page_title: Eric Caudell
section_title: Racing career
hierarchical_section_title: Eric Caudell / Racing career
caption_attribution_description: English: The ARCA Racing Series car of Eric Caudell at the 2017 Road America 100 race.
context_page_description: Eric Caudell is an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes part-time in the ARCA Menards Series, driving the No. 7 Ford for his own team, CCM Racing, as well as the No. 69 Toyota for Kimmel Racing. He has competed in ARCA for the past five years, including running full-time for one season in 2017, where he finished tenth in points. He also made one Truck Series start in 2014 at Iowa.
context_section_description: Caudell had raced for many years in the United States Super Truck Series until the series shut down.
  Caudell made his Truck Series debut in 2014, driving the No. 12 for Cefalia Motorsports. He finished 28th.
  In 2017, Caudell competed in a full season in the ARCA Racing Series in the No. 2 for Hixson Motorsports, a team he previously drove part-time for in the series in 2016. Also, his crew chief that year was Crystal Bates, one of the few female crew chiefs in stock car racing. He ended up finishing tenth in points.
  For 2020, it was announced that Caudell and his No. 7 team would be returning to ARCA in ten races: Daytona, Talladega, Chicagoland, Lucas Oil, Elko, Iowa, Springfield, DuQuoin, Bristol, Memphis, and Kansas. In addition, Caudell and his team participated in ARCA's Daytona testing in January 2020 leading up to the race there the following month. Caudell and his former Hixson Motorsports teammate Rick Tackman shared his No. 7 car during the test session.
caption: Caudell's No. 2 car in 2017 for Hixson Motorsports at Road America.
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