Scott Wimmer

Scott Wimmer (born January 26, 1976) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He has a total of 6 wins in the Xfinity Series. His brother Chris Wimmer competed in the Busch Series. Wimmer co-owns State Park Speedway in Wausau, Wisconsin.^[1]

Youth

Wimmer competed in the United States National Junior Olympics in downhill and slalom skiing at age 14, and finished 13th of the 150 competitors. His father began as the owner of his uncle Larry Detjens' racing team.^[2] Detjens was a champion late model racer who competed at Slinger Super Speedway and Wisconsin International Raceway. Detjens had a race named after him after his death in 1981.

Pre-NASCAR racing career

Wimmer started racing at State Park Speedway in Wausau, Wisconsin in 1991 at age 15. He moved up through the ranks, and became a well-known driver in the Midwest. He moved down south, and in 1997 was the Rookie of the Year in the Hooters Cup late model series. He later finished second for the Rookie of the Year in the American Speed Association (ASA) series in 2000. He began the season with no sponsor for his family-owned team, but was able to run the full season after winning the first two races of the year. He also made his Winston Cup debut.

NASCAR career

2000–2005

Wimmer made his NASCAR debut in 2000, when he was signed to drive the No. 20 AT&T-sponsored Pontiac Grand Prix for Bill Davis Racing in the Busch Series. After failing to qualify for his first race at North Carolina Speedway, he finished 18th in his debut at Memphis, followed by a 19th finish at Phoenix. He also made his Winston Cup debut at Atlanta, driving a car he had originally intended to drive at an ARCA RE/MAX Series race that weekend. The qualifying session was rained out for that race, and he was able to take his No. 23 car and enter in the Cup race. He finished 22nd and led nine laps in that race.

He was named Davis' permanent driver of the No. 23 Jani-King-sponsored Pontiac in the 2001. He had two top-five finishes, eight top-ten finishes and finished 11th in points, second to Greg Biffle for the Rookie of the Year title. The team only had a sponsorship from Siemens for half of the races in 2002, and many rumors circulated that the team would shut down. The team remained open, and Wimmer won four races in the fall of that season at Dover, Memphis, Phoenix, and Homestead, and finished third in points. Davis was able to get Siemens sponsorship for Wimmer to run seven races in a No. 27 car in the Cup Series, but Wimmer was only able to make two of them. Wimmer also substituted in the No. 23 Hills Brothers Coffee-sponsored car at Talladega earning a season's best finish of 17th.

He got a full-time sponsor in Stacker 2/YJ Stinger/Stamina Rx in 2003, but after losing crew chief Bootie Barker and switching to Chevrolet, he won only one race at Pikes Peak with 4 Top 5 finishes, 12 Top 10's, and finished ninth in points. Wimmer ran two races in the No. 27 YJ Stinger-sponsored Chevrolet finishing 24th in both races at Bristol and New Hampshire. With four races left in the 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Wimmer was promoted to drive Bill Davis Racing's No. 22 Caterpillar Inc.-sponsored Dodge. In his second race in the No. 22, he earned his first Cup Series Top 10 finish (a ninth) at Phoenix.

At the end of the season, Wimmer was named the full-time driver for 2004 in the No. 22 Caterpillar-sponsored Dodge. Before the 2004 season, he was arrested in High Point, North Carolina for driving while intoxicated. He was later convicted and sentenced to probation and 24-hour community service. He began the year with a very strong performance at the Daytona 500, and appeared in contention to win after the final set of pit stops, but without drafting help, Wimmer was easily overtaken by Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and Tony Stewart, and ended up finishing third. After this, despite leading laps at a number of other races, Wimmer only had one other Top 10 at Dover and finished 27th in points despite failing to qualify for one race. He ran the full season again in 2005, but did not finish higher than 11th in a race that season. He was dismissed from Davis by mail at the end of the season after ending up 32nd in points.

2006–present

Wimmer joined Morgan-McClure Motorsports in 2006 to drive their No. 4 Aero Exhaust-sponsored Chevy. The team lost the Aero sponsorship during the summer of the season, and he left the team following the race at Kansas Speedway. After joining up with Richard Childress Racing for the 2007 Busch Series season, Wimmer drove the final race at Homestead-Miami Speedway in the No. 33 Holiday Inn-sponsored Chevrolet earning a season best finish of 12th. Despite missing 12 races, Wimmer ended up 38th in points. That year he also drove part-time in the Busch Series in the No. 66 Duraflame/Yard-Man-sponsored Ford Taurus with Brewco Motorsports in 13 races. He also ran three races for Fitz Bradshaw Racing, two in the No. 14 Family Dollar Dodge and one in the No. 12 Goulds Pumps-sponsored Dodge. Wimmer had four top-ten finishes ending up 29th in points.

