Dave Blaney

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Dave Blaney
Born	(1962-10-24) October 24, 1962 Hartford Township, Trumbull County, Ohio
Achievements	1984 USAC Silver Crown Champion 1995 World of Outlaws Champion
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career
442 race(s) run over 16 year(s)
Car no., team	No. 7 (Tommy Baldwin Racing)
2012 position	33rd
Best finish	19th (2002)
First race	1992 AC Delco 500 (Rockingham)
Last race	2013 Southern 500 (Darlington)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 28 2
NASCAR Nationwide Series career
121 race(s) run over 12 year(s)
Best finish	7th (1999)
First race	1998 NAPA Auto Parts 300 (Daytona)
Last race	2009 Dollar General 300 (Charlotte)
First win	2006 Dollar General 300 (Charlotte)
Wins Top tens Poles 1 31 7
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career
2 race(s) run over 2 year(s)
Truck no., team	No. 19 Brad Keselowski Racing
Best finish	74th (2004)
First race	2004 MBNA America 200 (Dover)
Last race	2007 Ford 200 (Homestead)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 2 0
NASCAR Canadian Tire Series career
1 race(s) run over 1 year(s)
Best finish	71st (2002)
First race	2002 Canada Day Shootout (Cayuga)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
Statistics current as of May 11, 2013.

David Blaney (born October 24, 1962) is an American NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race car driver. He currently drives the No. 7 Chevrolet SS for Tommy Baldwin Racing. Blaney was a successful sprint car driver before he started racing in NASCAR. For many years, he was a regular in the Syracuse Nationals in Syracuse, New York, although he never won that event. He owns Sharon Speedway in Hartford, Ohio. His son, Ryan Blaney, is also a NASCAR competitor.

Sprint car racing career

Blaney, born in Hartford Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, United States, was awarded the 1983 All-Star Sprint Circuit Rookie-of-the-Year. He raced in the United States Automobile Club (USAC) Silver Crown Series in 1984 and won the national touring series' championship. Blaney won his first World of Outlaws (WoO) race at Tri-City Speedway in 1985 and won the Championship in 1995. He also made his NASCAR Winston Cup debut in the #80 Daffron's Body Shop Ford for Hover Motorsports in the 1992 AC Delco 500, finishing 31st. In the 1997 season, he won the Gold Cup, the Eldora Speedway event, and the Knoxville Nationals, which is considered the premiere event in sprint car racing. He was the first driver who did not defend his Knoxville win, when he moved into NASCAR. After moving to NASCAR, he kept his sprint car team going, fielding a car for his brother Dale and the late Kevin Gobrecht.

NASCAR career

1998–2004

Blaney began his Busch Series career in 1998 with Bill Davis Racing. He signed to drive a Nationwide Series car for Davis, the #93 Amoco Pontiac and in his first season had three sixth-place finishes and a pole position at Lowe's Motor Speedway. The following season, he ran a full-time schedule and won four poles and ended the season a career-best seventh in points. That season, he returned to the Winston Cup series with Davis, earning a best finish of 23rd at Homestead in the #93.

In 2000, Blaney and his Amoco team moved up to Winston Cup full-time and posted two-top tens. He finished third in the NASCAR Winston Cup Rookie of the Year award standings for the 2000 season. He returned to the Busch Series in 2000 with a limited schedule in BDR’s #20 AT&T Pontiac, gaining a pole position at Charlotte and also finish 3rd twice. In 2001, the team would switch to Dodge and he would compete in all the races with a best finish of 6th, three times. He left Davis at the end of the season because of sponsorship concerns and signed with the #77 Jasper Motorsports team. His best finish during the 2002 season was a 7th at Phoenix. Blaney started the 2003 season with three top-tens and a pole the first five races, but fell to twenty-eighth in points at the end of the season, forcing his release.

Blaney returned to Bill Davis Racing in 2004 for a limited schedule, because of a lack of sponsorship. Part of his deal was making his Craftsman Truck Series debut for Davis in the #23 truck at Dover, where he finished sixth. After two eleventh-place finishes, Blaney joined Richard Childress Racing, taking over the #30 AOL Chevrolet for eight races. After two top-fifteen finishes, he was replaced by Jeff Burton Blaney would also start one race for Roush Racing in the #99 Canteen Vending/Kraft Foods Ford in the place of rookie Carl Edwards, who missed the start due a Craftsman Truck Series race that ran late. Blaney exited the car on Lap 24, and Edwards went on to finish 37th after a crash. He also ran the spring race at Richmond International Raceway for Ultra Motorsports in the #7 Dodge, and finished fortieth.

