Stacy Compton | |||||||
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Born | Stacy Marshall Compton May 26, 1967 Hurt, Virginia, United States | ||||||
Awards | 1998 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Most Popular Driver | ||||||
NASCAR Cup Series career | |||||||
89 races run over 7 years | |||||||
2012 position | 56th | ||||||
Best finish | 33rd (2001) | ||||||
First race | 1996 Goody's Headache Powder 500 (Martinsville) | ||||||
Last race | 2012 Pocono 400 (Pocono) | ||||||
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NASCAR Xfinity Series career | |||||||
173 races run over 6 years | |||||||
Best finish | 9th (2002) | ||||||
First race | 2001 GNC Live Well 300 (Homestead) | ||||||
Last race | 2006 Ford 300 (Homestead) | ||||||
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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career | |||||||
158 races run over 10 years | |||||||
Best finish | 4th (1999) | ||||||
First race | 1997 Chevy Trucks Challenge (Disney) | ||||||
Last race | 2010 Lucas Oil 150 (Phoenix) | ||||||
First win | 1998 Craftsman 200 by NAPA (Portland) | ||||||
Last win | 1998 Lund Look 275K (Topeka) | ||||||
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Statistics current as of June 9, 2012. |
Stacy Marshall Compton (born May 26, 1967) [1] is a NASCAR former team owner and former driver. He is a former co-owner of Bobby Hamilton Racing-Virginia in the Craftsman Truck Series and is a former racing analyst for ESPN full-time. Before he ran in NASCAR, Compton was a successful short track racer in Virginia.
Compton was born in Hurt, Virginia, and grew up racing in Virginia with his focus on late models in local racing divisions. Eventually, he moved up to the NASCAR Winston 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. In 1996, 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 the Goody's Headache Powder 500 at Martinsville Speedway in the Winston 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.
In 1997, Compton signed up with a new team, Impact Motorsports, to run the No. 86 Ford F-150 for the NASCAR 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 the 1998 season, in the third race of the season held at Phoenix International Raceway, Compton won his first career pole position, and finished in third in the race. The next week at Portland Speedway, he led all but two laps and won his first career Truck Series race. He got another win later that season at Heartland Park Topeka. He finished seventh in the final points standings and was named the Most Popular Driver. Compton had high hopes for 1999 season as Impact switched to Dodge Rams and getting a teammate in Randy 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 for Melling Racing. Soon afterwards, Melling announced that Compton would driver their No. 9 Ford Taurus in the Winston Cup Series in 2000 season.
Compton struggled during his first year in the Cup series, as his best finish was 16th at New Hampshire International Speedway. In the summer Michigan race, he crashed during qualifying and suffered minor injuries. He was replaced by Bobby Hillin Jr. at the following event. Compton ended the year 38th in points.
In 2001, Melling switched the car's number and manufacture to 92 and Dodge and had a new crew chief with Chad Knaus. Compton started the season by qualifying on the outside pole next to Bill Elliott in the Daytona 500 and went on to score a 10th-place finish. At the next restrictor-plate race at Talladega 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 the 2002 season, Compton signed with A.J. Foyt Racing to drive the No. 14 Pontiac, replacing Ron Hornaday Jr. He had a best finish of 18th when his sponsor Conseco filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. He was let go after the New England 300. He returned to Melling for one race before competing in two for BAM Racing at the end of the season. His last career Cup start for nine years came in the 2003 Pepsi 400 for Morgan-McClure Motorsports.
In 2001 at the GNC Live Well 300, Compton made his Busch Series debut with JTG 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 in 2002.