In 2007, he joined Richard Childress Racing as a test driver. He competed 23 races between the No. 21 AutoZone and No. 29 Holiday Inn-sponsored Chevys. He won his first career pole at Gateway International Raceway and had seven top-five finishes and fourteen top-ten finishes. Wimmer finished 14th in points despite his limited schedule. Wimmer shared the No. 29 car with Jeff Burton and with Burton's five wins, twelve top-five finishes and seventeen top-ten finishes combined with Wimmer's finishes, the No. 29 team won the 2007 Busch Series Owner's Championship. It was only the second time in Busch Series history that the Driver and Owner's Titles were not won by the same team. That year in the Nextel Cup Series, Wimmer attempted one race in the No. 78 Furniture Row Racing car at Michigan and five races for Childress in his No. 33 Chevrolet with sponsorships from Holiday Inn and Camping World. He only made one race at Indianapolis finishing 31st after a pit row accident damaged his car.

He ran 22 races in the No. 29 Holiday Inn-sponsored Chevrolet and one in the No. 21 Prilosec-sponsored Chevrolet for Childress in 2008 NASCAR Nationwide Series and picked up a win at Nashville. Wimmer also had five top-five finishes and thirteen top-ten finishes helping the No. 29 finish 5th in Owner's Points while Wimmer ended up 17th in Driver Points. Wimmer also attempted one race in the 2008 Sprint Cup Series, failing to make the race at Richmond in the No. 33 Camping World-sponsored Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing.

Wimmer's No. 5 JR Motorsports car in 2009

Due to a lack of sponsorship, he was released from Childress and he spent the 2009 season splitting time between the No. 5 Fastenal-sponsored Chevy for JR Motorsports in six races and the No. 40 StopRepairBills.com/Westerman Companies Chevy for Key Motorsports in the majority of races in the Nationwide Series. He would end up with three top tens and finished 16th in Driver Points. Wimmer also returned to Morgan-McClure Motorsports in the Sprint Cup Series driving one race at Bristol in the No. 4 Alpha Natural Resources-sponsored Chevrolet finishing 29th. He also failed to make the race for the team at Dover. Late in 2009, Wimmer and his father bought and made major improvements to State Park Speedway in Wausau, WI.

In 2010, Wimmer decided to only drive high quality equipment in the Nationwide Series. Because of this, Wimmer started the season without a ride. He got a two race ride with JR Motorsports in the No. 7 Chevrolet at Bristol and Nashville. He was able to get finishes of 10th and 7th respectively. Wimmer then earned a three race ride with Baker Curb Racing in the No. 27 Red Man-sponsored Ford. His best finish with them was a 7th at Kentucky Speedway. Any hopes to continue with them ended when their Red Man sponsorship expired. Wimmer spent most of the rest of the season without a ride but was able to get a one race deal with Turner Motorsports (NASCAR). He drove the No. 10 AccuDoc Solutions-sponsored Toyota at Gateway International Raceway but crashed out. For 2010, Wimmer had 3 Top 10 finishes in 6 races and led laps in 5 of the races he ran.

Wimmer started the 2011 Nationwide Series season driving the No. 40 for Key Motorsports earning a best finish of 12th at Talladega before leaving after the 11th race due to a lack of sponsorship. After leaving, Wimmer drove three full distance races for No. 70 ML Motorsports with a best finish of 15th at both races at Iowa Speedway. He also drove one race each for No. 87 Nemco Motorsports at Nashville Speedway (Finished 13th), No. 40 Key Motorsports at Bristol Motor Speedway (Finished 24th) and No. 81 McDonald Motorsports at Chicagoland Speedway (Finished 30th). In addition to these full race rides, Wimmer start and parked a few races for R3 Motorsports (1 race), Key Motorsports (2 races) and McDonald Motorsports (1 race). Despite only running 21 of 34 races, Wimmer used 6 Top 20 finishes to help him to finish 25th in Driver Points.

Wimmer was also able to run a few Sprint Cup Series races in 2011 for Robby Gordon Motorsports. Wimmer substituted for Gordon in the No. 7 Speed Energy-sponsored Dodge at Dover International Speedway, Pocono Raceway, Kentucky Speedway and New Hampshire Motor Speedway; earning a best finish of 27th at New Hampshire. In addition, Wimmer attempted to qualify a second Speed Energy-sponsored car (#77) at Charlotte Motor Speedway and Indianapolis Motor Speedway but he failed to qualify for either race.

