6 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Career Highlights
- Won series rookie of the year award in 2010.
- Made his Nationwide Series debut in 2009.
- Captured his first pole in his sixth career start, in 2009 at Iowa.
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| Starts | Championships | Wins | Top5 | Top10 | Avg. Start | Avg. Finish | Winnings |
| 73 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 36 | 10.2 | 14.8 | 2,163,172 |
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| Year | Rank | Points | Starts | Wins | Top5 | Top10 | Avg. Start | Avg. Finish | Winnings |
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| 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
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 in the No. 6 Ford. ... Career-best third-place finish in first race in series' new car at Daytona in July; average finish in the four new car races was 8.5. ... Finished season with a flourish with eight finishes of 14th or better in the final 10 races. ... Qualified seventh, led 27 laps at Texas-2 before finishing 11th. ... Started third twice, at Talladega and Lucas Oil Raceway.
2009 -- Finished 62nd in series points. ... Ran seven races for Roush Fenway Racing including his series debut at Nashville in April. ... Won his first pole at Iowa in his sixth career start. ... Had a best finish of fifth at Milwaukee and also posted a ninth-place finish at Kentucky. ... Six of his seven starts were within the top 10.
OTHER RACING HISTORY
In 2008, won twice, had 10 top-fives, 14 top-10s and three poles in only ARCA season. ... Finished fourth in series standings after leading the rankings for 13 weeks. ... Drove for two-time 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 events en route to being named rookie of the year in both series -- only the second driver to win both in the same year. ... Began racing go-karts at age six. ... Had 47 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 title. ... Moved to 360 winged sprint cars in 2003 and won the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame driver poll, also Dirt Winged Sprint Car rookie of the year award.
NOTEWORTHY
Stenhouse Jr. joins Colin Braun in the Raybestos rookie program in 2010; four previous Roush Fenway Racing drivers have won Nationwide Raybestos rookie of the year honors, the most in the series. ... Stenhouse and Braun are only the second pair of full-time teammates to run for rookie of the year in series history -- RFR rookies Danny O'Quinn Jr. (who won the award) and Todd Kluever were the first in 2006. ... Born in Memphis, Tenn.
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