Joey Scarallo
Scarallo at 2010 Nationwide Road America race
Born	(1978-11-29)29 November 1978 (age 46) Adelaide,Australia
NASCARXfinity Series career
2 races run over 1 year
Best finish	141st (2010)
First race	2010Bucyrus 200 (Road America)
Last race	2010Zippo 200 at the Glen (Watkins Glen)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0

Joey Scarallo (born 29 November 1978 inAdelaide,Australia) is a professional racing driver. At the age of three his family moved to Long Island, New York, where he currently still lives.

Scarallo started karting at age 11, winning multiple championships. It was around this time that he graduated from the Jim Hall Kart School. When he was 13 years old, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor and had to put his racing aspirations on hold.^{[citation needed]} After undergoing brain surgery he became a two-time national karting champion, winning two Duffy trophies, in theInternational Karting Federation (IKF.)

After being emancipated as a minor, Scarallo started his car racing career in the open-wheel ranks in the US Formula Ford 2000 Championship Series in 1996. The first race was at the newly builtWalt Disney World Speedway in a family owned 1995 Van Diemen. After a surprise outside pole qualifying position he led the first 9 laps of the race.Chris Economaki of Speed Sport News dubbed Scarallo the nextJeff Gordon.^{[citation needed]}

Scarallo ran in the USFF2000 Series in 1996, a part of 1997, and in 1998. In 2000, he ran six races in theToyota Atlantic Championship before making the jump to race in the Trans-Am Series in 2001. In 2007, he made the switch back to open wheel racing for one year, racing in the Indy Lights Series for a startup team.

It wasn't until 2002 that he joined theNorth American Trans-Am Championship. In February of that year, Scarallo was invited to drive forK&N Air Filters in a company development car, in the 24 Hours of Daytona. The car was an Ultima GTR. After breaking many times throughout the race, the car was finally retired during the night portion of the race. In 2004, Scarallo was hired to race in the 3-Hour Endurance race of Puerto Rico with teammate Jorge Diaz, another Trans-Am competitor. After qualifying on pole and leading every lap of the race Scarallo, became the very first American to win the event. 2005 was a very competitive year with many laps led, and a fifth place championship finish. TheTrans-Am Championship went on hiatus after 2006 and Scarallo moved over to run in theSCCA World Challenge in the GT class with a Pontiac GTO.

In 2010, he made hisNASCAR debut in theNationwide Series when he was hired by a team to run on theRoad America andWatkins Glen road courses helping them collect base prize money for qualifying and pulling out of the races early. Many lower budget NASCAR teams do this as a full-time revenue source, deriving the term "Start and Park".

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

• SCCA Pro Series ProfileArchived 29 September 2011 at theWayback Machine
• Joey Scarallo career summary at DriverDB.com
• Yahoo Nascar Profile
• Joey Scarallo driver statistics at Racing-Reference

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