Jennifer Jo Cobb

Jennifer Jo Cobb
Cobb in 2011
Born	(1973-06-12) June 12, 1973 Kansas City, Kansas, U.S.
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
31 races run over 12 years
2018 position	107th
Best finish	29th (2011)
First race	2004 Ford 300 (Homestead)
Last race	2018 Sparks Energy 300 (Talladega)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career
233 races run over 17 years
Truck no., team	No. 10 (Jennifer Jo Cobb Racing)
2023 position	80th
Best finish	16th (2014)
First race	2008 O'Reilly Auto Parts 250 (Kansas)
Last race	2024 Heart of America 200 (Kansas)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 1 0
Statistics current as of May 6, 2024.

Jennifer Jo Cobb (born June 12, 1973) is an American professional stock car racing driver and team owner. She competes part-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 10 truck for her own team, Jennifer Jo Cobb Racing. She has also previously competed in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, ARCA Menards Series and the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series.

Racing career

Cobb started racing in 1991 at Lakeside Speedway. Her father, Joe Cobb, races at Lakeside Speedway in the modified division. Since 2002, she has made nine starts in the ARCA Racing Series, including three top-10s in three starts in 2004 while driving for Keith Murt.

Cobb's 2010 truck at Atlanta

Cobb's No. 13 Nationwide car at Road America in 2011

Cobb's 2013 truck at Rockingham Speedway

In 2004, Cobb made her NASCAR debut in the Busch Series at Homestead-Miami Speedway. She drove the No. 50 Vassarette Chevrolet for Keith Coleman Racing and finished 43rd due to a crash on lap 2.

In 2006, Cobb created a line of clothing for female race fans called Driver Boutique. Proceeds from the sales of this line go towards her racing efforts, and she has attempted to qualify for various Busch and ARCA races in 2007 with the Driver Boutique sponsorship.

On July 19, 2008, she competed in the Camping World Truck Series event at the Built Ford Tough 225. She started in 35th and finished 26 driving the No. 74 Dodge for The Annexus Group completing 144 laps. On April 27, 2009 she competed at the O'Reilly Auto Parts 250 driving the No. 73 Dodge for Derrike Cope Inc. She started 34th and completed 72 laps before experiencing engine trouble, finishing 26th out of 35 drivers winning a purse of $10,680.

In 2010, Cobb announced that she would run full-time in the truck series, after purchasing the assets of the No. 10 truck team from Rick Crawford, whose Circle Bar Racing downsized from a two-truck operation to one — Crawford's own No. 14 (which would also close down early in the season). Cobb kept the same truck number and owner points from Circle Bar. Also that year, Cobb became the highest female points finisher in history in any of the three major NASCAR Series to that time, achieving 17th place.

For 2011, Cobb continued racing her own No. 10 truck full-time in the Camping World Truck Series, and also drove the first 5 races in the Nationwide Series in the No. 79 for 2nd Chance Motorsports. On the truck side, Cobb became the highest finishing female in Truck Series history by finishing 6th at the 2011 NextEra Energy Resources 250. She would hold this record for nine years, when Natalie Decker broke the record with a fifth-place finish, also at the season-opening Daytona race, in 2020. Cobb later announced that she would run the full season with 2nd Chance Motorsports in their No. 79 Ford and run for Rookie of the Year. Cobb later gave her truck's owners points to Chase Mattioli and his team while she also started her own driver development program with Cody Cambensy planning to drive in the Truck Series in 2011. She later left 2nd Chance Motorsports after a dispute with owner Rick Russell over whether to start and park after losing their second car at Las Vegas. Rick Ware Racing later gave her a ride in the No. 41.

In early 2011, Cobb for her own team called Jennifer Jo Cobb Racing and partnered with U.S. Army Family and MWR Command to launch Driven 2 Honor, a promotion honoring women in the U.S. military. Cobb hosted two female service members and their guests at the first five Nationwide races of the 2011 NASCAR season.

2012–2018

In 2012 Cobb ran the entire Camping World Truck Series schedule in the No. 10, along with selected Nationwide Series races in the No. 13. She returned to the Camping World Truck Series for 2013.

For the 2014 season, Cobb again ran in the Truck Series in her own No. 10 Chevrolet Silverado. The team began the season with a 21st-place finish in the NextEra Energy Resources 250. At the SFP 250 Cobb raced to 13th place which earned her highest finish of the season, she then had another strong run at the North Carolina Education Lottery 200 (Charlotte) finishing 16th. However, since that 16th-place finish, the team has seen a decline in performance as they have only managed to eclipse a best of 20th on three occasions (Dover, Kentucky, and Michigan).

