David Ragan
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| Born | December 24, 1985 Unadilla, Georgia, United States |
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| Awards | 2007 NASCAR Busch Series Rookie of the Year | ||||||
| NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career | |||||||
| 182 races run over 6 years | |||||||
| Car no., team | No. 34 (Front Row Motorsports) | ||||||
| 2011 position | 23rd | ||||||
| Best finish | 13th - 2008 | ||||||
| First race | 2006 Dover 400 (Dover) | ||||||
| First win | 2011 Coke Zero 400 Powered by Coca-Cola (Daytona) | ||||||
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| NASCAR Nationwide Series career | |||||||
| 97 races run over 7 years | |||||||
| Car no., team | No. 67 (Go Canada Racing) | ||||||
| 2011 position | 133rd | ||||||
| Best finish | 4th – 2008 | ||||||
| First race | 2004 Ford 300 (Homestead) | ||||||
| Last race | 2011 O'Reilly Auto Parts Challenge (Texas) | ||||||
| First win | 2009 Aaron's 312 (Talladega) | ||||||
| Last win | 2009 Food City 250 (Bristol) | ||||||
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| NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career | |||||||
| 29 races run over 3 years | |||||||
| Best finish | 24th – 2006 | ||||||
| First race | 2004 O'Reilly 400K (Texas) | ||||||
| Last race | 2006 Casino Arizona 150 (Phoenix) | ||||||
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| Statistics current as of January 14, 2012. | |||||||
David Ragan, (born December 24, 1985), is an American stock car driver. Residing in Huntersville, North Carolina,[1] he currently drives the No. 34 Ford for Front Row Motorsports in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.
Ragan was born in Unadilla, Georgia, the son of former racer Ken Ragan, and began his racing career racing in the Bandolero Series at age 12. Four years later, he began competing in the Goody’s Dash Series with Cam Strader. After one year, he moved to the Legends Pro-Division to race for Mark Martin. He concluded the season by finishing fourth in the point standings. At age 18, Ragan began racing in the Camping World Truck Series, Nationwide Series, and the ARCA Racing Series.
In 2007, he moved the Sprint Cup Series, driving for Roush Fenway Racing. Between 2007 and 2011, he has recorded 30 top-tens in the series.
On July 2, 2011, David Ragan won his first career NASCAR Sprint Cup series race, the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway.
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[edit] Career
[edit] 1996–2002
Ragan was born in Unadilla, Georgia in December 1985, the son of former racer, Ken Ragan.[2] Ragan started his racing career in the Bandolero Series at age 12. During the following year, he managed to win twelve races and the National Championship. In 1999, he won the National Championship for the second time. In 2001, Ragan began racing in the Goody’s Dash Series with Cam Strader. During the season, the two built late models for Ragan to use in 2002. In 2002, he began racing in the Legends Pro-Division for Mark Martin. At the end of the season, he finished fourth in the final point standings.[2]
[edit] 2003–2006
At age 18, Ragan moved to the Craftsman Truck Series (now Camping World Truck Series), as well as the Busch Series (now Nationwide Series) and the ARCA Racing Series. During his first career start in the ARCA Series, he qualified in the second position, but failed to finish the race after having tire failure.[1] His first race in the Craftsman Truck Series was at Texas Motor Speedway, where he qualified 28th and finished in the 20th position for Fiddleback Racing. During the season, he failed to qualify for one race, and failed to finished six of the ten races he participated in.[3] Ragan also participated in one Busch Series race at Homestead Miami Speedway, finishing 31st, after starting 36th.[4] In the following season, he participated in Roush Racing: Driver X as the co-driver of the number 6 Roush Fenway Racing Ford F-150 in the Truck Series. After participating in 19 events in the series, he recorded one top-five, eight top-ten finishes, and earned one pole position.[1]
