Domenick Anthony “Donny” Lia | |||||||
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Born | Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | November 8, 1978||||||
Achievements | 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Race of Champions winner 2007, 2009 Whelen Modified Tour Champion | ||||||
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career | |||||||
First race | 2007 New Hampshire 200 (New Hampshire) | ||||||
Last race | 2010 Smith's 350 (Las Vegas) | ||||||
First win | 2008 Ohio 250 (Mansfield) | ||||||
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Statistics current as of September 20, 2022 2008). |
Domenick "Donny" Lia (born November 8, 1978) [1] is an American stock car racing driver. He won the 2007 and 2009 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour championships. He also won the Race of Champions Modified Tour races in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007. He has raced on the national level in the ARCA Re/Max Series (now ARCA Racing Series), Camping World Truck Series, and the Nationwide Series.
Lia owns several car dealerships in the Long Island area along with dealerships around Buffalo, Albany and Hartford areas. [2] Before he began his racing career, Lia competed in Sim-Racing against competitors all over the world, before the start of his career in 1999. He is also an 18-Time National and International Champion in the Radio-Controlled Model Racing Industry, and owns the largest RC On-Road Indoor Racetrack in the United States which he enjoys with his two sons, Michael and Domenick Jr. [2] After retiring in 2017, Lia took a five year hiatus from racing until he returned to the NASCAR Whelen Modified Series in 2022.
In 1999, Lia began racing a Legends car at Wall Stadium (Wall, New Jersey). [2] He won several times including the track's biggest event, the prestigious Turkey Derby. In 2000, Lia continued racing his Legends car with success all over the eastern United States, scoring over 20 wins. [3] He competed in the NASCAR Modified division at Riverhead Raceway (Riverhead, New York) and he won Rookie of the Year honors in 2001. [2] He also made his NASCAR Modified Tour debut at Martinsville Speedway. The 2002 season was spent gaining experience for a full-time move to the NASCAR Modified Tour in 2003.
He placed in the top ten in NASCAR Featherlite Modified Series (previous name of the Whelen Modified Tour) points in 2003 on his way to another Rookie of the Year award. He claimed five poles in 2004, more than any other competitor, which earned him the Bud Pole Award. He also competed on the Race of Champions Modified Tour, taking a big victory in the second-annual North-South Shootout at Concord Motorsport Park in North Carolina. Lia continued racing his Modifieds in 2005, winning two Whelen Modified Tour races and finishing sixth in WMT season points.
In 2006, he was given his first opportunity to race in a non-modified stock car. He practiced and qualified for the Nashville Superspeedway event in the ARCA series. He won one event on the Whelen Modified Tour and two pole positions, and he won three unsanctioned events.
The next season (2007), he was signed by legendary Nascar team owner Bob Garbarino, to drive the iconic Mystic Missile out of Mystic, Ct. They went on to have one of the most dominant seasons in NASCAR’s modern era (to that point)- winning 6 Whelen Modified Tour races including the events at Martinsville, 2 at Stafford, Thompson, New Hampshire, and Riverhead. [2] He clinched the season points championship before the final race. [3] On September 15, 2007 he made his first appearance in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. He raced in the Bill Davis Racing No. 36 Toyota at New Hampshire, finishing 20th.
