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AUDIT ROWS #332, #329 (IN PART) · RACING-REFERENCE AND THE JAYSKI ARCHIVE, READ THIS PASS
Chad Blount was born in Walkerton on September 4, 1979, and he is this town's whole national racing record: eight ARCA wins, a championship near-miss, and starts in all three of NASCAR's national series. His formation was Midwestern short-track racing; his break came with Braun Racing, and his peak year was 2002 in the ARCA RE/MAX Series — four wins, five poles, fourteen top-ten finishes, the championship runner-up, and Rookie of the Year. Across his ARCA career he won eight races. In NASCAR's second series (Busch/Nationwide) he ran 26 races over six years from a 2003 Braun Racing debut, with a career-best points finish of 33rd (2003) and a career-best race finish of fifth, at Texas. In the Craftsman Truck Series he made one start, in 2004 for Ultra Motorsports (No. 2). And in the Cup Series he made four starts over two years: a debut in the 2004 Tropicana 400 at Chicago in R&J Racing's No. 37 Dodge (43rd, mechanical), further starts with Penske-Jasper and Front Row Motorsports in 2006, a best championship finish of 65th that year, and a final Cup start in the 2006 Chevy Rock & Roll 400 at Richmond. His ties are printed exactly: born here — one of only three names on Walkerton's notable-people list, with Urey and LaFeber — formed on the region's short tracks, and a national-series driver whose races were run at Chicago, Richmond, Texas, and Las Vegas. Never at home: there was no home track, and that joint fact is the leg in one sentence.