Scott Wimmer
Wimmer in 2009
Born	Scott Allan Wimmer (1976-01-26)January 26, 1976 (age 49) Wausau, Wisconsin, U.S.
Awards	1997USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series Late Model Rookie of the Year
NASCARCup Series career
111 races run over 9 years
2011 position	64th
Best finish	27th (2004)
First race	2000NAPA 500 (Atlanta)
Last race	2011Lenox Industrial Tools 301 (Loudon)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 3 0
NASCARXfinity Series career
226 races run over 10 years
2011 position	25th
Best finish	3rd (2002)
First race	2000Sam's Town 250 (Memphis)
Last race	2011OneMain Financial 200 (Dover)
First win	2002MBNA All-American Heroes 200 (Dover)
Last win	2008Pepsi 300 (Nashville)
Wins Top tens Poles 6 74 1
NASCARCraftsman Truck Series career
3 races run over 2 years
2009 position	62nd
Best finish	62nd (2009)
First race	2007Ford 200 (Homestead)
Last race	2009WinStar World Casino 350K (Texas)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
Statistics current as of February 17, 2013.

Scott Allan Wimmer (born January 26, 1976) is an American former professionalstock car racing driver. He has a total of six wins in the Xfinity Series. His brotherChris Wimmer competed in theBusch Series. Wimmer co-owns State Park Speedway inWausau, Wisconsin.^[1]

Wimmer competed in the United States National Junior Olympics in downhill and slalom skiing at age 14, and finished 13th of the 150 competitors. His father began as the owner of his uncle Larry Detjens' racing team.^[2] Detjens was a champion late model racer who competed atSlinger Super Speedway andWisconsin International Raceway. Detjens had a race named after him after his death in 1981.

Wimmer started racing at State Park Speedway inWausau,Wisconsin in 1991 at age 15. He moved up through the ranks, and became a well-known driver in the Midwest. He moved down south, and in 1997 was the Rookie of the Year in the Hooters Cup late model series. He later finished second for the Rookie of the Year in theAmerican Speed Association (ASA) series in 2000. He began the season with no sponsor for his family-owned team, but was able to run the full season after winning the first two races of the year. He also made his Winston Cup debut.

Wimmer made his NASCAR debut in 2000, when he was signed to drive the No. 20AT&T-sponsoredPontiac Grand Prix forBill Davis Racing in the Busch Series. After failing to qualify for his first race atNorth Carolina Speedway, he finished 18th in his debut at Memphis, followed by a 19th-place finish at Phoenix. He also made his Winston Cup debut at Atlanta, driving a car he had originally intended to drive at anARCA RE/MAX Series race that weekend. The qualifying session was rained out for that race, and he was able to take his No. 23 car and enter in the Cup race. He finished 22nd and led nine laps in that race.

He was named Davis' permanent driver of the No. 23Jani-King-sponsored Pontiac in the2001. He had two Top 5 finishes, eight Top 10 finishes and finished 11th in points, second toGreg Biffle forthe Rookie of the Year title. The team only had a sponsorship fromSiemens for half of the races in2002, and many rumors circulated that the team would shut down. The team remained open, and Wimmer won four races in the fall of that season atDover,Memphis,Phoenix, andHomestead, and finished third in points. Davis was able to get Siemens sponsorship for Wimmer to run seven races in a No. 27 car in the Cup Series, but Wimmer was only able to make two of them. He also substituted in the No. 23Hills Brothers Coffee-sponsored car at Talladega earning a season's best finish of 17th.

Wimmer got full-time sponsorships fromStacker 2, YJ Stinger, andStamina Rx in2003, but after losing crew chiefBootie Barker and switching to Chevrolet, he won only one race atPikes Peak with four Top 5 finishes, 12 Top 10s, and finished ninth in points. Wimmer ran two races in the No. 27 YJ Stinger-sponsored Chevrolet finishing 24th in both races atBristol andNew Hampshire. With four races left in the2003 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Wimmer was promoted to drive Bill Davis Racing's No. 22Caterpillar Inc.-sponsored Dodge. In his second race in the No. 22, he earned his first Cup Series Top 10 finish (a ninth) atPhoenix.