In 2012, Wimmer partnered with Russ Blakeley, Jim Budzinski and Kurt Wise to form Wild Motorsports. The team ran the ASA Midwest Tour race at the Milwaukee Mile in June and announced plans to run the Nationwide Series starting with the September race at Richmond with the goal of running the full 2013 schedule. The team was never able to obtain sponsorship and never attempted a race. During 2012, Wimmer took the position of driver coach/spotter up and coming driver Cody Coughlin, who ran a variety of short track series.

Wimmer continued in 2013 to be a spotter/coach for Coughlin and helped him to two wins and the championship in the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour.

In early 2014, Coughlin was signed by Joe Gibbs Racing to a driver development contract. Coughlin will run a limited schedule in his Team JEGS Late Model in the ARCA/CRA Super Series and with Venturini Motorsports in the ARCA Racing Series in the #55 JEGS High Performance-sponsored Toyota. Wimmer will continue his role as spotter/coach to Coughlin in both series along with running State Park Speedway.

On July 26, Wimmer returned to driving when he drove Coughlin's #1 JEGS Late Model in the 34th annual Larry Detjens Memorial 125 at his State Park Speedway. He started 16th and finished 13th.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Sprint Cup Series

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	NSCC	Pts
2000	Bill Davis Racing	23	Pontiac	DAY	CAR	LVS	ATL	DAR	BRI	TEX	MAR	TAL	CAL	RCH	CLT	DOV	MCH	POC	SON	DAY	NHA	POC	IND	GLN	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	NHA	DOV	MAR	CLT	TAL	CAR	PHO	HOM	ATL 22			74th	0
2002	Bill Davis Racing	27	Dodge	DAY	CAR	LVS	ATL	DAR	BRI	TEX	MAR	TAL	CAL	RCH	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	SON	DAY	CHI DNQ	NHA	POC	IND DNQ	GLN	MCH	BRI 40	DAR	RCH	NHA	DOV DNQ	KAN		CLT DNQ	MAR	ATL DNQ	CAR	PHO 42	HOM	56th	192
2002		23	Dodge																														TAL 17							56th	192
2003		27	Chevy	DAY	CAR	LVS	ATL	DAR	BRI	TEX	TAL	MAR	CAL	RCH	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	SON	DAY	CHI	NHA	POC	IND	GLN	MCH	BRI 24	DAR	RCH	NHA 24	DOV DNQ	TAL	KAN	CLT	MAR					48th	599
2003		22	Dodge																																	ATL 32	PHO 9	CAR 26	HOM 12	48th	599
2004				DAY 3	CAR 15	LVS 39	ATL 27	DAR 16	BRI 13	TEX 33	MAR 29	TAL 18	CAL 30	RCH 30	CLT 28	DOV 9	POC 35	MCH 14	SON 25	DAY 32	CHI 23	NHA 18	POC 11	IND 32	GLN 19	MCH 18	BRI 36	CAL 21	RCH 38	NHA 36	DOV 23	TAL 31	KAN 36	CLT 26	MAR 20	ATL DNQ	PHO 26	DAR 22	HOM 13	27th	3198
2005				DAY 33	CAL 16	LVS 27	ATL 20	BRI 27	MAR 31	TEX 42	PHO 32	TAL 38	DAR 25	RCH 20	CLT 23	DOV 31	POC 36	MCH 16	SON 25	DAY 32	CHI 17	NHA 35	POC 25	IND 26	GLN 21	MCH 23	BRI 14	CAL 31	RCH 24	NHA 26	DOV 36	TAL 17	KAN 27	CLT 20	MAR 25	ATL 27	TEX 27	PHO 21	HOM 11	32nd	3122
2006	Morgan-McClure Motorsports	4	Chevy	DAY DNQ	CAL 39	LVS 32	ATL 30	BRI 19	MAR 28	TEX 28	PHO 30	TAL 21	RCH 36	DAR 33	CLT 27	DOV 34	POC DNQ	MCH 31	SON	DAY DNQ	CHI 34	NHA 20	POC 38	IND 20	GLN 25	MCH DNQ	BRI 42	CAL 30	RCH 29	NHA 31	DOV 36	KAN DNQ	TAL	CLT	MAR	ATL	TEX	PHO		38th	1812
2006	Richard Childress Racing	33	Chevy																																				HOM 12	38th	1812
2007	Richard Childress Racing	33	Chevy	DAY	CAL	LVS	ATL DNQ	BRI	MAR	TEX DNQ	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	SON	NHA	DAY	CHI	IND 31	POC	GLN						DOV DNQ	KAN	TAL	CLT	MAR	ATL	TEX	PHO	HOM	68th	70
2007	Furniture Row Racing	78	Chevy																							MCH DNQ	BRI	CAL	RCH	NHA										68th	70
2008	Richard Childress Racing	33	Chevy	DAY	CAL	LVS	ATL	BRI	MAR	TEX	PHO	TAL	RCH DNQ	DAR	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	SON	NHA	DAY	CHI	IND	POC	GLN	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	NHA	DOV	KAN	TAL	CLT	MAR	ATL	TEX	PHO	HOM	N/A	-
2009	Morgan-McClure Motorsports	4	Chevy	DAY	CAL	LVS	ATL	BRI	MAR	TEX	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	SON	NHA	DAY	CHI	IND	POC	GLN	MCH	BRI 29	ATL	RCH	NHA	DOV DNQ	KAN	CAL	CLT	MAR	TAL	TEX	PHO	HOM	62nd	76
2011	Robby Gordon Motorsports	7	Dodge	DAY	PHO	LVS	BRI	CAL	MAR	TEX	TAL	RCH	DAR	DOV 37			POC 27	MCH	SON	DAY	KEN 37	NHA 27																		64th	0¹
2011	Robby Gordon Motorsports	77	Dodge												CLT DNQ	KAN							IND DNQ	POC	GLN	MCH	BRI	ATL	RCH	CHI	NHA	DOV	KAN	CLT	TAL	MAR	TEX	PHO	HOM	64th	0¹

