Early Career: Working with Family Parrott spent his early years working with his father Buddy, and brother Brad for
DiGard Motorsports, and
Curb Motorsports. Todd and Brad would then go to work for car owner and legendary drag racer
Raymond Beadle and the Blue Max team under crew chief
Barry Dodson. Both brothers were crew members on
Rusty Wallace's
1989 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Championship team. Following the disbanding of the Blue Max team after the
1990 Winston Cup season the Parrott brothers would follow Wallace to the newly formed
Penske Racing South, where Todd worked as a chassis specialist and tire manager, as well as a tire carrier during pit stops. Two thirds of the way through the 1992 season Todd and Brad would be reunited with their father Buddy, who was hired as Wallace's crew chief. Together they formed the core of the crew that won the
1993 Unocal Pit Crew Championship, and 19 races between 1992 and 1994. Buddy departed at the end of 1994, while Todd would remain at Penske until October 1995, with Brad following Todd to Yates soon after.
1995–2005: Robert Yates Racing Parrott's first crew chief position was working with
Ernie Irvan in 1995 at
Yates Racing on the new #88 Ford for two races. When the No. 88 went full time in 1996, Parrott became the crew chief for Dale Jarrett, winning the 1999 Cup Series championship. After 2002, Parrott worked for periods with several Yates drivers including Jarrett,
Elliott Sadler,
Travis Kvapil, and
David Gilliland.
2006: Petty Enterprises In 2006, Parrott left RYR to crew chief the famous No. 43
Petty Enterprises Dodge, driven by
Bobby Labonte, but returning to Yates during the season to work with rookie
David Gilliland, who had just replaced Sadler in the No. 38 car.
2006–2009: Second stint at Yates (including Hall of Fame Racing) After Parrott returned to RYR, he and Gilliland won the pole for the Talladega race. The pair remained together for the entire 2007 season. However, for 2008, Parrott was moved to the other Yates car, the No. 28 (formerly No. 88), with
Travis Kvapil. For 2009, Parrott was moved
Hall of Fame Racing, a satellite team to Yates Racing which switched from Toyota to Ford that year after previously having an alliance with
Joe Gibbs Racing. HOF would begin operating out the Yates shop in 2009. The driver was Bobby Labonte, who Parrott reunited with after previously working with him in 2006, but once again, the duo failed to make it through a full season, and Parrott was replaced on the No. 96 car by Ben Leslie during the season. Both Hall of Fame Racing and Yates Racing would close down after the 2009 season due to lack of sponsorship, with Yates equipment and owner points being inherited by
Front Row Motorsports.
2010–2013: Roush Fenway Racing and Richard Petty Motorsports Parrott remained in the Ford family in 2010, initially working the speedway program in the Research and Development department of
Roush Fenway Racing but quickly became Matt Kenseth's crew chief on the No. 17 after the
2010 Daytona 500, replacing
Drew Blickensderfer, who was reassigned to
Carl Edwards' No. 60 car in the
Nationwide Series. Midway through the season, however, Parrott was released, and he joined
Richard Petty Motorsports (which had an alliance with Roush at the time) starting at
Chicagoland Speedway as crew chief for Elliott Sadler's No. 19. After RPM reduced from four cars to two for 2011, he moved to the No. 9 team and driver
Marcos Ambrose. Two-thirds through the 2012 season, RPM's teams switched crew chiefs with Parrott going to the No. 43 of
Aric Almirola, where he remained for 2013. On October 17, 2013, it was announced that Parrott had been indefinitely suspended due to failing to meet NASCAR's
substance abuse policy. He was released by Richard Petty Motorsports on October 21.
2014–2017: Tommy Baldwin Racing, Richard Childress Racing, Circle Sport, Leavine Family Racing On February 3, 2014, Parrott was named the crew chief of the No. 36 Chevrolet of
Tommy Baldwin Racing, driven by
Reed Sorenson. On December 13, 2014, it was announced that Parrott would be the Competition Director for
Richard Childress Racing in the
NASCAR Xfinity Series. Parrott was also named the crew chief on RCR's part-time No. 33 Cup Series car, working nine races for drivers
Ty Dillon,
Michael Annett, and
Brian Scott. Parrott also substituted for
Luke Lambert on the RCR No. 31 Cup car of
Ryan Newman for six races, while Lambert served a suspension. Parrott began 2016 working five races on the No. 95 Cup entry of
Circle Sport – Leavine Family Racing, eventually being named full-time crew chief in October for drivers
Ty Dillon and
Michael McDowell. He continued in that position for most of 2017 as well.
2018–2020: Premium Motorsports, B. J. McLeod Motorsports, Rick Ware Racing In the 2018 season, Parrott moved to
Premium Motorsports to crew chief their No. 55 car, where he reunited with Reed Sorenson. He also worked with
Ross Chastain (on the No. 15 in one race),
J. J. Yeley,
Jeffrey Earnhardt,
D. J. Kennington, and
Jesse Little that year. The No. 55 also switched numbers to the No. 7 during the season after Premium started sharing owner points with
NY Racing Team, who previously used the car number by themselves. After not crew chiefing for any team in
2019, Parrott returned to the pit box in
2020 as the crew chief for
B. J. McLeod Motorsports in that team's first season in the Cup Series. After working ten races with the team, Parrott finished out the season with
Rick Ware Racing, crew chiefing for various drivers within the organization.
2023–present: Fast Track Racing In 2023, Parrott became a crew chief for ARCA team
Fast Track Racing and he crew chiefed their No. 11 car driven by
Zachary Tinkle full-time in the East Series and part-time in the main ARCA Series. He returned to crew chief Tinkle in that car in those series in 2024. ==Personal life==