Charlie Menard (born 1972) is the nephew of

Menards Menard, Inc., doing business as Menards, ( ) is an American big-box home improvement retail chain headquartered in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It is the third-largest home improvement retailer in the United States (behind Lowe's and Home Depot), wit ...

owner John Menard Jr. He was the

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of the

home improvement store chain until late 2007. He moved to head up the

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, Menards Distribution Center. In late 2011, Charlie moved to the newly created position of general manager of distribution, manufacturing and logistics – this position oversees all of the Menards distribution centers, their manufacturing plants and the transportation of goods. A graduate of the

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, Menard worked his way through his uncle's

store chain. He lives in

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Racing career

While he was a member of Team Menard, the Menards racing team, Menard captured the 2004 NASCAR

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championship at the

La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway The La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway is a semi-banked asphalt oval racetrack in West Salem, Wisconsin. The outer track is 5/8 mile and the inner track is a 1/4 mile. The speedway has progressive banking in the corners, from 5 degrees on the bottom t ...

with a season-high six feature wins, and also claimed the 2004 Dodge NASCAR Weekly Series Midwest Region championship. Menard ran a part-time schedule on the

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in 2005 and 2006, and claimed the Late Model win at the Oktoberfest Race Weekend at La Crosse on October 7, 2005. Menard has a streak of winning at least one feature during the Oktoberfest Race Weekend for the previous three years. In 2007 Menard pursued a full season on both the ASA Late Model Challenge Series and the ASA Late Model North Series. Menard hired former ASA Late Model competitor Chad Wood as his new crew chief in 2007. He received his first ASA Late Model Challenge Series win since La Crosse speedway in June winning at the Cayuga Speedway near Nelles Corners, Ontario, Canada.

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Team Menard
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