Casey Kingsland

Casey Kingsland (born December 14, 1984) is an American professional stock car racing driver. The Las Vegas native has competed in four NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races, one for Mighty Motorsports and three for Pennington Motorsports.

Casey Kingsland
Born (1984-12-14) December 14, 1984
Las Vegas, Nevada
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career
4 races run over 5 years
2007 position102nd
Best finish70th (2006)
First race2005 Kroger 250 (Martinsville)
Last race2007 San Bernardino County 200 (Auto Club)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0
Statistics current as of September 7, 2019.

Racing career

Growing up as a native of Las Vegas, Nevada, Kingsland raced the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring, winning the track's Mini Cup division championship in 2000 at age 15. He also raced late models and super trucks at the track before breaking on to the national scene.[1]

For the 2003 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season, Kingsland and MLB Motorsports announced a five-race schedule for Kingsland in the No. 66 Dodge. The schedule included Kingsland's home track, Las Vegas Motor Speedway.[1] Kingsland hoped the limited schedule in 2003 would turn into a full-time schedule with the team in 2004.[2] He failed to qualify in his debut attempt at Lucas Oil Raceway in an eventful weekend that started with the team's truck having to be assembled at the track.[3] After the race, Kingsland and MLB convinced NASCAR to jump normal approval protocol and let Kingsland attempt a race at Bristol Motor Speedway with no prior NASCAR experience. The move was made in order to keep with normal approval protocol for other scheduled races at Richmond International Raceway and LVMS.[4] Kingsland left MLB before the attempt, and the team closed soon afterward. Kingsland hoped to race Martinsville Speedway, Phoenix International Raceway and Homestead-Miami Speedway to close out the 2003 season in an attempt to gain approval for the 2004 season-opening race at Daytona International Speedway,[5] though no attempts were ever made.

In 2004, Kingsland signed with startup team DCCS Motorsports, with funding from Langers Juices. Kingsland's first two attempts would come at Lucas Oil and Bristol, and if those went well, Kingsland would run Las Vegas and other races, but still keep his rookies status and make a run for Rookie of the Year in 2005.[6] After not being able to make a qualifying attempt in his first race due to an incomplete truck and being notified that a truck would not be ready for his second attempt, Kingsland left the team.[7]

Kingsland finally made his Truck debut in 2005, running with Mighty Motorsports at Martinsville Speedway in spring. After being involved in multiple on-track incidents, officials parked Kingsland's No. 24 truck just short of halfway through the race for failing to maintain minimum speed.[8] Later in the year, he ran with TommyRaz Motorsports to raise awareness of missing children,[9] though the team failed to qualify at Lucas Oil and Bristol.

The following year, Kingsland moved to North Carolina from Las Vegas and made two starts with Pennington Motorsports, enjoying the stability that an established team brought.[10] Building on that, Kingsland declared for Rookie of the Year in 2007[10] and made his debut in the San Bernardino County 200, since he wasn't approved to run the season-opening race at Daytona.[11] After finishing 32nd after a crash, Kingsland was made a test driver for the team and was replaced by Brad Keselowski for the next race.[12] Jason White later became Pennington's full-time driver, ending Kingsland's tenure with the team.[13]

Going back to local racing, Kingsland drove late models at the Bullring in 2010 but was sidelined after the season due to health issues.[14]

Personal life

Kingsland graduated from Eldorado High School.[3]

Motorsports career results

Craftsman Truck Series
NASCAR Craftsman Truck 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 NCTC Pts Ref
2003 MLB Motorsports 66 Dodge DAY DAR MMR MAR CLT DOV TEX MEM MLW KAN KEN GTW MCH IRP
DNQ		 NSH BRI RCH NHA CAL LVS SBO TEX MAR PHO HOM N/A 0 [15]
2004 DCCS Motorsports 55 Dodge DAY ATL MAR MFD CLT DOV TEX MEM MLW KAN KEN GTW MCH IRP
DNQ		 NSH BRI RCH NHA LVS CAL TEX MAR PHO DAR HOM N/A 0 [16]
2005 Mighty Motorsports 24 Dodge DAY CAL ATL MAR
36		 GTY MFD CLT DOV TEX MCH MLW KAN KEN MEM 92nd 55 [17]
TommyRaz Motorsports 91 Dodge IRP
DNQ		 NSH BRI
DNQ		 RCH NHA LVS MAR ATL TEX PHO HOM
2006 Pennington Motorsports 7 Chevy DAY CAL ATL MAR GTY CLT MFD DOV TEX MCH MLW KAN KEN MEM IRP NSH BRI NHA LVS TAL MAR
DNQ		 ATL TEX PHO
31		 HOM
28		 70th 149 [18]
2007 DAY CAL
32		 ATL MAR KAN CLT MFD DOV TEX MCH MLW MEM KEN IRP NSH BRI GTW NHA 102nd 67 [19]
Green Light Racing 06 Chevy LVS
QL†		 TAL MAR ATL TEX PHO HOM
† – Qualified but replaced by Bobby Dotter

References
  1. "Indy IRP: Casey Kingsland makes series debut". Motorsport.com. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  2. "July 2003 Craftsman Truck Series Archive". Jayski's Silly Season Site. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  3. Hilderbrand, Brian (5 August 2003). "Columnist Brian Hilderbrand: LV's Kingsland just misses in truck qualifying". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  4. "August 2003 Craftsman Truck Series Archive". Jayski's Silly Season Site. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  5. Hilderbrand, Brian (26 September 2003). "Columnist Brian Hilderbrand: LVMS dream pushed back for Kingsland". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  6. "Las Vegas teen Kingsland to attempt to win spot in NASCAR truck field". Las Vegas Sun. 2 August 2004. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  7. Hilderbrand, Brian (24 August 2004). "Columnist Brian Hilderbrand: Kingsland quits DCCS team because truck not ready". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  8. Hilderbrand, Brian (12 April 2005). "Columnist Brian Hilderbrand: Debut action slow going for Kingsland in truck series". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  9. "August 2005 Craftsman Truck Series Archives". Jayski's Silly Season Site. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  10. "Looking in on: Motor Sports". Las Vegas Sun. 16 November 2006. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  11. "February 2007 Craftsman Truck Series Archive". Jayski's Silly Season Site. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  12. "Atlanta: News of note, schedule". Motorsport.com. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  13. "Jason White joins Pennington Motorsports". Motorsport. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  14. Wolf, Jeff (18 March 2011). "Ash's absence throws open Super Late Model class". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  15. "Casey Kingsland 2003 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results". Racing Reference. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  16. "Casey Kingsland 2004 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results". Racing Reference. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  17. "Casey Kingsland 2005 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results". Racing Reference. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  18. "Casey Kingsland 2006 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results". Racing Reference. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  19. "Casey Kingsland 2007 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results". Racing Reference. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
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