Brian Campe
Class of 2025
Brian Campe’s first job in motorsports involved peeling decals off a transport truck — and doing it for free.
Today he helps lead one of the most respected technical operations in NASCAR.
The journey from volunteer grunt work to elite race engineer has made the 1999 Bob Jones High School graduate one of Madison County’s most accomplished figures in motorsports engineering.
“It’s a great honor, the fact that other people recognized this career,” Campe says of his Hall of Fame induction. “You think athletic hall of fame, you don’t think of a race engineer. But it’s special not just for me, but my family.”
That family includes parents Mike and B.J., wife Shannon Plate Campe — also a Bob Jones graduate — and their sons Cooper, Riley and Gunner.
Campe played football at Bob Jones and received the school’s Patriot Attitude Award before eventually being inducted into the Bob Jones High School Hall of Fame in 2008. His professional career, however, would unfold at the highest levels of American motorsports.
Over the past two decades Campe has worked with an extraordinary list of drivers and owners, including Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kyle Larson, Josef Newgarden and Juan Pablo Montoya, as well as legendary team owners Rick Hendrick and Roger Penske.
His versatility has been especially rare in racing. Campe has held key engineering roles in both NASCAR stock-car racing and IndyCar open-wheel competition. As race engineer for Montoya, he helped guide one of the most dramatic victories in Indianapolis 500 history in 2015, when Montoya charged from the back of the field to win the race. Two years later Campe served as race engineer for Newgarden’s IndyCar season championship.
More recently he joined Legacy Motor Club as a senior technical leader for a team connected to NASCAR legends Jimmie Johnson and Richard Petty.
From Huntsville roots to racing’s biggest stages, Campe has built a career defined by innovation, leadership and championship-level performance.
Disclaimer: This biographical feature was prepared with the assistance of artificial intelligence using historical records, previously published accounts, and information provided by Huntsville-Madison County Athletic Hall of Fame contributors. While care has been taken to ensure accuracy, minor errors or omissions may occur.
