Amber Slagle (born July 7, 1996) is an American professional stock car racing driver, crew chief, and engineer. She competes part-time in the

ARCA Menards Series The ARCA Menards Series is an American stock car series, the premier division of the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA). It is considered a minor, semi-professional league of stock car racing, used as a feeder series into the three national ...

and

ARCA Menards Series East The ARCA Menards Series East (formerly Busch East Series, Busch North Series, Camping World East Series, and NASCAR K&N Pro Series East) is a regional stock car racing series owned and operated by the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) and ...

, driving the No. 24

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for

McGowan Motorsports McGowan is an Irish and Scottish surname. It is an Anglicization of the Irish Mac Gabhann and Scottish surname ''Mac Gobhann''. Belonging to the Uí Echach Cobo, located in modern-day County Down in the east of Ulster, they produced several ...

, and part-time in the

ARCA Menards Series West The ARCA Menards Series West, formerly the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West, NASCAR AutoZone West Series, NASCAR Winston West Series and NASCAR Camping World West Series, is a regional stock car racing series owned and operated by the Automobile Raci ...

, driving the No. 17

for the same team.

Racing career

Early career

Slagle began racing at seven years old after her father bought her a

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. She won the

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Female Driver of the Year award three times, from 2007 to 2009, where she also won Rookie of the Year in 2007. She won the

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track championship in 2011, while also winning the "Got Game" award. She moved up to the

Champion Racing Association Champion Racing Association (CRA) is a stock car racing sanctioning body based in the Midwestern United States. It was founded in 1997 by Glenn Luckett and R. J. Scott, who then sold the company to Bob Sargent's Track Enterprises in 2022. All CRA ...

in 2014, posting her best finish of 14th at

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that year, and would get that same finish the following year at Springport Mid-Michigan Speedway. Slagle would put her racing career on hold in 2016 after the money for the tour became more expensive. She made her return in 2017, starting 20th and finishing 16th at

. Amber moved south in 2018, questioning if she would ever race in a late model again. She got the opportunity with

Cook-Finley Racing Cook Racing Technologies (formerly Cook-Finley Racing, and Chad Finley Racing) is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, fielding the No. 84 Toyota Tundra part-time for Clay ...

, and would drive part-time late model races in the Southeast Limited Late Model Series, and would drive in the

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from 2019 to 2020.

Crew chief

In 2021, Slagle became the crew chief for

and

Parker Retzlaff Parker Retzlaff (born May 21, 2003) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 31 Chevrolet Camaro for Jordan Anderson Racing. He also competes full-time in the eNASCAR ...

in the

. They've earned 1 top 5, and 4 top 10s that season.

ARCA Menards Series West

On June 7, 2021, Slagle announced that she will make her

debut with Steve McGowen Motorsports at

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. She started 4th and would finish 14th. She made two more starts that year, posting her first career top 10 at the

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Motorsports career results

ARCA Menards Series

(

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

ARCA Menards Series East

ARCA Menards Series West

(

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

Personal life

Slagle currently resides in

Sylvan Lake, Michigan Sylvan Lake is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,720 at the 2010 census. As a northern suburb of Metro Detroit, Sylvan Lake is about northwest of the city of Detroit. The city also shares a northeaste ...

, and is currently a mechanic for

References

External links

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