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Quin Walton Houff (born September 15, 1997) is an American professional stock car racing driver.

Racing career

Early years

Houff started to race when he was eight, driving go-karts. A year later, he upgraded to Mini-Cup cars and by age thirteen, he was racing Limited Late Model cars at local tracks. During his formative years, Houff often competed at legendary short track South Boston Speedway.^[1]

Late models

Houff ran the entire 2015 CARS Super Late Model Series schedule at age seventeen. He won one race, in Hudson, North Carolina, recorded four more top fives and finished fourth in points.^[2] On the strength of that season, Houff was named to the 2016 Kulwicki Driver Development program.^[3] He won the 2016 CARS season opener, but ran only the first seven races,^[4] a move he made after consulting with a strategy team.^[5] He also ran the 2016 All American 400 for David Gilliland.^[6] Houff returned to the series on a limited basis in 2017.^[7] After not racing since the 2021 Cup Series Finale at Phoenix, Houff will attempt to run South Boston Speedway's Crown Jewel race and the first race of the Virginia Triple Crown, the Thunder Road Harley-Davidson 200.

ARCA Racing Series

Houff teamed up with Mason Mitchell and his team to run the opening race of the 2017 ARCA Racing Series after a test at Daytona International Speedway.^[8] After leading laps^[9] and earning an award for leading at halfway,^[10] he was caught up in a wreck.^[11]

On January 8, 2018, Houff and Mason Mitchell Motorsports announced that they would run at least four races together in 2018, at Daytona, Pocono Raceway, Michigan International Speedway and Charlotte Motor Speedway. He will work together with Mark Setzer, his crew chief from his Xfinity Series races.^[12]

Xfinity Series

On March 21, 2017, it was announced that Houff would drive two NASCAR Xfinity Series races for Precision Performance Motorsports, at Bristol Motor Speedway and Richmond International Raceway.^[13] He tested for the races at Motor Mile Speedway.^[14] At Bristol, Houff hovered around the top ten most of the day after a strong qualifying run but damage due to an incident with Ross Chastain dropped him to fifteenth.^[15] After the race at Richmond, Houff signed on for two more races with the team, at Iowa Speedway and Kentucky Speedway.^[16] He took advantage of good pit strategy at Iowa to score a career-best twelfth but spun during his qualifying lap at Kentucky and failed to qualify. He made starts at Kentucky and Kansas, finishing in the mid-20s.^[17] He failed to qualify for his final scheduled start of the year, at Homestead.^[18]

Houff was left without a ride as PPM shuttered its team at the end of the 2017 season.^[19]

On September 7, 2018, it was announced that Houff would make his 2018 Xfinity debut with JD Motorsports' No. 4 entry at Richmond.^[20] After finishing 31st in a one-off for the team, a deal came together on October 18, 2018 for Houff to run the final four races of the Xfinity Series season in the organization's No. 15 entry. The deal was made quickly, with Houff finalizing the deal and traveling to Kansas Speedway for the first race of the agreement on the same day.^[21]

Cup Series

On January 22, 2019, Spire Motorsports announced Houff would drive the team's No. 77 on a part-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series schedule starting at ISM Raceway.^[22] Early estimates pegged the number of races at approximately half of the 36-race schedule.^[23]

On November 27, 2019, StarCom Racing announced that Houff would drive the team's No. 00 on a full-time basis during the 2020 and 2021 seasons.^[24]

At the 2020 O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Texas, Houff made a last-minute decision to enter pit-road with 29 laps to go, clipping the cars of Christopher Bell and Matt DiBenedetto in the process before crashing into the outside retaining wall. He was later on criticized by DiBenedetto and Brad Keselowski, who proposed that NASCAR should add a relegation structure that would demote developmental drivers to the lower divisions should they commit a mistake similar to Houff's.^[25] Later that season, in the 2020 Yellawood 500 at Talladega Superspeedway, he finished a career high 13th place after avoiding multiple accidents on the ending laps.