Cobb also ran one race in the No. 87 car for Rick Ware Racing at the Kansas Lottery 300 finishing 24th, which was her first Nationwide Series start of 2014.

On May 29, 2015, Cobb angrily approached the race car driven by Tyler Reddick on foot after apparently by being spun out by Reddick's truck at the Lucas Oil 200. It was expected that Cobb would be the first driver penalized under the new NASCAR rule instituted after Kevin Ward Jr. died in a similar incident. She wound up receiving a $5,000 fine from the officials.

During practice for the 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 250 at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, Cobb crashed and was subsequently caught on camera removing a cell phone from her truck. Cobb was given a P3 penalty by NASCAR for having a non-engine electronic component in her truck. As a result, Cobb was fined $5,000, plus an additional $2,500 for an infraction occurring while still on probation for the incident with Reddick. Cobb was the first driver penalized by NASCAR under the no cell phone rule since it was implemented following the 2012 Daytona 500.

In 2018, Cobb joined Racing Total for her NASCAR Whelen Euro Series debut at Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia.

2020–present

In 2020, Cobb led a career-high 16 laps at Talladega Superspeedway before finishing 24th.

In April 2021, it was announced that Cobb would make her NASCAR Cup Series debut in the spring race at Talladega, driving the No. 15 for Rick Ware Racing. However, NASCAR announced on April 19 that she would not be approved to run the race. This was likely due to how the race itself would have been her first time in a Cup car because of the lack of practice and qualifying. NASCAR also did not approve James Davison and Keith McGee to make their Cup and Truck Series debuts, respectively, at Talladega in 2020 for the same reason. J. J. Yeley would replace Cobb in the RWR No. 15 in the race. That year she withdrew from the Rackley Roofing 200. 2022 began with Cobb again missing the season opener at Daytona. The week of the second race at Las Vegas, Cobb released a statement that she would be scaling her operation back to part time, citing funding and equipment issues.

Personal life

Cobb is married to, but currently separated from, NASCAR crew chief and former driver Eddie Troconis, who was Cobb's crew chief in the Xfinity Series in 2012. They married in 2015. Cobb had reportedly been dating spotter Clayton Hughes at the time of Troconis' arrest in January 2022 for assaulting Hughes.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

