Timothy Troy Fedewa (pronounced "fee-doo-wuh"; born May 9, 1967) is an American professional racing driver and spotter. He works for Team Penske as the spotter for Ryan Blaney's No. 12 Ford Mustang Dark Horse in the NASCAR Cup Series.
As a driver, Fedewa previously competed in the NASCAR Busch Series (now O'Reilly's), NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, American Speed Association and ARTGO. As a spotter, Fedewa previously worked for Stewart–Haas Racing as a spotter in the Cup Series for their No. 4 car driven by Kevin Harvick and in the Xfinity Series for their No. 98 car driven by Riley Herbst.
Racing career Driving career
After winning Rookie of the Year award in the ARTGO Challenge Series Fedewa went on to join the American Speed Association. Fedewa scored one top five finish. A third place at Winchester (Indiana) Speedway, And five top 10s on his way to the ASA's Pat Schauer rookie of the award in 1991. During Fedewa's time in the ASA his car owners Ray and Diane Dewitt also owned the RaDIUS team that fielded cars for former ASA standout Ted Musgrave in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series.
Fedewa drove the No. 55 D-R Racing Enterprises Ford. Fedewa's NASCAR career began when he started racing full-time in the NASCAR Busch Series for the 1993 season. He would finish second for Rookie of the Year honors, and in the five years that followed, he won three races and finished in the top-ten in points four times; his highest finishes were seventh in both 1995 and 1998.
Fedewa made one Cup start in 1994 for Ray DeWitt at Dover; he finished 23rd. He made a brief return to the series in 2000 in a relief appearance at the Coca-Cola 600, substituting for injured Petty Enterprises driver John Andretti.
He began piloting the No. 36 Chevrolet Monte Carlo for Cicci-Welliver Racing in 1999 and would continue to for two-and-a-half years, until he and the team parted ways during the 2001 season. After parting ways in the middle of the 2001 season, Fedewa made sporadic appearances in the rest of the 2001 and in the 2002 season. His best finish in this stretch came at the 2002 Aaron's 312 at Talladega, where he finished in the top-five for the Biagi Brothers 07 Pontiac.
After acting as spotter to Bill Elliott and then later to Kerry Earnhardt, he was ironically hired by FitzBradshaw Racing in 2003 to replace Earnhardt in the No. 12 Dodge. In racing for the team, Fedewa reached as high as ninth in the 2004 points standings before dropping to sixteenth by the end of the season. Fedewa's second place finish stands as the best finish of any Fitz Bradshaw driver ever.
In 2005, Fedewa failed to finish in the top-ten in twenty-one Busch Series starts, and was subsequently released by FitzBradshaw Racing on July 25, 2005. A week later, he was signed by Glynn Motorsports, a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series team, to drive the No. 65 Dodge. He raced in seven events for the team; his highest finish was tenth at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Fedewa's last NASCAR start as a driver came in the Truck Series in 2006 when he drove the No. 40 for Key Motorsports at Las Vegas, finishing 29th.
Spotting career After he was unable to find a ride as a driver in NASCAR in 2007, Fedewa became a spotter, joining the new Red Bull Racing Team as the spotter for their No. 84 Toyota Camry driven by rookie A. J. Allmendinger. Fedewa remained the spotter of the car in 2009 when it was renumbered to the No. 82 driven by rookie Scott Speed.
Fedewa would eventually move to Richard Petty Motorsports to serve as the spotter for their No. 9 car driven by Marcos Ambrose.
In 2014, Fedewa left RPM and went to Stewart–Haas Racing when Kevin Harvick joined the team from Richard Childress Racing to drive their No. 4 car (previously the No. 39 driven by Ryan Newman). They won the 2014 Cup Series championship in their first year together.
In 2016, in addition to Harvick's No. 4 SHR car in the Cup Series, Fedewa spotted for the No. 88 JR Motorsports car in the Xfinity Series in select races, Spencer Gallagher's No. 23 in the Truck Series for GMS Racing, Noah Gragson's No. 7 car for Jefferson Pitts Racing in the K&N Pro Series East and West, and Chad Finley's No. 51 car in the ARCA Racing Series.
Fedewa also started spotting for SHR in the Xfinity Series when they started fielding two full-time cars, with the addition of the No. 98 (formerly of Biagi-DenBeste Racing) driven by Chase Briscoe. When Briscoe moved up to the Cup Series full-time for SHR in 2021, Fedewa remained the spotter of the No. 98 Xfinity Series car with new driver Riley Herbst. Fedewa would remain Harvick's spotter in the Cup Series all the way through his retirement from driving full-time in NASCAR in 2023 for a total of ten years together.