At the end of the season, Wimmer was named the full-time driver for2004 in the No. 22Caterpillar-sponsoredDodge. Before the 2004 season, he was arrested inHigh Point, North Carolina fordriving while intoxicated. He was later convicted and sentenced toprobation and 24-hour community service. He began the year with a very strong performance at theDaytona 500, and appeared in contention to win after the final set of pit stops, but without drafting help, Wimmer was easily overtaken byDale Earnhardt Jr. andTony Stewart, and ended up finishing third. After this, despite leading laps at a number of other races, Wimmer only had one other Top 10 atDover and finished 27th in points, due in part for failing to qualify for one race. The Davis team struggled in 2004; the Cup operation was reduced to only one car and the season was plagued with a lawsuit from Dodge.^[3] He ran the full season again in2005, but did not finish higher than 11th in a race that season. He was dismissed from Bill Davis Racing by mail at the end of the season after only managing to squander up a 32nd in the point standings. The nature of his firing later led to a lawsuit against Bill Davis Racing.^[4]

Wimmer joinedMorgan-McClure Motorsports in 2006 to drive their No. 4Aero Exhaust-sponsored Chevrolet. Due to nonpayment, the team lost sponsorship from Aero during the summer of the 2006 season, and Wimmer subsequently left the team following the race atKansas Speedway. Wimmer then joined withRichard Childress Racing as a test driver for the remainder of the season and was signed to drive for the2007 Busch Series season. Wimmer drove the final Cup race of the 2006 season atHomestead-Miami Speedway in the No. 33Holiday Inn-sponsoredChevrolet earning a season-best finish of 12th. In all, Wimmer missed 12 Cup races in 2006, and finished 38th in points. That year he also drove in 16 races, part-time, in the Busch Series for the No. 66Duraflame/Yard-Man/United States Postal Service-sponsoredFord Taurus withBrewco Motorsports He also drove three races forFitz Bradshaw Racing, two in the No. 14Family Dollar-sponsoredDodge and one in the No. 12Goulds Pumps-sponsoredDodge. Wimmer had four top-ten finishes, culminating the Busch season 29th in points.

In2007, he joinedRichard Childress Racing. He competed in 22 races between the No. 21AutoZone-sponsored Chevy (6 races) and No. 29Holiday Inn-sponsored Chevy (16 races). He also drove one race forKHI atFontana in Harvick's #77Dollar General-sponsoredChevrolet (12th). He won his first career pole atGateway International Raceway and had seven Top 5 finishes and 14 Top 10 finishes. Wimmer finished 14th in points despite his limited schedule. Wimmer shared the No. 29 car withJeff Burton and with Burton's five wins, twelve top-five finishes and seventeen top-ten finishes combined with Wimmer's finishes, the No. 29 team won the 2007 Busch Series Owner's Championship. At the time, it was only the second instance inBusch Series history that the Drivers' and Owners' Championships were not won by the same team. In theNextel Cup Series, Wimmer attempted one race in the No. 78Furniture Row Racing car atMichigan and five races for Childress in his No. 33Chevrolet with sponsorships fromHoliday Inn (4 races) andCamping World (1 race). He only qualified for one race (Indianapolis), finishing 31st after a pit road accident damaged his car.

In 2008, Wimmer increased his second-tier schedule by running 22 races in the No. 29Holiday Inn-sponsoredChevrolet and one in the No. 21Prilosec-sponsoredChevrolet for Childress in newly renamed2008 NASCAR Nationwide Series. Wimmer picked up a win atNashville, his first win since 2003. It was also his 6th and final career victory in the Series. Wimmer also had five top-five finishes and thirteen top-ten finishes helping the No. 29 finish fifth in Owner's Points while Wimmer ended up 17th in points, running only a part-time schedule. Wimmer also attempted one race in the2008 Sprint Cup Series, failing to make the race atRichmond in the No. 33Camping World-sponsoredChevrolet forRichard Childress Racing.

Due to the lack of a sponsorship, he was released from Childress and he spent the 2009 season splitting time between the No. 5 Fastenal-sponsored Chevy forJR Motorsports in six races and the No. 40StopRepairBills.com/Westerman Companies Chevy forKey Motorsports in the majority of races in the Nationwide Series. He would end up with three Top 10's and finished 16th in Driver Points. Wimmer also returned toMorgan-McClure Motorsports in theSprint Cup Series driving one race atBristol in the No. 4Alpha Natural Resources-sponsoredChevrolet finishing 29th. Wimmer failed to make the race for MMM atDover. Outside of his NASCAR endeavors, Wimmer and his father bought and made major improvements to State Park Speedway in Wausau, WI, in the fall of 2009.

