Chad Boat


Chad Boat is an American professional stock car racing driver and the son of Billy Boat. He currently competes part-time in Indy Lights for Belardi Auto Racing.

Racing career

Sprint cars and midgets

Boat began his racing career in quarter midgets at the age of 5. At 7, he won the Arizona state quarter midget championship, and the following year won the Light Modified and Light 160 midget championships.

NASCAR/Stock cars

After competing in USAC competition, Boat moved to NASCAR in 2010, running in seven K&N Pro Series West events between 2010 and 2012, with a best finish of fourth in 2010 at Iowa Speedway; he also ran 19 K&N Pro Series East events with a best finish of ninth at Bowman Gray Stadium in 2011. Boat also competed in ten ARCA Racing Series events in 2012 and 2013, posting third-place finishes twice at Iowa.
In January 2014, Boat announced that he would be competing for Rookie of the Year in the Nationwide Series in 2014, running 15 events for family-owned Billy Boat Motorsports. Boat finished 29th in points with a best finish of 22nd at Iowa Speedway. In 2015 he raced in both the Xfinity Series and Camping World Truck Series for Billy Boat Motorsports. He made 3 Xfinity starts and 4 truck series starts. He ran for the Truck Series championship and finished 38th in points with a best finish of ninth at Talladega Superspeedway, his best NASCAR finish to date.

Indy Lights

On June 27, 2017 it was announced that Boat would compete in the Indy Lights series with Belardi Auto Racing competing at the oval events at Iowa Speedway and Gateway Motorsports Park in the latter half of the 2017 season. Chad's father Billy also competed in Indy Lights, then called the American Racing Series, in 1986 and 1987.

Personal life

Boat attended University of North Carolina at Charlotte, majoring in finance.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

Xfinity Series

Camping World Truck Series

K&N Pro Series West

K&N Pro Series East

ARCA Racing Series

Season still in progress
Ineligible for series points

Indy Lights