Jamie McMurray raced in the NASCAR Cup Series on a full-time basis from 2003 to 2018 before shifting to a Daytona 500-only schedule in 2019 and 2021.
99 Facts About Jamie McMurray
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Jamie McMurray is known for winning the 2010 Daytona 500 for Chip Ganassi Racing, and is one of only three drivers to win both the Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400 in the same year.
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In 1999, Jamie McMurray made five starts in the Craftsman Truck Series.
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Jamie McMurray only led 1 lap total and became the 100th different driver to win in the Grand National Series.
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Jamie McMurray then won the next weekend at the Sam's Club 200 at North Carolina Motor Speedway by leading only the last two laps as leaders Jeff Green and Michael Waltrip wrecked each other on the last lap.
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Jamie McMurray finished the year 6th in final points, 772 points behind champion Greg Biffle who would end up being his rookie rival in 2003.
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One week later, at Charlotte, in just his second career NASCAR Winston Cup and first non-restrictor plate start, Jamie McMurray outraced the Joe Gibbs Racing Pontiacs of Bobby Labonte and Tony Stewart to win the UAW-GM Quality 500.
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Jamie McMurray had been consistent the entire night, and led 96 of the final 100 laps to score the win.
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Jamie McMurray drove for six of the remaining seven races, except for the Old Dominion 500 at Martinsville, with Mike Bliss driving as scheduled in the No 40.
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Jamie McMurray won Rookie of the Year honors by 37 points over Greg Biffle.
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Jamie McMurray had five Top 5's, 13 top tens and finished 13th in the overall standings.
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Jamie McMurray had 23 Top 10s during the season, including 12 in the last 14 races, and finished eleventh in the points standings, which earned him a $1 million bonus.
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In 2005 Jamie McMurray scored four top fives and ten top tens to finish 12th in points.
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Jamie McMurray came in tenth in points with a one-point cushion over Ryan Newman in the final race before the chase at Richmond International Raceway.
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Jamie McMurray was wrecked by Tony Raines later in the race ending his chase hopes.
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Jamie McMurray left the No 42 team after the 2005 season to drive for Roush Racing.
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Jamie McMurray began the 2007 season with crew chief Larry Carter.
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When Robby Gordon pitted after 34 laps, Jamie McMurray traded the lead repeatedly.
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However, on lap 30, Jamie McMurray was then black-flagged by NASCAR for slipping out of bounds.
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Jamie McMurray then spent the rest of the race charging back through the field eventually getting back to the front on lap 155.
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Jamie McMurray then led the final stages but battled Kyle Busch for five laps.
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Jamie McMurray earned an 8th-place finish in the race, securing himself a spot in the Top 35 in points and thus a guaranteed starting position for the next race.
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On October 11,2008, Jamie McMurray rallied to finish 5th in the Bank of America 500 at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
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Jamie McMurray reunited with former crew chief Donnie Wingo in 2009.
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Jamie McMurray started the 2009 season by dominating the final stages of the Budweiser Shootout, but finished second when he lost the lead to Kevin Harvick on the last lap.
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Jamie McMurray had an excellent Speedweeks, finishing 9th in his Gatorade Duel.
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On November 1,2009, Jamie McMurray won the AMP Energy 500 at Talladega after leading over 20 laps and passing David Stremme with 8 laps to go.
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Jamie McMurray then survived a green-white checkered finish to earn his second restrictor-plate win.
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Jamie McMurray decided to ask former boss Chip Ganassi for another chance following his disappointing era on Roush-Fenway Racing and Ganassi granted him a contract to let him drive for his merged team with Dale Earnhardt Inc.
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In 2010, Jamie McMurray moved over to Earnhardt Ganassi Racing in the No 1 car, replacing Martin Truex Jr.
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Jamie McMurray reunited with Chip Ganassi when he participated in the 2010 24 Hours of Daytona; it was the first time he has been with Ganassi since 2005.
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On February 14,2010, Jamie McMurray would start the year off with a bang when, in just his first start for Ganassi since 2005, Jamie McMurray won the Daytona 500.
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Jamie McMurray led for only two laps, the least in Daytona 500 history at the time, passing Kevin Harvick with 2 to go before holding off Greg Biffle and a rapidly charging Dale Earnhardt Jr.
