Mandy Chick Bio
Amanda “Mandy” Chick (born October 17, 2001) is an American professional stock car racing driver from De Soto, Kansas. She last competed part-time in the ARCA Menards Series, driving the No. 67 Chevrolet SS for Maples Motorsports. Chick began her racing career at a young age, competing in quarter-midget racing before working her way up through a series of developmental stock car and open-wheel events.
Early Life and Background
Mandy Chick was born on October 17, 2001, in De Soto, Kansas. She grew up in a family with deep ties to American motorsports, as the daughter of former NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series owner Steve Chick Jr., who had fielded entries in the series from 2001 to 2006. That family connection to racing gave her early exposure to garages, haulers, and short tracks well before she was old enough to drive on public roads.
Chick first got behind the wheel at a quarter-midget track in Topeka, Kansas, completing ten laps when she was six years old. The experience was enough to convince her that racing was what she wanted to pursue. She is also an engineering student at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, balancing her classroom work with her career on track.
Path to NASCAR
After her introduction to quarter-midgets, Chick became a champion in the TKQMA Honda Jr. championship in both the Honda and Stock divisions in 2010. She followed that by finishing in the top five in the USAC Generation Series standings in both 2012 and 2013, building a reputation as one of the more promising young drivers in the Midwest short-track scene.
Chick’s path toward NASCAR national series competition ran through the CRA JEGS All Star Tour. She ran six races in 2017 and posted three top-ten finishes, then ran the majority of the schedule the next year and finished fourth in the points with three top tens. In 2019, she finished second in the points with seven top-tens, including a top five at Bristol Motor Speedway, a result that showed she could handle one of the country’s most demanding ovals. She continued to log laps in 2020 and 2021, gaining the experience she would need to move into the ARCA Menards Series in 2022.
Mandy Chick Career
Early Career (2017–2021)
Chick’s most active developmental stretch came in the CRA JEGS All Star Tour, a regional late model series that has long served as a proving ground for stock car talent. In 2017, she ran six events and finished in the top ten three times, an efficient start that suggested she was ready for a fuller schedule.
She moved to a near-full schedule the following year and produced three top-tens, which was enough to lock her into fourth place in the season standings. In 2019, she had her strongest season to that point, running for the championship and finishing second with seven top-tens, highlighted by a top-five run at Bristol Motor Speedway. The 2020 and 2021 seasons were lighter on starts, but they gave her the seat time needed to prepare for a national series jump.
ARCA Menards Series Breakthrough (2022–Present)
Chick made her ARCA Menards Series debut in 2022 at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, driving the No. 74 Toyota for Team Chick Motorsports, the family team run by her father Steve Chick Jr., using equipment purchased from Visconti Motorsports. After starting sixteenth, an early crash dropped her to an eighteenth-place finish, but she bounced back at the Milwaukee Mile, where she started fourteenth and finished sixteenth after running three laps down.
She opened the 2023 ARCA Menards Series season with one of the best runs of her career, posting a fifth-place finish at Daytona International Speedway. Her best series points result came that same year, when she finished thirty-fifth in the ARCA Menards Series standings. Chick also made a start in the ARCA Menards Series East in 2022, running the Sprecher 150 at Milwaukee Mile in her first event in the division.
Maples Motorsports Era (2025–Present)
In 2025, Chick moved to Maples Motorsports and switched manufacturers, settling into the No. 67 Chevrolet SS. Her most recent ARCA Menards Series start came at the Berlin ARCA 200 at Berlin Raceway, where she continued her part-time schedule in the series. The pairing with Maples Motorsports gave her a new crew and a new shop environment, and it marked the first time she had run a full-season-style partnership with a team outside her family operation.
Driving Style and Strengths
Chick has shown a knack for the technical side of stock car racing, an edge that fits well with her engineering studies at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Her early results at places like Bristol Motor Speedway suggest she is comfortable on abrasive, high-grip surfaces, while her fifth-place run at Daytona shows she can also handle pack racing at superspeedway speeds. The combination of classroom training and on-track feel has helped her adapt quickly to new cars and new teams.
Notable Races and Milestones
Her top-five finish in the 2023 ARCA Menards Series opener at Daytona International Speedway stands as one of the defining moments of her career so far. Her first series start at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park in 2022 was another milestone, marking her arrival on a national series stage, and her Bristol Motor Speedway top five from 2019 remains her best result on a short track.
Mandy Chick Career Wins
Mandy Chick’s professional stock car career has been built more on consistent finishes and seat time than on trips to Victory Lane. Across her ARCA Menards Series and ARCA Menards Series East runs, she has notched multiple top-ten finishes and has shown steady progress from year to year.
ARCA Menards Series Highlights
Chick has competed in the ARCA Menards Series on a part-time basis, with her best season points result being thirty-fifth in 2023. Her best individual finish came at Daytona International Speedway in 2023, where she brought home a fifth-place result. She has recorded two top-ten finishes in series competition and has not yet earned a series win or pole.
Other Wins and Performances
Outside of the ARCA Menards Series, Chick captured a TKQMA Honda Jr. championship in the Honda and Stock divisions in 2010. She also posted top-five USAC Generation Series standings in 2012 and 2013, and a runner-up finish in the CRA JEGS All Star Tour points in 2019, results that gave her the regional résumé needed to attract national series opportunities.
Mandy Chick Family
Family Background and Racing Lineage
Chick is the daughter of Steve Chick Jr., a former NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series owner who fielded entries in the series from 2001 to 2006. That ownership history gave her a direct view of how a national touring series operates, and it also led to the creation of Team Chick Motorsports, the family team she drove for in her 2022 ARCA Menards Series debut. The Chick family name has therefore been part of American stock car racing for more than two decades.
Personal Life
Outside of racing, Chick is an engineering student at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, where she is pursuing a degree alongside her driving career. She remains based in the Midwest, close to the short-track scene where she first learned to race, and she continues to balance her classroom work with her part-time ARCA Menards Series schedule.
2025 Season Performance
Chick’s 2025 campaign has been a transitional one, with her moving from her family team into a new partnership with Maples Motorsports and switching to the No. 67 Chevrolet SS. The change gave her a fresh crew chief environment and a different manufacturer program, an important step for a young driver still building her national series résumé.
Her 2025 ARCA Menards Series schedule has remained part-time, with her most recent start coming at the Berlin ARCA 200 at Berlin Raceway. The smaller slate has allowed her to focus on adapting to the new team and on her ongoing engineering coursework at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. With several years of national series starts now on her record, she continues to build the experience base needed to push for higher finishes and, eventually, a shot at full-time NASCAR national series competition.