Gregory Stuart Ives (born September 13, 1979) is an American former

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crew chief who last worked for

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as the crew chief for their No. 48

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driven by

Alex Bowman Alex Michael Bowman (born April 25, 1993) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 48 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Hendrick Motorsports, part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Seri ...

. Ives previously was the crew chief for Hendrick's No. 88 car, driven by Bowman (temporarily in 2016 and permanently from 2018 to 2020),

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(temporarily in 2016) and

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(permanently from 2015 to 2017). Ives won three races with Earnhardt Jr. Prior to that, he crew chiefed for Earnhardt Jr's

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team,

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, in 2013 on Regan Smith's No. 7 car and 2014 on

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's No. 9 car. He and Elliott won the 2014 championship together. After graduating from

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in 2003, Ives worked for Hendrick Motorsports from 2004 to 2012 as a mechanic and later the engineer for the No. 48 car driven by

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. He was part of the car's pit crew when Johnson won his five consecutive championships between 2006 and 2010. In 2021, Ives remained the crew chief for Bowman, who moved from the No. 88 car to the No. 48 vacated by

's retirement. (Hendrick dropped that car number after the 2020 season in order to bring back the No. 5, which was driven by

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, who replaced Johnson in Hendrick's driver lineup.) On August 26, 2022, Ives announced that he would step down as crew chief for Bowman at the end of the 2022 season and take another job at Hendrick Motorsports that would allow him to spend more time with his family. On October 14, it was announced that Blake Harris, the crew chief for Michael McDowell's No. 34 car for

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, would replace Ives as Bowman's crew chief in 2023.

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