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Jamie McMurray cried in victory lane and thanked Ganassi and his new sponsors for giving him another chance.
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Jamie McMurray accidentally crashed into new teammate and former rival Juan Pablo Montoya at Las Vegas.
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Jamie McMurray apologized but Montoya said after the race that he felt like Jamie McMurray wasn't helping the team much although later they made up.
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In May, Jamie McMurray ended up second to Kurt Busch in the Coca-Cola 600 and had several more top ten finishes before in July, Jamie McMurray held off Harvick again to win the Brickyard 400, which made him one of only three drivers to win the Daytona 500 and the Brickyard 400 in the same year, the feat previously having been accomplished by Jimmie Johnson in 2006 and Dale Jarrett in 1996.
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Jamie McMurray finished 14th in the standings with three wins nine Top 5s and 12 top tens.
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On January 19,2011, Jamie McMurray signed a multi-year extension with Earnhardt Ganassi Racing to continue driving the No 1 Chevrolet.
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Jamie McMurray won the pole for the Goody's Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville, where he finished 7th.
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Jamie McMurray blew his engine during the Coca-Cola 600 while battling Matt Kenseth for the race lead.
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Jamie McMurray congratulated Menard publicly after the race when he was interviewed about his finish.
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However, Jamie McMurray's second season with Earnardt Ganassi Racing was a disappointment compared to his first; he earned just four Top 10s that year, and finished the season 27th in points.
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Jamie McMurray started the season with a crash in the Daytona 500.
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The next week, in Phoenix, Jamie McMurray had an accident before blowing an engine; he then posted two straight 7th-place finishes at both Las Vegas and Bristol.
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Jamie McMurray started his season on a low note, crashing in the Daytona 500 on lap 33, relegating him to a 32nd-place finish, followed by a 22nd-place finish at Phoenix.
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At Las Vegas, the third race of the year, Jamie McMurray improved, with a 13th-place finish.
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Jamie McMurray then had a 16th-place finish at Texas, and took another 7th-place finish at Kansas, bringing him up to three Top 10 and six Top 20 finishes.
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Jamie McMurray took home first place in the non-points-paying 2013 Sprint Showdown at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
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Jamie McMurray would go on to finish 8th in the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race.
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Jamie McMurray would hit a low stretch, with a 19th-place finish in the Coca-Cola 600 and a 33rd-place finish at Dover.
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At Michigan, Jamie McMurray led 21 laps but finished 33rd after a late accident.
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Jamie McMurray then had two strong runs - a runner-up finish to Matt Kenseth at Kentucky, followed by the Coke Zero 400, where he led 10 laps and finished seventh.
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Jamie McMurray followed that up with a solid 12th-place finish at New Hampshire.
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Jamie McMurray had a slow start to the 2014 season, finishing 14th at Daytona after a last lap crash, though he posted a Top 10 at Fontana.
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Jamie McMurray was very emotional about his win and gave credit of the win to his pit crew thanking his new crew chief Keith Rodden.
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On lap 165 of the FedEx 400, Jamie McMurray drove into a chunk of concrete, causing his car to turn sideways.
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Jamie McMurray finished 16th at New Hampshire, after a solid 5th place start.
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At the Irwin Tools Night Race, Jamie McMurray had a car to beat, led the most laps, and had the lead with 67 laps to go, but faded towards the end of the race and finished 8th.
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Jamie McMurray had a good end to the season, grabbing a Top 10 at Homestead Miami.
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Jamie McMurray finished in 18th in the overall standings, seventy-three points behind his teammate Kyle Larson.
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Jamie McMurray had another crew chief change entering 2015, his second swap in 2 years.
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Jamie McMurray started the year out poorly with finishes of 27th and 40th at Daytona and Atlanta after being involved in two crashes.
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However, he experienced a good streak of races, a 10th at Martinsville, a sixth at Texas, a 14th at Bristol, and a fourth at Richmond where it looked like Jamie McMurray was one of the only drivers who could challenge winner Kurt Busch.
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Jamie McMurray posted a 16th at the All-Star race after leading Segment 3.
