Greg Erwin, Crew Chief of the No. 16 3M Ford Fusion

Personal Profile
Birth Date: 4/19/70
Married: Wife, Susan
Children: Curtis, Kimberly and Colin
Hometown: Hatboro, PA
Residence: Mooresville, NC

Greg Erwin came to Roush Fenway Racing from Robby Gordon Motorsports but has a long racing background that started with a small team that his father owned in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.

When Erwin was in high school, his father bought his first oval track racecar. Erwin worked on the team and after graduating from high school, returned home every summer from Clemson to help out. He got his degree in engineering from Clemson in 1992 and returned for graduate school in 1993 with a motorsports engineering scholarship. Through the program which was funded in part by Ford, he spent his summers working with race teams such as Tri-Star Motorsports.

In 1995, Erwin was offered a job with Diamond Ridge Motorsports. This would be his first official job in NASCAR. He worked as an engineer for the team that fielded entries for Steve Grissom, Jeff Green and Elliott Sadler. At the end of 1995, Erwin left Diamond Ridge and went to work for Team SABCO. Within months, the operation went from one team to three teams and Erwin worked as the sole engineer for all three entries. In 2001, Chip Ganassi bought into the organization and hired additional engineers. Erwin remained at Ganassi Racing with Felix Sebates through the end of 2002.

At the beginning of 2003, Erwin went to work for Richard Childress Racing to help with their new seven-post research and development program. Erwin began to work more directly with the No. 31 team and crew chief Chris Andrews (current engineering manager at RFR). Erwin left Richard Childress Racing at the end of 2004 and went to work directly for Robby Gordon Motorsports early in 2005.

Erwin took over the crew chief position when he went to Robby Gordon Motorsports for the No. 7 Nextel Cup entry, his first job as a crew chief. Before Erwin joined Robby Gordon Motorsports in 2005, the team had missed four races and only missed two the rest of the season under his direction. In 2006, the team started outside of the top 35 in points and had to race their way in to the first few races. The team, in only its second year of existence, did not miss a race in 2006.

Roush Fenway Racing decided to make a crew chief change on the No. 16 Nextel Cup entry with driver Greg Biffle in May of 2007 and decided that Erwin was the man for the job. Erwin’s first race with Biffle was the June 3rd event at Dover. Biffle started 10th and finished sixth, his best finish in seven races. The pair would go on to win at Kansas Speedway in September and finish 14th in the Nextel Cup point standings.