Clinton Edward Bowyer was born on May 30,1979 and is an American semi-retired professional stock car racing driver and commentator for NASCAR on Fox.
105 Facts About Clint Bowyer
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Clint Bowyer competed in the NASCAR Cup Series from 2005 to 2020, driving for Richard Childress Racing for eight years, Michael Waltrip Racing for four years, HScott Motorsports for one year, and Stewart-Haas Racing for four years.
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Clint Bowyer began racing at the age of five in motocross.
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Clint Bowyer went on to capture over 200 wins and numerous championships over the next eight years.
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Clint Bowyer racked up 18 wins and 32 top-five finishes on his way to capturing the 2001 Modified championships at Lakeside Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas and Heartland Park Topeka.
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Clint Bowyer was crowned the 2002 NASCAR Weekly Racing Series Midwest Champion after another Modified championship at Lakeside Speedway and a Late Model championship at the famed I-70 Speedway in Odessa, Missouri, his first attempt at racing on asphalt.
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In 2003, Clint Bowyer raced a full season in the NASCAR AutoZone Elite Division Midwest Series, scoring one top-ten finish in 11 starts.
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Clint Bowyer would make his first ARCA starts in 2003, and caught the eye of legendary car owner Richard Childress after leading 47 laps and finishing second in his debut at Nashville Superspeedway driving for Scott Traylor out of Kansas City.
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In 2004, Clint Bowyer began running in the Busch Series for Childress, sharing seat time in the No 21 Reese's -sponsored Chevrolet with veteran Kevin Harvick.
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Clint Bowyer ran three races for Kevin Harvick Incorporated with help from Andy Petree Racing driving the No 33 Chevrolet sponsored by Monaco Coaches and Snap-on.
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Clint Bowyer made two starts for Bill McAnally Racing in the Camping World West Series in the No 20 Chevrolet.
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Clint Bowyer won two poles and two races en route to a second-place finish to repeat-champion Martin Truex Jr.
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Clint Bowyer made his Nextel Cup debut in the No 33 Sylvania-sponsored Chevy on April 23,2005, during the Subway Fresh 500 at Phoenix International Raceway.
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Clint Bowyer finished 22nd as the first car one lap down.
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Clint Bowyer began his rookie Cup season with three Top 5 finishes and had a total of eleven Top 10s that season, with his best finish being a third at California Speedway.
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Clint Bowyer finished 68 points behind Denny Hamlin for NASCAR Rookie of the Year honors.
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Clint Bowyer continued to drive the No 2 in the Busch Series full-time, winning once and finishing third in points.
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Clint Bowyer won his first Craftsman Truck Series race in the No 46 Chevrolet Silverado fielded by Morgan-Dollar Motorsports at Texas Motor Speedway on November 3,2006, in his third career Truck start, making his first CTS start that year at Martinsville for Green Light Racing.
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Clint Bowyer finished the regular season ninth in points, but was seeded 12th for the playoff since race wins determine playoff seeding.
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Clint Bowyer won his second pole at the Sylvania 300 at Loudon, and two days later went on to win his first Nextel Cup race in his 64th start.
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Clint Bowyer followed that up with another Busch Series win on May 4,2007 in the Circuit City 250 at Richmond International Raceway.
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Clint Bowyer ran select races in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series for Kevin Harvick.
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In 2008, Clint Bowyer continued to drive in the Cup and Nationwide Series full-time.
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Clint Bowyer dominated the late stages of the Daytona 500 but was spun out by Juan Pablo Montoya with 17 laps remaining.
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On May 3,2008, Clint Bowyer earned his second Sprint Cup victory, winning the Crown Royal Presents the Dan Lowry 400 at Richmond International Speedway.
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Clint Bowyer led only two laps, going to the front after Dale Earnhardt Jr.
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On November 15,2008, Clint Bowyer clinched the NASCAR Nationwide Series Championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway with a narrow margin of victory over Carl Edwards of 21 points.
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Clint Bowyer concentrated primarily on the Sprint Cup Series in 2009 and drove the No 33 Chevrolet Impala to 15th place in the season standings.
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Clint Bowyer trimmed his participation in the Nationwide series to 12 races but performed well, winning at Daytona and Dover, finishing in the Top 5 in six of the 12 races and notching eight Top 10s.
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Clint Bowyer started the Cup season in strong fashion, finishing fourth in the Daytona 500 and second at Las Vegas in the third race of the year.
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True to form, Clint Bowyer, performed well early in 2010, finishing fourth in Daytona, seventh at Martinsville, and ninth at Phoenix to stand sixth after seven races.
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However, at Texas in the Samsung Mobile 500, Clint Bowyer got caught in a major crash on lap 317 that wiped out eighth other drivers and caused a 19-minute red flag race stoppage.
