David Ragan

David Ragan
Born	December 24, 1985 (1985-12-24) (age 25) Unadilla, Georgia
Awards	2007 NASCAR Busch Series Rookie of the Year
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career
Car no., team	6 – Roush Fenway Racing
2010 position	24th
Best finish	13th – 2008
First race	2006 Dover 400 (Dover)
First win	2011 Coke Zero 400 Powered by Coca-Cola (Daytona)
Wins Top tens Poles 1 27 2
NASCAR Nationwide Series career
Best finish	4th – 2008
First race	2004 Ford 300 (Homestead)
First win	2009 Aaron's 312 (Talladega)
Last win	2009 Food City 250 (Bristol)
Wins Top tens Poles 2 45 2
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career
Best finish	24th – 2006
First race	2004 O'Reilly 400K (Texas)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 8 1
Statistics current as of April 9, 2011.

David Ragan, (born December 24, 1985), is an American NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race car driver. He has previously driven the #6 Roush Fenway Racing ford, but is currently looking for a ride for the 2012 season. He is known to reside in Huntersville, North Carolina.^[1]

Ragan was born in Unadilla, Georgia, the son of former racer Ken Ragan, and began his racing career racing in the Bandolero Series at age 12. Four years later, he began competing in the Goody’s Dash Series with Cam Strader. After one year, he moved to the Legends Pro-Division to race for Mark Martin. He concluded the season by finishing fourth in the point standings. At age 18, Ragan began racing in the Camping World Truck Series, Nationwide Series, and the ARCA Racing Series.

In 2007, he moved the Sprint Cup Series, driving for Roush Fenway Racing. Between 2007 and 2011, he has recorded 22 top-tens in the series.

On July 2, 2011, David Ragan won his first career NASCAR Sprint Cup series race, the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway.

Career

1996–2002

Ragan was born in Unadilla, Georgia in December 1985, the son of former racer, Ken Ragan.^[2] Ragan started his racing career in the Bandolero Series at age 12. During the following year, he managed to win twelve races and the National Championship. In 1999, he won the National Championship for the second time. In 2001, Ragan began racing in the Goody’s Dash Series with Cam Strader. During the season, the two built late models for Ragan to use in 2002. In 2002, he began racing in the Legends Pro-Division for Mark Martin. At the end of the season, he finished fourth in the final point standings.^[2]

2003–2006

David Ragan's #6 in 2007

At age 18, Ragan moved to the Craftsman Truck Series (now Camping World Truck Series), as well as the Busch Series (now Nationwide Series) and the ARCA Racing Series. During his first career start in the ARCA Series, he qualified in the second position, but failed to finish the race after having tire failure.^[1] His first race in the Craftsman Truck Series was at Texas Motor Speedway, where he qualified 28th and finished in the 20th position for Fiddleback Racing. During the season, he failed to qualify for one race, and failed to finished six of the ten races he participated in.^[3] Ragan also participated in one Busch Series race at Homestead Miami Speedway, finishing 31st, after starting 36th.^[4] In the following season, he participated in Roush Racing: Driver X as the co-driver of the number 6 Roush Fenway Racing Ford F-150 in the Truck Series. After participating in 19 events in the series, he recorded one top-five, eight top-ten finishes, and earned one pole position.^[1]

Also in 2005, Ragan participated in three Busch Series events,^[5] as well as 19 ARCA Racing Series events, where he managed to win one race, and record three pole positions, eight top-five and 11 top-ten finishes.^[6] During the 2006 season, he participated in three Busch Series events,^[7] and two Nextel Cup Series (now Sprint Cup Series) events.^[8] He also participated in 19 Truck Series events, where he recorded two pole positions, one top-five and eight top-ten finishes.^[9]

2007–2011

Ragan's car in the garage preparing for the 2009 Pep Boys Auto 500.

