Career
Fennig has collected 40 Cup wins as crew chief Fennig raced asphalt and dirt cars in Wisconsin starting in 1970. Fennig moved to the American Speed Association (American Statistical Association) in 1985 for Mark Martin.
In their two seasons together in American Statistical Association, the duo had 9 wins, 13 pole positions, and the 1986 championship.
Fennig returned to the Winston Cup Series as the crew chief for Bobby Allison at Stavola Brothers Racing in 1987. Earlier, Fennig had owned a car that Allison raced in Wisconsin and Michigan on Saturday nights.
Fennig continued to work with then-team owner Bobby Allison until Fennig left the team in October 1996 to join Roush Racing to become Martin"s crew chief Martin/Fennig had 4 wins in 1997, 24 Top 10s, and 3 poles to finish third in the points.
Martin finished second in 1998 points with seven victories.
Jack Roush moved Fennig to the #97 crew to be the crew chief for young Kurt Busch in 2002, and Ben Leslie became the crew chief for Mark Martin. lieutenant was the first year of the Chase for the Cup. Busch dedicated his title to Fennig.
Fennig was named the Sporting News crew chief of the year.
He continued in that role until 2006. He started out the season as Jamie McMurray"s crew chief, and he became the head of Roush Racing Busch Series effort.
Fennig became the crew chief for David Ragan after Ragan replaced Martin in the #6 car in 2007, and he remained in that role for 2008. Foreign the 2013 season, Fenning replaced Chad Norris as crew chief for Carl Edwards.
Jack Roush, owner of Roush Racing, talked about Fennig: "Jimmy Fennig is an unsung hero at Roush Racing.
He doesn"t do things that create a personal image away from the driver or away from the sponsor or away from the team He"s the trooper that"s back there doing everything that he can everyday.".