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Jamie McMurray had a strong run afterward, coming seventh at Dover, Pocono, and Michigan consecutively.
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Jamie McMurray then finished 11th at Sonoma after a tire issue early threw a wrench in the team's plans.
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The next week, Jamie McMurray's car was involved in a nine-car practice crash and was forced to a backup car for the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona; the backup car was slow during the race, and he was involved in multiple large accidents.
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Still, due to the majority of the field being involved in wrecks, Jamie McMurray was able to hang on to finish 15th.
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Jamie McMurray looked to grab a top 10 at New Hampshire until he lost a cylinder in his engine and finished 26th.
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Jamie McMurray went on to make the Chase for the first time in his career, seeded 12th in the standings.
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Jamie McMurray was 11th in the points, just two points above the cut line for who would be eliminated from the Chase going into the Contender Round, and one point above Dale Earnhardt Jr.
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Ultimately, Earnhardt finished third and Jamie McMurray finished fourth, which tied them in points, which was broken in favor of Earnhardt, which cut Jamie McMurray from the Chase.
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On September 19,2015, Jamie McMurray joined NASCAR on NBC for the Xfinity Series race at Chicagoland as a guest analyst.
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At Martinsville, Jamie McMurray looked to be set to finish 1 lap down in 24th place.
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However, after a caution with less than 50 laps to go, caused by Matt Kenseth intentionally wrecking Joey Logano, Jamie McMurray got back on the lead lap and after a pit stop, had the fastest car in the field.
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Jamie McMurray started out the 2016 season with a 17th place at Daytona.
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Jamie McMurray spent the rest of the race trying to catch up and ultimately finished 26th.
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Jamie McMurray finished seventh at Kentucky in a fuel mileage race.
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However a spin at Indy, and Chris Buescher winning at Pocono didn't help, although Jamie McMurray still finished in the top 20 for both races.
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Poor finishes at Chicagoland and New Hampshire put him in a must-win situation at Dover, unfortunately, Jamie McMurray's engine exploded midway through the race, ending his Chase hopes.
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Jamie McMurray served as a Fox NASCAR analyst for the Xfinity Series race at Las Vegas.
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Jamie McMurray jumped up to fifth in the standings after Dover, the highest he had ever been in the standings at the point in the year.
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Jamie McMurray racked up nine top-ten finishes in the first 16 races of the year, posting another top-five effort at Michigan.
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Jamie McMurray would survive the night race at Daytona to finish 14th, ahead of all drivers in front of him in the points with the exception of Jimmie Johnson.
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Jamie McMurray continued to excel, making it past the first round of the Playoffs for the first time in his career.
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Jamie McMurray posted a top-five at Charlotte, before consecutive wrecks caused by Erik Jones at Talladega and Kansas knocked him out.
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Jamie McMurray finished out the year 12th in the standings, and racked up 17 top tens and three top-fives.
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Jamie McMurray missed the playoffs, finishing 20th in the points standings.
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The 2018 season saw Jamie McMurray involved in a seven-flip rollover accident at Talladega Superspeedway during practice for the GEICO 500, leading to NASCAR attempting to reduce speeds for the race by changing the restrictor plates used.
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On September 10,2018, Jamie McMurray announced that he will not return to Chip Ganassi Racing in 2019.
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Jamie McMurray led a few laps in the race but finished 22nd.
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Jamie McMurray returned to the Daytona 500 in 2021 with Spire, driving the No 77.
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Jamie McMurray finished 8th after starting 19th, in only his second Top 10 finish in the Daytona 500.
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On January 4,2014, Chip Ganassi Racing announced that Jamie McMurray will run the 24 Hours of Daytona for the team in the No 01 car alongside Scott Pruett, Memo Rojas and Sage Karam.
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Jamie McMurray would drive for the team in the 2016 24 Hours of Daytona.
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Jamie McMurray will appear in the NASCAR RaceDay pre-race show and the NASCAR Race Hub midweek news show.
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Jamie McMurray grew up racing go-karts and competed in nearly every form of karting around the country before moving to late-model stock cars.
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In 2007, Jamie McMurray returned to the karting ranks and still competes in World Karting Association races on many of his open weekends.