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The 2024 season marks Hill’s third season driving the No. 21 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. In 2023, Hill earned four race wins (including a second consecutive victory in the season-opening event at the prestigious Daytona International Speedway), 16 top five and 24 top 10 finishes, along with three poles in Xfinity Series competition. He claimed the Xfinity Series regular season championship and a fifth-place result in the year-end driver championship point standings. During his Xfinity Series rookie campaign in 2022, Hill captured two wins, one pole, 11 top five and 21 top 10 results. He won Rookie of the Year honors and finished sixth in the overall driver championship point standings.
Hill spent five full seasons in the NASCAR Truck Series and totaled eight wins, three poles, 27 top five and 52 top 10 finishes throughout his series career. He finished a career-best fifth in the Truck Series championship driver standings in 2020 and qualified for the Playoffs three times in his career (2019-2021). In 2020, Hill won the Truck Series regular-season championship title and accumulated two wins, 11 top five and 17 top 10 results. He got his first Truck Series win at Daytona International Speedway in 2019 and went on to win three more times that season.
Hill has made 15 Xfinity Series starts from 2019-2021, grabbing one top five and four top 10 finishes. During that three-year span, he earned a career-best result at Kansas Speedway in 2020 (fifth). Before competing in the Truck Series, Hill raced in the ARCA Menards Series East fulltime in 2014 and 2015. In that time, he tallied one pole, four wins, 12 top-five and 21 top-10 finishes.
Married to Ashlyn. The couple has two daughters, Lynnlee and Kensley, and a son, Barrett.
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Chad Haney is the crew chief for the No. 21 Chevrolet in the NASCAR Xfinity Series with driver Austin Hill. 2025 marks the Fairmont, West Virgina native’s first year as a crew chief in the Xfinity Series. He brings to the role more than 30 years of professional motorsports experience.
Most recently, Haney was RCR’s head mechanic in the Xfinity Series, managing the build and development of the organization’s cars to ensure parity among RCR and Xfinity Series alliance partners.
Haney has worked as a car chief and mechanic at the highest levels of the sport, including stints as a car chief in the NASCAR Cup Series for drivers such as Aric Almirola, Clint Bowyer, Kurt Busch, Austin Dillon and Kevin Harvick. His resume includes some of the NASCAR’s most prestigious races, including a Daytona 500 win with Busch in 2017 and a Coca-Cola 600 win with Harvick in 2011. He was part of the team that returned the No. 3 Chevrolet to the NASCAR Cup Series in 2014 with Dillon, notably sitting on the pole for that year’s Daytona 500.
Haney’s career at RCR first began in 2005, but beginning in 2015, he took an eight-year hiatus from the team to work as a car chief at Stewart-Haas Racing. Haney also worked for Kevin Harvick, Inc. as a crew chief for Harvick’s short track racing endeavors during his leave from RCR.
From 2014-2009, Haney was a car chief at RCR in the NASCAR Cup Series, working with Dillon (2015, 2014), Harvick (2013, 2012), and Bowyer (2011, 2010, 2009). Prior to his Cup career, Haney was a car chief in the NASCAR Xfinity Series with the No. 2 Chevrolet driven by Bowyer (2008, 2006) and the No. 29 Chevrolet driven by Jeff Burton and Scott Wimmer (2007). He started at RCR as a front-end mechanic for the No. 21 Chevrolet driven by Harvick and Brandon Miller in the Xfinity Series in 2005.
A racer himself, Haney spent several years honing his skills as a dirt late model racer before giving up the steering wheel for a wrench. He was a crew chief in the dirt late model world working for Rocket Chassis before moving to North Carolina to pursue a career in NASCAR in 2004. A love of motorsports came early for Haney, who started going to dirt tracks with his father as a young child. Those early experiences led to his first job in the sport, working on dirt cars when he was just 15 years old.
Haney spends his free time helping his son, a two-time champion, race quads.
Haney resides in Lexington, N.C. with his wife Buffy and son Cameron.