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

Xfinity Series

NASCAR Xfinity Series results
Year	Team	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	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	NXSC	Pts	Ref
2004	Keith Coleman Racing	50	Chevy	DAY	CAR	LVS	DAR	BRI	TEX	NSH	TAL	CAL	GTY	RCH	NZH	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	DAY	CHI	NHA	PPR	IRP	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	DOV	KAN	CLT	MEM	ATL	PHO	DAR	HOM 43		149th	34
2005	Red Cactus Racing	73	Chevy	DAY	CAL	MXC	LVS	ATL	NSH	BRI	TEX	PHO	TAL	DAR	RCH	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	DAY	CHI	NHA	PPR DNQ	GTY	IRP	GLN	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	DOV	KAN	CLT	MEM	TEX	PHO	HOM	N/A	-
2006	Jay Robinson Racing	49	Ford	DAY	CAL	MXC	LVS	ATL	BRI	TEX	NSH	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	DAY	CHI	NHA	MAR	GTY	IRP	GLN	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	DOV	KAN 43	CLT	MEM	TEX	PHO	HOM	149th	34
2007	Mike Harmon Racing	44	Chevy	DAY	CAL	MXC	LVS	ATL	BRI	NSH	TEX	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	NHA	DAY	CHI	GTY	IRP	CGV	GLN	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	DOV	KAN DNQ	CLT	MEM	TEX	PHO DNQ	HOM DNQ	N/A	-
2008	CFK Motorsports	78	Dodge	DAY	CAL	LVS	ATL	BRI	NSH	TEX	PHO	MXC	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	NHA	DAY	CHI	GTY	IRP	CGV	GLN	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	DOV	KAN 30	CLT	MEM	TEX	PHO	HOM	127th	73
2009	Derrike Cope Inc.	79	Dodge	DAY	CAL	LVS	BRI	TEX	NSH	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	NHA	DAY	CHI	GTY	IRP	IOW	GLN	MCH	BRI	CGV	ATL	RCH	DOV	KAN DNQ	CAL	CLT	MEM	TEX	PHO		N/A	-
	Mike Harmon Racing	84	Dodge																																			HOM DNQ
2010	Baker Curb Racing	27	Ford	DAY	CAL	LVS	BRI	NSH	PHO	TEX	TAL	RCH	DAR	DOV	CLT	NSH	KEN	ROA	NHA	DAY 43																			116th	95
	Jennifer Jo Cobb Racing	13	Ford																		CHI DNQ	GTY	IRP	IOW	GLN	MCH	BRI	CGV	ATL	RCH	DOV	KAN 34	CAL	CLT	GTY	TEX	PHO	HOM
2011	2nd Chance Motorsports	79	Ford	DAY DNQ	PHO 32	LVS 31	BRI QL†																																29th	202
	Rick Ware Racing	41	Ford					CAL 38	TEX 29	TAL 37	NSH	RCH
	Jennifer Jo Cobb Racing	13	Ford										DAR 32	DOV 37	IOW 26	CLT 31	CHI	MCH 32	ROA 29	DAY 36				IRP 42
			Dodge																		KEN 32	NHA 35	NSH 29		IOW 33	GLN	CGV	BRI DNQ	ATL 29	RCH DNQ	CHI DNQ	DOV	KAN DNQ	CLT	TEX	PHO DNQ	HOM DNQ
2012				DAY	PHO DNQ	LVS 36	BRI	CAL	TEX	RCH	TAL	DAR	IOW	CLT	DOV	MCH	ROA	KEN	DAY	NHA	CHI	IND	IOW	GLN	CGV	BRI	ATL	RCH	CHI	KEN	DOV	CLT							130th	01
			Chevy																														KAN 22	TEX DNQ	PHO	HOM
2013	Rick Ware Racing	23	Ford	DAY	PHO	LVS	BRI	CAL	TEX	RCH	TAL	DAR	CLT	DOV	IOW	MCH	ROA	KEN	DAY	NHA	CHI	IND	IOW	GLN	MOH	BRI	ATL	RCH	CHI	KEN	DOV	KAN 26	CLT	TEX	PHO	HOM			124th	01
2014		87	Chevy	DAY	PHO	LVS	BRI	CAL	TEX	DAR	RCH	TAL	IOW	CLT	DOV	MCH	ROA	KEN	DAY	NHA	CHI	IND	IOW	GLN	MOH	BRI	ATL	RCH	CHI	KEN	DOV	KAN 24	CLT	TEX	PHO	HOM			112th	01
2015	Jennifer Jo Cobb Racing	10	Chevy	DAY	ATL	LVS	PHO	CAL	TEX	BRI	RCH	TAL	IOW	CLT	DOV	MCH	CHI	DAY	KEN	NHA	IND	IOW	GLN	MOH	BRI	ROA	DAR	RCH	CHI	KEN	DOV	CLT	KAN 29	TEX	PHO	HOM			110th	01
2016	Rick Ware Racing	25	Chevy	DAY	ATL	LVS	PHO	CAL	TEX	BRI	RCH	TAL	DOV	CLT	POC	MCH	IOW	DAY	KEN	NHA	IND	IOW	GLN	MOH	BRI	ROA	DAR	RCH	CHI	KEN	DOV	CLT	KAN 29	TEX	PHO	HOM			123rd	01
2017	B. J. McLeod Motorsports	78	Chevy	DAY	ATL	LVS	PHO	CAL	TEX	BRI	RCH	TAL	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	IOW	DAY	KEN	NHA	IND	IOW	GLN	MOH	BRI	ROA	DAR	RCH	CHI	KEN	DOV	CLT	KAN 35	TEX	PHO	HOM			113th	01
2018	JP Motorsports	55	Toyota	DAY	ATL	LVS	PHO	CAL	TEX	BRI	RCH	TAL 29	DOV	CLT	POC	MCH	IOW	CHI	DAY	KEN	NHA	IOW	GLN	MOH	BRI	ROA	DAR	IND	LVS	RCH	CLT	DOV	KAN	TEX	PHO	HOM			107th	01
† – Qualified but replaced by Chris Lawson

