| Stacy Compton | |||||||
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 Compton in 1997 | |||||||
| Born | Stacy Marshall Compton (1967-05-26)May 26, 1967 (age 57) Hurt, Virginia, U.S. | ||||||
| Awards | 1998NASCAR Craftsman Truck SeriesMost Popular Driver | ||||||
| NASCARCup Series career | |||||||
| 89 races run over 7 years | |||||||
| 2012 position | 56th | ||||||
| Best finish | 33rd (2001) | ||||||
| First race | 1996Goody's Headache Powder 500 (Martinsville) | ||||||
| Last race | 2012Pocono 400 (Pocono) | ||||||
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| NASCARXfinity Series career | |||||||
| 173 races run over 6 years | |||||||
| Best finish | 9th (2002) | ||||||
| First race | 2001GNC Live Well 300 (Homestead) | ||||||
| Last race | 2006Ford 300 (Homestead) | ||||||
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| NASCARCraftsman Truck Series career | |||||||
| 158 races run over 10 years | |||||||
| Best finish | 4th (1999) | ||||||
| First race | 1997Chevy Trucks Challenge (Disney) | ||||||
| Last race | 2010Lucas Oil 150 (Phoenix) | ||||||
| First win | 1998Craftsman 200 by NAPA (Portland) | ||||||
| Last win | 1998Lund Look 275K (Topeka) | ||||||
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| Statistics current as of June 9, 2012. | |||||||
Stacy Marshall Compton (born May 26, 1967)[1] is an AmericanNASCAR former team owner and former driver. He is a former co-owner ofBobby Hamilton Racing-Virginia in theCraftsman Truck Series and is a former racing analyst forESPN full-time. Before he ran in NASCAR, Compton was a successful short track racer in Virginia.
Compton was born inHurt, Virginia, and grew up racing in Virginia with his focus on late models in local racing divisions. Eventually, he moved up to the NASCARWinston Racing Series, and won 36 races in seven years of late model competition. During this time, Compton also hosted a TV show dedicated to covering Virginia races. In1996, Compton made his debut in a major NASCAR series driving for Dean Monroe, Monroe bought Alan Dillard team beginning 1996, when he qualified in 9th place for theGoody's Headache Powder 500 atMartinsville Speedway in theWinston Cup series. He finished 33rd that day after suffering brake failure. He ran one other race during his rookie season, the fall Martinsville event. He finished 33rd in that race as well.
In1997, Compton signed up with a new team,Impact Motorsports, to run the No. 86Ford F-150 for theNASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Rookie of the Year Award. During his initial Truck Series season, Compton had three Top 5 finishes and a 13th-place finish in the final points standings, but fell well short of the top rookie award. For the1998 season, in the third race of the season held atPhoenix International Raceway, Compton won his first career pole position, and finished in third in the race. The next week atPortland Speedway, he led all but two laps and won his first career Truck Series race. He got another win later that season atHeartland Park Topeka. He finished seventh in the final points standings and was named the Most Popular Driver. Compton had high hopes for1999 season as Impact switched toDodge Rams and getting a teammate inRandy Tolsma, but he failed to go to victory lane that season, although he did finish fourth in points. Late that season, Compton began competing in some Winston Cup races forMelling Racing. Soon afterwards, Melling announced that Compton would driver their No. 9Ford Taurus in the Winston Cup Series in2000 season.
Compton struggled during his first year in the Cup series, as his best finish was 16th atNew Hampshire International Speedway. In the summerMichigan race, he crashed during qualifying and suffered minor injuries. He was replaced byBobby Hillin Jr. at the following event. Compton ended the year 38th in points.
In2001, Melling switched the car's number and manufacture to 92 andDodge and had a new crew chief withChad Knaus. Compton started the season by qualifying on the outside pole next toBill Elliott in theDaytona 500 and went on to score a 10th-place finish. At the next restrictor-plate race atTalladega Superspeedway, he won his first career Cup pole position, but finished last due to mechanical issues. After winning a second career pole at Talladega, he was only able to improve his points position by five spots. At the end of the year, sponsorship problems at Melling forced him to look elsewhere for a job.
In the2002 season, Compton signed withA.J. Foyt Racing to drive the No. 14Pontiac, replacingRon Hornaday Jr. He had a best finish of 18th when his sponsorConseco filed forChapter 11 bankruptcy. He was let go after theNew England 300. He returned to Melling for one race before competing in two forBAM Racing at the end of the season. His last career Cup start for nine years came in the2003Pepsi 400 forMorgan-McClure Motorsports.
In 2001 at theGNC Live Well 300, Compton made his Busch Series debut withJTG Daugherty Racing, then known as ST Motorsports. He qualified 12th and finished 10th. For four consecutive seasons, Compton ran every Busch Series race with JTG. Although he did not win a Busch Series race, he has 33 career top-ten finishes and one pole position. His best points finish was a 9th in2002.
Following the conclusion of the 2006 season, Compton was replaced byMarcos Ambrose and returned to the Truck Series, sharing the No. 09 Ford withJoey Clanton for nine races. In 2006, Compton founded Turn One Racing, LLC, as a way of promoting talented young drivers in the southeastern United States. He made a total of fourteen starts that season, ten for Wood Brothers/JTG, as well as one forKey Motorsports and three forXpress Motorsports. He bought into Bobby Hamilton Racing in 2008, and was named driver of the No. 4 Dodge for the team during the season. After the race atBristol Motor Speedway the No. 4 team shut down, leaving Compton out of a job. He drove the No. 60 Toyota forWyler Racing in 2009, finishing with 8 top-tens and finishing 11th in points. Despite the new sponsorship, Jeff Wyler was unsure if the team would continue into 2010, so Compton and Turn One Racing bought the No. 60 from Wyler, though the team continued into 2010 under the Wyler Racing banner. Compton would split the No. 60 Truck with formerFormula 1 driverNarain Karthikeyan andRed Bull development driverCole Whitt, while also changing manufacturers to Chevrolet. Compton later took sole ownership of the team and renamed it Turn One Racing. Compton scored only five top tens and finished 20th in points. Karthikeyan left at the end of the year to drive forHispania Racing in F1, while Safe Auto left the team to sponsorThorSport Racing's No. 13 Truck.
2012 saw Compton expand his Truck Series team, Turn One Racing, into the Cup series with the No. 74 Chevrolet, starting atBristol Motor Speedway in March[2] He himself would attempt to qualify the car atTexas Motor Speedway but failed to do so. However, Compton did later manage to get into the field for thePocono 400 in June. He has not raced since then.[3]
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time.Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
| Year | Team | Manufacturer | Start | Finish |
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| 2000 | Melling Racing | Ford | 33 | 26 |
| 2001 | Dodge | 2 | 10 | |
| 2002 | A.J. Foyt Racing | Pontiac | 24 | 27 |
(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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| 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 | ABSC | Pts | Ref | |||||||||||||
| 1996 | Monroe Racing | 64 | Chevy | DAY | ATL | SLM | TAL | FIF | LVL | CLT | CLT | KIL | FRS | POC | MCH 12 | FRS | TOL | POC | MCH | INF | SBS | ISF | DSF | KIL | SLM | WIN | CLT | ATL | 131st | - | [29] | |||||||||||||
