Casey Mears

 

  Casey Mears 
Casey Mears was born on March 12 1978 and is an all around american NASCAR Driver! He competes full time in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driving the No 36 Chevy. Currently he drives for Tommy Baldwin Racing with the No 36 Chevrolet which is Sponsored mainly by Red Bull! He is the nephew of 4 time Indianapolis 500 winner Rick Mears and also the son of IRL and off-road veteran Roger Mears!! He was brought up around racing, and lets bet that is what he is good at!! Mears made his NASCAR debut in the Busch Series at Homestead-Miami Speedway back in 2001 while driving the No 66 car for Cicci Welliver Racing! Mears started off his 2006 Season with a then best career finish of second, holding off Ryan Newman as Jimmie Johnson slipped in for the win of the 2006 Daytona 500! Then in 2009 Mears shared the No  2 Gentlemen Jack Pontiac-Crawford with Andy Wallace, Rob Finley and Danica Patrick. They had major handling issues with this Ponitiac and ended up finishing eighth in point standings! In 2008 he moved up and got his own car the No 5 Kellogg's/Carquest  Chevrolet Impala which was formely driven by Kyle Busch! Last year it was finally announced that Martin will replace Mears in the #5 car for the 2009 season while competing with a full time schedule! This year while Mears was racing at the Michigan International Speedway and wrecked into one of his fellow teamates and ended up placing 36th! Following that accident Mears was released from Red Bull and was replaced with Reed Sorenson by the following race. So at a recent event on June 27th 2010 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway Mears finished 29th and is back with Tommy Baldwin Racing for the rest of the 2010 season!