Craftsman Truck Series

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results
Year	Team	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	24	25	NCTC	Pts	Ref
2008	Derrike Cope Inc.	74	Dodge	DAY	CAL	ATL	MAR	KAN 33	CLT	MFD	DOV	TEX	MCH	MLW	MEM	KEN 26	IRP	NSH	BRI	GTW	NHA	LVS	TAL	MAR	ATL	TEX	PHO	HOM	90th	85
2009		73		DAY	CAL	ATL	MAR	KAN 26	CLT	DOV	TEX	MCH	MLW	MEM	KEN	IRP	NSH	BRI	CHI	IOW	GTW	NHA	LVS	MAR					92nd	85
	Boys Will Be Boys Racing	50	Dodge																						TAL 36	TEX	PHO	HOM
2010	Jennifer Jo Cobb Racing	10	Ford	DAY 34	ATL 21	MAR 26	NSH 25	KAN 28	DOV 22	CLT 18	TEX 14	MCH 21	IOW 25	GTY 20	IRP 26	POC 27	NSH 19	DAR 14	BRI 28	CHI 22	KEN 23	NHA 22	LVS 21	MAR 33	TAL 23	TEX 24	PHO 23	HOM 24	17th	2326
2011				DAY 6	PHO	DAR	MAR	NSH DNQ	DOV	CLT	KAN 27	TEX	KEN 30	IOW	NSH 23	IRP 32	POC	MCH	BRI DNQ	ATL 23	CHI 29	NHA 35			TAL DNQ	MAR DNQ		HOM 35	90th	01
			Dodge																				KEN 20	LVS 18			TEX 20
2012			Ford	DAY DNQ																									27th	248
		8	Ram		MAR 34
		10				CAR DNQ	KAN 25	CLT 26	DOV 26	TEX 32		IOW 29	CHI 23	POC 36	MCH 22	BRI DNQ	ATL DNQ	IOW 30	KEN 16	LVS 28	TAL 27	MAR	TEX 27	PHO DNQ	HOM 31
		0									KEN DNQ
2013		10	Chevy	DAY 35			KAN 17		DOV 27																				25th	262
			Ram		MAR 36	CAR 31		CLT DNQ		TEX 27	KEN 26	IOW 32	ELD			BRI DNQ	MSP 23	IOW 26	CHI 28	LVS 23	TAL DNQ	MAR DNQ	TEX 29	PHO 25	HOM DNQ
			Ford											POC 32	MCH 25
2014			Chevy	DAY 21		KAN 13	CLT 16		TEX 20		KEN 24	IOW 30		POC 24	MCH 20			CHI 21	NHA 22	LVS 22	TAL 18		TEX 24	PHO 23	HOM 32				16th	444
			Ram		MAR 27			DOV 20		GTW 27			ELD DNQ			BRI 27	MSP 23					MAR 28
2015			Chevy	DAY 18	ATL 26	MAR 24	KAN 19	CLT 19	DOV 32	TEX 19	GTW 20	IOW 21	KEN 23	ELD 27	POC 26	MCH 19	BRI 25	MSP 20	CHI 23	NHA 22	LVS 21	TAL 32	MAR 31	TEX 24	PHO 22	HOM 26			17th	473
2016				DAY DNQ	ATL 29	MAR	KAN 24	DOV 30	CLT 28	TEX DNQ			KEN 24							NHA 25						HOM DNQ			30th	113
		1									IOW 28	GTW 29		ELD 26	POC 28	BRI	MCH 17	MSP 24	CHI 22		LVS 27	TAL DNQ	MAR	TEX 30	PHO 24
2017		10		DAY DNQ	ATL DNQ	MAR	KAN 27	CLT 27	DOV 30	TEX 19	GTW 30		KEN 21	ELD	POC 18	MCH 22	BRI 30	MSP 27	CHI 24	NHA 24	LVS 18	TAL 19	MAR 28	TEX 22	PHO 27				25th	221
		0										IOW DNQ														HOM 31
2018		10		DAY 31	ATL 26	LVS 24	MAR 29	DOV 22	KAN 22	CLT 26	TEX 24	IOW 22	GTW 22	CHI 24	KEN 29	ELD DNQ	POC 22	MCH 23	BRI DNQ	MSP 29	LVS 12	TAL 11	MAR 29	TEX 24	PHO 31	HOM 28			20th	271
2019				DAY DNQ	ATL 22	LVS 27	MAR	TEX 18	DOV 25		CLT DNQ	TEX 18		GTW 24	CHI 21	KEN 22	POC 21	ELD 19	MCH 19	BRI 22	MSP 23	LVS 24	TAL 27	MAR 27	PHO DNQ	HOM 28			21st	268
		0								KAN 23			IOW 25
2020		10		DAY DNQ	LVS DNQ	CLT 26	ATL 36	HOM 27	POC 32	KEN 37	TEX 29	KAN 31	KAN 32	MCH 28	DAY 31	DOV 29	GTW 31	DAR 30	RCH 36	BRI 28	LVS 34	TAL 24	KAN 29	TEX 24	MAR 29	PHO 31			30th	158
2021				DAY 18	DAY 35	LVS 29	ATL 38	BRI 33	RCH 38		DAR 24	COA DNQ					KNX 25												35th	107
			Ford							KAN 37			CLT 33	TEX 31	NSH Wth	POC 31		GLN 36	GTW 38	DAR 36	BRI 27	LVS 27	TAL 31	MAR 36	PHO DNQ
2022			Chevy	DAY DNQ	LVS	ATL	COA	MAR	BRI	DAR	KAN	TEX	CLT	GTW	SON	KNO								TAL 32	HOM	PHO			77th	5
			Ford														NSH DNQ	MOH	POC	IRP	RCH	KAN	BRI
2023			Chevy	DAY	LVS	ATL	COA	TEX	BRI	MAR	KAN	DAR	NWS	CLT	GTW	NSH	MOH	POC	RCH	IRP	MLW	KAN 34	BRI	TAL DNQ	HOM	PHO			80th	3
2024				DAY DNQ	ATL	LVS	BRI	COA	MAR	TEX	KAN 32	DAR	NWS	CLT DNQ	GTW	NSH	POC	IRP	RCH	MLW	BRI	KAN 31	TAL	HOM	MAR	PHO			-*	-*

