Dominique Van Wieringen

Dominique Van Wieringen
Nationality  Canadian
Born (1995-06-22) June 22, 1995
Amherstburg, Ontario
K&N Pro Series East career
Debut season 2016
Current team Rette Jones Racing
Car no. 30
Engine Ford
Starts 15
Best finish 9th in 2016
Previous series
2016
2015
2015
2014		 Camping World Truck Series
CARS Super Late Model Tour
JEGS/CRA All-Star Series
JEGS/CRA All-Star Series
Championship titles
2012 Outlaw Super Late Model Championship (Springport Motor Speedway)
Last updated on:
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career
1 race run over 1 year
Truck no., team No. 02 (Young's Motorsports/Rette Jones Racing)
2016 position 76th
Best finish 76th (2016)
First race 2016 Lucas Oil 150 (Phoenix)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0
Statistics current as of December 17, 2016.
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Dominique Van Wieringen (born June 22, 1995) is a Canadian stock car racing driver who has competed professionally in various United States series. In 2016, she ran a full season in the No. 30 Durobyte-sponsored Ford Fusion, fielded by Rette-Jones Racing in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East.[1] She returned to the car for one race the following season, finishing third, her fourth consecutive top-5 finish. Van Wieringen is the first female driver to score three consecutive top-five finishes in the K&N Pro Series East, where she has also led more laps than any other female driver.[2]

Racing career

Van Wieringen began racing motorcross 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 at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis).[3]

Van Wieringen signed with NEMCO Motorsports for the 2015 season, running super late models in various JEGS/CRA and CARS series 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,[4] Van Wieringen signed with Mark Rette to drive full-time in the K&N Pro Series East for 2016. 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, before 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.[5] Following the conclusion of the K&N season, Van Wieringen made her debut in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series at Phoenix International Raceway, retiring early after contact from another driver.[2]

In 2017, she returned to Rette-Jones Racing for one K&N East Series race, finishing third at Langley Speedway.

Personal life

Van Wieringen is a Mechanical engineering student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.[3] Her younger brother, Tristan, is also a race car driver.[6]

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
2016 Rette-Jones Racing 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

* Season still in progress
1 Ineligible for series points

References

  1. ↑ "Rette Jones Racing Expands K&N Program". MRN. December 7, 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Dominique Van Wieringen to make NASCAR Truck debut at Phoenix". Motorsport.com. November 8, 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Dominique's Story". Dominique Van Wieringen Racing. Retrieved December 17, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Take that! Driver kicks and punches her own car after wreck". FoxSports. October 20, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Best of 2016: K&N Pro Series East". NASCAR. 2016-12-28.
  6. ↑ "17-Year-Old Tristan Van Wieringen To Make First JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Start Of 2015". CRA-Racing.com. August 5, 2015.
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