Also in 2005, Ragan participated in three Busch Series events,[5] as well as 19 ARCA Racing Series events, where he managed to win one race, and record three pole positions, eight top-five and 11 top-ten finishes.[6] During the 2006 season, he participated in three Busch Series events,[7] and two Nextel Cup Series (now Sprint Cup Series) events.[8] He also participated in 19 Truck Series events, where he recorded two pole positions, one top-five and eight top-ten finishes.[9]
[edit] 2007–2012
For the 2007 season, Ragan moved to the Nextel Cup Series as the driver of the number 6 Roush Fenway Racing Ford. He also participated for the NASCAR Rookie of the Year standings in both Nextel Cup and Busch Series, where he managed to finished second in the Nextel Cup Series, while winning the award in the Busch Series.[2] During the Cup season, Ragan recorded two top-five finishes, with one being in the 2007 Daytona 500, and three top-tens, finishing 23rd in the point standings.[10][11] During the Busch Series season, he earned two pole positions, four top-five and nine top-ten finishes, while finishing fifth in point standings.[10][12] Also in 2007, he participated in one ARCA Racing Series event, where he managed to finish in the fourth position.[13]
In 2008, he raced in the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series, as well as in two ARCA Racing Series events. In the Cup season, he recorded six top-five and 14 top-ten finishes, while finishing 13th in the final point standings. During the Nationwide season, he managed to get seven top-fives and 21 top-ten finishes. Ragan clinched fourth in the final point standings. One year later in 2009, he participated in only the Cup Series and the Nationwide Series. During the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, he recorded two top-ten finishes and finished 27th in the point standings. However, in the 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series season, he won two races, and earned five top-fives and 15 top-ten finishes, while finishing 18th in points.[10]
During 2010, he only participated in the Sprint Cup Series. He recorded only three top-five finishes and finished 24th in points once the season concluded.[2] In 2011, he began the year almost winning the Daytona 500, but he got penalized for moving lanes before he crossed the line on the restart with two laps to go.[10] On May 21, 2011, he won the Sprint All-Star Showdown at Charlotte Motor Speedway, passing Brad Keselowski with two laps to go.
He won the Coke Zero 400 on July 2, 2011 for his first career Sprint Cup win. He was elgible to compete in the "wild card" to get himself into the chase. After bad finishes a few weeks before the final race before the chase at Richmond, he finished 4th but was 54 points away from 13th to put himself into a chase position. At the end of the 2011 season UPS, Ragan’s primary sponsor on the Roush Fenway Racing No. 6 Ford, announced that they would no longer sponsor the #6 and that the company would scale back it’s racing program next season. Leaving the number 6 team without sponsorship and ultimately forced the camp to shut down, making Roush Fenway Racing a 3 car team for the 2012 season.
In January 2012, Ragan signed with Front Row Motorsports to drive the No. 34 Ford for the team in 2012.[14] He will also drive for Go Canada Racing in the season-opening Nationwide Series event at Daytona.[15]
[edit] Sprint Cup Series statistics
| Year | Races | Wins | Poles | Top 5 | Top 10 | DNF | Start | Finish | Winnings | Season Rank | Team(s) |
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| 2006 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 39.0 | 33.5 | $129,610 | 63rd | Roush Fenway Racing |
| 2007 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 29.1 | 24.5 | $4,728,400 | 23rd | Roush Fenway Racing |
| 2008 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 2 | 17.4 | 15.6 | $3,980,810 | 13th | Roush Fenway Racing |
| 2009 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 26.9 | 24.4 | $3,682,210 | 27th | Roush Fenway Racing |
| 2010 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 22.5 | 21.3 | $3,597,380 | 24th | Roush Fenway Racing |
| 2011 | 36 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 15.1 | 19.2 | $4,203,660 | 23rd | Roush Fenway Racing |
| Totals | 182 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 30 | 18 | 22.4 | 21.1 | $21,606,306 |
Data as of January 29, 2012[16]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c "Roush Fenway Racing – David Ragan Bio". Roushracing.com. 1985-12-24. http://roushracing.com/?q=driver/ragan-bio. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
