STANLEY Racing

Darian Grubb

Darian Grubb will begin his fourth season at Joe Gibbs Racing with a new role as crew chief for the No. 19 ARRIS/STANLEY Toyota with driver Carl Edwards, who joins JGR in 2015. Grubb spent the previous three seasons as crew chief of the No. 11 FedEx Toyota, where he helped guide Denny Hamlin and the team to seven victories and earned a spot in the inaugural Championship Four in 2014.

Grubb combined with Hamlin to win a series-high five races in 2012, and finished sixth in the final standings. The duo won in just their second race working together, at Phoenix in March, and entered the Chase as the top seed after four regular season victories -- Phoenix, Kansas, Bristol-2 and Atlanta. The fifth victory came in the Chase race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. A back injury forced Hamlin to miss four races early in the 2013, but the team earned a trip to victory lane in the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Last season, Grubb helped guide the No. 11 team through each round of the new elmination format of The Chase and Hamlin led late in a bid for the Championship at the season finale before finishing third in the standings.

Prior to joining Joe Gibbs Racing, Grubb spent three seasons (2009-2011) as Tony Stewart’s crew chief at Stewart-Haas Racing. The duo won the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship, winning five of 10 races in the Chase playoff to edge the No. 99 Roush Fenway Racing entry for the title.

During his three-year tenure at Stewart-Haas Racing, Grubb and Stewart combined to win 11 races and recorded 59 top-10 finishes, as well as a victory in the 2009 Sprint All-Star Race. The No. 14 team made the Chase in each of its three seasons under Grubb’s leadership, finishing sixth in 2009 and seventh in 2010 before winning it all in 2011.

Grubb came to Stewart-Haas Racing following a six-year stint at Hendrick Motorsports, where he rose from an engineer on the No. 48 team to the company’s engineering manager for the No. 5 and No. 88 Sprint Cup teams. Grubb also earned experience as a crew chief, serving in an interim role on the No. 48 team for the first four races of the 2006 season, where he led Jimmie Johnson to victory in the season-opening Daytona 500.

He spent the 2007 season as the crew chief for Casey Mears, leading the driver to his first Sprint Cup Series victory in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Grubb grew up in Floyd County, Va., and spent the majority of his time in high school working on Late Model stock cars that competed on tracks throughout Virginia and the Carolinas. A 1993 graduate of Floyd County High School, Grubb earned his degree in mechanical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in 1998 via a co-op program with Volvo Trucks and General Motors.

Following college, he spent two years at Volvo Trucks as a design engineer, while staying active in the motorsports community. He worked as the crew chief for Jeff Agnew in the USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series, helping guide the driver to the championship and “Rookie of the Year” honors in 1998.

Grubb got his first break into the Sprint Cup Series with Petty Enterprises in February 2000. He was part of the engineering team that helped develop the Dodge Intrepid in NASCAR, and served as the shock specialist on the famous No. 43 Petty car through 2002.

In 2003, Grubb joined Hendrick Motorsports as an engineer on the No. 48 team under the direction of crew chief Chad Knaus, before he was promoted to lead engineer for the No. 48 and No. 24 teams in 2005. He became Hendrick Motorsports’ lead race engineer while simultaneously serving as the lead race day engineer for the No. 48 team in 2006, where he helped the team to five victories and the first of five-straight Sprint Cup Series titles.

Grubb resides in Mooresville, N.C., with his wife, Yolanda, and their two children, Gavin and Gabriella. In his spare time, Grubb enjoys spending time with his family, boating, following college football and working on cars and computers.