Hometown: Chemung, NY
Birth Date: February
27,1964
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 190
Marital Status: Wife,
Lynn
Children: Ashlyn Marie
2003 Team: Army National Guard Ford
Car Owner: BelCar Motorsports
Team Address: 2668 Peachtree Road Statesville, NC 28625 (704) 873-2310; Fax: (704) 873-2331 Crew Chief: Gary Cogswell
Fan Club: Todd-Bodine Fan Club
PO Box 2427
Cornelius, NC 28031 Website:Todd-Bodine Fans
Todd Bodine is the younger brother
of NASCAR Winston Cup Series veterans,
Geoffrey
and Brett.
Began building race cars
before he started driving them
full-time.
Started driving
professionally
in 1983, driving Northeast Modifieds.
Relocated to
North Carolina, where he ran Late Model
Stock
Cars on the NASCAR Winston Racing
Series
tracks in 1986. He also competed in
NASCAR
Sportsman
events from 1989 to 1990.
He worked
for the Buck
Baker Racing School, hung bodies on cars
and
crew chiefed for Billy Standridge, drove
a
limited number of Late Model races for
Danny
Bumpass, and became a fabricator and
driver
for Bobby Hillin in the sportsman
series.
Though he had less
than 40 races recorded in his career
ledger,
he made his NASCAR Busch Series Grand
National Division debut in
1991 in the Team 34 (Cicci - Welliver)
HungryJack Buick.
That inaugural
season, he posted
his first of three career wins at Dover,
finished third in points and was named
Busch Grand National Rookie-of-the-Year.
A year later, he
took home trophies from Michigan
International Speedway, and
Bristol.
Winston Cup debut was at
the Bud-at-the-Glen in 1992 in a Diet
Pepsi-sponsored car.
In 1993,
driving the #34 Fiddle Faddle Chevy,
he claimed BGN victories at Dover
Downs and again at Bristol.
Bodine spent the 1994 and '95 season
driving
the Factory Stores Ford on NASCAR
Winston CupSeries.
In 1996, he was
at the wheel
of the Pro-Tech Motorsports Cape
Canaveral Cruise Lines Chevrolet on
the NASCAR Busch Series again.
When the 1997 season opened, Bodine was
driving the same car he piloted in 1991
for team 34, this time a Pontiac
sponsored by Stanley Tools.
In
1998, Todd was named driver of the
#35Tabasco Pontiac in Winston Cup, but
later returned to the Busch Series to
pilot theSlim Jim #36.
In 1999,Todd
began driving the #66 Phillips petroleum
car for his long-time owners, Cicci-
Welliver and was also a substitute
driver in the Eel River Racing Pontiac
#30 in Winston Cup.
On September 19, 2000,
Todd was named to
succeed Darrell Waltrip as driver of the
Winston Cup #66 K-Mart Ford for owners Carl Haas and
Travis Carter beginning with the 2001 season.
Also ran a limited Busch Series
schedule in 2001 in the #00 Pontiac owned by Billy Jones and the #11 ChannelLock Chevy
Kmart declared bankruptcy in January 2002 and sponsorship ended after the first two races of that year. On March 11, 2002
Todd joined Herzog-Jackson Motorsports as driver
of the BGN #92 Excedrin Chevy
Began doing full-time double duty in both Busch
and Winston Cup in June 2002 when Discover Card
come on as primary sponsor of the #26 Haas/Carter Ford
In 2003, team renamed BelCar Motorsports with Army National Guard as primary sponsor. Number changed to #54. (As usual, Todd designed the paint scheme.) Planned to run limited schedule in
Busch series in the #92 Herzog-Jackson Chevrolet
due to lack of sponsorship, but after attaining BGN points lead, the team kept going. Gardin GPS sponsored the team at Richmond in the spring and ESGR (Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve) and Monster.com sponsored for a few races each.
After long time friend Mike McLaughlin lost his 2003 BGN ride, due to loss of sponsor, Todd pledged his pit crew for Mike's run in a borrowed car in the Koolerz 300 at Daytona
and Todd also pledged to pay Mike's tire tab.
After the Summer 2003 Daytona BNS race Herzog - Jackson suspended operations due to lack of sponsorship with Todd 3rd in the points race , just 43 points out of the lead. Todd raced the following week in the #7 Kleenex car for Evans Motorsports and Joe Nemechek.
