CR7 Motorsports
Owner(s)Codie Rohrbaugh
Thomas Rohrbaugh
Larry Berg
SeriesNASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
ARCA Menards Series
Race driversTruck Series:
9. Grant Enfinger
97. Codie Rohrbaugh (part-time)
ARCA Menards Series:
97. TBA (part-time)
ARCA Menards Series East:
97. TBA (part-time)
ARCA Menards Series West:
97. TBA (part-time)
SponsorsTruck Series:
9. Champion Power Equipment, Grant County Mulch
97. Grant County Mulch
ARCA Menards Series:
97. A.L.L Construction, Grant County Mulch
ARCA Menards Series East:
97. Grant County Mulch, A.L.L Construction
ARCA Menards Series West:
97. A.L.L Construction
ManufacturerChevrolet
Opened2014 (East Series)
2016 (ARCA)
2018 (Truck)
Career
DebutTruck Series:
2018 UNOH 200 (Bristol)
ARCA Menards Series:
2016 Crosley 150 (Kentucky)
ARCA Menards Series East:
2014 Pensacola 150 (Five Flags)
ARCA Menards Series West:
2023 Desert Diamond Casino West Valley 100 (Phoenix)
Races competed158
Truck: 93
ARCA: 45
ARCA East: 18
ARCA West: 1
Drivers' Championships0
Race victories0
Pole positions0

CR7 Motorsports (also sometimes known as Grant County Mulch Racing) is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, fielding the No. 9 Chevrolet Silverado for Grant Enfinger and the No. 97 part-time for Codie Rohrbaugh. As well as in the ARCA Menards Series, ARCA Menards Series East, and ARCA Menards Series West with the No. 97 Chevrolet part-time for TBA.

The team is not named after Association football/soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo.

History

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

Blaine Perkins in the No. 9 at Sonoma Raceway in 2022

Rohrbaugh did qualify for the race in his and the team's first Truck Series attempt, at Bristol in 2018. As Korbin Forrister's team was already using the No. 7, they picked the No. 9 to use for their Truck Series team. They finished with a top-20 in their first race (16th) in No. 9 Chevrolet Silverado. Returning for the race at Texas in November, now driving a Ford truck, Rohrbaugh was able to make the race again, and he impressively picked up another top-20, finishing 17th. The team did announce they would be attempting Homestead, but they changed their mind to focus on preparing for the ARCA season-opener at Daytona in 2019.[1]

Returning in 2019, CR7M attempted twelve races, about half of the season, and all with Rohrbaugh as the driver. The team used Silverados in all races they attempted. Rohrbaugh qualified for nine of twelve races. His DNQs came at Daytona, Martinsville in March, and Bristol. He crashed in each of the first three races he did qualify for, which were at both Texas races (in March and June) and Charlotte. His other DNF that year came when he was involved in the big one at Talladega. Despite not qualifying for some of his races and not finishing in others, he scored a top-10 finish in the second Martinsville race in October.[2] Also in 2019, the team worked with three different crew chiefs. They started the year with Michael Shelton before he left to crew chief the No. 46 Kyle Busch Motorsports team. Their general manager and ARCA team crew chief Mark Huff worked with the truck team for the first Martinsville race. They then picked up Doug George, who came over after starting the season with the Niece Motorsports No. 44 team.[3] Rohrbaugh returned and ran 17 races in 2020. The season started with him finishing third in the NextEra Energy 250. Other than that, Rohrbaugh posted 5 top 20 finishes, including a 5th-place finish at Talladega Superspeedway and a 6th-place finish at Richmond Raceway. In 2021, Rohrbaugh got another top-10 in the season opener NextEra Energy 250, finishing 8th. Grant Enfinger drove the No. 9 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, finishing 7th. At the end of the year Colby Howard would make 3 starts for the team. In 2022, Blaine Perkins would drive the No. 9 truck full-time. In 2023, Colby Howard would drive the entry full-time. In 2024, Grant Enfinger will return to drive the No. 9 full-time in a multi-year deal.

Truck No. 9 results

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 NCTC Pts
2018 Codie Rohrbaugh 9 Chevy DAY ATL LVS MAR DOV KAN CLT TEX IOW GTW CHI KEN ELD POC MCH BRI
16
MSP LVS TAL MAR 47th 41
Ford TEX
17
PHO HOM
2019 Chevy DAY
DNQ
ATL LVS MAR
DNQ
TEX
23
DOV KAN CLT
29
TEX
30
IOW GTW CHI KEN
14
POC ELD MCH
17
BRI
DNQ
MSP LVS
16
TAL
24
MAR
10
PHO HOM
26
32nd 144
2020 DAY
3
LVS
18
CLT
18
ATL
33
HOM
28
POC
39
KEN
39
TEX
22
KAN
24
KAN
29
MCH
18
DAY
29
DOV GTW DAR
25
RCH
6
BRI
31
LVS TAL
5
KAN TEX MAR
34
PHO 31st 225
2021 DAY
8
DAY
16
ATL
29
BRI
27
RCH
36
DAR
38
TEX NSH KNX
34
TAL
16
24th 326
Grant Enfinger LVS
7
KAN
17
COA
4
CLT
14
POC
36
GLN
38
GTW
25
LVS
7
PHO
13
Colby Howard DAR
13
BRI
15
MAR
38
2022 Blaine Perkins DAY
31
LVS
35
ATL
29
COA
35
MAR
DNQ
BRI
25
DAR
31
KAN
32
TEX
26
CLT
30
GTW
22
SON
21
KNX
25
NSH
18
MOH
30
POC
29
IRP
26
RCH
34
KAN
30
BRI
28
TAL
27
HOM
22
PHO
25
32nd 203
2023 Colby Howard DAY
4
LVS
18
ATL
27
COA
24
TEX
20
BRD
27
MAR
17
KAN
35
DAR
17
NWS
24
CLT
20
GTW
12
NSH
29
MOH
36
POC
15
RCH
24
IRP
35
MLW
17
KAN
19
BRI
22
TAL
23
HOM
30
PHO
21
24th 340
2024 Grant Enfinger DAY ATL LVS BRI COA MAR TEX KAN DAR NWS CLT GTW NSH POC IRP RCH MLW BRI KAN TAL HOM MAR PHO

