When Jamie McMurray rejoined Earnhardt Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates for the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) season, it turned out to be a career best.  McMurray started the season by winning the Daytona 500 in his first start back with team owner Chip Ganassi in the No. 1 Bass Pro Shops / Tracker Boats and McDonald’s Chevrolet. 

McMurray continued his success winning the second-most prestigious race on the NSCS schedule, the Brickyard 400 at the historic Indianapolis Motor Speedway in July.  The victory placed McMurray as one of only three drivers to have won the Daytona 500 and the Brickyard 400 in a single season.  McMurray captured his third victory of the season at Charlotte Motor Speedway.  He was the only non-Chase driver to win during the 2010 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.
 
The three wins doubled his career total, also making 2010 his first multiple-win year.   McMurray also set a career-high for pole positions in a single season with four.  He added nine top-five and 12 top-10 finishes to his statistics and led for a career high 346 laps before finishing the season 14th in the points standings.

McMurray’s NSCS career began in 2002 when he filled in for an injured Sterling Marlin of Chip Ganassi Racing.  In only his second NSCS start, McMurray made quite an impression on the motorsports world, winning his first NSCS race.  With this victory, McMurray set the record for the quickest to win a NSCS race.

After that impressing start, McMurray joined Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates in the NSCS full time in 2003 where he claimed the 2003 Raybestos Rookie of the Year award.  He remained with the team through the 2005 season.  Up until 2010, these three seasons were statistically the best seasons of McMurray’s career.  During that time, McMurray secured 18 top-five finishes and 46 top-10 finishes and competed until the end for a spot in the 10-member Chase field every year.  He finished 13th, 11th, and 12th in those seasons.

Throughout his career, McMurray found success in many forms of racing.  He started racing go-karts at the age of 8 in his hometown of Joplin, Mo.  After winning the World Karting Championship in 1991, McMurray worked his way up the ladder, racing late models, competing in the ARCA RE/Max Challenge Series and then eventually finding his way into NASCAR’s three touring series: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (CWTS), NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS), and the NSCS.  McMurray’s NASCAR career boasts a total of 15 wins, 13 pole awards, 73 top-five, and 163 top-10 finishes.

Away from the track, McMurray enjoys fishing - a sport he has enjoyed since he was a child.  Even when not racing in the NSCS, McMurray competes in go-kart races, keeping up his competitive drive and physical stamina.