2005–2012

Blaney returned to Richard Childress Racing in 2005 to drive the #07 Jack Daniel's Chevrolet. During the season he would post two top ten finishes and finished 26th in points. In 2006, he returned to the Bill Davis stable to run the #22 Caterpillar Dodge. His best finish in 2006 came at the Richmond International Raceway, where he finished 4th. He also scored his first Busch Series victory at Lowes Motor Speedway, when Matt Kenseth spun on the last lap and Blaney was in the lead. In 2007, he failed to qualify for three races and finished thirty-first in points. The following season, he had two top-tens and moved up to thirtieth in points.

In 2009, Blaney signed to run the #66 Prism Motorsports Toyota for a full season, getting a best finish of twenty-eighth at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Incidentally, Dave did not qualify for 3 out of the 4 races the team had sponsorship for (Hyde Park was on the car at Las Vegas, and the Denny Hamlin Foundation at Charlotte and Texas). Thus far in the 2010 season, Blaney has a best finish of 29th at Las Vegas and led 3 laps the previous week at Fontana, he has parked his car prior to completion in all but one race this season. For the race at Phoenix, Blaney is piloting the #55 Prism Toyota, with teammate Michael McDowell driving the #66 in an attempt to get both teams in the top 35 in owners points according to team owner Phil Parsons.

Blaney has announced that he will be returning to his roots in dirt track 410 sprint car racing throughout the summer of 2010. So far the "Buckeye Bullet" has been successful in his return posting two top 5 finishes during Ohio Sprint Speedweek and has one feature win thus far as he was triumphant at TRI-CITY Speedway in Franklin Pennsylvania on July 4, 2010.

Blaney has his sights set on some major events during his summer dirt tour including a stop at family owned Sharon Speedway for the Lou Blaney Memorial and Eldora Speedway for the Kings Royal.

For the remainder of the 2010 Sprint Cup season, Blaney split his time between Front Row Motorsports and Tommy Baldwin Racing. Compared to Prism, both teams have some degree of sponsorship; Front Row Motorsports ran full races while Tommy Baldwin Racing was an occasional start and park entry (For example, Blaney ran the entire race at Loudon in the #36 with only associate sponsorship from Connecticut-based construction company Mohawk Northeast while parking an unsponsored TBR entry at Talladega after 12 laps).

At the 2011 Daytona 500, Blaney received last minute sponsorship from Golden Corral. He led three laps and finished 26th after a late race accident. Blaney piloted the #36 Tommy Baldwin Racing Chevrolet with backing from Accell Construction Inc. in several races in the season, the sponsors for the remaining races being TBD. Golden Corral returned at the 2011 Aaron's 499, and Blaney led 21 laps but was spun out by Kurt Busch with 3 laps to go and finished 27th. He led the second most laps behind Clint Bowyer.

On April 27, Tommy Baldwin Racing announced that Blaney and the #36 team would be sponsored by Golden Corral for 19 races and Big Red/ All Sport for 5 races leaving only 3 races without a sponsor. The team did not run the Sprint All-Star Race in May in order to focus on the points-paying events. Blaney finished third at Talladega in the fall, which was the best finish for Tommy Baldwin Racing and tied for his best career finish.

During the 2012 Daytona 500, Blaney led after 160 laps. During a caution, shortly after race leaders had made pit stops, Juan Pablo Montoya crashed into a jet dryer, which was being used to blow debris from the track. As a result of the crash, the jet fuel that powered the helicopter engine spilled out onto the track and was ignited. NASCAR put the race under a red flag, at which point Blaney had the lead. Blaney finished 15th after a crash on lap 196.

2013

Blaney returned to Tommy Baldwin Racing for the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, moving to the No. 7 Chevrolet; he also signed with Brad Keselowski Racing to drive their No. 19 in the Camping World Truck Series at the series' inaugural visit to Eldora Speedway.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