Daytona 500

Year	Team	Manufacturer	Start	Finish
2004	Bill Davis Racing	Dodge	26	3
2005	Bill Davis Racing	Dodge	16	33
2006	Morgan-McClure Motorsports	Chevrolet	DNQ

Nationwide Series

NASCAR Nationwide Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	NNSC	Pts
2000	Bill Davis Racing	20	Pontiac	DAY	CAR	LVS	ATL	DAR	BRI	TEX	NSV	TAL	CAL	RCH	NHA	CLT	DOV	SBO	MYB	GLN	MLW	NZH	PPR	GTY	IRP	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	DOV	CLT	CAR DNQ	MEM 18	PHO 19	HOM 43				78th	254
2001		23	Pontiac	DAY 15	CAR 31	LVS 11	ATL 14	DAR 12	BRI 29	TEX 15	NSH 3	TAL 42	CAL 19	RCH 7	NHA 17	NZH 30	CLT 35	DOV 7	KEN 17	MLW 30	GLN 23	CHI 13	GTY 10	PPR 20		MCH 23	BRI 6	DAR 12	RCH 15	DOV 12	KAN 17	CLT 11	MEM 8	PHO 7	CAR 13	HOM 4			11th	3773
2001			Chevy																						IRP 31														11th	3773
2002			Pontiac	DAY 13	CAR 19	LVS 13	DAR 34	BRI 3	TEX 21	NSH 4	TAL 28	CAL 12	RCH 8	NHA 11	NZH 16	CLT 18	DOV 4	NSH 7	KEN 5	MLW 3		CHI 13	GTY 21	PPR 6	IRP 3	MCH 7	BRI 2	DAR 7	RCH 9	DOV 1	KAN 24	CLT 43	MEM 1	ATL 13	CAR 17	PHO 1	HOM 1		3rd	4488
2002			Dodge																		DAY 26																		3rd	4488
2003			Chevy	DAY 12	CAR 11	LVS 10	DAR 28	BRI 25	TEX 8	TAL 38	NSH 36	CAL 14	RCH 5	GTY 8	NZH 13	CLT 19	DOV 15	NSH 8	KEN 5	MLW 14	DAY 16	CHI 15	NHA 5	PPR 1	IRP 12	MCH 26	BRI 32	DAR 18	RCH 16	DOV 14	KAN 7	CLT 20	MEM 6	ATL 14	PHO 7	CAR 8	HOM 39		9th	4059
2006	Brewco Motorsports	66	Ford	DAY	CAL 14	MXC	LVS	ATL	BRI	TEX 9	NSH	PHO	TAL	RCH 16	DAR 26	CLT 25	DOV 15	NSH	KEN	MLW 29	DAY 33	CHI	NHA 9	MAR	GTY 6	IRP	GLN			CAL 25	RCH 8			CLT 21	MEM	TEX 11	PHO 42	HOM 15	29th	2002
	FitzBradshaw Racing	14	Dodge																									MCH 42	BRI 17
	FitzBradshaw Racing	12	Dodge																													DOV 11	KAN
2007	Richard Childress Racing	29	Chevy	DAY 13	CAL	MXC 30	LVS	ATL	BRI 9	NSH 7	TEX	PHO	TAL 34					NSH 4	KEN 3	MLW 2	NHA 11	DAY 31	CHI	GTY 2	IRP 7	CGV QL^†	GLN	MCH			RCH 8	DOV 29			MEM 6	TEX	PHO 4	HOM	14th	3072
	Richard Childress Racing	21	Chevy											RCH 10	DAR	CLT 9	DOV 3												BRI 5				KAN 15	CLT 13
	Kevin Harvick, Inc.	77	Chevy																											CAL 12
2008	Richard Childress Racing	29	Chevy	DAY 18	CAL	LVS	ATL	BRI 12	NSH 1	TEX	PHO	MXC 7	TAL 9	RCH 10	DAR	CLT	DOV 12	NSH 7	KEN 2	MLW 6	NHA 12	DAY 7	CHI	GTY 30	IRP 4	CGV 11	GLN	MCH 22	BRI 6	CAL	RCH 2	DOV 4	KAN	CLT	MEM 22	TEX 13	PHO 19		17th	3002
2008	Richard Childress Racing	21	Chevy																																			HOM 6	17th	3002
