National Midget car team Tucker/Boat Motorsports[5] and the team won the 2020 championship in their first season with driver Chris Windom.[6] With the championship, Boat became the first person who had won a USAC National Midget race to own the season-championship-winning car with another driver.[6]
Boat married Casey Haimes on January 26, 2019. Casey is a co-host of the podcast Door Bumper Clear on Dirty Mo Media. The couple has a daughter, Chloe, who was born in 2020.[8]
Motorsports career results
NASCAR
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
