Mark Rette

Mark Rette (born February 3, 1978) is founder and crew chief of Rette Jones Racing, Rette is one of the hardest working people in the K&N Pro Series.

While being co-owner of Rette Jones Racing, he also calls the shots atop the pit box for Spencer Davis and has over 50 K&N East races of experience crew chiefing. He’s crew chiefed 76 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series races, worked on modifieds and the former NASCAR Busch North Series cars growing up and visited Victory Lane in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and the NASCAR Cup Series in his NASCAR career spanning multiple decades.

Biography
In a perfect world, Rette would like to have multiple cars operating out of the RJR stable hitting the track weekly. Since its inception four years ago, it’s been a one-car team.

But in a roundabout way, they’ve been a multi-car organization for the past two seasons.

“A year ago, Spencer raced out of my shop with Danny Watts and the No. 82 car,” he said. “I housed it, I set up the information, all that was shared. This year, I’m doing it again with Sam Hunt and Colin Garrett trying to help their program. We’re just trying to do it a different way.”

The aforementioned Davis has been a big part of RJR’s success this season, currently sitting sixth in the standings, 13 back of DGR’s Tanner Gray. The Dawsonville, Georgia, native is old school, constantly tweaking on the car, be it in the shop or at the track, and is as hands on as a driver can be.

“He’s there everyday, working day in and day out,” Rette said of Davis. “That helps a lot. It helps him be familiar with and learn the cars. Him being there all the time, he doesn’t tear a lot of stuff up. I think that’s because he’s gotta work on them himself.”

“And honestly, my belief in Spencer this year is that I thought we’d be a contender for the championship. That’s a really good race car driver. He’s matured a lot, found his niche in the K&N Series. The K&N Series needs more Spencer Davises. Guys that are there for multiple years, not just in and out and heading onto ARCA or Trucks.”

Rette recalled their first race with Grant Quinlan at Columbus, thinking they should have won that race. Despite always being a top five car, he wants to get over the hump to that next level that’s eluded them for the last few years.

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Rette was most recently Frank Kimmel’s crew chief in 2014 with Win-Tron Racing.

“This is something I’ve talked about doing for such a long time, but I needed the perfect partner,” said Rette, who won the 2009 ARCA Racing Series championship with driver Justin Lofton. “Without a doubt, Terry (Jones) is that perfect partner. He has the same goals and ambitions that I have. With his support and guidance, we’re building an organization that will be around for many years to come.”

Rette have been penalized with the loss of 100 Driver, Owner, and Superspeedway Challenge points for violation of the 2019 ARCA Rulebook, Page 45, Item 3, Spoiler I, which references rear spoiler height.