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Clint Bowyer ran the new The Hartford Racing paint out as part of The Hartford's 200th anniversary celebration.
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However, 101 laps into the race, Clint Bowyer went to the pits and ultimately the garage, with brake issues.
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Clint Bowyer ran well again in races 12 through 14, like 17th, seventh, and ninth-place finishes allowed him to move back up into 12th-place overall.
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In race 13, Clint Bowyer led lap 217 following a caution for debris.
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Clint Bowyer led lap 80 and was in seventh place with 11 laps to go.
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Clint Bowyer had one of his strongest runs of the year in the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona, leading 17 of the final 21 laps.
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Unfortunately on the final Green-White restart, Clint Bowyer got split by Jeff Gordon, lost the lead, fell back in the pack and ultimately spun.
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In finishing 17th, Clint Bowyer fell 49 points behind 12th place Carl Edwards.
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In race 19 at Chicagoland, Clint Bowyer ran well all night, finishing 4th and moving up into 12th place in the overall standings.
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Clint Bowyer started 15th but moved up quickly, running in the Top 10 for the first half and then in the Top 5 for most of the latter half of the race, battling Jeff Gordon for the lead with less than 40 laps to go.
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Reports surfaced that Clint Bowyer's car used at Richmond had come close to failing inspection.
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Clint Bowyer barely edged teammate Kevin Harvick for the victory in the fall Talladega race, the AMP Energy Juice 500.
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Clint Bowyer finished 10th in the final Chase standings, earning him a spot on stage at the season-ending Awards Banquet.
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Clint Bowyer started off the 2011 season strong in the Budweiser shootout practice sessions, and he and his teammates regularly sat on top of the pylon.
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Clint Bowyer was able to salvage a 17th-place finish out of it, mainly because of the big pileups earlier in the race.
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The next race at Phoenix, Clint Bowyer was taken out early in a multi-car crash on the backstretch.
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At Dover, in the Nationwide series, Clint Bowyer was involved in a major crash on the last lap, with Clint Bowyer going on his side.
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At New Hampshire, Clint Bowyer led 49 of the last 51 laps and seemed to be on the road to victory; but with two laps to go, in a bizarre twist of fate, Tony Stewart passed him to win in a role reversal from the 2010 race.
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On October 7,2011, Clint Bowyer signed a 3-year contract to race the No 15 Toyota for Michael Waltrip Racing, starting in 2012.
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Clint Bowyer did not make the Chase, but he won the Chase race at Talladega for the 2nd consecutive year, pulling a slingshot on Burton out of turn 4 on the final lap of the race.
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Clint Bowyer apologized for the contact but later incidents at other 2012 races led to a heated rivalry.
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At the AdvoCare 500 at Atlanta, Clint Bowyer suffered battery issues but still managed to clinch a Chase berth with a 27th-place finish.
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Clint Bowyer rebounded the following week at the Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond, winning the race using fuel strategy despite being spun by Juan Pablo Montoya mid-race.
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Clint Bowyer was not penalized for his involvement in the fight, but his crew chief Brian Pattie was fined $35,000 after he expressed his displeasure with Gordon by using profanity on national television, forcing ESPN to apologize to viewers.
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At Richmond International Raceway on September 7,2013, Clint Bowyer became the subject of controversy as, late in the race, his No 15 Toyota spun; accusations were made that the spin was intentional, as part of an effort by MWR to ensure that Martin Truex Jr.
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Clint Bowyer had already clinched a spot in the Chase at the Irwin Tools Night Race.
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Clint Bowyer did not participate in the Sprint Unlimited as he did not win a pole during the 2013 season.
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Clint Bowyer's season started on a wild note when Bowyer was involved in a last lap crash of race 2 in the Budweiser Duels, with Bowyer's car being sent airborne and performing a barrel roll before landing on its wheels.
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At Darlington, Clint Bowyer was the center of controversy when he got some contact with Kurt Busch.
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Two weeks later at Richmond, Clint Bowyer tried to move to the lead on lap 1 but tapped pole-sitter Kyle Larson which forced Larson to drive from 43rd for a recovery.
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Clint Bowyer started off the season with a top 10 at Daytona.
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On September 30,2015, it was announced that Tony Stewart would retire from the NASCAR Sprint Cup series after the 2016 season and negotiated a contract which will allow Clint Bowyer to drive the No 14 car in the 2017 season.
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On October 2,2015, it was announced that Clint Bowyer will move to HScott Motorsports for the 2016 season replacing Justin Allgaier before making his transition to Stewart-Haas Racing the following season.
