JR Motorsports announced today the
hiring of Mike Bumgarner as crew chief for the No. 5 Great Clips Chevrolet in the
2013 NASCAR Nationwide Series. The team is currently slated for 27 races with
drivers Kasey Kahne and Brad Sweet.
Bumgarner spent the last 18 years at
Hendrick Motorsports, where he worked on cars for Terry Labonte, Jeff Gordon,
and Kyle Busch. In 2007 he was crew chief on Busch’s No. 5 Chevrolet in the
Nationwide Series. Together they compiled four wins, 14 Top-5, 16 Top-10s and
three pole awards in 2007.
Bumgarner’s jump into NASCAR came in
1992 with a team owned by Kenny Bernstein. Three years later he began
employment at Hendrick Motorsports.
Bumgarner is from Huntersville, N.C.
His naming as crew chief for Kahne and Sweet fills one of the final remaining
slots in the JRM line-up for 2013. Greg Ives, who similarly arrived to JRM via
Hendrick Motorsports, will head the No. 7 TaxSlayer.com/Hellmann’s team and
driver Regan Smith.
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