Dwayne Leik

Dwayne Leik
Dwayne Leik
Born February 9, 1964 (1964-02-09) (age 47)
United States Skyland, North Carolina
NASCAR Nationwide Series career
2006 position 128th
Best finish 79th - 2002
First race 2001 Carquest Auto Parts 250 (Gateway)
Last race 2009 Meijer 300 Presented By Oreo (Kentucky)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0
Statistics current as of June 28, 2006.

Dwayne Leik of Asheville, North Carolina was born February 9, 1964. He is currently an owner of Leik Motorsports and a part time driver in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. He formerly worked as the business manager for Marcis Racing and legendary NASCAR driver Dave Marcis. Dwayne was able to secure racing sponsorship for Marcis for eleven consecutive seasons and he is widely regarded as the key figure in resurrecting Marcis’ faltering career. Since Marcis Racing did not have a test team, Dwayne’s car was often seen as a test car for Marcis Racing. Dwayne also accompanied Marcis and participated in the IROC (International Race of Champions) test sessions. He once logged over 1,100 miles in an IROC car at Daytona in a single day test. He has also served as a driving instructor at the Fast Track High Performance Driving School and Richard Petty Driving School.

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Early Racing Career

Began racing career with SCCA racing in Florida. Also a veteran of Late Model Stock divisions.

ARCA Racing

In 13 career ARCA RE/MAX Series starts had 1 top 5, 2 top 10, 8 top 20 finishes. Finished 10th at Charlotte in first ever ARCA race, best finish 4th at Pococno.

NASCAR career

Dwayne purchased 2 NASCAR Nationwide series cars from Andy Petree Racing. Under funding and time limitations have always plagued his career. Through his career he qualified and started in 14 NASCAR Nationwide series races with his best finishes coming at Chicagoland Speedway where he finished 24th twice. His Nationwide career earnings are 247,723.00. One race of note that typifies his career and character is when he qualified a car for Davis Motorsports in 2008 at the biggest race of the year, Daytona, only to give up his starting spot to the owner’s son Kertus whose car did not make the race. “This is a small father and son operation and they didn’t put in all of those long hours to watch me race one of their cars while Kertus sat out... It doesn’t matter to me if I qualified it; Kertus deserves to be in their own car... it’s the right thing."

In 2006, Dwayne partnered with Keith Duesenberg to form Duesenberg and Leik Motorsports. The team ran the full 2006 NASCAR Nationwide season with driver Jay Sauter and sponsor Western Union. In the year of the “Bushwhackers” (half the field being Sprint Cup drivers) the team posted 3 top 10, 6 top 15, and 13 top 20 finishes. The team’s best qualifying efforts were 2nd at Martinsville, 6th at California and 7th at Richmond. The team earned 751,219. in purse money. Dwayne ran one race for the team – Daytona.

Sprint Cup Series

In 2002, Dwayne qualified a Marcis Auto Racing car #72 in the Sprint Cup Series for the Daytona twin 125’s only to be sidelined during the race with mechanical problems.

Business Ventures

Dwayne is owner of Leik Motorsports, Inc. – NASCAR racing team; Motorsports Marketing, Inc. – NASCAR marketing company; Mobile Marketing Displays, Inc. – mobile marketing exhibits; Leik Incorporated – real estate holding company; Mountain Construction Company, Inc. – residential and commercial construction company; Norman’s Ice Cream Service, Inc. – mobile ice cream business

Other

Dwayne graduated from the University of Michigan. He rowed on the university crew team for 4 years. Post college, he continued to row and is a 3 time U.S. National Rowing Champion.

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