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On December 15,2015, a leaked photo on Twitter showed that Clint Bowyer will bring over his No 15 and 5-Hour-Energy sponsorship from Michael Waltrip Racing to HScott Motorsports for his lone season with them.
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Clint Bowyer made the Chase due to having enough points to qualify, but his Chase was hit heavily by a 25 driver and owner points penalty, a $75,000 fine and the suspension of crew chief Billy Scott for 3 races.
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Clint Bowyer appealed the penalties but they were upheld by the appeals panel.
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Clint Bowyer started the season on a low note finishing 33rd after a loose wheel at Daytona.
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Clint Bowyer struggled at Atlanta with his car down a cylinder finishing 35th.
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Clint Bowyer had some poor finishes, and including a 38th-place finish at Texas where he left the garage after the car was repairable.
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Two weeks later, Clint Bowyer finished a season best 7th-place finish after avoiding massive crashes at Talladega.
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Clint Bowyer ended the season winless and no top 5s with only 3 top tens and finishing 27th in the point standings.
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Clint Bowyer returned to the Nationwide Series, now known as the Xfinity Series, at Chicagoland, driving the No 88 for JR Motorsports.
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Clint Bowyer ended up starting the race in 7th and finishing the race in 6th.
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Clint Bowyer started the season with a 2nd-place finish on the 2nd Can-Am Duel.
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Clint Bowyer got his first top ten at Las Vegas with a 10th-place finish.
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Clint Bowyer had a significantly better race at Auto Club, finishing third and a 2nd-place at Bristol several races later.
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Clint Bowyer finished second again at the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona the following week.
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Clint Bowyer finished 24th after contact with Matt Kenseth as Kenseth avoided an ambulance at the entry of pit road while under caution and 18th in the final points standings.
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Clint Bowyer got off to a strong start in 2018, posting Top 15 finishes in four of the first five events, including a third-place finish at the Atlanta race.
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On September 14,2019, Clint Bowyer won the pole at Las Vegas, his first pole since 2007.
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Clint Bowyer finished fourth at the Charlotte Roval to advance to the Round of 12.
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Clint Bowyer was eliminated in the Round of 12 after the Kansas race.
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Clint Bowyer finished 9th in the final points standings despite not reaching victory lane as he did the season prior, his first top ten points finish since 2013.
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Clint Bowyer finished the race in 23rd place, one lap down.
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On October 8,2020, Clint Bowyer revealed that he would be joining the Fox Sports broadcast booth for the 2021 season, stepping away from the driver's seat.
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Clint Bowyer was eliminated from the playoffs after the round of 12.
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Clint Bowyer scored his 226th and final top-ten at Martinsville and finished 14th at the season finale at Phoenix in his final race the following week later.
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Clint Bowyer finished 12th in the points standings in his final season.
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Bowyer started his own Dirt Late Model team, Clint Bowyer Racing in 2008.
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Clint Bowyer Racing has fielded cars in Tony Stewart's Prelude to the Dream in 2008 and 2010.
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Clint Bowyer Racing fielded a car for Clint in 2011 for the UNOH DIRTcar Nationals.
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In 2014 Clint Bowyer Racing won its first Lucas Oil Dirt Late Model Championship with Don O'Neal driving the No 5 Peak Performance car.
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Clint Bowyer alleged that the team was using money owed to him, to pay off their creditors.
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Clint Bowyer is an avid fan of the Kansas City Royals of the MLB, the Kansas City Chiefs of the NFL, and the University of Kansas Jayhawks of the NCAA.
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Clint Bowyer was absent from Fox's final Cup Series broadcast of the season at Sonoma on June 12,2022.
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Jordan Bianchi from The Athletic reported that Clint Bowyer was "handling a personal matter" and would miss the race weekend.
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On June 16,2022, WDAF-TV reported that on June 5,2022, at 9:00 pm Clint Bowyer had hit a woman when driving home from the Cup Series race at Gateway earlier in the day.
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On May 6,2008, Clint Bowyer attended and hosted the first annual Clint Bowyer Charity Golf Event in his hometown of Emporia, Kansas.
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Clint Bowyer says he envisions the building can be used for anything for business meetings to weddings to concerts and was constructed with flexibility in mind.
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The new Clint Bowyer Community Building is located at the Lyon County fairgrounds, which is on Highway 50 in Emporia.
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Clint Bowyer was featured in the episode using his customized camouflage limousine in a race with the shows star, Willie Robertson, who was using a similar limousine.
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In June 2019, Clint Bowyer was a color commentator for the Fox NASCAR broadcast of the Xfinity race at Pocono.
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On October 8,2020, Clint Bowyer revealed that he would be joining the Fox Sports broadcast booth full time for the 2021 season, stepping away from the driver's seat.