44 Facts About Carl Long

James Carlyle Long was born on September 20,1967 and is an American former professional stock car racing driver, mechanic, and team owner.

Carl Long last competed part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No 66 Toyota Supra for MBM Motorsports.

Carl Long was a crew chief at Front Row Motorsports for Eric McClure and Competition director at Rick Ware Racing.

Carl Long won the track championship at South Boston in 1987 and the Street Stock championship at Orange County in 1990.

Carl Long made his NASCAR debut in 1998 in the Craftsman Truck Series.

Carl Long began running the Cup races in 1999 with the No 85 Mansion Motorsports team, but DNQ'd for every attempt throughout that year.

Carl Long ran Bristol again the following year, in the Truck Series posting a career-best ninth place qualifying effort, as well as at Louisville Speedway, where he wrecked very early in the race.

Carl Long made another truck race in 2000 at Texas, where he started 33rd but finished 17th in a truck fielded by Team 23 Racing.

Carl Long made one more start that year, at Rockingham Speedway, finishing 32nd.

Carl Long ran three races in 2001, his best finish being a 29th at the UAW-GM Quality 500.

Carl Long made his Busch Series debut in 2001 in the Aaron's 312 at Atlanta.

In 2002, Carl Long ran for Rookie of the Year, but failed to earn the award mainly due to an incomplete season.

Carl Long attempted a group of the races, but failed to qualify for all except two.

Carl Long started the season with Mansion Motorsports again, but when that team ran out of money, Long departed the team, originally to Glenn Racing, then to Ware Racing Enterprises, and then finally the No 59 Foster Price team, with whom he finished 39th at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Carl Long made two Busch races in 2003 for Robert Creech, his best finish a 28th at Rockingham.

Carl Long had another 28th at Rockingham the following year, as well as running the No 07 for Moy Racing at Loudon, where his engine expired early in the race.

Carl Long ran another race for Ware at New Hampshire, but finished last.

Carl Long made his first race as a team owner that season, when Matt Carter drove his No 96 truck to a 17th-place finish at Martinsville Speedway.

Carl Long was uninjured and returned to the series in the following Cup event at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, driving for fellow independent Hermie Sadler.

Carl Long then drove at Pocono Raceway for the McGlynn Racing operation, finishing 41st.

Carl Long announced he would merge his No 46 team with the McGlynn Racing team to run in 2005.

Carl Long closed out the year running at Homestead-Miami Speedway in a personally owned chassis originally purchased from Petty Enterprises.

That season Carl Long was announced as a driver for a new team, Victory Motorsports, owned by Terance Mathis, but the team never ran.

In 2006, Carl Long ran the No 80 for Hover Motorsports at the Daytona 500, but missed the race.

Carl Long returned to the Busch Series, driving the No 23 for Keith Coleman Racing in six races before being replaced, and ran a Truck Series race for Jim Rosenblum Racing.

Carl Long attempted a race at Bristol with Long Brothers Racing, but did not qualify.

Carl Long joined a new Nextel Cup team, Cupp Motorsports, in the No 46 Millstar Tools-sponsored Dodge.

Carl Long attempted three races for Cupp, but failed to qualify for each of them.

Carl Long returned with help from McGlynn to attempt the Ford 400 at the end of 2006, but did not make the race.

In 2007, Carl Long ran a limited schedule for Carl Long Brothers Racing in the USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series, posting a best finish of second.

Carl Long ran two races for Carter 2 Motorsports in the Busch Series, before the team closed down.

Carl Long began fielding his own car with Red Line Oil sponsoring in the Nationwide Series, making his first start of the season at Darlington Raceway.

Carl Long attempted the 2009 Daytona 500 with sponsorship from Romeo Guest Construction, one of Carl Long's first sponsors in the mid-1990s when he was competing in Late Models.

In May 2009, Carl Long was fined $200,000 after his engine was discovered to be 0.17 cubic inches over the regulation size during practice for the Sprint Showdown.

Carl Long has driven for numerous independent teams in the Sprint Cup, Nationwide Series, and Camping World Truck Series, as well as the Auto Racing Club of America.

In 2010, Carl Long was named to drive the No 01 Chevrolet for Daisy Ramirez's Truck Series team and the No 68 Nationwide Series car for Fleur-de-lis Motorsports.

In 2014, Carl Long partnered with Derek White to form Motorsports Business Management, fielding a team in the Nationwide Series under the name MBM Motorsports.

For six more races in 2014, Carl Long fielded rides for himself, White, and Mike Wallace, failing to qualify for four and not finishing all six races they had qualified.

In May 2017, Carl Long announced he had reached an agreement with NASCAR to allow him to return to the Cup Series garage.

Carl Long declared his intention to field the No 66 Chevrolet SS at the Go Bowling 400 in Kansas under the MBM Motorsports banner.

The number was selected as tribute to MBM driver Mark Thompson, while the paint scheme was nearly identical to the No 46 car Carl Long drove in the Cup Series prior to his ban from the Cup garage in 2009; the green and yellow colors remained, though the red roof number was changed to yellow.

Carl Long missed the first practice session before running 14 laps in the second session, followed by being unable to set a qualifying lap as he was one of 11 cars stuck in inspection during the session.

Carl Long is seen as a 'working man's' driver who never had the family corporate money that many of today's stars in racing have behind them.

Carl Long has a wife and 4 kids: Kierstyn, Dane, Nicole, and Carly Long.