Following the conclusion of the 2006 season, Compton was replaced by Marcos Ambrose and returned to the Truck Series, sharing the No. 09 Ford with Joey 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 for Key Motorsports and three for Xpress 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 at Bristol Motor Speedway the No. 4 team shut down, leaving Compton out of a job. He drove the No. 60 Toyota for Wyler 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 former Formula 1 driver Narain Karthikeyan and Red Bull development driver Cole 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 for Hispania Racing in F1, while Safe Auto left the team to sponsor ThorSport 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 at Bristol Motor Speedway in March [2] He himself would attempt to qualify the car at Texas Motor Speedway but failed to do so. However, Compton did later manage to get into the field for the Pocono 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 |
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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 | NBSC | Pts | Ref |
1999 | 28 | DAY | CAR | LVS | ATL | DAR | TEX | NSV | BRI | TAL | CAL | NHA | RCH | NZH | CLT | DOV | SBO | GLN DNQ | 161st | 0 | [11] | ||||||||||||||||||||
19 | MLW DNQ | MYB | PPR | GTY | IRP | MCH | BRI | DAR | RCH | DOV | CLT | CAR | MEM | PHO | HOM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2001 | ST Motorsports | 59 | Chevy | DAY | CAR | LVS | ATL | DAR | BRI | TEX | NSH | TAL | CAL | RCH | NHA | NZH | CLT | DOV | KEN | MLW | GLN | CHI | GTY | PPR | IRP | MCH | BRI | DAR | RCH | DOV | KAN | CLT | MEM | PHO | CAR | HOM 10 | 96th | 134 | [12] | ||
2002 | DAY 20 | CAR 22 | LVS 10 | DAR 10 | BRI 36 | TEX 11 | NSH 9 | TAL 2 | CAL 3 | RCH 12 | NHA 27 | NZH 13 | CLT 17 | DOV 21 | NSH 13 | KEN 17 | MLW 33 | DAY 10 | CHI 32 | GTY 31 | PPR 10 | IRP 16 | MCH 8 | BRI 34 | DAR 21 | RCH 18 | DOV 15 | KAN 12 | CLT 16 | MEM 2 | ATL 11 | CAR 5 | PHO 2 | HOM 13 | 9th | 4042 | [13] | ||||
2003 | DAY 38 | CAR 22 | LVS 15 | DAR 4 | BRI 15 | TEX 16 | TAL 32 | NSH 31 | CAL 21 | RCH 7 | GTY 6 | NZH 8 | CLT 18 | DOV 29 | NSH 28 | KEN 4 | MLW 9 | DAY 19 | CHI 19 | NHA 10 | PPR 6 | IRP 3 | MCH 17 | BRI 29 | DAR 8 | RCH 15 | DOV 12 | KAN 8 | CLT 23 | MEM 11 | ATL 23 | PHO 35 | CAR 16 | HOM 21 | 11th | 3893 | [14] | ||||
2004 | Ford | DAY 31 | CAR 20 | LVS 17 | DAR 15 | BRI 19 | TEX 28 | NSH 14 | TAL 23 | CAL 3 | GTY 20 | RCH 18 | NZH 12 | CLT 26 | DOV 17 | NSH 10 | KEN 19 | MLW 20 | DAY 42 | CHI 21 | NHA 8 | PPR 2 | IRP 18 | MCH 31 | BRI 11 | CAL 24 | RCH 32 | DOV 29 | KAN 9 | CLT 26 | MEM 16 | ATL 17 | PHO 23 | DAR 20 | HOM 15 | 14th | 3614 | [15] | |||
2005 | DAY 23 | CAL 16 | MXC 28 | LVS 38 | ATL 41 | NSH 10 | BRI 16 | TEX 23 | PHO 19 | TAL 25 | DAR 31 | RCH 39 | CLT 26 | DOV 15 | NSH 16 | KEN 8 | MLW 25 | DAY 13 | CHI 28 | NHA 33 | PPR 9 | GTY 20 | IRP 12 | GLN 27 | MCH 28 | BRI 15 | CAL 32 | RCH 16 | DOV 18 | KAN 29 | CLT 20 | MEM 22 | TEX 37 | PHO 17 | HOM 17 | 16th | 3345 | [16] | |||
2006 | DAY 27 | CAL 24 | MXC 43 | LVS 33 | ATL 27 | BRI 14 | TEX 22 | NSH 20 | PHO 26 | TAL 26 | RCH 37 | DAR 14 | CLT 30 | DOV 12 | NSH 19 | KEN 24 | MLW 6 | DAY 20 | CHI 20 | NHA 25 | MAR 15 | GTY 17 | IRP 12 | GLN 30 | MCH 41 | BRI 16 | CAL 18 | RCH 34 | DOV 20 | KAN 34 | CLT 3 | MEM 24 | TEX 22 | PHO 22 | HOM 17 | 16th | 3339 | [17] |
(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] |
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