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Sorenson in 2015
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Born | Bradley Sorenson February 5, 1986 Peachtree City, Georgia |
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Awards | 2003 ASA National Tour Rookie of the Year | ||||||
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career | |||||||
268 races run over 13 years | |||||||
Car no., team | No. 15 (Premium Motorsports) | ||||||
2016 position | 39th | ||||||
Best finish | 22nd (2007) | ||||||
First race | 2005 Bass Pro Shops MBNA 500 (Atlanta) | ||||||
Last race | 2017 O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 (Texas) | ||||||
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NASCAR Xfinity Series career | |||||||
199 races run over 10 years | |||||||
2013 position | 18th | ||||||
Best finish | 4th (2005) | ||||||
First race | 2004 Kroger 200 (IRP) | ||||||
Last race | 2013 Dollar General 300 (Charlotte) | ||||||
First win | 2005 Pepsi 300 (Nashville) | ||||||
Last win | 2011 Bucyrus 200 (Road America) | ||||||
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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career | |||||||
6 races run over 1 year | |||||||
2016 position | 97th | ||||||
Best finish | 97th (2016) | ||||||
First race | 2016 Pocono Mountains 150 (Pocono) | ||||||
Last race | 2016 Ford EcoBoost 200 (Homestead) | ||||||
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Statistics current as of April 9, 2017. |
Bradley "Reed" Sorenson (born February 5, 1986) is an American professional driver. He currently competes part-time in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 15 Toyota Camry/Chevrolet SS for Premium Motorsports.
Sorenson's career started at age six when he began racing quarter-midgets. He won the national championship in 1997. He moved up to legends cars the following year, winning 13 out of 25 races, southeastern championships and breaking track records in the process. In 1999 he won 30 out of the 50 races in which he competed. He raced in legends for the next two years and won 84 events.
In 2002, Sorenson began racing in the American Speed Association (ASA), finishing in the top-ten seven out of his eight starts. He became a full-time driver in 2003 and won the highly coveted ASA Pat Schauer Memorial Rookies of the Year award at age 17. He caught his big break by signing a driver development contract with Chip Ganassi Racing.
In 2004, he won his first ARCA race, at Michigan International Speedway, in the No. 77 Sherwin Williams Dodge. He finished in the top-five in all three of his ARCA starts Sorenson also ran in five NASCAR Busch Series events for Chip Ganassi Racing, and had three top ten finishes, and a top five, which was a fourth-place finish at Homestead.
Sorenson was named the full-time driver of the No. 41 Discount Tire Company Dodge Intrepid for Ganassi for 2005, competing for rookie of the year. He won his first Busch Series race, at Nashville Superspeedway, winning by more than 14 seconds after starting on the pole and leading 197 out of 225 laps. After the 15th race (Federated Auto Parts 300) he was leading the points race by 51. Sorenson picked up another win at Gateway. He ended the season fourth in points and finished second in the rookie of the year race to Carl Edwards.