Scott Hansen | |||||||
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Hansen waves to crowd at Wisconsin International Raceway in 2015
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Born |
Green Bay, Wisconsin, U.S. |
June 17, 1955 ||||||
NASCAR Xfinity Series career | |||||||
4 races run over 3 years | |||||||
Best finish | 95th (1999) | ||||||
First race | 1998 Carquest Auto Parts 250 (Gateway) | ||||||
Last race | 2001 Sam's Town 250 (Memphis) | ||||||
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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career | |||||||
28 races run over 4 years | |||||||
Best finish | 18th (1999) | ||||||
First race | 1998 DieHard 200 (Milwaukee) | ||||||
Last race | 1999 O'Reilly 300 (Texas) | ||||||
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Statistics current as of May 12, 2014. |
Scott Hansen (born June 17, 1955) is an American driver from Green Bay, Wisconsin. Now retired, Hansen primarily competed in the American Speed Association. He raced for several years in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (now Camping World Truck Series) and Busch Series (now Xfinity Series).
Hansen grew up in a racing family as his father Rollie Hansen was a race car driver and the flagman in the 1960s at the Brown County fairgrounds at De Pere, Wisconsin.
Hansen won five late model track championships at the Wisconsin International Raceway between 1985 and 1989.
Hansen moved to the American Speed Association (ASA) and ARTGO touring series and was the ASA series Rookie of the Year in 1989. He drove for Ken Schrader's ASA team. One ARTGO win was the 1994 National Short Track championship race at Rockford Speedway.
He also made two spot ARCA starts in 1991; he had a seventh-place finish at the first race at Daytona and 24th at Atlanta.
He failed to qualify for a Phoenix NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race in 1995 and Tucson race in 1997. Hansen made his first truck start for Billy Ballew Motorsports at the Milwaukee Mile in 1998; he qualified eighth in finished 24th. Hansen's second start came a month later at Indianapolis Raceway Park (IRP) when he qualified 20th and finished 24th. He started the final two races that season (Phoenix and Las Vegas) and both ended with Did Not Finish's (DNF).
Hansen teamed up with Ken Schrader full-time for the 1999 season. He started the season with a seventh-place finish at Homestead-Miami Speedway. His second top ten finish was a tenth-place finish at Bristol Motor Speedway in the ninth race. Hansen's best career NASCAR finish came at the fifteenth race; he claimed the third place at Nazareth Speedway. Hansen parted from the team with one race left in the season; he finished eighteenth in the season points.