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

NASCAR 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	Points
1992	Hover Motorsports	80	Ford	DAY	CAR	RCH	ATL	DAR	BRI	NWS	MAR	TAL	CLT	DOV	SON	POC	MCH	DAY	POC	TAL	GLN	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	DOV	MAR	NWS	CLT	CAR 31	PHO	ATL DNQ								79th	70
1999	Bill Davis Racing	93	Pontiac	DAY	CAR	LVS	ATL	DAR	TEX	BRI	MAR	TAL	CAL	RCH	LOW	DOV	MCH 33	POC	SON	DAY	NHA 40	POC	IND 28	GLN	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	NHA	DOV	MAR	LOW	TAL	CAR	PHO	HOM 23	ATL 37			51st	332
2000				DAY 27	CAR DNQ	LVS 22	ATL 20	DAR 26	BRI 35	TEX 22	MAR 41	TAL 30	CAL 38	RCH 34	LOW 40	DOV 25	MCH 25	POC 30	SON 29	DAY 24	NHA 34	POC 18	IND 23	GLN 35	MCH 24	BRI 43	DAR 20	RCH 18	NHA 26	DOV 39	MAR 30	LOW 28	TAL 28	CAR 42	PHO 8	HOM 9	ATL 18			31st	2656
2001				DAY 42	CAR 9	LVS 26	ATL 34	DAR 22	BRI 29	TEX 6	MAR 29	TAL 17	CAL 29	RCH 33	LOW 33	DOV 33	MCH 8	POC 11	SON 32	DAY 21	CHI 12	NHA 37	POC 22	IND 40	GLN 28	MCH 6	BRI 18	DAR 19	RCH 26	DOV 35	KAN 10	LOW 41	MAR 29	TAL 30	PHO 28	CAR 14	HOM 6	ATL 41	NHA 11	22nd	3303
2002	Jasper Motorsports	77	Ford	DAY 25	CAR 22	LVS 18	ATL 17	DAR 30	BRI 17	TEX 15	MAR 17	TAL 31	CAL 9	RCH 29	LOW 21	DOV 29	POC 10	MCH 13	INF 20	DAY 28	CHI 17	NHA 35	POC 22	IND 15	GLN 18	MCH 18	BRI 33	DAR 29	RCH 9	NHA 25	DOV 11	KAN 21	TAL 31	LOW 10	MAR 20	ATL 19	CAR 17	PHO 7	HOM 43	19th	3670
2003				DAY 24	CAR 10	LVS 34	ATL 8	DAR 3	BRI 38	TEX 36	TAL 23	MAR 31	CAL 13	RCH 18	LOW 14	DOV 20	POC 26	MCH 38	INF 32	DAY 35	CHI 31	NHA 13	POC 9	IND 28	GLN 25	MCH 25	BRI 30	DAR 30	RCH 33	NHA 14	DOV 24	TAL 17	KAN 43	LOW 24	MAR 37	ATL 37	PHO 24	CAR 27	HOM 28	28th	3194
2004	Bill Davis Racing	23	Dodge	DAY 15	CAR	LVS	ATL 11	DAR	BRI	TEX 11	MAR	TAL 39	CAL		LOW 17	DOV 33																								38th	1347
	Ultra Motorsports	7	Dodge											RCH 40
	Richard Childress Racing	30	Chevy														POC 29	MCH 15	INF	DAY 15	CHI 37	NHA 33	POC 27	IND 21	GLN 24	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	NHA	DOV	TAL	KAN
	Roush Racing	99	Ford																															LOW 37	MAR	ATL	PHO	DAR	HOM
2005	Richard Childress Racing	07	Chevy	DAY 14	CAL 34	LVS 13	ATL 8	BRI 20	MAR 34	TEX 26	PHO 24	TAL 19	DAR 29	RCH 27	LOW 29	DOV 36	POC 24	MCH 29	INF 19	DAY 27	CHI 38	NHA 20	POC 20	IND 30	GLN 34	MCH 32	BRI 23	CAL 22	RCH 33	NHA 33	DOV 20	TAL 15	KAN 25	LOW 13	MAR 16	ATL 24	TEX 28	PHO 25	HOM 6	26th	3289
2006	Bill Davis Racing	22	Dodge	DAY 22	CAL 30	LVS 31	ATL 32	BRI 23	MAR 17	TEX 29	PHO 27	TAL 24	RCH 20	DAR 27	LOW 32	DOV 30	POC 27	MCH 30	INF 39	DAY 27	CHI 17	NHA 13	POC 16	IND 29	GLN 40	MCH 24	BRI 14	CAL 28	RCH 4	NHA 9	DOV 12	KAN 21	TAL 28	LOW 26	MAR 33	ATL 18	TEX 32	PHO 23	HOM 26	27th	3255
2007			Toyota	DAY 34	CAL 39	LVS 42	ATL 27	BRI 23	MAR 37	TEX 21	PHO 39	TAL DNQ	RCH 11	DAR 32	LOW 18	DOV DNQ	POC 43	MCH 18	INF 41	NHA 29	DAY 23	CHI 40	IND 9	POC 20	GLN 35	MCH 6	BRI 31	CAL 38	RCH 34	NHA 35	DOV DNQ	KAN 15	TAL 3	LOW 6	MAR 36	ATL 38	TEX 21	PHO 31	HOM 12	31st	2781
