Brennan Cole Poole
Racing career
Early career
IMCA Modifieds and Dirt Late Models
Poole drove Dirt Modifieds in the IMCA ranks from 2007 to 2008 for his family's team at their home track of Houston Raceway Park, he scored seven wins in 2008 and the Texas World Dirt Championship.
He also ran some select Late model races on the side, in addition to his IMCA schedule.
UARA-Stars Late Models
From 2009 to 2010, Poole raced
Late model in the
UARA-Stars ranks, driving the No. 5 for Jamie Yelton, where he would score the Rookie of the Year title in 2009 and the Most Popular Driver Award both years as well. In 2010, he picked up his first win at Tri-County Motor Speedway and would go on to score five more coming at Hickory, Lonesome Pine Speedway, Kingsport Speedway, Dillon Motor Speedway, and Greenville-Pickens Speedway and finish runner-up in the points.
In 2011, Poole formed his own race team driving the No. 7, and went on to score four wins at Hickory Motor Speedway, Kingsport, Rockingham Speedway, and Lonesome Pine. He clinched the championship at Rockingham after locking the championship up a week before at Concord Speedway.
ARCA Racing Series
2011
Poole made his debut in the ARCA Racing Series at
Salem Speedway in 2011, driving the No. 55
Chevrolet for Venturini Motorsports, in which Poole would lead 31 laps and win in his debut.
Poole ran three more races that year in Venturini's 25 car, scoring a pole and a top-five finish at
Pocono Raceway.
2012
Poole ran the full 2012 schedule for Venturini in the No. 25 car, earning fifteen top-tens, three poles, and back-to-back wins at
Elko Speedway and
Pocono Raceway while going on to finish third in points.
2013
Poole ran part-time schedules over the next two years for Venturini.
At the Illinois State Fairgrounds Racetrack, Poole crossed the finish line in third but was awarded the win after it was determined that the two drivers who finished ahead of him,
Kelly Kovski and A. J. Fike, jumped the final restart.
2014
In 2014, Poole returned to
Pocono Raceway in where he led 31 of 50 laps. He returned again for the next six races as a substitute for John Wes Townley; Poole scored four top fives and a victory at Kentucky Speedway in his final ARCA start in the No. 15.
Poole was later penalized 25 driver points after his Kentucky car was found to be in violation of the minimum roof height rule.
2015
Poole signed a contract with Team BCR Racing to run ten races in the 2015 season to drive the No. 45 Ford Fusion for the team, replacing
Grant Enfinger but would withdraw from the season opener at Daytona and never make a start after that.
2018
Poole returned to Venturini as a relief driver at
Pocono Raceway in 2018, relieving
Natalie Decker, who was recovering from surgery. He nearly won the race, which would’ve made Decker the first female winner in ARCA Racing Series history as she started the race, but he ultimately struggled to gain his speed back after a late race caution as he was passing
Harrison Burton for the lead.
Xfinity Series
2015
In 2015, Poole was signed to drive in the
Xfinity Series for HScott Motorsports with Chip Ganassi, with the operation being run out of Ganassi's NASCAR shop. Poole shared the No. 42 ride with Ganassi Sprint Cup Series driver
Kyle Larson and
Justin Marks. In between starts he also traveled to Sprint Cup races as an observer with Ganassi's other Cup driver,
Jamie McMurray.
On May 17, Poole was parked by NASCAR during the race at
Iowa Speedway after intentionally turning J. J. Yeley into the outside wall in response to Yeley turning Poole into the wall earlier.
In total, he scored two top tens and ten top-fifteen finishes during the season.
2016
For 2016, Poole moved into a new No. 48 car for Ganassi full-time with sponsorship from DC Solar for the full season.
At Talladega, Poole finished third after crossing the finish line first after a last-lap caution. NASCAR reviewed the finish and later awarded
Elliott Sadler the win by virtue of being in first when the caution flag was displayed.
Poole finished eighth in points, scoring seventeen top-tens and four top-fives.
2017
He returned to CGR's No. 48 for 2017. He won his first career series pole at Daytona International Speedway in July.