For the 2007 season, Ragan moved to the Nextel Cup Series as the driver of the number 6 Roush Fenway Racing Ford. He also participated for the NASCAR Rookie of the Year standings in both Nextel Cup and Busch Series, where he managed to finished second in the Nextel Cup Series, while winning the award in the Busch Series.^[2] During the Cup season, Ragan recorded two top-five finishes, with one being in the 2007 Daytona 500, and three top-tens, finishing 23rd in the point standings.^[10][11] During the Busch Series season, he earned two pole positions, four top-five and nine top-ten finishes, while finishing fifth in point standings.^[10][12] Also in 2007, he participated in one ARCA Racing Series event, where he managed to finish in the fourth position.^[13]

In 2008, he raced in the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series, as well as in two ARCA Racing Series events. In the Cup season, he recorded six top-five and 14 top-ten finishes, while finishing 13th in the final point standings. During the Nationwide season, he managed to get seven top-fives and 21 top-ten finishes. Ragan clinched fourth in the final point standings. One year later in 2009, he participated in only the Cup Series and the Nationwide Series. During the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, he recorded two top-ten finishes and finished 27th in the point standings. However, in the 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series season, he won two races, and earned five top-fives and 15 top-ten finishes, while finishing 18th in points.^[10]

During 2010, he only participated in the Sprint Cup Series. He recorded only three top-five finishes and finished 24th in points once the season concluded.^[2] In 2011, he began the year almost winning the Daytona 500, but he got penalized for moving lanes before he crossed the line on the restart with two laps to go.^[10] On May 21, 2011, he won the Sprint All-Star Showdown at Charlotte Motor Speedway, passing Brad Keselowski with two laps to go.

He won the Coke Zero 400 on July 2, 2011 for his first career Sprint Cup win. He was elgible to compete in the "wild card" to get himself into the chase. After bad finishes a few weeks before the final race before the chase at Richmond, he finished 4th but was 54 points away from 13th to put himself into a chase position.

As of November 20th, 2011, it is unlikely that Ragan will return with Roush Fenway Racing for next season. His full time sponsor, UPS, announced their departure from the #6 team earlier in the season. UPS will move over to the #99 car of Carl Edwards for 2012. Unless the organization can pick up a new full time sponsor for the car, they will likely run a number of part time drivers with part time sponsors. Those drivers could include Trevor Bayne and newly crowned Nationwide series champion Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Roush Fenway Racing – David Ragan Bio". Roushracing.com. 1985-12-24. http://roushracing.com/?q=driver/ragan-bio. Retrieved 2011-02-26. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d} "Biography". Davidragan.com. http://www.davidragan.com/biography.cfm. Retrieved 2011-02-26. 
3. ^ "David Ragan 2004 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-reference.info. http://racing-reference.info/drivdet/raganda01/2004/C. Retrieved 2011-02-26. 
4. ^ "David Ragan 2004 NASCAR Busch Series Results". Racing-reference.info. http://racing-reference.info/drivdet/raganda01/2004/B. Retrieved 2011-02-26. 
5. ^ "David Ragan 2005 NASCAR Busch Series Results". Racing-reference.info. http://racing-reference.info/drivdet/raganda01/2005/B. Retrieved 2011-02-26. 
6. ^ "David Ragan 2005 ARCA Re/Max Series Results". Racing-Reference.info. http://racing-reference.info/drivdet/raganda01/2005/A. Retrieved 2011-02-26. 
7. ^ "David Ragan 2006 NASCAR Busch Series Results". Racing-reference.info. http://racing-reference.info/drivdet/raganda01/2006/B. Retrieved 2011-02-26. 
8. ^ "David Ragan 2006 NASCAR Nextel Cup Results". Racing-reference.info. http://racing-reference.info/drivdet/raganda01/2006/W. Retrieved 2011-02-26. 
9. ^ "David Ragan 2006 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference.info. http://racing-reference.info/drivdet/raganda01/2006/C. Retrieved 2011-02-26. 
10. ^ ^{a b c d} "David Ragan Career Statistics". Racing-Reference.info. http://racing-reference.info/driver/David_Ragan. Retrieved 2011-02-26. 
11. ^ "David Ragan 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Results". Racing-Reference.info. http://racing-reference.info/drivdet/raganda01/2007/W. Retrieved 2011-02-26. 
12. ^ "David Ragan 2007 NASCAR Busch Series Results". Racing-Reference.info. http://racing-reference.info/drivdet/raganda01/2007/B. Retrieved 2011-02-26. 
13. ^ "David Ragan 2007 ARCA Re/Max Series Results". Racing-Reference.info. http://racing-reference.info/drivdet/raganda01/2007/A. Retrieved 2011-02-26. 

External links

• Official website
• David Ragan at Racing Reference

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Name	Ragan, David
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Date of birth	December 24, 1985
Place of birth	Unadilla, Georgia
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