Will Lind, Business Director of Competition
Date of Birth: Sept. 17, 1954
Hometown: Lakeland, Fla.
Residence: Lexington, N.C.
Children: Jake (10/4/80), Laura (8/24/85)

Career Highlights

• Employed by Richard Childress Racing since 1982 and has had a hand in all 12 of RCR’s NASCAR championships
• Original member of RCR’s famed Flying Aces pit crew
• Named Business Director of Competition in September 2009
• Guided all three RCR drivers to top-six finishes in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points, giving the Welcome, N.C.- based operation the fourth (Kevin Harvick), fifth (Clint Bowyer) and sixth (Jeff Burton) positions in the final 2008 standings
• Helped guide Clint Bowyer to one win, 14 top-five and 29 top-10 finishes en route to the 2008 NASCAR Nationwide Series championship
• Named RCR’s Director of Competition in December 2007
• Steered Burton and Scott Wimmer to the 2007 NASCAR Nationwide Series owner’s championship on the heals of five wins, one pole, 17 top-five and 27 top-10 finishes
• Helped guide Harvick to two poles, nine wins, 23 top-five and 32 top-10 finishes en route to the 2006 Nationwide Series championship
• Guided the duo of Harvick and Johnny Sauter to the 2003 Nationwide Series owner’s championship
• Managed Harvick’s No. 2 ACDelco team that won RCR’s first Nationwide Series championship in 2001
• Worked with Harvick during his Nationwide Series rookie season in 2000. Harvick notched two poles, three wins, eight top-five and 16 top-10 finishes en route to a third-place finish in the Nationwide Series point standings and the Rookie of the Year award
• Named Nationwide Series team manager when RCR liquidated its NASCAR Camping World Truck Series inventory and formed the Nos. 2 and No. 21 Nationwide Series teams with Harvick and Mike Dillon.
• Led Jay Sauter to four Camping World Truck Series wins from 1997-1999
• Directed Mike Skinner to the inaugural Camping World Truck Series championship in 1995 on the strength of eight wins, 17 top-five and 18 top-10 finishes. In the first two years of the division’s existence, Lind and Skinner combined for 16 wins, 34 top fives and 38 top 10s
• Appointed in the summer of 1994 to lead RCR’s Camping World Truck Series effort
• Tire changer and mechanic of the No. 3 GM Goodwrench NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team that won 54 points-paying races with Dale Earnhardt from 1984-1994 including championships in 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993 and 1994
• Member of the No. 3 GM Goodwrench team that won Bud Shootouts in 1986, 1988, 1991and 1993
• Named to the Copenhagen Skoal All-Pro Team for 11 consecutive seasons from 1984-1994
• Started at RCR in 1982 and was a member of the No. 3 Piedmont Aviation team that captured two wins and six poles with Ricky Rudd from 1982-1983
• Worked with Grant Adcox in the Sprint Cup and ARCA ranks beginning in 1980
• Began professional racing career in 1977 working as a mechanic for driver/owner James Hylton