Blake Harris enters his fourth year as crew chief for the Hendrick Motorsports No. 48 Ally Racing team, continuing to work alongside driver Alex Bowman for the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season. Harris will once again guide the team through the challenging 38-race schedule and will look to build momentum off the success the team accomplished in the past three seasons. Since joining the team in 2023, Harris has guided the No. 48 to three playoff appearances, four poles, 50 top-10 finishes, and 17 top fives across their first three seasons together.
In 2025, Harris led Bowman to the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs and a 13th-place finish in the standings with 16 top 10s, six top fives, and two pole awards. The year followed a strong 2024 campaign in which Bowman notched a career-high 17 top-10 finishes, eight top fives with a win at the Chicago Street Course, and a Bristol Motor Speedway pole, resulting in a ninth-place points finish
Harris made an immediate impact in 2023 by winning the DAYTONA 500 pole, earning six top 10s in the first seven races and briefly leading the Cup Series points standings before Bowman’s mid-season injury. Harris quickly pivoted to prepare Josh Berry as the team’s temporary driver for three races and the All-Star race. Bowman returned to the No. 48 for the Coca-Cola 600 and the Ally Racing team went on to finish the season 20th in the driver point standings.
A native of Maypearl, Texas, Harris started his racing career behind the wheel of a dirt go-kart at 11 years old. He moved into stock cars at just 14 years old, making his dirt stock car debut at 15. At the end of his dirt stock car season, Harris moved into asphalt trucks in a touring series in his home state. Harris spent two seasons in the series before moving to North Carolina to pursue a career in NASCAR. At just 18 years old, he joined Evernham Motorsports (later Richard Petty Motorsports) in 2006, working in both the engine and chassis departments.
In 2010, Harris moved to Colorado to join Furniture Row Racing where he became the car chief for Kurt Busch for the 2013 season. Harris also was the car chief for Martin Truex Jr. from 2014 to 2018 with the team garnering 17 wins, 56 top-five finishes, 91 top 10s, 12 poles and three Championship 4 appearances. He was an integral part of Furniture Row’s 2017 championship season with the No. 78 team winning eight races and leading 2,253 laps.
In 2019, Harris followed Truex back to North Carolina to Joe Gibbs Racing where he served as the car chief for the No. 19 team. Over the next three seasons, he was a part of 12 wins and two Championship 4 appearances. Ahead of the 2022 season, he accepted the crew chief role at Front Row Motorsports. In his only season, Harris led McDowell to two top-five results, 12 top 10s and an average finishing position of 16.7.
