Dominique Van Wieringen

Dominique Van Wieringen (born June 22, 1995) is a Canadian professional stock car racing driver. She last competed part-time in the ARCA Menards Series, driving the No. 30 Ford for Rette Jones Racing.

Dominique Van Wieringen
Nationality Canadian
Born (1995-06-22) June 22, 1995
Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada
ARCA Menards Series career
Debut season2020
Starts1
Wins0
Poles0
Best finish85th in 2020
Finished last season85th (2020)
Previous series
2016-2017NASCAR K&N Pro Series East
Awards
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 Craftsman Truck Series career
1 race run over 1 year
2016 position76th
Best finish76th (2016)
First race2016 Lucas Oil 150 (Phoenix)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0
Statistics current as of February 8, 2020.

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 in a partnership with Rette Jones, who provided the truck for that race. 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]

ARCA Menards Series

Van Wieringen participated in ARCA's Daytona testing in January 2020, and posted the fastest time in one of the sessions. She drove the No. 30 for her former team, Rette Jones Racing. RJR later signed her back to run the race at the track in February of that year. In the race, she was involved in the big one and finished 25th.

2018/2020

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, and the Corrigan Oil (Spartan) Speedway, driving for Jon McNett in the number 7 Duatech Automotive Modified, winning the championship at Springport.[5][6]

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 race car driver, and he also drives for the Rette Jones team, running part-time in the ARCA Menards Series East for 2020.[7] Her dad, Murray, owns DuroByte Motorsports, a Super Late Model Driver development program, which currently fields the No. 5 Ford Fusion for Michael Clancy.[8]

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
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 Ref
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 [9]

K&N Pro Series East
NASCAR K&N Pro Series East results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 NKNPSEC Pts Ref
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 [10]
2017 NSM GRE BRI SBO SBO MEM BLN TMP NHA IOW GLN LGY
3		 NJM DOV 41st 41 [11]

ARCA Menards Series

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

ARCA Menards 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 AMSC Pts Ref
2020 Rette Jones Racing 30 Ford DAY
25		 PHO TAL POC IRP KEN IOW KAN TOL TOL MCH DAY GTW L44 TOL BRI WIN MEM ISF KAN 85th 19 [12]

* Season still in progress
1 Ineligible for series points

References
  1. "Dominique's Story". Dominique Van Wieringen Racing. Retrieved December 17, 2016.
  2. "Take that! Driver kicks and punches her own car after wreck". FoxSports. October 20, 2015.
  3. "Best of 2016: K&N Pro Series East". NASCAR. 2016-12-28.
  4. "Dominique Van Wieringen to make NASCAR Truck debut at Phoenix". Motorsport.com. November 8, 2016.
  5. "Results Archive | CORRIGAN OIL SPEEDWAY". spartanspeedway.com.
  6. "Springport Mid-Michigan Speedway | 3/8th Mile High Banked Racing". springportracing.com.
  7. "Van Wieringen's Double Down with Rette Jones Racing". Speed Sport. February 6, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
  8. "17-Year-Old Tristan Van Wieringen To Make First JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Start Of 2015". CRA-Racing.com. August 5, 2015.
  9. "Dominique Van Wieringen – 2016 Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved August 12, 2023.
  10. "Dominique Van Wieringen – 2016 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved August 12, 2023.
  11. "Dominique Van Wieringen – 2017 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved August 12, 2023.
  12. "Dominique Van Wieringen – 2020 ARCA Menards Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved August 12, 2023.
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