CR7 Motorsports

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CR7 Motorsports
CR7 Motorsports logo.jpg
Owner(s) Codie Rohrbaugh
Thomas Rohrbaugh
Larry Berg
Series NASCAR 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
Manufacturer Chevrolet
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' Championships 0
Race victories2
Pole positions 0

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]

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The team is not named after Association football/soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo.

History

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

Truck No. 9 history

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

YearDriverNo.Make1234567891011121314151617181920212223OwnersPts
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 47th41
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		32nd144
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 31st225
2021 DAY
8		 DAY
16		 ATL
29		 BRI
27		 RCH
36		 DAR
38		 TEX NSH KNX
34		 TAL
16		24th326
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		32nd203
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		24th340
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		4th4032

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

YearDriverNo.Make1234567891011121314151617181920212223OwnersPts
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 57th0
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 47th4
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 45th14

ARCA Menards Series

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.

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.

ARCA Menards Series East

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.

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.

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