- ^ a b c d "Biography". Davidragan.com. http://www.davidragan.com/biography.cfm. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
- ^ "David Ragan 2004 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-reference.info. http://racing-reference.info/drivdet/raganda01/2004/C. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
- ^ "David Ragan 2004 NASCAR Busch Series Results". Racing-reference.info. http://racing-reference.info/drivdet/raganda01/2004/B. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
- ^ "David Ragan 2005 NASCAR Busch Series Results". Racing-reference.info. http://racing-reference.info/drivdet/raganda01/2005/B. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
- ^ "David Ragan 2005 ARCA Re/Max Series Results". Racing-Reference.info. http://racing-reference.info/drivdet/raganda01/2005/A. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
- ^ "David Ragan 2006 NASCAR Busch Series Results". Racing-reference.info. http://racing-reference.info/drivdet/raganda01/2006/B. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
- ^ "David Ragan 2006 NASCAR Nextel Cup Results". Racing-reference.info. http://racing-reference.info/drivdet/raganda01/2006/W. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
- ^ "David Ragan 2006 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference.info. http://racing-reference.info/drivdet/raganda01/2006/C. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
- ^ a b c d "David Ragan Career Statistics". Racing-Reference.info. http://racing-reference.info/driver/David_Ragan. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
- ^ "David Ragan 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Results". Racing-Reference.info. http://racing-reference.info/drivdet/raganda01/2007/W. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
- ^ "David Ragan 2007 NASCAR Busch Series Results". Racing-Reference.info. http://racing-reference.info/drivdet/raganda01/2007/B. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
- ^ "David Ragan 2007 ARCA Re/Max Series Results". Racing-Reference.info. http://racing-reference.info/drivdet/raganda01/2007/A. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
- ^ Rodman, Dave (January 16, 2012). "Ragan signs with Front Row for 2012 Cup season". NASCAR. http://www.nascar.com/news/120116/dragan-signs-front-row-no-34-2012/index.html. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
- ^ Butcher, Louis (January 20, 2012). "Villeneuve se rapproche de l’écurie Go Canada Racing" (in French). Le Journal de Montreal. http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2012/01/20/villeneuve-se-rapproche-de-lecurie-go-canada-racing. Retrieved 2012-02-01.
- ^ "David Ragan Sprint Cup Statistics". Racing Reference.com. http://www.racing-reference.info/driver/David_Ragan. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
[edit] External links
- Official website
- David Ragan at Racing Reference
| Achievements | ||
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| Preceded by Danny O'Quinn |
NASCAR Busch Series Rookie of the Year 2007 |
Succeeded by Landon Cassill |
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| Roush Fenway Racing | |
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| Sprint Cup drivers | Greg Biffle (#16) | Matt Kenseth (#17) | Carl Edwards (#99) |
| Nationwide Series drivers | Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. (#6) |
| Primary Sponsors | 3M (#16-Sprint) | Fastenal (#99) |
| Crew Chiefs | Matt Puccia (#16-Sprint) | Jimmy Fennig (#17-Sprint) | Bob Osbourne (#99) Mike Kelley (#6-Nationwide) |
| Driver Development Program | Chris Buescher | Kevin Swindell |
| Grand-Am Drivers | Jack Roush, Jr. |
| Notable former Drivers | Johnny Benson | Colin Braun | Kurt Busch | Kevin Lepage | Mark Martin | Jamie McMurray | Ted Musgrave | David Ragan |
| Partnerships and affiliations | Baker Curb Racing | FAS Lane Racing | Germain Racing Front Row Motorsports | Phil Parsons Racing | Richard Petty Motorsports | Wood Brothers Racing | Roulo Brothers Racing (ARCA) |
| Management/Related Info | Jack Roush | John W. Henry | Fenway Sports Group | Sam Belnavis | Geoff Smith | Steve Newmark | Robbie Reiser | Roush Performance | Roush Racing: Driver X | Roush-Yates Engines |
