Joey Gase

Joseph "Joey" Gase (born February 8, 1993) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He has won several track championships at short tracks in the midwestern United States. He currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 52 Chevrolet Camaro for Jimmy Means Racing, and part-time in the Sprint Cup Series, driving the No. 32 Ford Fusion for Go FAS Racing.

Early career and personal life

Gase in a super late model at La Crosse, 2010

Gase started racing at Hawkeye Downs Speedway in the track's junior classes in 2001.^[1] He won the track modified B championship at La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway in 2007, the youngest driver to do so.^[1] In 2009, he became the youngest driver to win the track's late model championship at Hawkeye Downs Speedway.^[2] Gase graduated from Xavier High School in Cedar Rapids in 2011.^[3]

Gase's mother, Mary Jo, died from a brain aneurysm when Gase was 18 years old. Gase was awarded the inaugural Comcast Community Champion Award at the joint Xfinity and Camping World Truck Series banquet after the 2015 season. The award was in recognition of Gase's efforts to promote organ donation, to honor his mother, whose donated organs helped 66 others after her death.^[4]

NASCAR

Xfinity Series

After running a limited schedule of American Speed Association races starting in 2008, and selected ARCA Racing Series, USAR Pro Cup Series, and NASCAR K&N Pro Series East races in 2010 and 2011,^[1] Gase made his first start in NASCAR's Nationwide Series at Iowa Speedway in August 2011.^[3] Driving for Go Green Racing in the No. 39 Ford, Gase made five starts during the second half of the 2011 season; over the course of those races he posted a best finish of 20th and an average finish of 25th.^[3]

In January 2012, it was announced that Gase would drive the No. 39 Ford for Go Green Racing for the entire 2012 Nationwide Series season, competing for rookie of the year honors.^[3]^[5] Gase was planned to be the lead driver of a two-car team for Go Green Racing; the team's second car, the No. 04, would be driven by several drivers.^[5] A lack of sponsorship meant that Gase only ran a partial season, competing for several teams.^[6]

Gase racing the No. 52 Means Racing car at Road America in 2014

In December 2012, Gase announced that he would be driving for Jimmy Means Racing full-time in the Nationwide Series for 2013;^[7] partway through the season he began running for Go Green Racing as well as Means due to a lack of sponsorship.

In the 2015 race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Gase was replaced by Dexter Bean after suffering food poisoning prior to the race. Gase started the race, and was replaced by Bean during the event.^[8] On May 2, Gase earned his best career finish, placing fifth in the Winn-Dixie 300 at Talladega.^[9]

Sprint Cup Series

On August 27, 2014, Gase announced he would make his Sprint Cup Series debut in the No. 32 Ford with Go FAS Racing in the 2014 MyAFibStory.com 400 at Chicagoland.^[10] Gase returned in 2015 with Go FAS Racing at Richmond, but finished 43rd after Aric Almirola tapped him, sending him head-on into the SAFER barrier.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time * – Most laps led)

Sprint Cup Series

NASCAR Sprint Cup 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	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	NSCC	Pts
2014	Go FAS Racing	32	Ford	DAY	PHO	LVS	BRI	CAL	MAR	TEX	DAR	RCH	TAL	KAN	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	SON	KEN	DAY	NHA	IND	POC	GLN	MCH	BRI	ATL	RCH	CHI 37	NHA	DOV	KAN 37	CLT	TAL	MAR	TEX 37	PHO 33	HOM	68th	0¹
2015				DAY	ATL	LVS	PHO	CAL	MAR	TEX	BRI	RCH 43	TAL	KAN 38	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	SON	DAY	KEN	NHA	IND	POC	GLN	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	CHI	NHA	DOV	CLT	KAN	TAL	MAR	TEX DNQ	PHO 42	HOM	72nd	0¹
2016				DAY	ATL	LVS	PHO 32	CAL	MAR 36	TEX	BRI	RCH	TAL	KAN 34	DOV	CLT	POC	MCH	SON	DAY	KEN	NHA	IND	POC	GLN	BRI	MCH	DAR	RCH	CHI 40	NHA	DOV	CLT	KAN 35	TAL	MAR	TEX 36	PHO	HOM	57th	0¹

