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For the American former football- and baseball coach, see Wayne Grubb (American football).
Wayne Grubb (born July 19, 1976) is an American former NASCAR driver and crew chief for GC Motorsports International. He ran 52 NASCAR Busch Series races and seven Craftsman Truck Series races before he retired late in the 2000 season. He is the older brother of former NASCAR driver Kevin Grubb, who died on May 6, 2009, at age 31. Grubb was born in Mechanicsville, Virginia.
In 1998, Grubb had a decent rookie run. He had an average start of 17.8 and an average finish of 22.5. Grubb secured his best weekend of his career when he secured his first career pole in the spring race at Richmond International Raceway. He led three laps in that race, and finished a career-best fourth place. Grubb also finished seventh at Bristol Motor Speedway. He also had an outside pole at South Boston and a fifth place qualifying effort at New Hampshire to his credit. However, he often DNQed and the budget was tight, only competing in half the races and finishing 36th in the points.
In 1999, Grubb had a disappointing year. He had no top-ten runs or qualifying efforts. He only ran seventeen of 32 races. His average start was 28th and average finish of 31st. Once again, his best weekend of the year came at Richmond in September. He qualified and finished in fifteenth. He had two other top-twenty runs: fifteenth at Gateway and seventeenth at South Boston. He ended 45th in points
Things did not get any better in 2000. His average finish was 29th. Even with an eighth place start at IRP and a fifth place at Darlington, Grubb finished his Busch Series career at Darlington with a 32nd-place finish. He gave the car over to Brandon Butler, watched his team finish out 2000, and then dismantled it due to lack of sponsorship before 2001. Grubb ran fifteen races in 2000 and finished 40th in points.
In his Busch Series career, Grubb had one pole, two top-fives, three top-tens and his best finish in a race was fourth (Richmond 1998). His best points finish was 1998 in 36th.
Grubb made his debut in the 1996 race at Richmond. He qualified a solid thirteenth, but became involved in an accident, and he finished that race a disappointing 32nd. Grubb also ran in 1996 at Martinsville, finishing a solid eighteenth after starting deep in the pack. This would end up being his best Craftsman Truck finish.
After those two races in 1996, Grubb added five more to his resume in 1997. He finished 36th at New Hampshire, 27th twice at Louisville and Martinsville, 23rd at Richmond, and a 22nd at Fontana. He finished the year 49th in points.
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