Jack Pennington
Jack Pennington | |||||||
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Born | Augusta, Georgia, United States | September 3, 1953||||||
Achievements | 1998 National 100 Winner 1998 Blue-Gray 100 Winner | ||||||
Awards | National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame (2006) | ||||||
NASCAR Cup Series career | |||||||
16 races run over 2 years | |||||||
Best finish | 34th (1990) | ||||||
First race | 1989 AC Delco 500 (Rockingham) | ||||||
Last race | 1990 Atlanta Journal 500 (Atlanta) | ||||||
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NASCAR Xfinity Series career | |||||||
6 races run over 1 year | |||||||
Best finish | 47th (1989) | ||||||
First race | 1989 Goodwrench 200 (Rockingham) | ||||||
Last race | 1989 All Pro 300 (Charlotte) | ||||||
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Statistics current as of April 20, 2013. |
Jack Pennington (born September 3, 1953) is a dirt Late Model driver from Augusta, Georgia.
He was an ace in late model dirt track racing before he moved up to the Busch Series in 1989 making six starts, finishing with 2 top tens. He made his Winston Cup debut late in 1989, driving two races that year. He then ran fourteen races in 1990 in the No. 47 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme for Close Racing, he led in the 1990 Daytona 500 at one point with leading 6 laps in that race. He was second in the 1990 Rookie of the Year standings in controversial fashion (because the winner was posthumously awarded after being killed in a drunken driving incident returning home from the September North Wilkesboro round; NASCAR has since added a disciplinary rule that requires drivers to finish the season in good standing, which Pennington would have won the title under current rules). He never raced in NASCAR again after that year, returning to the Georgia dirt Late Model circuit, winning often over 20 features each year for the next decade.[1]
Career award
He was inducted in the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame in 2006.[2]
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.)
Winston Cup Series
NASCAR Winston Cup 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 | 27 | 28 | 29 | NWCC | Pts | Ref | |||||||||
1989 | Close Racing | 47 | Olds | DAY | CAR | ATL | RCH | DAR | BRI | NWS | MAR | TAL | CLT | DOV | SON | POC | MCH | DAY | POC | TAL | GLN | MCH | BRI | DAR | RCH | DOV | MAR | CLT | NWS | CAR 32 |
PHO | 75th | 91 | [3] | ||||||||||
Chevy | ATL 24 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1990 | Olds | DAY 25 |
RCH | CAR | ATL 30 |
DAR 20 |
BRI | NWS | MAR | TAL 11 |
CLT 20 |
DOV | SON | POC 21 |
MCH 38 |
DAY 18 |
POC | TAL 23 |
GLN | MCH 38 |
BRI | DAR 22 |
RCH DNQ |
DOV | MAR | NWS DNQ |
CLT 12 |
CAR 24 |
PHO | ATL 36 |
34th | 1278 | [4] |
Daytona 500
Year | Team | Manufacturer | Start | Finish |
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1990 | Close Racing | Oldsmobile | 23 | 25 |
Busch Series
NASCAR Busch 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 | 27 | 28 | 29 | NBGNC | Pts | Ref | ||||||
1989 | Close Racing | 01 | Buick | DAY | CAR 17 |
MAR | HCY | DAR 39 |
BRI | NZH | SBO | LAN | NSV | CLT 25 |
DOV 23 |
ROU | LVL | VOL | MYB | SBO | HCY | DUB | IRP | ROU | BRI | DAR 3 |
RCH | DOV | MAR | CLT 4 |
CAR | MAR | 47th | 553 | [5] |
References
- ^ NASCAR driving Stats, Retrieved March 19, 2007
- ^ Inductees in the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame, Retrieved March 19, 2007
- ^ "Jack Pennington – 1989 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 18, 2023.
- ^ "Jack Pennington – 1990 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 18, 2023.
- ^ "Jack Pennington – 1989 NASCAR Busch Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 18, 2023.
External links
- Jack Pennington driver statistics at Racing-Reference