Poole advanced to the Round of 8 in the Xfinity Series playoffs, but fell out of the elimination race early after contact with
Caesar Bacarella.
Poole finished sixth at Homestead, finishing sixth in points.
On June 18, 2018, it was announced that Poole would sue Chip Ganassi Racing, and agency Spire Sports + Entertainment for breach of contract, alleging that CGR and Spire conspired to take away DC Solar's sponsorship from Poole and move it to the No. 42 CGR Cup Series team and that Spire's involvement representing both driver and team constituted a conflict of interest.
2018
Poole tested for
GMS Racing at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May 2018 and was expected to run all the races that the suspended Spencer Gallagher would miss however he would ultimately not make a single start for the team.
2022
After five seasons of not competing in the series, he would return to run the entire West Coast Swing in the No. 47
Chevrolet Camaro for Mike Harmon Racing. Poole attempted his first race with MHR in the Production Alliance Group 300at Auto Club, but Poole missed the field. He would successfully make it to the field the following week in Las Vegas. However, only three laps into the event, the engine gave out, leaving him 37th. Poole would then fail to qualify for the next three races, before finally making the field once again at
Richmond Raceway; however, rear gear issues knocked Poole out of the event after 112 laps. He would then qualify for the second time in a row at Martinsville, but couldn’t even turn a lap thanks to the clutch failing on him, and then started and parked at Kansas. He would only make four more races with the team until moving to Jimmy Means Racing for Bristol, but failed to qualify.
Poole would then sign a three-race deal with JD Motorsports in the No. 6 Chevrolet at Texas, Homestead, and Phoenix. He would finish 31st in his first start with the team at Texas due to a multiple-car pileup midway through the race. At Homestead, he would finish 14th, his best finish since 2017 at the same track. At Phoenix, he would sport the Out of the Groove Camaro, which featured host Eric Estepp's face on the hood. Estepp would later publish a race vlog on his channel about the whole opportunity.
2023
On December 12, 2022, it was announced Poole would run full-time for
JD Motorsports in the No. 6, his first full-time stint in
NASCAR since 2020 and his first in the NASCAR Xfinity Series since 2017. On February 9, 2023, Macc Door Systems announced they would sponsor Poole in six races starting at the season opener at Daytona and also both races at Las Vegas, Talladega, Nashville, and Bristol.
He would start the season off by finishing 33rd with a DNF at Daytona after running in the top fifteen much of the night. At Las Vegas, he would do much of the same and finish 25th, this time finishing the race.
He would collect his best finish of the season at Talladega after narrowly surviving several disastrous crashes. He would finish fifth, marking his first top-five and top-ten on the season as well as his first for both categories since the 2017 season. He failed to qualify for the race at Sonoma Raceway and was replaced by Garrett Smithley in the Wawa 250 at Daytona due to his sponsor putting their focus on the Cup side in the No. 15 with Rick Ware Racing with Poole at the wheel. He would later click off a string of several top-twenty and top-fifteen finishes mainly in the road course races towards the end of the year; finishing twentieth at Nashville, fifteenth at Road America, twelfth at Watkins Glen, twentieth at Darlington, seventeenth at the Charlotte Roval, and nineteenth at Homestead-Miami. Poole would end his 2023 Xfinity Series campaign 24th in points.
2024
On November 9, 2023, it was announced that Poole would drive full-time in Alpha Prime Racing's No. 44 Chevrolet. Finance Pro Plus, who sponsored Poole in the Cup in 2023, would return as a sponsor for twenty races, and Macc Door Systems, who served as his primary sponsor in the Xfinity Series in 2023, would return to sponsor Poole in ten races.
He would nearly win at Talladega once again in April that year, leading the race going into the trioval coming to the checkered but would ultimately lose his pusher in
Anthony Alfredo and hand the win to
Jesse Love, settling for a fifth place finish, only the second top-five in APR's history.
