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20 Facts About Doug George

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Doug George serves as the crew chief of the No 66 ThorSport Racing Ford F-150 in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driven by Johnny Sauter, Luke Fenhaus and Luke Baldwin.

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Doug George began racing professionally in the 1980s, driving for his own team.

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Doug George later moved to the NASCAR Winston West Series, where he won Rookie of the Year honors and later, the 1995 series championship.

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Doug George ran an additional race that season at Phoenix International Raceway, where he finished 41st after a wreck.

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Doug George had a fifth-place run at Sears Point, and finished 12th in the standings, runner-up to Bryan Reffner in the Rookie of the Year battle.

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In 1997, Doug George began driving the No 12 Chevrolet Silverado for Bob Blake.

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Doug George drove for a variety of teams that season, his best finish an eighth at Sonoma for Charles Hardy.

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Doug George began the 1998 in the No 26 MB Motorsports Ford, posting two thirtieth-place finishes.

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In 1999, Doug George drove a pair of races for Conely Racing, finishing seventeenth at Gateway International Raceway.

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Doug George joined Impact Motorsports as the crew chief of the No 12 Hot Wheels Dodge Ram for Carlos Contreras in 2000.

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Doug George drove the No 12 truck filling in for Contreras at Kentucky, finishing sixteenth.

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In 2009, Doug George was inducted into the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame.

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Doug George joined the No 89 team driven by Morgan Shepherd in 2006 before the team was purchased by CJM Racing.

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Doug George left BBM for Kevin Harvick Incorporated in 2010 to crew chief the No 2 truck split by Kevin Harvick and Elliott Sadler.

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Doug George moved to the No 32 Turner Motorsports team in 2011 but then left for Jason White's GB Racing team for the 2012 season.

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TSM closed down their truck team in 2015 and Doug George moved to the No 98 ThorSport Racing truck as Johnny Sauter's crew chief for the entire season.

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Doug George remained the crew chief, but was released with a few races left in the season after the team was winless again and missed the playoffs.

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Doug George was picked up by Hattori Racing Enterprises, becoming Ryan Truex's crew chief.

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Doug George then joined BK Racing as crew chief for Corey LaJoie and the No 83 Cup Series team, replacing Doug Richert, the team's competition director who was serving temporarily as crew chief to start the year on top of that.

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Doug George began the 2019 season without a crew chiefing job, but soon after the start of the season, he briefly became the crew chief for the No 44 truck of Niece Motorsports, later moving to Codie Rohrbaugh's No 9 team, replacing Michael Shelton after he went to Kyle Busch Motorsports.