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David B. Rogers (born March 12, 1974) is an American
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crew chief who works as the performance director for 23XI Racing. He previously worked as a crew chief for
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in both the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series as well as the technical director for JGR's Xfinity operations. He has over a decade of experience as a crew chief, all with JGR. Over the course of his career, he has worked in the
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and Xfinity Series with drivers
Jason Leffler Jason Charles Leffler (September 16, 1975 – June 12, 2013) was an American professional open-wheel and stock car racing driver. Leffler began racing in the open-wheel ranks, competing in the 2000 Indianapolis 500 before moving to primari ...
,
Denny Hamlin James Dennis Alan Hamlin (born November 18, 1980) is an American professional stock car racing driver and team owner. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 11 Toyota Camry XSE for Joe Gibbs Racing. He also co-owns and op ...
, Aric Almirola,
Tony Stewart Anthony Wayne Stewart (born May 20, 1971), nicknamed "Smoke", is an American semi-retired professional auto racing driver, and former NASCAR team co-owner of Stewart-Haas Racing. He currently competes in the NHRA Top Fuel class. He is a four-t ...
, Travis Kittleson, J. J. Yeley,
Kyle Busch Kyle Thomas Busch (born May 2, 1985) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 8 Chevrolet Camaro (sixth generation)#ZL1, Chevrolet ZL1 for Richard Childress Racing and par ...
,
Joey Logano Joseph Thomas Logano (born May 24, 1990) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No.22 Ford Mustang (seventh generation), Ford Mustang Dark Horse for NASCAR operations of Tea ...
, Brad Coleman, Matt DiBenedetto, Michael McDowell,
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, Daniel Suárez,
Matt Tifft Matthew Kenneth Tifft (born June 26, 1996) is an American professional stock car racing driver and former team owner. He currently competes part-time in the Super Late Models, driving the No. 36 Chevrolet SS for Dan Fredricksonn Racing. In 2020, ...
, Kyle Benjamin, Riley Herbst, and
Daniel Hemric Daniel Brian Hemric (born January 27, 1991) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 19 Chevrolet Silverado RST for McAnally-Hilgemann Racing and part-time ...
. Hemric and Rogers won the
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championship.


Career


1998–2005: Stewart's engineer and Leffler's crew chief

After graduating from
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with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and a master's from Kettering University in vehicle dynamics, Rogers was quickly hired by
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and began working there on July 1, 1998. For the rest of the year, he worked in the team's shop before starting as
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in
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for
Tony Stewart Anthony Wayne Stewart (born May 20, 1971), nicknamed "Smoke", is an American semi-retired professional auto racing driver, and former NASCAR team co-owner of Stewart-Haas Racing. He currently competes in the NHRA Top Fuel class. He is a four-t ...
's No. 20 team under crew chief Greg Zipadelli. Success on that team earned him the crew chief position on the No. 11 Sprint Cup team with driver
Jason Leffler Jason Charles Leffler (September 16, 1975 – June 12, 2013) was an American professional open-wheel and stock car racing driver. Leffler began racing in the open-wheel ranks, competing in the 2000 Indianapolis 500 before moving to primari ...
in
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when JGR expanded to three cars full time in the Cup Series. However, after the team had major struggles, failing to perform as good as the other two of the Gibbs cars (including a DNQ at the Coca-Cola 600), Rogers was replaced by Mike Ford as Leffler's crew chief.