2025
On October 31, 2024, it was announced that Poole would return to APR for the 2025 season. At Martinsville, Poole would score a fourth place finish, the first ever top-five finish for Alpha Prime Racing at a non-drafting track in their fifteen year history, also qualifying him for the Dash 4 Cash at Bristol in April, his first appearance in the D4C since
Richmond Raceway in 2016, which was his rookie year.
2026
On November 18, 2025, it was announced that Poole will once again continue to race for APR for the 2026 season.
Craftsman Truck Series
2015
In 2015, Poole made his Truck Series debut at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, driving the No. 21 Chevrolet for
GMS Racing, where he qualified fifteenth and finished eleventh.
2018
On October 31, 2018, it was announced that Poole would return to the series for a one-off race with NextGen Motorsports in the No. 35
Toyota Tundra. His fifteenth-place finish was encumbered due to the team violating rule 20.3.4 in the
NASCAR rule book.
On November 2, 2018, Poole announced he would return with NextGen Motorsports in the No. 35 at Homestead-Miami Speedway for the Truck Series season finale. He finished nineteenth after dealing with a stuck accelerator during the race.
2019
On January 28, 2019, Poole announced a full-time schedule with On Point Motorsports for the 2019 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series, driving the No. 30.
Poole finished in the top ten for the first time after avoiding late attrition at Texas Motor Speedway early in the season.
The team later scaled back its effort due to sponsorship concerns.
After having to miss Kansas Speedway due to a lack of sponsorship Poole and On Point returned at Charlotte, they would top the board going fastest in final practice, and qualify seventeenth, and using a chassis from 2007, dealing with a broken sway bar after it broke at the beginning of the race, and missing half of his shocks, Poole finished second to Kyle Busch.
On July 11 at Kentucky Speedway, Ben Rhodes made contact with Poole while Rhodes was running second in the third and fourth turns. Both drivers acquired enough damage to make additional pit stops. After the race, Rhodes attempted to charge Poole, irate that in his eyes a slower truck cost Rhodes a shot at a NASCAR playoffs berth, which would have come with a win.
2020
Although he moved to the Cup Series for the 2020 season, Poole continued racing in the Truck Series with On Point Motorsports on a part-time basis beginning at Daytona.
He ran the first eleven races of the season, recording the best finish of twelfth in both
Kansas Speedway doubleheader races in July.
Scott Lagasse Jr. and Danny Bohn took over the No. 30 after the Michigan International Speedway race in August as Poole had run out of eligible Truck races as a full-time Cup driver.
2021
In June 2021, Poole made his return to NASCAR and On Point Motorsports for the Truck race at Texas Motor Speedway.
2022
On February 28, 2022, it was announced Poole would drive part-time in the No. 46 for G2G Racing starting at Las Vegas however, would be replaced by
Matt Jaskol, G2G Racing's full-time driver after Poole qualified in on speed and Jaskol failed to do so. He would drive G2G's No. 47 at Atlanta. He returned to the team at Darlington.
2023
Poole would return to G2G in 2023 in the No. 46, making his season debut at Las Vegas, finishing 33rd after suffering issues with the gearing. He would return later in the season at
Kansas Speedway to pick up a very solid twentieth place finish after running as far up as seventh under caution and even in the top-fifteen under green at certain points in the race, a milestone achievement for the G2G team up to that point, the finish to date would also be G2G's best finish ever outside of superspeedway races. He would return the next week at Darlington.
Cup Series
2020
On December 11, 2019, Poole announced he would race full-time for Premium Motorsports in the No. 15 in the NASCAR Cup Series for 2020.
On February 3, 2020, Poole announced at the NASCAR Hall Of Fame that Spartan Mosquito Eradicators as a primary sponsor through their Spartan GO! line of products and R.E.D. would join him as an associate sponsor both for seventeen races starting at the Daytona 500 which would also include the Bluegreen Vacations Duel and NASCAR All-Star Race.
In September, Poole was replaced by J. J. Yeley in the No. 15 for the Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race due to sponsorship reasons, though he remained with the team. At the time, Poole was 32nd in points.
In the 2020 YellaWood 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on October 4, Poole earned his career-best Cup Series finish. He crossed the line in eleventh but finished ninth due to penalties issued against Matt DiBenedetto and Chris Buescher.