Lia had been set to drive for HT Motorsports in the No. 59 Toyota in late 2007, and drove at Homestead hoping for a full 2008 season. However, sponsorship did not pan out, and instead joined The Racer's Group (TRG) for the 2008 season, driving Kevin Buckler's No. 71 The Racer's Group/Nationrides.com/Zurich North America Chevrolet Silverado starting at Auto Club Speedway (he was ineligible to race at Daytona because of minimum driver proficiency rules, with Mike Bliss running the race). [2] [4] He had his first Top 10 finish at Martinsville Speedway when he finished ninth. He scored his first Craftsman Truck Series win at Mansfield in the Ohio 250 on May 24, 2008 by nudging race leader David Starr out of the way on the final lap. He was the first rookie to win a Truck Series event since Carl Edwards in the 2003 season. He was the also the first driver from Riverhead, New York to win a NASCAR national series race since Steve Park's final Cup Series win in 2001. [2] Late in the season, Lia resigned from TRG, and signed to drive for Randy Moss Motorsports for seven of the final eight races of the season. [5]
Lia returned to the Mystic Missile in the Whelen Modified Tour in 2009, winning four times and winning his second championship. [3] He drove a part-time schedule in the No. 07 and No. 21 Chevrolet Silverados for SS-Green Light Racing in the Truck Series in 2010. [3] He then ran three truck races for Stringer Motorsports near the end of the season. [6]
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
NASCAR Nationwide Series results | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | NNSC | Pts | Ref |
2009 | SK Motorsports | 07 | Toyota | DAY | CAL | LVS | BRI | TEX | NSH | PHO | TAL | RCH | DAR | CLT 43 | DOV | NSH | KEN | MLW | NHA | DAY | CHI | GTY | IRP | IOW | GLN | MCH | BRI | CGV | ATL | RCH | DOV | KAN | CAL | CLT | MEM | TEX | PHO | HOM | 150th | 34 | [7] |
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | NCWTC | Pts | Ref | |||||||||||||
2007 | Bill Davis Racing | 36 | Toyota | DAY | CAL | ATL | MAR | KAN | CLT | MFD | DOV | TEX | MCH | MLW | MEM | KEN | IRP | NSH | BRI | GTW | NHA 20 | LVS | TAL | MAR | ATL | TEX | PHO | 75th | 191 | [8] | ||||||||||||||
HT Motorsports | 59 | Toyota | HOM 25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008 | TRG Motorsports | 71 | Chevy | DAY | CAL 26 | ATL 20 | MAR 9 | KAN 12 | CLT 34 | MFD 1 | DOV 17 | TEX 19 | MCH 12 | MLW 22 | MEM 26 | KEN 20 | IRP 9 | NSH 16 | BRI 12 | GTW | 18th | 2466 | [9] | |||||||||||||||||||||
Randy Moss Motorsports | 81 | Chevy | NHA 29 | LVS 10 | TAL | MAR 28 | ATL 17 | TEX 14 | PHO 16 | HOM 16 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2010 | SS-Green Light Racing | 21 | Dodge | DAY 30 | 21st | 1500 | [10] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
07 | Chevy | ATL 16 | MAR | NSH 22 | KAN | DOV 19 | CLT 26 | TEX | IOW 26 | GTY | IRP | DAR 25 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dodge | MCH 13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Chevy | POC 22 | NSH 12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
07 | Toyota | BRI 30 | CHI | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stringer Motorsports | 90 | Toyota | KEN 18 | NHA 12 | LVS 28 | MAR | TAL | TEX | PHO | HOM |
NASCAR Busch North Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | NBNSC | Pts | Ref | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2005 | Solhem Racing | 00 | Chevy | STA | HOL | ERI | NHA | WFD | ADI | STA | DUB | OXF | NHA 28 | DOV | LRP | TMP | 59th | 79 | [11] |
NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour results | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Car owner | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | NSWMTC | Pts | Ref | ||
2011 | John Lukosavage | 01 | Chevy | CRW | HCY | SBO | CRW | CRW | BGS | BRI | CRW | LGY | THO 8 | TRI | CRW | CLT | CRW | 31st | 147 | [12] |
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
ARCA Racing Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | ARSC | Pts | Ref | |||||||||||||||
2006 | Hagans Racing | 9 | Dodge | DAY | NSH 37 | SLM | WIN | KEN 41 | TOL | POC | MCH | KAN | KEN | BLN | POC | GTW | NSH | MCH | ISF | MIL | TOL | DSF | CHI | SLM | TAL | IOW | 155th | 75 | [13] | |||||||||||||||
2010 | Venturini Motorsports | 55 | Toyota | DAY | PBE | SLM | TEX | TAL | TOL | POC | MCH | IOW | MFD | POC 39 | BLN | NJE | ISF | CHI | DSF | TOL | SLM | KAN | CAR | 138th | 35 | [14] |
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