2006–2009: Busch/Nationwide Series

In
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, Rogers became the crew chief of the No. 20 Busch Series team for JGR, replacing Cully Barraclough, who moved to
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. Working with
Denny Hamlin James Dennis Alan Hamlin (born November 18, 1980) is an American professional stock car racing driver and team owner. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 11 Toyota Camry XSE for Joe Gibbs Racing. He also co-owns and op ...
, they finished fourth in points, earning six poles (the most of any team that year), and two wins. Rogers continued as the No. 20 crew chief in
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, with Hamlin scaling back and sharing the ride with developmental driver Aric Almirola. That year was a notable one for the team when the team won the race at Milwaukee when Hamlin, who was originally scheduled to drive that weekend, was late to arrive to the track from
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in California, where the Cup race was that weekend. Almirola had practiced and qualified the car for Hamlin the rest of the weekend, and started the race before the team ordered him out in favor of Hamlin at the request of sponsor
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. Hamlin would charge back through the field and go on to win the race. Almirola had won the pole and lead a good part of the race before being replaced. Because Almirola started the race in the No. 20, he was credited with the win although Hamlin drove the car across the finish line first and was the one celebrating in victory lane. Rogers and Hamlin would win three additional races in 2007 at Darlington, Michigan, and Dover in September. In
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, the No. 20 car was split between
Tony Stewart Anthony Wayne Stewart (born May 20, 1971), nicknamed "Smoke", is an American semi-retired professional auto racing driver, and former NASCAR team co-owner of Stewart-Haas Racing. He currently competes in the NHRA Top Fuel class. He is a four-t ...
, Hamlin,
Kyle Busch Kyle Thomas Busch (born May 2, 1985) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 8 Chevrolet Camaro (sixth generation)#ZL1, Chevrolet ZL1 for Richard Childress Racing and par ...
(who joined JGR from
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), and rookie
Joey Logano Joseph Thomas Logano (born May 24, 1990) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No.22 Ford Mustang (seventh generation), Ford Mustang Dark Horse for NASCAR operations of Tea ...
once he turned 18 in May of that year. Working with all four drivers, Rogers won at least one race with each of them. Stewart won five races at Daytona, Fontana, Talladega, Darlington, and New Hampshire. Kyle Busch won one race in the No. 20 at Mexico City, which was his third win in a row after having driven the JGR No. 18 to victories in the previous two races. Hamlin won driving the No. 20 at Richmond in May and Daytona in July. Logano's one win came at Kentucky. The No. 20 car won the owners' championship that year. Rogers returned to crew chief the No. 20 for the fourth year in a row in
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. Logano drove the car primarily throughout the year, with Hamlin and Brad Coleman also driving in some races. Kyle Busch only drove the No. 18 that year, and Stewart left JGR after 2008, so he did not return either. Logano scored five wins for the No. 20 team in 2009.


2009–2017: Back to Cup

Rogers started to crew chief for
Kyle Busch Kyle Thomas Busch (born May 2, 1985) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 8 Chevrolet Camaro (sixth generation)#ZL1, Chevrolet ZL1 for Richard Childress Racing and par ...
in the No. 18 car late in the 2009 season after Busch missed the
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. He replaced Steve Addington, who was released from the team and ended up at
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the following year. In
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, Rogers' first full season with Busch, they finished 8th in points. Rogers is known to be a conservative crew chief, usually taking four tires late in races and not gambling on fuel mileage. Rogers has played a large role in the maturation of his former rowdy and controversial driver Busch. Rogers has 13 wins in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series as Busch's crew chief. Rogers served as the crew chief for Busch through the 2014 season. In 2015, Rogers became the crew chief for
Denny Hamlin James Dennis Alan Hamlin (born November 18, 1980) is an American professional stock car racing driver and team owner. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 11 Toyota Camry XSE for Joe Gibbs Racing. He also co-owns and op ...
in the No. 11 team, winning two races with Hamlin. In 2016, Rogers moved over to the No. 19 team with
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, winning three races and a near Championship. After 2016, Edwards stepped down as the driver of the No. 19 car. After Edwards' retirement, he was replaced by Daniel Suárez in the No. 19, and Rogers worked with him to start the year. On March 29, 2017, it was announced that Rogers would be taking an indefinite personal leave of absence, with Scott Graves, who had won the Xfinity Series title with Suárez the prior year, would serve as crew chief of the No. 19 team.


2017–2021: Back to Xfinity

On June 19, JGR announced that Rogers had returned from his leave of absence, but instead of returning as the crew chief for the No. 19, would become the technical director for JGR's Xfinity Series teams. Later that year, he was the interim crew chief for JGR's No. 19 Xfinity team driven by
Matt Tifft Matthew Kenneth Tifft (born June 26, 1996) is an American professional stock car racing driver and former team owner. He currently competes part-time in the Super Late Models, driving the No. 36 Chevrolet SS for Dan Fredricksonn Racing. In 2020, ...
at Kansas when Matt Beckman served a one-race suspension. On October 9, during the 2018 season, Rogers returned as interim crew chief of Suárez's No. 19 driven Cup car for the last 6 races of the season, replacing Scott Graves who parted ways with JGR to later join
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as the crew chief of the No. 6 car of Ryan Newman in 2019. Rogers also served as an interim crew chief for the No. 18 JGR Xfinity team earlier that year for one race at Iowa in July when Eric Phillips was suspended. After two and a half years in his technical director position, Rogers returned to crew chiefing full-time when JGR announced on November 7, 2019, that he would work with Riley Herbst in his first full time Xfinity season.


2022: 23XI Racing

On November 16, 2021, Rogers announced that he would move from JGR to 23XI Racing in the Cup Series as performance director in 2022. On March 29, 2022, Rogers was announced as the crew chief of the No. 23 for Richmond, Martinsville, Bristol, and Talladega after
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was suspended for four races due to a tire and wheel loss during the 2022 Texas Grand Prix at
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