In 2024, Fedewa did not continue with SHR and the No. 4 car with new driver Josh Berry and instead moved to Team Penske to spot for defending Cup Series champion Ryan Blaney's No. 12 car, replacing Josh Williams after he left the team.
Personal life Fedewa's uncle Gary, father Butch, multiple cousins, grandmother Hilda, and grandfather Willie were also racing drivers. The Fedewa family eventually moved from Michigan to North Carolina so Butch and his wife/Tim's mother Sharon could support their son's NASCAR career.
Fedewa is married to model Kellee Meadows and they have one child, Willow Josephine Fedewa, born on January 8, 2009.
Motorsports career results NASCAR (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
Winston Cup Series NASCAR Winston Cup Series results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Pts Ref 1994 RaDiUs Motorsports 55 Ford DAY CAR RCH ATL DAR BRI NWS MAR TAL SON CLT DOV POC MCH DAY NHA POC TAL IND GLN MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV23 MARDNQ NWSDNQ CLT CAR PHO ATLDNQ 64th 94 1999 LJ Racing 91 Chevy DAY CAR LVS ATL DAR TEX BRI MAR TAL CAL RCH CLT DOV MCH POC SON DAY NHA POC IND GLN MCH BRI DAR RCH NHA DOV MARDNQ CLT TAL CAR PHO HOM ATL N/A 0
Busch Series NASCAR Busch Series results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 Pts Ref 1992RaDiUs Motorsports 55 Ford DAY CAR RCH ATL MAR DAR36 BRI HCY LAN DUB NZH MCH27 NHA BRI DAR RCH DOV CLT19 MAR CAR HCY 63rd 301 24 CLT35 DOV ROU MYB GLN VOL NHA TAL IRP ROU 1993 55 DAY24 CAR32 RCH16 DAR41 BRI16 HCY ROU18 MAR12 NZH7 CLT DOV20 MYB25 GLN11 MLW7 TAL12 IRP5 MCH38 NHA6 BRI13 DAR15 RCH17 DOV15 ROU12 CLT25 MAR12 CAR17 HCYDNQ ATL24 18th 2275 1994 DAY31 CAR16 RCH9 ATL30 MAR7 DAR9 HCY25 BRI23 ROU18 NHA11 NZH7 CLT13 DOV6 MYB13 GLN24 MLW28 SBO30 TAL20 HCY10 IRP21 MCH7 BRI19 DAR20 RCH21 DOV17 CLT13 MAR4 CAR38 10th 3125 1995 DAY28 CAR34 RCH17 ATL4 NSV12 DAR23 BRI11 HCY15 NHA15 NZH1* CLT19 DOV22 MYB11 GLN20 MLW15 TAL28 SBO12 IRP11 MCH25 BRI3 DAR25 RCH26 DOV19 CLT13 CAR12 HOM2 7th 3022 1996 Taylor Motorsports 40 Ford DAYDNQ CAR25 RCH27 ATL22 NSV25 DAR28 BRI26 HCY12 NZH8 CLT17 DOV39 SBO16 MYB20 GLN18 MLW26 NHA38 TAL15 IRP4 MCH40 BRI21 DAR42 RCH41 DOV21 CLT17 CAR19 HOM23 20th 2320 1997 BACE Motorsports 33 Chevy DAY34 CAR10 RCH18 ATL7 LVS15 DAR14 HCY3 TEX38 BRI7 NSV3 TAL5 NHA39 NZH11 CLT35 DOV15 SBO19 GLN32 MLW10 MYB12 GTY6 IRP4 MCH25 BRI27 DAR15 RCH9 DOV14 CLT27 CAL33 CAR19 HOM10 9th 3398 1998 DAY20 CAR18 LVS19 NSV8 DAR34 BRI34 TEX13 HCY3 TAL27 NHA11 NZH1* CLT18 DOV17 RCH15 PPR35 GLN7 MLW8 MYB6 CAL17 SBO1 IRP38 MCH32 BRI5 DAR26 RCH21 DOV15 CLT30 GTY18 CAR9 ATL27 HOM10 7th 3515 1999 Cicci-Welliver Racing 36 Pontiac DAY35 CAR10 LVS34 ATLDNQ DAR8 TEX21 NSV37 BRI9 TAL28 CAL6 NHA23 RCH33 NZH3 CLT38 DOV21 SBO5 GLN27 MLW31 MYB27 PPR2 GTY43 IRP7 MCHDNQ BRI25 DAR28 RCH14 DOV41 CLT26 CAR17 MEM9 