Jason Keller

Jason Keller is an American Professional Retired Stock Car Racer. He last competed in the number 40 Fastenal, Target, Coors Light, and Cheerios car for CGR or Chip Gannasi Racing,

## Jason Keller

### First Race

2001 Dura Lube 400 (NASCAR Pepsi Cup Series)

## Career

### NASCAR Pepsi Cup Series

In 2001, after the death of Dale Earnhardt, Richard Childress re branded the number 3 to the number 29 and changed the paint scheme for sponsor Goodwrench. Jason Keler was tabbed to race for the team. In 2001 Jason had a solid rookie season with 2 top 5s and 4 top 10s. He got 18th in the standings.

In 2002 Jason was able to grab 1 top 5 and 5 top 10s. He finished 15th in the standings.

In 2003 Jason won his first and only race in the 2003 which was the Pepsi 400 at Daytona in a photo finish with Greg Biffle. He had a breakout season that year with 7 top 5s and 12 top 10s. He finished 9th in the standings.

In 2004 Jason got only 2 top 5s and 4 top 10s and had a 21st place finish in the standings. After this Brandon Miller a RCR Mountain Dew National Series racer after only 1 race with a 16th place finish at Kansas was tabbed to replace Jason Keller for the 2005 season.

### NASCAR ARCA Hershey's Series

In 2005 after being released from the team, Jason went back down to the lower series' to start his career over. He raced for Chip Gannasi's ARCA program which only had him in the number 39 car sponsored by Target. He ran part-time in only Daytona and Talladega and got 8th at Daytona and 19th at Talladega. He got 49th in the standings.

In 2006, Jason ran 10 races in the number 39 Target and this time Fastenal car and got 1 top 5 and 2 top 10s. He finished 44th in the standings.

In 2007 Jason went full-time in ARCA with Target and the number 39 for CGR and got 5 top 5s and 11 top 10s. He got 16th in the standings.

### NASCAR Sierra Mist Truck Series

In 2008, he ran his only truck series season for Premier Racing for this season which was given CGR equipment for Jason to use in the number 77 truck teammate of part-timer Timothy Peters in the number 17. He had sponsors from Target most of the races but Fastenal also was a sponsor for 9 of the races. He got 5 top 5s and 7 top 10s in his rookie year with all his top 5s being 3 second and 2 third. His top 10s were 6th, 7th, 6th, 8th, 10th, 9th, 10th, and 7th. He beat Colin Braun a KBM development racer for rookie of the year.

### NASCAR Mountain Dew National Series

In 2009, Penske Racing was being loaned Jason for the 2009 and 2010 seasons with Fastenal for 28 races as the sponsor and Target the other 5 races in the number 22 Dodge with Penske Rentals and Coors Light and Cheerios as secondary sponsors for every race. Fastenal and Target were secondary sponsors when they were not the full-time sponsors. Jason had a best finish of 4th at Daytona the season opener being his only top 5 of 1 and had 2 top 10s at Talladega and Homestead. He got 18th in the standings.

In 2010, Jason kept racing for Penske Racing as a loaned driver from Chip Gannasi Racing. He had a better year with 4 top 5s and 8 top 10s. He placed 10th in the standings. He got second in the Daytona season opener but couldn't get the win.

### NASCAR Pepsi Cup Series

In 2011 he returned to the NASCAR Pepsi Cup Series after working his way back up for the first time since with RCR in 2004. Chip Gannasi Racing invested a lot of money into him to make this deal work. He joined the number 40 car with Fastenal, Target, Coors Light, and Cheerios as primary and secondary sponsors whenever they were not primary or secondary. He got no top 5s and 1 top 10 at Atlanta in the spring. He got 28th in the standings.

In 2012 all sponsors returned and a contract year had Jason in his game. He got 2 top 5s at both Daytona races of 4th and 5th, 2 top 10s at Chicagoland and Bristol which were 9th and 8th in order. He got 16th in the standings.

In 2013, he got signed until at least 2014 and 2013 would be his career year with a win at the Spring Phoenix race beating out Carl Edwards for the win which kept Carl's losing streak going until the 2014 Toyota Save Mart 350 at Sonoma the very next year in California. Jason got 4 top 5s including the win of them being 1st, 5th, 4th, and 2nd with 8 top 10s. He made the 10 man chase and finished 10th in it. He got 10th in the season standings.

In 2014 Jason had his last racing season in any racing in a major league of NASCAR. He only had 1 top 5 at Talladega, 2 top 10s at the ither Talladega race and Martinsville, he had 20 DNFS and finished 29th in the season standings. CGR invested a bunch of money into him for only 1 good Pepsi Cup Series Season, 1 good MTN Dew National Series Season, 1 good Truck Season, and decent ARCA starts. It was safe to say the number 40 car shut down after low funding after the Jason Keller Project which lasted from 2005-2013 had failed.