Clint Bowyer was born on May 30, 1979 in Emporia, Kansas. He is currently single and lives in Clemmons, North Carolina. Clint started racing at five years old racing motorcross. He started racing street stocks when he was sixteen at Thunderhill Speedway in 1996. He became a dirt racing legend. He won the Modified Championship at Thunderhill Speedway in 200 when he was twenty-one years old. The next year he won the Modified Championship at Lakeside Speedway.
In 2002, Bowyer won the NASCAR weekly Racing Series Midwest Championship while racing his first season on asphalt. After comming in second in an ARCA race in Nashville in 2003 where he led for 47 laps, Richard Childress became interested in the young driver. Childress hired Bowyer to share a ride with Kevin Harvick in 2004 for the Busch Series. Bowyer almost won his second Busch Series race but had an on-track run-in with Kyle Busch. He ended up finishing fourth in the race. He won his first Busch Series race in June 2005. He came in second in points in his rookie year for the Busch Series. His performance was so good that Richard Childress decided it was time to put Bowyer in the Nextel Cup Series.
Clint Bowyer's debut into the NASCAR's Nextel Cup series was at Phoenix International Raceway in April 2005. He finished twenty-second in the race.
Bowyer finished seventeenth in the cup standings and second behind Denny Hamlin in the rookie standings that year.
Clint Bowyer quietly rose up in the standings this year and earned himself a spot in The Chase. He started The Chase as the only driver without any wins but has since changed that. He currently has one win, five top fives and fifteen top tens. Clint Bowyer is the driver of the #07 Jack Daniels Chevrolet and drives for Richard Childress Racing.