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Ron Hornaday Jr.

Ron Hornaday Jr.
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Hornaday in 2008
Born (1958-06-20) June 20, 1958 (age 58)
Palmdale, California, U.S.
Achievements 1996, 1998, 2007, 2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Champion
1992, 1993 Featherlite Southwest Tour Champion
All-Time Wins Leader in Camping World Truck Series (51)
Awards 2000 Busch Series Most Popular Driver
1997, 2005 Craftsman Truck Series Most Popular Driver
1992 Featherlite Southwest Tour Most Popular Driver
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career
46 races run over 11 years
2015 position 51st
Best finish 38th (2001)
First race 1992 Save Mart 300K (Sonoma)
Last race 2015 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 (Atlanta)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 1 0
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
184 races run over 14 years
Best finish 3rd (2003)
First race 1998 First Union 200 (Nazareth)
Last race 2011 WYPALL 200 (Phoenix)
First win 2000 Econo Lodge 200 (Nazareth)
Last win 2004 Alan Kulwicki 250 (Milwaukee)
Wins Top tens Poles
4 70 1
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career
360 races run over 17 years
2014 position 14th
Best finish 1st (1996, 1998, 2007, 2009)
First race 1995 Skoal Bandit Copper World Classic (Phoenix)
Last race 2014 WinStar World Casino & Resort 350 (Texas)
First win 1995 Racing Champions 200 (Tucson)
Last win 2011 Smith's 350 (Las Vegas)
Wins Top tens Poles
51 234 27
Statistics current as of March 1, 2015.

Ronald Lee "Ron" Hornaday Jr. (born June 20, 1958) is a retired American professional driver. He is the father of former NASCAR driver Ronnie Hornaday, and son of the late Ron Hornaday Sr., a two-time Winston West Champion. Hornaday is a four-time champion in the Camping World Truck Series, his most recent coming in 2009. He was a long-time driver in NASCAR's Winston West Series, and is a Featherlite Southwest Tour Champion. He was noticed by Dale Earnhardt while participating in the NASCAR Winter Heat Series on ESPN2.

Hornaday was born in Palmdale, California, and began racing in go-karts and motorcycles early in his career. Eventually, he moved up to race at Saugus Speedway. In 1992, he won his first championship in the Southwest Series as well as winning the Most Popular Driver award. He won the Southwest championship the next year as well, becoming the only driver to do so in series history until Jim Pettit won back to back titles in 2004-2005. Pettit won the title again in 2011 in the SRL Southwest Tour Series.

He made his Winston Cup debut in 1992 at the Save Mart 300K, where he started seventeenth but finished 32nd in Bob Fisher's No. 92 Chevrolet. He made another start later that year at Phoenix International Raceway, where he finished 25th. He ran at Phoenix the next year as well, finishing 22nd in the No. 76 Spears Motorsports car.

Hornaday signed to drive the No. 16 RCCA Products/Papa John's Pizza Chevrolet Silverado owned by Dale Earnhardt, Inc. for the then-start-up Craftsman Truck Series. In the first season of competition, Hornaday won six races and four poles on his way to a third-place points finish. The next year, with sponsorship from NAPA Auto Parts, Hornaday won four races and the series championship.


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