2009	Key Motorsports	40	Chevy	DAY 32	CAL DNQ	LVS 11	BRI 22	TEX DNQ	NSH 28	PHO 19	TAL DNQ	RCH 16		CLT 28	DOV 18	NSH 33	KEN 16		NHA 17	DAY 21	CHI 15	GTY 15				MCH 35	BRI 21	CGV	ATL 18		DOV 14		CAL 21	CLT 25	MEM 7	TEX 14	PHO 15	HOM 19	16th	3177
2009	JR Motorsports	5	Chevy										DAR 9					MLW 18					IRP 9	IOW 31	GLN					RCH 18		KAN 12							16th	3177
2010	JR Motorsports	7	Chevy	DAY	CAL	LVS	BRI 10	NSH 7	PHO	TEX																													53rd	745
	Baker Curb Racing	27	Ford								TAL 12	RCH	DAR	DOV	CLT	NSH 21	KEN 7	ROA	NHA	DAY	CHI	GTY	IRP	IOW	GLN	MCH	BRI	CGV	ATL	RCH	DOV	KAN	CAL	CLT
	Turner Motorsports	10	Toyota																																GTY 32	TEX	PHO	HOM
2011	Key Motorsports	40	Chevy	DAY 35	PHO 16	LVS 33	BRI 22	CAL 34	TEX 33	TAL 12	NSH 21	RCH 24	DAR 38	DOV 35														BRI 24	ATL	RCH									25th	340
	ML Motorsports	70	Chevy												IOW 15	CLT	CHI 19	MCH							IOW 15	GLN	CGV
	R3 Motorsports	03	Dodge																ROA 39	DAY	KEN
	Key Motorsports	47	Chevy																			NHA 42
	NEMCO Motorsports	87	Toyota																				NSH 13
	Key Motorsports	42	Chevy																					IRP 39
	MacDonald Motorsports	81	Dodge																												CHI 30
	MacDonald Motorsports	82	Dodge																													DOV 41	KAN	CLT	TEX	PHO	HOM
^† - Qualified for Jeff Burton

Camping World Truck Series

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	NCWTC	Pts
2007	Morgan-Dollar Motorsports	46	Chevy	DAY	CAL	ATL	MAR	KAN	CLT	MFD	DOV	TEX	MCH	MLW	MEM	KEN	IRP	NSH	BRI	GTW	NHA	LVS	TAL	MAR	ATL	TEX	PHO	HOM 23	116th	0
2009	Win-Tron Racing	31	Chevy	DAY	CAL	ATL	MAR	KAN	CLT	DOV 21	TEX	MCH	MLW	MEM	KEN	IRP	NSH	BRI	CHI	IOW	GTW	NHA	LVS	MAR	TAL				62nd	224
2009	Turner Motorsports	31	Chevy																							TEX 13	PHO	HOM	62nd	224

¹ Ineligible for series championship points.

ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	ABMSC	Pts	Ref
2000		20		DAY	SLM	AND	CLT	KIL	FRS	MCH	POC	TOL	KEN	BLN	POC	WIN	ISF	KEN	DSF	SLM	CLT	TAL	ATL DNQ	N/A	0	^[3]

References

↑ "2010 Rules Information". State Park Speedway. January 6, 2010. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
↑ "Wimmer the Latest Racing Prodigy for Mike Mittler, MB Motorsports", Brandon W. Mudd, MB Motorsports, Retrieved September 7, 2007
↑ "Scott Wimmer − 2000 ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved July 2, 2015.

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