{"id":385771,"date":"2026-01-03T14:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/385771\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T14:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:53:15","slug":"matt-weber-promoted-to-crew-chief-for-jeremy-clements-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/385771\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Weber Promoted to Crew Chief for Jeremy Clements Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Weber, a long-time engineer in NASCAR\u2019s National Series, has been promoted to the role of crew chief for Jeremy Clements and Jeremy Clements Racing for the 2026 NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series.<\/p>\n<p>Weber joined SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90 on Thursday (January 1) to discuss his recent career path, which, after taking a few twists and turns, has led to his first full-time crew chiefing job in NASCAR.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActually, the last year has been sort of a rollercoaster,\u201d said Weber. \u201cLast year, I started as the engineer for the No. 5 team at Our Motorsports, but we were notified before Dover that they were shutting down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Mooresville, North Carolina-native explained that after finding out that Our Motorsports was shuttering its program, he called Shane Martin, the NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series representative for Chevrolet, looking for a job, and was hooked up with Jeremy Clements Racing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just started the Monday after Dover, you know, just helping out however I could,\u201d Weber added. \u201cDoing engineering sessions, sim sessions, helping put the cars together, running parts back-and-forth to Spartanburg (South Carolina, where the Jeremy Clements Racing shop is located), whatever it took. Then, it morphed quickly into a management role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The coming season will mark the first full-time gig as crew chief for Weber in NASCAR\u2019s National Series, but it won\u2019t be the first time the 41-year-old has been on top of the pit box \u2014 having called shots for FRS Racing, Our Motorsports, and Niece Motorsports, amongst others.<\/p>\n<p>Weber is also a four-time race-winning crew chief in the ARCA Menards Series, having captured victories with three different operations, including Mason Mitchell Motorsports and Venturini Motorsports.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Clements Racing (JCR) has been a fixture in the NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series for more than a decade, but has utilized three different crew chiefs in the last three seasons \u2014 with Mark Setzer on-board in 2024, Kase Kallenbach serving as shot-caller in 2025, and now Mark Weber joining the team in the role for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>This season, though, the organization is taking a significant step towards becoming a weekly contender for top-10 results, inking a <a href=\"https:\/\/tobychristie.com\/nascar\/oreilly-series\/jeremy-clements-racing-partners-with-haas-factory-team-for-2026-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">technical alliance with Haas Factory Team<\/a> for its No. 51 Chevrolet \u2014 a partnership that will see the team operate out of the juggernaut team\u2019s building in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Clements, a native of Spartanburg, South Carolina, is one of the most tenured veterans in the history of NASCAR\u2019s second-tier series, amassing a career total of 530 starts \u2014 third all-time behind Kenny Wallace and Jason Keller.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series campaign will begin with the season-opener at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday, February 14 at 5:30 PM on The CW, MRN, and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Weber, a long-time engineer in NASCAR\u2019s National Series, has been promoted to the role of crew chief&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[43409,49,48,131242,163987,634,109587,82],"class_list":["post-385771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-43409","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jeremy-clements-racing","tag-matt-weber","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-oreilly-auto-parts-series","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}