| Team Name: | CR7 Motorsports |
| Owner Names: | Codie Rohrbaugh Thomas Rohrbaugh Larry Berg |
| Series: | NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series ARCA Menards Series |
| Numbers: | 05, 7, 9, 97 |
| Drivers: | Truck Series: 9. Grant Enfinger 97. Codie Rohrbaugh (part-time) ARCA Menards Series: 97. Jason Kitzmiller (part-time) |
| Sponsors: | Truck Series: 9. Grant County Mulch, Champion Power Equipment 97. Grant County Mulch ARCA Menards Series: 97. A.L.L Construction |
| Manufacturer: | Chevrolet |
| Opened: | 2014 (East Series) 2016 (ARCA) 2018 (Truck) |
| Debut: | Truck Series: 2018 UNOH 200 (Bristol) ARCA Menards Series: 2016 Crosley 150 (Kentucky) ARCA Menards Series East: 2014 Pensacola 150 (Five Flags) ARCA Menards Series West: 2023 Desert Diamond Casino West Valley 100 (Phoenix) |
| Races: | 176 Truck: 109 ARCA: 48 ARCA East: 18 ARCA West: 1 |
| Drivers Champ: | 0 |
| Wins: | 0 |
| Poles: | 0 |
CR7 Motorsports (also sometimes known as Grant County Mulch Racing) is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, fielding the No. 9 full-time Chevrolet Silverado for Grant Enfinger and the No. 97 part-time for Codie Rohrbaugh. As well as in the ARCA Menards Series with the No. 97 Chevrolet part-time for Jason Kitzmiller. The team has a technical alliance with McAnally-Hilgemann Racing.[1]
The team is not named after Association football/soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo.
Rohrbaugh did qualify for the race in his and the team's first Truck Series attempt, at Bristol in 2018. As Korbin Forrister's team was already using the No. 7, they picked the No. 9 to use for their Truck Series team. They finished with a top-20 in their first race (16th) in No. 9 Chevrolet Silverado. Returning for the race at Texas in November, now driving a Ford truck, Rohrbaugh was able to make the race again, and he impressively picked up another top-20, finishing 17th. The team did announce they would be attempting Homestead, but they changed their mind to focus on preparing for the ARCA season-opener at Daytona in 2019.[2]
Returning in 2019, CR7 attempted twelve races, about half of the season, and all with Rohrbaugh as the driver. The team used Silverados in all races they attempted. Rohrbaugh qualified for nine of twelve races. His DNQs came at Daytona, Martinsville in March, and Bristol. He crashed in each of the first three races he did qualify for, which were at both Texas races (in March and June) and Charlotte. His other DNF that year came when he was involved in the big one at Talladega. Despite not qualifying for some of his races and not finishing in others, he scored a top-10 finish in the second Martinsville race in October.[3] Also in 2019, the team worked with three different crew chiefs. They started the year with Michael Shelton before he left to crew chief the No. 46 Kyle Busch Motorsports team. Their general manager and ARCA team crew chief Mark Huff worked with the truck team for the first Martinsville race. They then picked up Doug George, who came over after starting the season with the Niece Motorsports No. 44 team.[4] Rohrbaugh returned and ran 17 races in 2020. The season started with him finishing third in the NextEra Energy 250. Other than that, Rohrbaugh posted 5 top 20 finishes, including a 5th-place finish at Talladega Superspeedway and a 6th-place finish at Richmond Raceway. In 2021, Rohrbaugh got another top-10 in the season opener NextEra Energy 250, finishing 8th. Grant Enfinger drove the No. 9 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, finishing 7th. At the end of the year Colby Howard would make 3 starts for the team. In 2022, Blaine Perkins would drive the No. 9 truck full-time. In 2023, Colby Howard would drive the entry full-time. In 2024, Grant Enfinger will return to drive the No. 9 full-time in a multi-year deal.