2023
On April 24, 2023, it was revealed on the entry list that Poole would make his return to the NASCAR Cup Series at Dover Motor Speedway that weekend, piloting the No. 15 for Rick Ware Racing due to the recent suspension of driver
Cody Ware. Poole had also driven for RWR in his lone Cup Series season in 2020 after racing returned from COVID in May, where RWR had bought the team Premium Motorsports, which was the team Poole was running for at the time.
Poole would start 34th after qualifying was rained out and would work his way up to 31st on lap 81 battling with Austin Dillon for the 30th position when Ross Chastain entered in behind him going into turn 1 to punt him off the track washing back up into the wall collecting Kyle Larson along with him, he would finish 33rd. Poole would state post-race, "he needs his butt whooped" to analyst Jamie Little. He would also reveal in other interviews that he'd be returning to the car the next week at Kansas Speedway and hoped to have it turn into more starts if possible.
2025
On June 17, 2025, it was announced that Poole will drive the No. 44
Chevrolet for NY Racing Team at
Pocono Raceway.
Other racing
Asphalt Modifieds
In July 2019, Poole made his Asphalt Modified debut at Bowman Gray Stadium for Truck Series team On Point Motorsports in their No. 30 entry, finishing 24th after having plug wire issues early on in the race.
Late Model Stocks
On September 27, 2019, Poole made his first appearance in a
Late model for the first time since his
UARA-Stars championship in 2011 for the ValleyStar Credit Union 300 in a joint partnership with On Point Motorsports and
DGR-Crosley, he would finish fifteenth.
Other ventures
Poole has been seen as a jack of all trades due to his wherewithal to take roles of any form in the motorsports space most prominently in his days with Venturini Motorsports in the ARCA Racing Series from 2013 to 2014 when he was left without a full-time ride after the 2012 season due to a lack of funding.
Consulting, coaching, spotting, and engineering
In his days with Venturini Motorsports from 2013 to 2014 he served as a consultant, driver coach, spotter, and engineer scoring a few wins along the way with each of his roles, most notably spotting for
Erik Jones' first and only ARCA Racing Series win at
Berlin Raceway in 2013.
In 2023, Poole would spot at Flat Rock Speedway for the return to the seat of Billy Venturini, and the pairing would result in a 4th place finish.
Dartfish Camera Operator
From 2011 to 2014 Poole served as a
Dartfish camera operator for Richard Childress Racing’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, NASCAR Nationwide Series, and NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams.
Vlogging
Poole ran a weekly vlog during the 2016 and 2017 seasons which he started back up during the pandemic in the 2020 season.
He was the first ever driver in the
NASCAR and one of the first ever in the
Motorsports space to start doing a consistent vlog series and since then numerous drivers such as fellow
NASCAR drivers
Jimmie Johnson,
Kyle Larson,
Kyle Busch, and
Aric Almirola have followed suit and started their own vlogging series.
Charity work
Poole has been involved in hurricane relief efforts in the past starting in 2017 with
Hurricane Harvey for his hometown of The Woodlands, Texas with his
Poole For Texas initiative
and also in 2018 for Hurricane Florence for Charlotte, North Carolina.
In 2020, Poole, in partnership with Premium Motorsports and Children's Hospital of Orange County, started Brennan’s Miracle Miles to help better CHOC's mental health services and expand their intensive care unit and programs that supported children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Personal life
Raised outside of
Houston,
Texas,
Poole was born in Folsom, California, living there until the age of seven.
Poole earned the nickname "The Bull" early in his career, after charging from the rear of the field in several events.
Poole graduated from Woodlands Christian Academy a year early in 2008, at the age of seventeen.
Motorsports career results
NASCAR
() (
Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
Cup Series
Daytona 500
O'Reilly Auto Parts Series
Craftsman Truck Series
Season still in progress
Ineligible for series points
ARCA Racing Series
() (
Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| † – Qualified for John Wes Townley. ‡ – Qualified for Natalie Decker and also relieved her in the race. |
External links