Xfinity Series

NASCAR Xfinity 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	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	NXSC	Pts
2011	Go Green Racing	39	Ford	DAY	PHO	LVS	BRI	CAL	TEX	TAL	NSH	RCH	DAR	DOV	IOW	CLT	CHI	MCH	ROA	DAY	KEN	NHA	NSH	IRP	IOW 20	GLN	CGV	BRI	ATL	RCH	CHI 23	DOV	KAN 29	CLT 26	TEX 29	PHO	HOM	43rd	93
2012	Go Green Racing	39	Ford	DAY 29	PHO 25	LVS 37	BRI 36	CAL 23	TEX	RCH	TAL	DAR											IOW 32	GLN	CGV													30th	236
2012	Hamilton Means Racing	52	Chevy										IOW 33	CLT 25	DOV	MCH	ROA	KEN	DAY 37	NHA 27	CHI	IND				BRI 31	ATL 43	RCH DNQ	CHI 35	KEN 35	DOV	CLT DNQ	KAN 19	TEX 31	PHO DNQ	HOM 32		30th	236
2013			Chevy	DAY DNQ	PHO 30	LVS 33	BRI Wth		TEX DNQ									KEN 32	DAY 36	NHA 33		IND DNQ	IOW 26	GLN 33	MOH	BRI DNQ	ATL 31	RCH 32		KEN 31	DOV 29	KAN DNQ			PHO 29	HOM		31st	242
			Toyota					CAL 40						DOV 34		MCH 27	ROA				CHI 40								CHI 35				CLT DNQ	TEX 30
	Go Green Racing	79	Ford							RCH 30	TAL	DAR	CLT		IOW 27
2014	Jimmy Means Racing	52	Chevy	DAY 32	PHO 24		BRI 29	CAL 26	TEX 26	DAR 26	RCH 31	TAL 11	IOW 27		DOV 23	MCH 27	ROA 30	KEN 32	DAY 37	NHA 29	CHI 31	IND 31	IOW 24	GLN 36	MOH 27	BRI 32	ATL 30	RCH 28	CHI 35	KEN 28	DOV 27	KAN 32	CLT 26	TEX 37	PHO 28	HOM 39		20th	482
2014			Toyota			LVS 36								CLT 34																								20th	482
2015			Chevy	DAY 32	ATL 30	LVS 27	PHO 31	CAL 30	TEX 31	BRI 25	RCH 26	TAL 5	IOW 27	CLT 32	DOV 29	MCH 27	CHI 31	DAY 30	KEN 25	NHA 28	IND 26	IOW 34	GLN 31	MOH 26	BRI 27	ROA 29	DAR 30	RCH 27	CHI 28	KEN 21	DOV 24	CLT 27	KAN 28	TEX 26	PHO 25	HOM 32		21st	545
2016			Chevy	DAY 32	ATL 32	LVS 28	PHO 33	CAL 28	TEX 27	BRI 31	RCH 26	TAL 38	DOV 23	CLT 36	POC 23	MCH 25	IOW 25	DAY 19	KEN 27	NHA 25	IND 28	IOW 24	GLN 32	MOH 28	BRI 22	ROA 22	DAR 24	RCH 27	CHI 26	KEN 31	DOV 27	CLT 32	KAN 23	TEX 31	PHO 24	HOM 37		21st	437

^* Season still in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

References

1 2 3 "Joey Gase biography". JoeyGase.com. Retrieved 2012-01-07.
↑ Pilcher, K. J. (October 1, 2009). "Gase makes his mark quickly with Hawkeye Downs title". The Gazette. Cedar Rapids, IA. p. 1B. Retrieved 2012-08-25.
1 2 3 4 "Update: Gase to run full-time on Nationwide Series for Go Green Racing". The Gazette. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. January 6, 2012. Retrieved 2012-01-07.
↑ "Joey Gase Wins Comcast Community Champion Award". Hollywood, Florida. November 26, 2015. Retrieved November 30, 2015.
1 2 Mahoney, Larry (January 4, 2012). "Young Guns competition to put Maine youngster in car at Loudon speedway". Bangor Daily News. Bangor, Maine. Retrieved 2012-01-07.
↑ Pilcher, K.J. (May 16, 2012). "Gase back in Nationwide driver's seat". The Gazette. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
↑ Pilcher, K.J. (December 24, 2012). "Gase strikes deal with Means Racing". The Gazette. Cedar Rapids, IA. Retrieved 2012-12-25.
↑ Knight, Chris (March 7, 2015). "Dexter Bean On Standby For Joey Gase In Las Vegas". Catchfence. Retrieved March 7, 2015.
↑ Bruce, Kenny (May 7, 2015). "FIFTH PLACE PERHAPS NEVER MEANT SO MUCH". NASCAR. NASCAR Media Group. Retrieved May 8, 2015.
↑ Caldwell, Clayton (August 27, 2014). "Joey Gase to Make NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Debut at Chicagoland Speedway for Go Fas Racing". Sports Media 101. Retrieved 2014-08-27.

External links

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Official website
Joey Gase driver statistics at Racing-Reference

Go FAS Racing

Personnel

Frank Stoddard
Archie St. Hilaire
Randy Hill

Sprint Cup Series

(32) Bobby Labonte / Jeffrey Earnhardt / Joey Gase / Patrick Carpentier / Jeb Burton / Eddie MacDonald / Dylan Lupton

Former drivers

Go FAS	Mike Bliss Timmy Hill Will Kimmel Blake Koch Terry Labonte Boris Said Ken Schrader Josh Wise J. J. Yeley

Go Green	Tim Andrews Kelly Bires Maryeve Dufault Danny Efland Kyle Fowler Joey Gase Danny O'Quinn Jr. Josh Richards Bryan Silas Josh Wise

Partnerships and associations

Randy Hill Racing

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