Dominique Van Wieringen
Dominique Van Wieringen | |||||||
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Born | Amherstburg, Ontario | June 22, 1995||||||
Achievements | 2019 Springport Motor Speedway Modified Track Champion Most laps led for a woman in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East (150) First woman to win a JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour race (2013, Lucas Oil) 2012 Springport Motor Speedway Outlaw Super Late Model Track Champion | ||||||
NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series career | |||||||
1 race run over 1 year | |||||||
2016 position | 76th | ||||||
Best finish | 76th (2016) | ||||||
First race | 2016 Lucas Oil 150 (Phoenix) | ||||||
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Statistics current as of October 23, 2019. |
Dominique Van Wieringen (born June 22, 1995) is a Canadian professional stock car racing driver. She currently competes full-time at Springport Motor Speedway, driving the No. 7 Chevrolet for Van Wieringen Racing.
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Racing career
Early career
Van Wieringen began racing motocross at the age of five and eventually moved to kart racing. In 2011, she made the transition to full-sized race cars and scored a feature win at Spartan Speedway in Mason, MI. The following season, she won the Outlaw Super Late Model Championship at Springport Motor Speedway. Moving to the JEGS/CRA All-Star Series in 2013, Van Wieringen became the first female to win on the All-Stars Tour on September 22, 2013 at Lucas Oil Raceway.[1]
Van Wieringen signed with NEMCO Motorsports for the 2015 season, running super late models in various CRA Super Series and CARS-Tour events, occasionally as a teammate to John Hunter Nemechek. After modest success, including leading several races and earning a few top-5s, along with some frustrations,[2] Van Wieringen signed with Mark Rette to drive full-time in the K&N Pro Series East for 2016.
K&N Pro Series East
After signing on with RJR, she would have a less than desirable rookie season, despite qualifying on one of the front two rows for six out of the first eight races and leading at Mobile and Stafford Motor Speedway, Van Wieringen only mustered a best finish of tenth through the first eleven races, however she would go on a hot streak in the final 3 races reeling off three consecutive top 5 finishes to round out the year. She was awarded an honorable mention in the "Breakout Driver" category for her rookie campaign.[3]
In 2017, she returned to Rette Jones Racing for one K&N Pro Series East race, finishing third at Langley Speedway.
Camping World Truck Series
Following the conclusion of the 2016 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East season, Van Wieringen made her debut in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series at Phoenix International Raceway for Young's Motorsports although the truck was a Rette Jones Racing truck, while running 15th on lap 26 she was shoved into turn 1 by Austin Wayne Self which would force her into Tommy Joe Martins and end her night early, she would finish 31st.[4]
Return to racing
In 2018 Van Wieringen would make a return to racing while being an intern engineer for Joe Gibbs Racing in Modified’s at Corrigan Oil Speedway where she would score the pole and lead every lap up until a left front tire blew taking her out for the rest of the night.
In 2019 she would run the full schedule at Springport Motor Speedway for 5 races, in all 5 races she would win and take home the Track Championship.
Personal life
Van Wieringen is a Mechanical engineering student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.[1] Her younger brother, Tristan, is also a former race car driver and her dad Murray owns DuroByte Motorsports a Super Late Model Driver development program which currently fields the No. 5 Ford Fusion for Michael Clancy.[5]
Motorsports career results
NASCAR
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
Camping World Truck Series
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 | NCWTC | Pts | ||||||||||||||||
2016 | Young's Motorsports | 02 | Ford | DAY | ATL | MAR | KAN | DOV | CLT | TEX | IOW | GTW | KEN | ELD | POC | BRI | MCH | MSP | CHI | NHA | LVS | TAL | MAR | TEX | PHO 31 |
HOM | 76th | 2 |
K&N Pro Series East
NASCAR K&N Pro Series East results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | NKNPSEC | Pts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016 | Rette Jones Racing | 30 | Ford | NSM 10 |
MOB 20 |
GRE 16 |
BRI 11 |
VIR 18 |
DOM 24 |
STA 16 |
COL 13 |
NHA 27 |
IOW 10 |
GLN 16 |
GRE 3 |
NJM 5 |
DOV 3 |
9th | 429 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2017 | NSM | GRE | BRI | SBO | SBO | MEM | BLN | TMP | NHA | IOW | GLN | LGY 3 |
NJM | DOV | 41st | 41 |
* Season still in progress
1 Ineligible for series points
References
- ^ a b "Dominique's Story". Dominique Van Wieringen Racing. Retrieved December 17, 2016.
- ^ "Take that! Driver kicks and punches her own car after wreck". FoxSports. October 20, 2015.
- ^ "Best of 2016: K&N Pro Series East". NASCAR. 2016-12-28.
- ^ "Dominique Van Wieringen to make NASCAR Truck debut at Phoenix". Motorsport.com. November 8, 2016.
- ^ "17-Year-Old Tristan Van Wieringen To Make First JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Start Of 2015". CRA-Racing.com. August 5, 2015.
External links
- Official website
- Dominique Van Wieringen driver statistics at Racing-Reference