David B. Rogers (born March 12, 1974) is an American NASCAR crew chief who works as the performance director for 23XI Racing.
Over the course of his career, he has worked in the NASCAR Cup Series and Xfinity Series with drivers Jason Leffler, Denny Hamlin, Aric Almirola, Tony Stewart, Travis Kittleson, J. J. Yeley, Kyle Busch, Joey Logano, Brad Coleman, Matt DiBenedetto, Michael McDowell, Carl Edwards, Daniel Suárez, Matt Tifft, Kyle Benjamin, Riley Herbst, and Daniel Hemric.
[1] However, after the team had major struggles, failing to perform as good as the other two of the Gibbs cars (including a DNQ at the Coca-Cola 600), Rogers was replaced by Mike Ford as Leffler's crew chief.
20 Busch Series team for JGR, replacing Cully Barraclough, who moved to Michael Waltrip Racing.
Working with Denny Hamlin, they finished fourth in points, earning six poles (the most of any team that year), and two wins.
20 crew chief in 2007, with Hamlin scaling back and sharing the ride with developmental driver Aric Almirola.
20, he was credited with the win although Hamlin drove the car across the finish line first and was the one celebrating in victory lane.
20 car was split between Tony Stewart, Hamlin, Kyle Busch (who joined JGR from Hendrick Motorsports), and rookie Joey Logano once he turned 18 in May of that year.
Rogers is known to be a conservative crew chief, usually taking four tires late in races and not gambling on fuel mileage.
On March 29, 2017, it was announced that Rogers would be taking an indefinite personal leave of absence, with Scott Graves, who had won the Xfinity Series title with Suárez the prior year, would serve as crew chief of the No.
18 JGR Xfinity team earlier that year for one race at Iowa in July when Eric Phillips was suspended.
After two and a half years in his technical director position, Rogers returned to crew chiefing full-time when JGR announced on November 7, 2019, that he would work with Riley Herbst in his first full time Xfinity season.
[5] On November 16, 2021, Rogers announced that he would move from JGR to 23XI Racing in the Cup Series as performance director in 2022.
23 for Richmond, Martinsville, Bristol, and Talladega after Bootie Barker was suspended for four races due to a tire and wheel loss during the 2022 Texas Grand Prix at COTA.