Truck No. 97 results

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 NCTC Pts
2022 Jason Kitzmiller 97 Chevy DAY
Wth
LVS ATL COA MAR BRI DAR KAN TEX CLT GTW SON KNO NSH MOH POC IRP RCH KAN BRI TAL HOM PHO
2023 Codie Rohrbaugh DAY
33
LVS ATL COA TEX BRD MAR KAN DAR NWS CLT GTW NSH MOH POC RCH IRP MLW KAN BRI TAL HOM PHO 47th 4
2024 DAY ATL LVS BRI COA MAR TEX KAN DAR NWS CLT GTW NSH POC IRP RCH MLW BRI KAN TAL HOM MAR PHO

ARCA Menards Series

In addition to their K&N East races in 2016, Rohrbaugh's team made their ARCA debut that year, running the last two races of the year at Kentucky and Kansas. The same as how he did in his first East Series start, Rohrbaugh finished 13th in his ARCA Series debut. However, Rohrbaugh did not finish the race at Kansas due to electrical issues and ended up 32nd.

For 2017, Rohrbaugh and his No. 7 team attempted an expanded schedule of eight races in ARCA after dropping their K&N program. The team ran Chevrolets in all races, except for Daytona and Talladega that they ran Dodges. Rohrbaugh finished every race no worse than 16th except for when he crashed out at Chicago, finishing 29th. His best finishes were a pair of 8th-place runs at Michigan and Kansas.

The team started out the 2018 season now driving a Chevrolet SS but crashed at Daytona and rebuilt the same car in time to attempt Talladega.[4]

At the ARCA Daytona test in January 2019, Rohrbaugh announced he would compete in all the speedway races that year.[5] However, Rohrbaugh eventually decided to focus on the Truck Series team, and they cut back their ARCA schedule for the rest of the 2019 season. Eric Caudell bought the team's owner points and switched his team's car number from the No. 2 to the No. 7, which Rohrbaugh's team had been running.

For 2020, the team returned to ARCA, entering a car in the series' testing at January in January with newcomer Jason Kitzmiller driving the No. 97[6] (since Caudell was continuing to use the No. 7).[7] The team then filed an entry for the race there in February.[8] The team has yet to announce whether they will attempt more races throughout the year after Daytona.

ARCA Menards Series East

Rohrbaugh's family team made their first NASCAR starts in 2014 in what was then the K&N Pro Series East while also competing full-time in the X-1R Pro Cup Series that year. With his grandfather Larry Berg as the listed owner, the team fielded the No. 05 Toyota in three races: Five Flags, New Hampshire, and Dover. Their best finish was in their debut at Five Flags, where Rohrbaugh finished 13th.

They returned for another part-time schedule in 2015, switching numbers from the No. 05 to the No. 7 and manufacturers from Toyota to Chevrolet. The team ran New Hampshire and Dover again, and also for the first time attempted New Smyrna, Bristol, and Richmond. The other race they entered that year was the East Series’ first and to-date only race at Motordrome Speedway, where Rohrbaugh and his team earned their first top-10 with a 9th place finish.

The team attempted five East Series races the following year. They attempted mostly the same schedule, but with Motordrome and Richmond off the schedule for 2016, they attempted the new race at Mobile instead. Rohrbaugh crashed out in two of his five starts and finished in the top-20 (two 19ths and a 13th) in his remaining races.

References

  1. "Update from Codie Rohrbaugh and Grant County Mulch Racing". Catchfence. Retrieved December 25, 2019.
  2. Massie, Michael (October 26, 2019). "Codie Rohrbaugh Scores First Career Top 10 in Martinsville Truck Race". Frontstretch. Retrieved December 25, 2019.
  3. "Codie Rohrbaugh grabs new crew chief in time for Martinsville Truck Series debut". Speedway Digest. March 22, 2019. Retrieved December 25, 2019.
  4. Radebaugh, Don (April 26, 2018). "Codie Rohrbaugh rebuilds speedway car for Talladega". ARCARacing.com. Archived from the original on December 26, 2019. Retrieved December 25, 2019.
  5. Krall, Charles (January 16, 2019). "Codie Rohrbaugh Ready To Tackle 2019". ARCARacing.com. Archived from the original on December 26, 2019. Retrieved December 25, 2019.
  6. C, Rich (January 13, 2020). "ARCA Menards Series Testing-Daytona". ARCARacing.com. Retrieved January 17, 2020.
  7. "Daytona Test Entry List". ARCARacing.com. Archived from the original on December 24, 2019. Retrieved January 17, 2020.
  8. "ARCA Daytona 200 Entry List". ARCARacing.com. Retrieved January 17, 2020.
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