Personal life

Houff works with Duke University School of Medicine's cancer programs, as his mother was treated for cancer there. His grandmother also had cancer.^[26]

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Cup Series

NASCAR Cup Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	NCSC	Pts	Ref
2019	Spire Motorsports	77	Chevy	DAY	ATL	LVS	PHO 30	CAL	MAR	TEX	BRI 32	RCH 34	TAL	DOV 36	KAN 34	CLT 28	POC 29	MCH 32	SON	CHI 38		KEN 34	NHA 31	POC 31	GLN												TEX 33	PHO	HOM	33rd	77	[27]
	Premium Motorsports	15	Chevy																		DAY 37
		27																								MCH 31	BRI 30	DAR	IND	LVS	RCH 35	CLT	DOV	TAL	KAN	MAR
2020	StarCom Racing	00	Chevy	DAY 39	LVS 32	CAL 35	PHO 34	DAR 36	DAR 26	CLT 35	CLT 32	BRI 27	ATL 32	MAR 34	HOM 33	TAL 27	POC 40	POC 31	IND 23	KEN 35	TEX 34	KAN 24	NHA 32	MCH 27	MCH 32	DAY 33	DOV 33	DOV 34	DAY 23	DAR 31	RCH 32	BRI 29	LVS 34	TAL 13	CLT 28	KAN 33	TEX 33	MAR 33	PHO 39	33rd	214	[28]
2021				DAY 29	DAY 40	HOM 35	LVS 33	PHO 32	ATL 33	BRI 25	MAR 24	RCH 34	TAL 37	KAN 37	DAR 30	DOV 29	COA 34	CLT 32	SON 36	NSH 38	POC 31	POC 33	ROA 34	ATL 35	NHA 35	GLN 32	IND 22	MCH 30	DAY 38	DAR 30	RCH 35	BRI 34	LVS 34	TAL 19	CLT 30	TEX 31	KAN 35	MAR 34	PHO 37	31st	176	[29]

Daytona 500

Year	Team	Manufacturer	Start	Finish
2020	StarCom Racing	Chevrolet	35	39
2021			33	29

Xfinity Series

NASCAR Xfinity Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	NXSC	Pts	Ref
2017	Precision Performance Motorsports	46	Chevy	DAY	ATL	LVS	PHO	CAL	TEX	BRI 15	RCH 27	TAL	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	IOW 12	DAY	KEN DNQ	NHA	IND	IOW	GLN	MOH	BRI	ROA	DAR	RCH	CHI	KEN 27	DOV	CLT	KAN 22	TEX	PHO	HOM DNQ	41st	82	[30]
2018	JD Motorsports	4	Chevy	DAY	ATL	LVS	PHO	CAL	TEX	BRI	RCH	TAL	DOV	CLT	POC	MCH	IOW	CHI	DAY	KEN	NHA	IOW	GLN	MOH	BRI	ROA	DAR	IND	LVS	RCH 31	CLT	DOV					49th	56	[31]
		15																															KAN 14	TEX 26	PHO 29	HOM 29

K&N Pro Series East

NASCAR K&N Pro Series East results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	NKNPSEC	Pts	Ref
2014	Ken Schrader Racing	52	Chevy	NSM	DAY	BRI	GRE	RCH	IOW	BGS	FIF	LGY	NHA	COL	IOW	GLN	VIR	GRE 21	DOV	63rd	23	[32]

^* Season still in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

ARCA Racing Series

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

ARCA Racing Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	ARSC	Pts	Ref
2017	Mason Mitchell Motorsports	98	Chevy	DAY 28	NSH	SLM	TAL	TOL	ELK	POC	MCH	MAD	IOW	IRP	POC	WIN	ISF	ROA	DSF	SLM	CHI	KEN	KAN	115th	95	[33]
2018				DAY 32	NSH	SLM	TAL	TOL	CLT 6	POC	MCH 8	MAD	GTW	CHI	IOW	ELK								34th	585	[34]
		78															POC 21	ISF	BLN	DSF	SLM	IRP	KAN

CARS Super Late Model Tour

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. ** – All laps led.)

CARS Super Late Model Tour results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	CSLMTC	Pts	Ref
2015	LFR Chassis	17	Chevy	SNM 10	HCY 24	OCS 13	SNM 5	TCM 1	MMS 15	OCS 4	CNC 5	MYB 5	HCY 10				4th	251	[35]
2016				SNM 1*	OCS 8	HCY 5	TCM 8	GPS 7	OCS 21	CNC 3	MYB	HCY	SNM				6th	182	[36]
2017	Anthony Campi Racing	81	Toyota	CNC	DOM 4	DOM 4	HCY	HCY	BMS	AND	OCS	TCM	OCS	HCY	CNC	SBO	24th	58	[37]

References

External links

• Official website
• Quin Houff driver statistics at Racing-Reference