6 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Career Highlights
- 2011: NASCAR Nationwide Series champion in his second full season.
- 2011: Captured first NASCAR Nationwide Series win, in 51st career start, at Iowa.
- 2010: NASCAR Nationwide Series Sunoco Rookie of the Year, coming back from largest deficit in series history.
- 2009: Captured first NASCAR Nationwide Series pole in sixth career start, at Iowa.
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| Starts | Championships | Wins | Top5 | Top10 | Avg. Start | Avg. Finish | Winnings |
| 83 | 2 | 5 | 27 | 45 | 9.6 | 13.5 | 2,734,292 |
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| Year | Rank | Points | Starts | Wins | Top5 | Top10 | Avg. Start | Avg. Finish | Winnings |
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| 2012 | 1 | 412 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 571,120 |
| 2011 | 1 | 1222 | 34 | 2 | 16 | 26 | 7.2 | 8.8 | 1,106,000 |
| 2010 | 16 | 3419 | 32 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 14.2 | 19.4 | 882,594 |
| 2009 | 62 | 677 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7.2 | 23.0 | 174,578 |
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Bio
YEAR-BY-YEAR NATIONWIDE SERIES RECAP
2011: Won series championship, giving Roush Fenway racing a sweep of driver and owner titles. … Raised Loop Data Driver Rating by 32 points from 2010 in career year in which he raised every career statistical mark. … Swept Iowa for first two career wins. … Average finish of 8.8. … Won poles at Bristol-1, Charlotte-1 and Lucas Oil Raceway. … Average start of 7.2. … Series bests in top-five (16) and top-10 (26) finishes. … Was best series regular in all laps-led categories with 541. … Completed series and career-best 99 percent of laps run. … Average Driver Rating of 108.44 was best among all driver championship contenders.
2010: Finished 16th in series points. ... Ran 32 races for Roush Fenway Racing. … Rebounded from slow start to catch and pass Brian Scott in battle for rookie title. … Three top-five, eight top-10 finishes. … Third-place finish in first race in series' new car at Daytona in July; average result in the four new car races was 8.5. … Eight finishes of 14th or better in the final 10 races. … Started third twice, at Talladega and Lucas Oil Raceway. 2009: Finished 62nd in series points. ... Ran seven races for Roush Fenway Racing, including series debut at Nashville-1. ... Best finish, fifth, at Milwaukee. … Six of his seven starts were within the top 10, including first career pole at the inaugural race at Iowa Speedway.
PREVIOUS RACING HISTORY
In 2011 made NASCAR Sprint Cup Series debut by qualifying ninth, finishing 11th in Coca-Cola 600 for the Wood Brothers. … Continues to race open-wheel cars, beginning the 2012 season with ninth-place finish in Chili Bowl Midget Nationals A Main. … In 2008, won twice, had 10 top fives, 14 top 10s and three poles in ARCA debut season, his first in stock cars. … Drove for three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart's USAC National Sprint Car and USAC National Midget series teams in 2007; won five midget races and two sprint car events. ... Began racing karts at age six and collected nearly 50 A Main karting victories and more than 90 podium finishes by age 15. … Won the 1998 Indoor Thunder Go-Kart Nationals A Main and the 1999 Tulsa (Okla.) Shootout A Main titles. ... Moved to 360 winged sprint cars in 2003 and won the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame Driver Poll.
NOTEWORTHY
Continues to race USAC open-wheel cars. … Forged friendship with Danica Patrick in 2010 when both drivers were overcoming various obstacles in first year in series. … Overcame largest deficit in series history - 35 points with 19 races remaining - to become the fifth Roush Fenway Racing driver to win Sunoco Rookie of the Year honor, most in the series. … Stenhouse and Colin Braun were the second pair of teammates to run for rookie honors in series history: Danny O'Quinn Jr. (award winner) and Todd Kluever were the first, in 2006. … Active on Twitter: @StenhouseJr.
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