In 2010, Wimmer decided to only drive high quality equipment in theNationwide Series. Because of this, Wimmer started the season without a ride. He got a two race ride withJR Motorsports in the No. 7 Chevrolet at Bristol and Nashville. He was able to get finishes of 10th and seventh respectively. Wimmer then earned a three race ride withBaker Curb Racing in the No. 27Red Man-sponsored Ford. His best finish with them was a seventh atKentucky Speedway. Any hopes to continue with them ended when their Red Man sponsorship expired. Wimmer spent most of the rest of the season without a ride but was able to get a one race deal withTurner Motorsports (NASCAR). He drove the No. 10 AccuDoc Solutions-sponsoredToyota atGateway International Raceway but crashed out. In 2010, Wimmer had three Top 10 finishes in six races and led laps in five of the races he ran.

Wimmer started the 2011Nationwide Series season driving the No. 40 forKey Motorsports earning a best finish of 12th atTalladega before leaving after the 11th race due to the lack of a sponsorship. After leaving, Wimmer drove three races for the No. 70 ofML Motorsports with twice a best finish of 15th, both at races atIowa Speedway. He also drove one race each for No. 87Nemco Motorsports atNashville Speedway (Finished 13th), No. 40Key Motorsports atBristol Motor Speedway (Finished 24th) and No. 81McDonald Motorsports atChicagoland Speedway (Finished 30th). In addition to these full race rides, Wimmer start and parked a few races forR3 Motorsports (1 race),Key Motorsports (2 races) and McDonald Motorsports (1 race). Despite only running 21 of 34 races, Wimmer used six Top 20 finishes to help him to finish 25th in points.

Wimmer was also able to run a fewSprint Cup Series races in 2011 forRobby Gordon Motorsports. Wimmer substituted for Gordon in the No. 7Speed Energy-sponsoredDodge atDover International Speedway,Pocono Raceway,Kentucky Speedway andNew Hampshire Motor Speedway; earning a best finish of 27th at New Hampshire. In addition, Wimmer attempted to qualify a second Speed Energy-sponsored car (#77) atCharlotte Motor Speedway andIndianapolis Motor Speedway but he failed to qualify for either race.

In 2012, Wimmer partnered with Russ Blakeley, Jim Budzinski and Kurt Wise to formWild Motorsports. The team ran the ASA Midwest Tour race at theMilwaukee Mile in June and announced plans to run theNationwide Series starting with the September race at Richmond with the goal of running the full 2013 schedule. The team was never able to obtain sponsorship and never attempted a race. During 2012, Wimmer took the position of driver coach/spotter for up and coming driverCody Coughlin, who ran a variety of short track series. Wimmer continued in 2013 to be a spotter/coach for Coughlin and helped him to two wins and the championship in theJEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour.

In early 2014, Coughlin was signed byJoe Gibbs Racing to a driver development contract. Coughlin ran a limited schedule in his Team JEGS Late Model in theARCA/CRA Super Series and withVenturini Motorsports in theARCA Racing Series in the No. 55JEGS High Performance-sponsoredToyota. Coughlin ran 11 races with three Top 5s, 8 Top 10s and a best finish of 4th. Wimmer continued his role as spotter/coach to Coughlin in both series along with runningState Park Speedway.

On July 26, Wimmer returned to driving when he drove Coughlin's No. 1 JEGS Late Model in the 34th annual Larry Detjens Memorial 125 at his State Park Speedway. He started 16th and finished 13th.

Wimmer continued to help guide Coughlin in 2015. Coughlin drove the No. 55JEGSToyota in theARCA Racing Series forVenturini Motorsports in 6 races winning poles atTalladega andChicagoland with a best finish of 2nd at Talladega. Coughlin made hisCamping World Truck Series debut for Venturini in the No. 25 JEGSToyota atKentucky finishing 20th. Coughlin would joinKyle Busch Motorsports in August, driving their No. 54 atMichigan to a 20th-place finish.

Wimmer remained Coughlin's spotter/coach in 2016 when he drove 9 races forKyle Busch Motorsports in their No. 51 (8 races) and No. 18 (1 race) trucks and 1 race forAthenian Motorsports (No. 05) in theCamping World Truck Series. He had a best finish of 12th atTexas. Coughlin also was able to win championships in the ARCA/CRA Super Series and JEGS/CRA All-Star Tour.^[5]

Wimmer and Coughlin's association would end in January 2017 when Coughlin joinedThorSport Racing. ThorSport's former driverTerry Cook assumed the role of spotter/coach for Coughlin when he joined the team.^[6]

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

¹ Ineligible for series championship points.

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

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