| Year | Driver | 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 | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Codie Rohrbaugh | 9 | Chevy | DAY | ATL | LVS | MAR | DOV | KAN | CLT | TEX | IOW | GTW | CHI | KEN | ELD | POC | MCH | BRI 16 | MSP | LVS | TAL | MAR | 47th | 41 | |||
| Ford | TEX 17 | PHO | HOM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Chevy | DAY DNQ | ATL | LVS | MAR DNQ | TEX 23 | DOV | KAN | CLT 29 | TEX 30 | IOW | GTW | CHI | KEN 14 | POC | ELD | MCH 17 | BRI DNQ | MSP | LVS 16 | TAL 24 | MAR 10 | PHO | HOM 26 | 32nd | 144 | ||
| 2020 | DAY 3 | LVS 18 | CLT 18 | ATL 33 | HOM 28 | POC 39 | KEN 39 | TEX 22 | KAN 24 | KAN 29 | MCH 18 | DAY 29 | DOV | GTW | DAR 25 | RCH 6 | BRI 31 | LVS | TAL 5 | KAN | TEX | MAR 34 | PHO | 31st | 225 | |||
| 2021 | DAY 8 | DAY 16 | ATL 29 | BRI 27 | RCH 36 | DAR 38 | TEX | NSH | KNX 34 | TAL 16 | 24th | 326 | ||||||||||||||||
| Grant Enfinger | LVS 7 | KAN 17 | COA 4 | CLT 14 | POC 36 | GLN 38 | GTW 25 | LVS 7 | PHO 13 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Colby Howard | DAR 13 | BRI 15 | MAR 38 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | Blaine Perkins | DAY 31 | LVS 35 | ATL 29 | COA 35 | MAR DNQ | BRI 25 | DAR 31 | KAN 32 | TEX 26 | CLT 30 | GTW 22 | SON 21 | KNX 25 | NSH 18 | MOH 30 | POC 29 | IRP 26 | RCH 34 | KAN 30 | BRI 28 | TAL 27 | HOM 22 | PHO 25 | 32nd | 203 | ||
| 2023 | Colby Howard | DAY 4 | LVS 18 | ATL 27 | COA 24 | TEX 20 | BRD 27 | MAR 17 | KAN 35 | DAR 17 | NWS 24 | CLT 20 | GTW 12 | NSH 29 | MOH 36 | POC 15 | RCH 24 | IRP 35 | MLW 17 | KAN 19 | BRI 22 | TAL 23 | HOM 30 | PHO 21 | 24th | 340 | ||
| Grant Enfinger | DAY 17 | ATL 25 | LVS 9 | BRI 9 | COA 12 | MAR 22 | TEX 29 | KAN 12 | DAR 16 | NWS 2 | CLT 3 | GTW 17 | NSH 6 | POC 2 | IRP 3 | RCH 4* | MLW | BRI | KAN | TAL | HOM | MAR | PHO | |||||
In 2022, the team announced that Jason Kitzmiller would make his truck series start in the 2022 NextEra Energy 250, driving the No. 97, which is his main ARCA number, for a second entry.[5] However, he withdrew from the event after crashing his primary truck in practice and not having a backup truck.
| Year | Driver | 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 | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Jason Kitzmiller | 97 | Chevy | DAY Wth | LVS | ATL | COA | MAR | BRI | DAR | KAN | TEX | CLT | GTW | SON | KNO | NSH | MOH | POC | IRP | RCH | KAN | BRI | TAL | HOM | PHO | ||
| 2023 | Codie Rohrbaugh | DAY 33 | LVS | ATL | COA | TEX | BRD | MAR | KAN | DAR | NWS | CLT | GTW | NSH | MOH | POC | RCH | IRP | MLW | KAN | BRI | TAL | HOM | PHO | 47th | 4 | ||
| 2024 | DAY 23 | ATL | LVS | BRI | COA | MAR | TEX | KAN | DAR | NWS | CLT | GTW | NSH | POC | IRP | RCH | MLW | BRI | KAN | TAL | HOM | MAR | PHO | |||||
In addition to their K&N East races in 2016, Rohrbaugh's team made their ARCA debut that year, running the last two races of the year at Kentucky and Kansas. The same as how he did in his first East Series start, Rohrbaugh finished 13th in his ARCA Series debut. However, Rohrbaugh did not finish the race at Kansas due to electrical issues and ended up 32nd.
For 2017, Rohrbaugh and his No. 7 team attempted an expanded schedule of eight races in ARCA after dropping their K&N program. The team ran Chevrolets in all races, except for Daytona and Talladega that they ran Dodges. Rohrbaugh finished every race no worse than 16th except for when he crashed out at Chicago, finishing 29th. His best finishes were a pair of 8th-place runs at Michigan and Kansas.
The team started out the 2018 season now driving a Chevrolet SS but crashed at Daytona and rebuilt the same car in time to attempt Talladega.[6]
At the ARCA Daytona test in January 2019, Rohrbaugh announced he would compete in all the speedway races that year.[7] However, Rohrbaugh eventually decided to focus on the Truck Series team, and they cut back their ARCA schedule for the rest of the 2019 season. Eric Caudell bought the team's owner points and switched his team's car number from the No. 2 to the No. 7, which Rohrbaugh's team had been running.
For 2020, the team returned to ARCA, entering a car in the series' testing at January in January with newcomer Jason Kitzmiller driving the No. 97[8] (since Caudell was continuing to use the No. 7).[9] The team then filed an entry for the race there in February.[10] The team has yet to announce whether they will attempt more races throughout the year after Daytona.
Rohrbaugh's family team made their first NASCAR starts in 2014 in what was then the K&N Pro Series East while also competing full-time in the X-1R Pro Cup Series that year. With his grandfather Larry Berg as the listed owner, the team fielded the No. 05 Toyota in three races: Five Flags, New Hampshire, and Dover. Their best finish was in their debut at Five Flags, where Rohrbaugh finished 13th.
They returned for another part-time schedule in 2015, switching numbers from the No. 05 to the No. 7 and manufacturers from Toyota to Chevrolet. The team ran New Hampshire and Dover again, and also for the first time attempted New Smyrna, Bristol, and Richmond. The other race they entered that year was the East Series’ first and to-date only race at Motordrome Speedway, where Rohrbaugh and his team earned their first top-10 with a 9th place finish.
The team attempted five East Series races the following year. They attempted mostly the same schedule, but with Motordrome and Richmond off the schedule for 2016, they attempted the new race at Mobile instead. Rohrbaugh crashed out in two of his five starts and finished in the top-20 (two 19ths and a 13th) in his remaining races.