Butch Gilliland
| Butch Gilliland | |||||||
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| Born | February 25, 1958 Albuquerque, New Mexico | ||||||
| Achievements | 1997 Winston West Series champion 1997 and 1999 Winston West Series Most Popular Driver | ||||||
| NASCAR Cup Series career | |||||||
| 10 races run over 11 years | |||||||
| Best finish | 60th (1997) | ||||||
| First race | 1990 Banquet Frozen Foods 300 (Sonoma) | ||||||
| Last race | 1999 Save Mart/Kragen 350 (Sonoma) | ||||||
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| NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career | |||||||
| 12 races run over 3 years | |||||||
| Best finish | 39th (1995) | ||||||
| First race | 1995 Skoal Bandit Copper World Classic (Phoenix) | ||||||
| Last race | 1997 Carquest 420K (Las Vegas) | ||||||
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Butch Gilliland (born February 25, 1958) is a former NASCAR Winston Cup Series and Craftsman Truck Series driver from California.[1] He was the 1997 Winston West (now K&N Pro Series West) champion and based on the west coast.[1] All of his 10 Cup starts came at either Sears Point Raceway or Phoenix International Raceway, most of them as West competitors in Cup/West combination races, and all 12 of his Truck Series starts came at various west coast tracks.[1] He has one NASCAR top-ten, which he recorded in a Truck Series race at Saugus Speedway in Saugus, California in 1995.[1] He retired from competitive racing in 2002.[2]
He is the father of Cup Series driver David Gilliland and the grandfather of K&N Pro Series West driver Todd Gilliland.
Motorsports career results
NASCAR
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
Craftsman Truck Series
| NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | NCTC | Pts | |||||||||||||
| 1995 | Ultra Motorsports | 06 | Ford | PHO 31 |
TUS 26 |
SGS 7 |
MMR 29 |
POR | EVG | I70 | LVL | BRI | MLW | CNS | HPT 13 |
IRP | FLM | RCH | MAR | NWS | SON | MMR | PHO | 39th | 501 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1996 | Stroppe Motorsports | 14 | Ford | HOM 15 |
PHO 24 |
POR 23 |
EVG 21 |
TUS 25 |
CNS | HPT | BRI | NZH | MLW | LVL | I70 | IRP | FLM | GLN | NSV | RCH | NHA | MAR | NWS | SON | MMR | PHO DNQ |
LVS DNQ |
40th | 611 | |||||||||||||||
| 1997 | Doran Racing | 71 | Chevy | WDW | TUS | HOM | PHO | POR | EVG | I70 | NHA | TEX | BRI | NZH | MLW | LVL | CNS | HPT | IRP | FLM | NSV | GLN | RCH | MAR | SON | MMR | CAL | PHO 19 |
LVS | 104th | 106 | |||||||||||||
References
- ^ a b c d "Driving statistics". Racing-Reference. Retrieved 20 March 2010.
- ^ Brewster, Louis (July 16, 2014). "Irwindale Speedway: Butch Gilliland, David Gilliland, Todd Gilliland to compete in three-generation race". Los Angeles Daily News. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
External links
- Butch Gilliland driver statistics at Racing-Reference
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