- Coleman Pressley
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Coleman Pressley Born October 10, 1988
Asheville, North CarolinaNASCAR Nationwide Series career Car no., team #23 - R3 Motorsports 2009 position 93rd Best finish 93rd - 2009 First race 2009 U.S. Cellular 250 presented by Northland Oil and TMC Trucking (Iowa Speedway) Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0 Coleman Pressley born (October 10, 1988) is the 2010 UARA stars Champion and NASCAR driver who currently drives for the NASCAR Nationwide Series. He is also a NASCAR K&N pro series east driver for X-team racing in the #14 Kingsford Toyota He is also the son of former NASCAR Cup driver Robert Pressley and the grandson of Bob Pressley.[1]
Early career
Coleman began racing in karts as a 6 year old.[1] He then raced Bandoleros at Lowes Motor Speedway.[2] Pressley raced in legends cars before taking a year off.[2] In 2005 when he began racing late models at Hickory Motor Speedway.[2] He had four second place finishes to finish sixth in season points.[2] In 2006, he continued racing at Hickory with additional events at other tracks.[2] He scored his first late model victory in the second race of the season at Hickory.[2] With the victory, he began the youngest driver to win in the track's 55 year history.[2]
NASCAR career
His first race in the Nationwide Series in the #47 JTG Daugherty Racing at the Iowa Speedway and finished 41st.[3] He is currently racing for R3 Motorsports part time in the Nationwide Series. As of June 7, 2010, his best finish was a 12th place effort at Nashville Superspeedway, driving the #88 JR Motorsports Chevrolet.[3] He spent the rest of the season racing part time in the #23 car.
References
- ^ a b Hembree, Mike. "Father's experience helping Coleman Pressley navigate move into NASCAR". Scene Daily. http://www.scenedaily.com/news/articles/nationwideseries/Fathers_experience_helping_Coleman_Pressley_navigate_move_into_NASCAR.html.
- ^ a b c d e f g Hamilton, Mark (February 2009). "All in the Family: Carrying on the Pressley family racing tradition". Stock Car Racing magazine. http://www.stockcarracing.com/featurestories/scrp_0608_coleman_pressley/index.html. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
- ^ a b "Coleman Pressley Nationwide Series results". Yahoo!. http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/nationwide/drivers/2617.
Categories:- 1988 births
- American racecar drivers
- JR Motorsports drivers
- Living people
- NASCAR drivers
- People from Asheville, North Carolina
- Racecar drivers from North Carolina
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