PHO35 HOM15 14th 2989 2000 Chevy DAY24 CAR39 LVS20 ATL40 DAR11 BRI28 TEX41 NSV11 TAL31 CALDNQ RCH20 NHA1* CLT27 DOV19 SBO12 MYB38 GLN6 MLW4 NZH19 PPR10 GTY21 IRP41 MCH16 BRI13 DAR37 RCH36 DOV11 CLT23 CAR MEM5 PHO29 HOM10 18th 3009 2001 66 DAY24 CAR30 LVS28 ATL31 DAR18 BRI2 TEX26 NSH18 TAL18 CAL11 RCH21 NHA25 NZH5 CLT27 DOV31 25th 2403 Buckshot Racing 00 Chevy KEN36 MLW31 GLN CHI GTY40 PPR10 IRP7 MCH9 BRI41 DAR RCH DOV KAN WP Motorsports 12 Chevy CLT27 HOMDNQ HighLine Performance Group 11 Chevy MEM6 Team Bristol Motorsports 54 Chevy PHO26 CAR 2002 Biagi Brothers Racing 07 Pontiac DAY CAR LVS DAR BRI TEX NSH TAL3 CAL RCH NHA 51st 654 NEMCO Motorsports 87 Chevy NZH39 CLT DOV NSH KEN MLW DAY CHI GTY PPR IRP MCH Marsh Racing 31 Chevy BRI14 DAR RCH31 DOV36 Team Bristol Motorsports 54 Chevy KAN25 Herzog-Jackson Motorsports 92 Chevy CLT12 MEM20 ATL26 CAR PHO HOM 2003 FitzBradshaw Racing 12 Chevy DAY CAR LVS DAR BRI TEX TAL NSH CAL RCH GTY NZH CLT DOV NSH KEN MLW DAY CHI NHA12 PPR13 IRP13 MCH25 BRI24 DAR19 RCH18 DOV17 KAN18 CLT25 MEM20 ATL24 PHO24 CAR24 HOM42 36th 1491 2004 DAY16 CAR18 LVS7 DAR16 BRI12 TEX15 NSH12 TAL37 CAL31 GTY9 RCH17 NZH15 CLT42 DOV9 NSH11 KEN34 MLW17 DAY10 CHI17 NHA2 PPR25 IRP34 MCH23 BRI16 CAL27 RCH35 DOV13 KAN38 CLT31 MEM23 ATL33 PHO18 DAR14 HOM21 16th 3480 2005 Dodge DAY24 CAL21 MXC21 LVS15 ATL38 NSH26 BRI25 TEX16 PHO41 TAL37 DAR19 RCH41 CLT29 DOV34 NSH21 KEN40 MLW27 DAY24 CHI32 NHA13 PPR18 GTY IRP GLN MCH BRI CAL RCH DOV KAN CLT MEM TEX PHO HOM 32nd 1737
Craftsman Truck Series NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Pts Ref 2002 Roush Racing 99 Ford DAY27 DAR MAR GTY PPR DOV TEX MEM MLW KAN KEN NHA MCH IRP NSH RCH TEX SBO LVS CAL PHO HOM 86th 82 2005 Glynn Motorsports 65 Dodge DAY CAL ATL MAR GTY MFD CLT DOV TEX MCH MLW KAN KEN MEM IRP20 NSH19 BRI26 RCH NHA LVS10 MAR23 ATL20 TEXDNQ PHO13 HOMDNQ 32nd 749 2006 Key Motorsports 40 Chevy DAY CAL ATL MAR GTY CLT MFD DOV TEX MCH MLW KAN KEN MEM IRP NSH BRI NHA LVS29 TAL MAR ATL TEX PHO HOM 81st 76
ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.) ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Pts Ref 1990 Rich Thiel Racing Pontiac DAY ATL KIL TAL FRS POC KIL TOL HAG POC TAL MCH ISF TOL13 DSF WIN DEL ATL 94th - 1991RaDiUs Motorsports 55 Ford DAY ATL KIL TAL TOL FRS POC MCH KIL FRS DEL POC TAL HPT MCH ISF TOL DSF TWS ATL8 118th - 1992 DAY FIF TWS TAL TOL KIL POC3 MCH8 FRS KIL NSH DEL POC4 HPT FRS ISF TOL DSF TWS SLM ATL2 47th - 1993 DAY34 FIF TWS TAL KIL CMS FRS TOL POC MCH FRS POC KIL ISF DSF TOL SLM WIN ATL18 75th - 1994 DAY3 TAL FIF LVL KIL TOL FRS MCH DMS POC POC KIL FRS INF I70 ISF DSF TOL SLM WIN ATL31 85th 550 1998 Team Rensi Motorsports 83 Chevy DAY ATL SLM CLT MEM MCH POC SBS TOL PPR POC KIL FRS ISF ATL DSF SLM TEX WIN CLT TAL25 ATL N/A 0
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