2008				DAY 28	CAL 30	LVS 26	ATL 34	BRI 34	MAR 43	TEX 21	PHO 30	TAL DNQ	RCH 18	DAR 9	LOW 17	DOV 9	POC 22	MCH 39	INF 20	NHA 33	DAY 19	CHI 23	IND 35	POC 31	GLN 41	MCH 41	BRI 38	CAL 29	RCH 22	NHA 33	DOV 12	KAN 31	TAL 22	LOW 27	MAR 22	ATL 41	TEX 29	PHO 20	HOM 22	30th	2851
2009	Prism Motorsports	66	Toyota	DAY	CAL 42	LVS DNQ	ATL 41	BRI 43	MAR 42	TEX 43	PHO 42	TAL	RCH 43	DAR 41	LOW 28	DOV 39	POC 40	MCH 40	INF 42	NHA 42	DAY 43	CHI 43	IND 42	POC 40	GLN 42	MCH 42	BRI 43	ATL 43	RCH 43	NHA 42	DOV 37	KAN 40	CAL 41	LOW DNQ	MAR 40	TAL 41	TEX DNQ	PHO 42	HOM DNQ	41st	1204
2010				DAY DNQ	CAL 41	LVS 29	ATL 41	BRI 42	MAR 42	PHO 42	TEX 43	TAL 43	RCH DNQ	DAR 42	DOV 41	CLT 43	POC 40	MCH DNQ	INF 37	NHA 42	DAY 43	CHI DNQ	IND 41	POC 42	GLN DNQ	MCH														37th	1416
	Tommy Baldwin Racing	36	Chevrolet																								BRI DNQ		RCH 30	NHA 31	DOV 43				MAR 36	TAL 42		PHO 37
	Front Row Motorsports	38	Ford																									ATL 24				KAN 31							HOM 36
		37																															CAL 29	CLT 32			TEX 42
2011	Germain Racing	60	Chevy																									ATL 43												32nd	508
	Tommy Baldwin Racing	36	Chevy	DAY 26	PHO 42	LVS 34	BRI 25	CAL 37	MAR 30	TEX 30	TAL 27	RCH 13	DAR 24	DOV 26	CLT 27	KAN 32	POC 26	MCH 34	INF 31	DAY 39	KEN 33	NHA 29	IND 31	POC 30		MCH 33	BRI 35			CHI 33	NHA 35	DOV 32	KAN 31	CLT 35	TAL 3	MAR 23
		35																							GLN DNQ				RCH 19								TEX 35	PHO 27	HOM 28
2012		36		DAY 15	PHO 23	LVS 29	BRI 34	CAL 33	MAR 34	TEX 37	KAN 37	RCH 29	TAL 30	DAR 27	CLT 40	DOV 32		MCH 25	SON 37	KEN 35	DAY 22	NHA 39	IND 23	POC	GLN 36	MCH 38	BRI 26	ATL 25	RCH 33	CHI 33	NHA	DOV 41	TAL 39	CLT 43	KAN 39	MAR 35	TEX 39	PHO 26	HOM 32	33rd	417
		10															POC 25
2013		7		DAY 17	PHO 33	LVS 24	BRI 36	CAL 21	MAR 29	TEX 25	KAN 43	RCH 23	TAL 16	DAR 27	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	SON	KEN	DAY	NHA	IND	POC	GLN	MCH	BRI	ATL	RCH	CHI	NHA	DOV	KAN	CLT	TAL	MAR	TEX	PHO	HOM	30th*	190*

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series

* Season in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

Images

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  Blaney after a sprint car win at Port Royal Speedway in 1984

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  World of Outlaws sprint car

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  Blaney in the #22 car in 2007

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  Dave Blaney practicing for the 2007 Ford 400 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway.

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  Blaney's Prism Motorsports Toyota at Atlanta, March 2009

References

• Drivers statistics at racing-reference.info
• NASCAR driver Blaney a reason racing is so popular

External links

• Official website
• Dave Blaney driver statistics at Racing Reference

Sporting positions
Preceded by Steve Kinser	World of Outlaws Champion 1995	Succeeded by Mark Kinser