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She began racing in local NASCAR-sanctioned stock car events in 1991, in her home state of Kansas. Her interest in motorsports began young; since she was eight, she wanted to be a professional racing driver. When she was 18, she started racing in the Pony Stock division at her local track. Between 1991 and 1996, she won five feature races. In 2002, she made the upward and somewhat sideways move into ARCA stock car racing, which is separate, although similar, to the NASCAR family. After some training and some promising tests at Daytona, she took part in her first ARCA race, at the Kansas circuit. Her car was a Chevrolet, and she was 16th. 2003 was a much quieter year, with much of it given over to working as a driving instructor, which allowed Jennifer to learn other tracks. ARCA was a happier hunting ground in 2004. She managed three top-ten finishes, at Kansas, Nashville and Chicagoland, the best of these being a seventh at Nashville. At the end of the season, she made her debut in the Xfinity Series, at Homestead-Miami. At about this time, Jennifer launched her own line of motorsport-themed clothing for women, Driver Boutique. Driver Boutique’s proceeds helped her to get back into big-league racing, and acted as her major sponsor. 2008 saw another debut. Jennifer took part in her first NASCAR Craftsman Truck race, finishing 33rd after a blown engine. After several years of

one-off drives in the Xfinity Series and ARCA, she put together a deal for a large proportion of the Truck series in 2010, driving a Ford for her own team. Her best finishes were two fourteenth places, and she was 17th overall. The following year, she made a double attack on the Truck and Xfinity series, with a better record in the Xfinity Series, and was a contender for Rookie of the Year. Her car was a Rick Ware Racing Ford. However, her best overall finish was sixth, in the first round of the Truck series, at Daytona. This was a highest-ever finish for a female driver at the time, in any major NASCAR series. In 2012, she concentrated on the Truck series again. Her best finish was 16th. She did 16 races in 2013, in which she had a

best finish of 17th, at Kansas. Her schedule in 2014 was similar, with most of the year spent in Trucks. Her finishing record was much improved, and she had a best finish of thirteenth, at Kansas. In 2015, she continued to race in the Truck Series, and achieved six top-twenty finishes. She equaled her 2015 highest finish in the 2016 Truck championship with a seventeenth at Michigan. She had rather a forgettable season in Trucks in 2017. She only finished seven out of her eighteen races, due to a variety of mechanical problems. She did most of the Trucks series in 2019, in a Chevrolet. Her best finish was 18th at Fort Worth, from the back of the grid. The 2020 Truck season started in round three for Jennifer, at Charlotte, as she had not qualified for the first two races. She was 26th, only one lap down. The next round at Atlanta was a disaster and she was pulled off track for not keeping up with the field. Homestead was better and she was 27th overall. This was her second-best result of the season, the best being a 24th place at Fort Worth. 2021 saw her make 19 of the truck series 22 starts.

Ironically, her best finish would come at Daytona when she ran a trouble free race. She finished 18th on the lead lap. 2022 began with Cobb again missing the season opener at Daytona. The week of the second race at Las Vegas, Cobb released a statement that she would be scaling her operation back to part time, citing funding and equipment issues. She made just one start in 2022; a run in the Truck Series, coming at Talladega. She started in 31st and experienced clutch issues; falling out and finishing 32nd.

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JENNIFER JO COBB - 06/12/1973