Jeremy Mayfield

Birthday: May 27, 1969
Hometown: Owensboro, Ky.

YEAR-BY-YEAR NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES RECAP

2007 -- Finished 45th in series points. ... Qualified for 17 races. ... Best start was 13th at Martinsville in April. ... Best finish was 22nd twice (Kansas in September and Texas in November). ... Started the season with Bill Davis Racing, but joined Haas CNC Racing at Martinsville in October.

2006 -- Finished 39th in series points. ... Competed in 22 of 36 races. ... Joined Bill Davis Racing after being released from Evernham Motorsports.

2005 -- Finished ninth in series points. ... Third career finish in Sprint Cup top 10. ... Finished with one win, four top-fives and nine top-10s. ... Highlight was Aug. 21 win at Michigan International Speedway. ... Earned a berth in the Chase for the Sprint Cup for the second consecutive year. ... Only one DNF.

2004 -- Finished 10th in series points. ... Second time in career he finished in the top 10. ... Won dramatic September Richmond race to secure position in Chase for the Sprint Cup. He was 14th in the standings entering the race, but the win bumped him up to ninth. ... Finished season with one win, five top-fives and 13 top-10s. ... Captured poles at both Dover races. ... His two season poles were second highest in a season since 2000 (four). ... Had only three DNFs all season -- second-lowest total of his career.

2003 -- Finished 19th in series points. ... In his second season for Evernham Motorsports, scored his best championship effort since finishing 11th for Penske-Kranefuss in 1999. ... Posted 12 top-10 finishes, including four among the top five. ... Season-best finish was second, which came during the fall events at Richmond and Dover. ... Recorded the seventh pole of his career at Talladega in the spring. It also was his first since 2000 when he recorded a career-high four for the season.

2002 -- Finished 26th in series points in his first season for Evernham Motorsports. ... Scored a pair of top-five finishes, a second at Las Vegas and fifth in the spring stop at Richmond.

2001 -- Finished 35th in series points. ... Earned a pair of runner-up finishes, but parted ways with No. 12 Penske South team after the inaugural race at Kansas Speedway. ... Announced that he would drive the No. 19 Dodge for Evernham Motorsports in 2002.

2000 -- Finished 24th in series points. ... Roller-coaster season included two wins, four poles and 11 DNFs. ... Won at California in April, then passed Dale Earnhardt on final lap to win the Pocono 500 in June. ... Missed two races after sustaining injury in practice accident at Indianapolis.

1999 -- Finished 11th in series points. ... Highlight of the season was second-place finish at Darlington in the spring.

1998 -- Finished seventh in series points, leading the points race four times in the first 16 races. ... First career victory was at Pocono, passing Darrell Waltrip for the lead 20 laps from the end. ... Won second career pole, at Texas.

1997 -- Finished 13th in series points, his first full year with Michael Kranefuss. ... Best finish was fourth at Daytona in July, after starting 25th.

1996 -- Finished 26th in series points. ... Went through mid-season driver swap, starting the season with Cale Yarborough, then switching to Michael Kranefuss' team when John Andretti did the reverse. ... Scored a fourth- and fifth-place finish with Yarborough, winning his first pole in July at Talladega.

1995 -- Finished 31st in series points, his first full season. ... Registered one top-10 finish (Pocono).

1994 -- Finished 37th in series points. ... Ran four races each with Earl Sadler and T.W. Taylor before moving to Cale Yarborough's team for the final 12 races of the season.

1993 -- Made series debut at Charlotte in October, finishing 29th in only start of the season.

PREVIOUS RACING HISTORY

Made the jump to the Sprint Cup Series from ARCA, where he earned rookie of the year honors in 1993 with 10 top-10 finishes, including eight among the top five. ... Also landed rookie of the year honors in 1987 at Kentucky Motor Speedway. ... Career began racing go-karts in 1982 and then moved up through weekly tracks of central Tennessee, competing in street stocks, sportsman and Late-Model stocks.

NOTEWORTHY

While competing in Late Models as a teenager, Mayfield painted the signs at the local race track and often painted the numbers on other drivers' racecars to make ends meet. At 19 years old, he moved to Nashville, Tenn., to serve as a fabricator for Sadler Racing although his ambition was to drive. He worked diligently at the race shop and it paid off after roughly a half of a season as the Sadlers gave him a Late Model car to compete. He still had his duties at the race shop and it proved educational in showing Mayfield the various skills it takes to prepare a race car from the shop to the track.