Chris Cook (racing driver)

Chris Cook
Born	(1971-12-23) December 23, 1971 Phoenix, Arizona
NASCAR Cup Series career
4 races run over 3 years
2012 position	74th
Best finish	48th (2011)
First race	2005 Dodge/Save Mart 350 (Sears Point)
Last race	2012 Finger Lakes 355 (Watkins Glen)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
14 races run over 6 years
2012 position	98th
Best finish	78th (2006)
First race	1999 Lysol 200 (Watkins Glen)
Last race	2012 NAPA Auto Parts 200 (Montreal)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
Statistics current as of February 25, 2013.

Chris Cook (born December 23, 1971 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American professional race car driver and driving instructor, who instructs at the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving and competes irregularly in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and other racing series, specialising in road course racing.

Career

Cook was the youngest driver to become a chief instructor at the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving. He has competed in the IMSA Firestone Firehawk Endurance Championship and in late model stock cars at Nashville Speedway USA, as well as in selected NASCAR events, and in the Formula D championship. Cook is best known in drifting for a wreck at the 2007 NOPI Drift Los Angeles in which his Dodge Viper flipped, knocking Cook unconscious.

After making a name for himself as an instructor for NASCAR drivers in road course racing, including instructing Tony Stewart in the art of road course driving, Cook made his debut in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series in 2005 at Infineon Raceway, driving for Joe Nemechek and finishing 28th. He failed to qualify for several other races in 2005, 2006 and 2011 before qualifying for the 2011 Sprint Cup Series race at Infineon, substituting for Tomy Drissi in the Max Q Motorsports #37, and finishing 27th. He is one of the drivers referred to as a "road course ringer", specialist drivers who often replace regular NASCAR drivers at the two road course races on the tour schedule.

Cook has also competed in twelve races in the NASCAR Nationwide Series (formerly the NASCAR Busch Series) between 1999 and 2009, with a best finish of 20th at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City in 2006 while driving for John McNelly.

Cook has also competed in the 24 Hours of Daytona, running for Rick Ware Racing in the 2012 edition of the event; he finished 38th in the race. Later in 2012 he returned to the Sprint Cup Series, driving the No. 19 Toyota for Humphrey Smith Racing at Sonoma Raceway, finishing 42nd; he also drove for Rick Ware Racing in the Nationwide Series at Watkins Glen International in August.

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.)

Nationwide Series

^* Season still in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

24 Hours of Daytona

(key)

24 Hours of Daytona results
Year	Class	No	Team	Car	Co-drivers	Laps	Position	Class Pos.
2012	GT	15	Rick Ware Racing	Ford Mustang	Timmy Hill Jeffrey Earnhardt Doug Harrington John Ware	256	51 DNF	38 DNF

External links

• Official website
• Chris Cook driver statistics at Racing-Reference