Jack Pennington (born September 3, 1953) is a dirt Late Model driver from Augusta, Georgia.

He was an ace in late model dirt track racing before he moved up to the Busch Series in 1989 making six starts, finishing with 2 top tens. He made his Winston Cup debut late in 1989, driving two races that year. He then ran fourteen races in 1990 in the No. 47 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme for Close Racing, he led in the 1990 Daytona 500 at one point with leading 6 laps in that race. He was second in the 1990 Rookie of the Year standings in questionable situations since the winner was posthumously awarded after being killed in a drunken driving incident returning home from the September North Wilkesboro round with a .22 BAC, more than twice the legal limit. Under current rules, Pennington would have won Rookie of the year under a disciplinary rule NASCAR has since imposed requiring drivers to finish the season in good standing. He never raced in NASCAR again after that year, returning to the Georgia dirt Late Model circuit, winning often over 20 features each year for the next decade.[1]

Career award

He was inducted in the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame in 2006.[2]

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.)

Winston Cup Series

NASCAR Winston Cup Series results
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 NWCC Pts Ref
1989 Close Racing 47 Olds DAY CAR ATL RCH DAR BRI NWS MAR TAL CLT DOV SON POC MCH DAY POC TAL GLN MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR CLT NWS CAR
32 		PHO 75th 91 [3]
Chevy ATL
24
1990 Olds DAY
25 		RCH CAR ATL
30 		DAR
20 		BRI NWS MAR TAL
11 		CLT
20 		DOV SON POC
21 		MCH
38 		DAY
18 		POC TAL
23 		GLN MCH
38 		BRI DAR
22 		RCH
DNQ 		DOV MAR NWS
DNQ 		CLT
12 		CAR
24 		PHO ATL
36 		34th 1278 [4]
Daytona 500
Year Team Manufacturer Start Finish
1990 Close Racing Oldsmobile 23 25

Busch Series

NASCAR Busch Series results
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 NBGNC Pts Ref
1989 Close Racing 01 Buick DAY CAR
17 		MAR HCY DAR
39 		BRI NZH SBO LAN NSV CLT
25 		DOV
23 		ROU LVL VOL MYB SBO HCY DUB IRP ROU BRI DAR
3 		RCH DOV MAR CLT
4 		CAR MAR 47th 553 [5]

References

  1. ^ NASCAR driving Stats, Retrieved March 19, 2007
  2. ^ Inductees in the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame, Retrieved March 19, 2007
  3. ^ "Jack Pennington – 1989 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 18, 2023.
  4. ^ "Jack Pennington – 1990 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 18, 2023.
  5. ^ "Jack Pennington – 1989 NASCAR Busch Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 18, 2023.


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