Racing Career
Grubb spent four years as an assistant with Hendrick Motorsports, before taking over the crew chief job temporarily for Jimmie Johnson's team at the 2006 Daytona 500, after regular crew chief Chad Knaus was suspended. Johnson went on to win that race for his first Daytona 500 victory. Johnson and Grubb went on to finish second at the 2006 Auto Club 500. Johnson won two weeks later, again with Grubb, in the 2006 UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400. In 2007, he was named the crew chief for Casey Mears' No. 25 Hendrick team, where he scored another win, at the Coca-Cola 600.
In the 2008 season, Grubb moved to an administrative role with Hendrick Motorsports, supervising the No. 5 and the renumbered No. 88 teams. On September 5, 2008, it was announced that Grubb was leaving Hendrick Motorsports at the end of this season to join the new Stewart-Haas Racing team to serve as Tony Stewart's crew chief in 2009. Grubb was the winning crew chief for Tony Stewart in the 2009 All-Star race at Charlotte. Grubb also guided Tony Stewart to his first win as an Owner, Driver of a points paying race. The race was won at Pocono Raceway in the Spring of 2009 and was won on fuel strategy. During the 2011 season, Grubb led Tony Stewart from a mediocre pre-chase effort to five chase victories and Stewart's third NASCAR Championship by way of a 5-1 victory tiebreaker over Carl Edwards that NASCAR uses in the event of a tie in the points standings at the end of the season. If the champion cannot be determined using the victory tiebreaker, then owners points are used for this purpose. This was Grubb's first championship. However, Grubb announced that he had been informed of his release prior to Charlotte. Grubb became the crew chief for Denny Hamlin and the No. 11 team in 2012, replacing Mike Ford. Currently, Grubb has scored a victory with Hamlin at Phoenix International Raceway in the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.
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