Whelen Euro Series – Elite 1

NASCAR Whelen Euro Series – Elite 1 results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	NWES	Pts	Ref
2019	Alex Caffi Motorsport	1	Ford	VAL	VAL	FRA	FRA	BRH 27	BRH 27	MOS	MOS	VEN	HOC	HOC	ZOL	ZOL	44th	20

Whelen Euro Series – Elite 2

NASCAR Whelen Euro Series – Elite 2 results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	NWES	Pts	Ref
2018	Racing-Total	10	Chevy	VAL 17	VAL 19	FRA	FRA	BRH	BRH	TOU	TOU	HOC	HOC	ZOL	ZOL		38th	38
2019	Racing-Total JJCR			VAL DNS	VAL 20	FRA	FRA	BRH	BRH	MOS	MOS	VEN	HOC	HOC	ZOL	ZOL	41st	17

^* Season still in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

ARCA Racing Series

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

ARCA Racing Series results
Year	Team	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	ARSC	Pts	Ref
2002	Roberts-Albright Racing	0	Pontiac	DAY	ATL	NSH	SLM	KEN	CLT	KAN 16	POC	MCH	TOL	SBO	KEN	BLN	POC	NSH	ISF	WIN	DSF	CHI	SLM	TAL	CLT		130th	150
2003	Info not available	4	Ford	DAY	ATL	NSH	SLM	TOL	KEN	CLT	BLN	KAN 33	MCH	LER	POC	POC	NSH	ISF	WIN	DSF	CHI	SLM	TAL	CLT	SBO		179th	65
2004	KLM Motorsports	19	Chevy	DAY	NSH	SLM	KEN	TOL	CLT	KAN 9	POC	MCH	SBO	BLN	KEN	GTW	POC	LER	NSH 7	ISF	TOL	DSF	CHI 10	SLM	TAL		54th	560
2007	Jennifer Jo Cobb Racing	82	Chevy	DAY DNQ	USA	NSH	SLM	KAN 25	WIN	KEN	TOL	IOW	POC	MCH	BLN	KEN	POC	NSH	ISF	MIL	GTW	DSF	CHI	SLM	TAL	TOL	137th	130
2008	Rick Markle Racing	68	Dodge	DAY	SLM	IOW	KEN	CAR	KEN	TOL	POC	MCH	CAY	KEN	BLN	POC	NSH	ISF	DSF	CHI 19	SLM	NJE	TAL	TOL			122nd	135
2009	Hylton Motorsports	08	Ford	DAY	SLM	CAR	TAL	KEN	TOL	POC	MCH	MFD	IOW	KEN	BLN	POC	ISF	CHI	TOL	DSF	NJE	SLM	KAN 39	CAR			154th	35
2010	Bowsher-Mooi Motorsports	21	Chevy	DAY 19	PBE	SLM	TEX	TAL	TOL	POC	MCH	IOW	MFD	POC	BLN	NJE	ISF	CHI	DSF	TOL	SLM	KAN	CAR				101st	145

External links

• Official website
• Jennifer Jo Cobb driver statistics at Racing-Reference
• Jennifer Jo Cobb owner statistics at Racing-Reference