Chad Boat

Chad Boat (born January 30, 1992) is a American dirt track racing driver and team owner. He is the son of former IndyCar Series driver Billy Boat.

Midget cars
Boat started his motorsport career in the quarter midgets at the age of five. At the age of seven, he won the Arizona State Championship and the following year, he won the Light Modified and Light 160 Championships.

NASCAR
After competing in multiple USAC championships, Boat moved to NASCAR in 2010, competing in seven K&N Pro Series West races between 2010 and 2012 with a fourth-place finish at the Iowa Speedway in 2010. He also drove in nineteen races of the K&N Pro Series East with a ninth place finish at the Bowman Gray Stadium in 2011 as the best result. He also drove in ten ARCA Racing Series events in 2012 and 2013, with two third-place finishes in Iowa as the best results.

In 2014, Boat competed in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, competing for the Rookie of the Year award for the family team Billy Boat Motorsports. He finished in the championship with a  in Iowa as his best finish. In 2015, he drove three and four races respectively in the NASCAR Xfinity Series (the successor to the Nationwide Series) and the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series for Billy Boat Motorsports. In the Truck Series, he finished in the final standings with a ninth place finish at the Talladega Superspeedway as his best finish, which is his best NASCAR finish to date.

Indy Lights
In 2017, Boat made his debut in the Indy Lights for the team Belardi Auto Racing. He was supposed to race at both Iowa Speedway and Gateway Motorsports Park, but an injury forced him to skip the first of these races. He was unable to finish the second race due to a crash.

Team ownership
Boat co-owned a USAC National Midget car team Tucker/Boat Motorsports and the team won the 2020 championship in their first season with driver Chris Windom. With the championship, Boat became the first person who had won a USAC National Midget race to own the season-championship-winning car with another driver.

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

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

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