Stephen Nasse

Stephen Nasse (nicknamed Classy Nasse) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes part-time in the ARCA Menards Series East, driving the No. 09 Ford for Jett Motorsports. He also competes in various super late model events.

Stephen Nasse
Nasse in 2019
Nationality American
Born (1995-05-05) May 5, 1995
Pinellas Park, Florida
CARS Super Late Model Tour career
Debut season2015
Current teamJett Motorsports
Car number51
EngineChevrolet
Starts23
Championships0
Wins3
Poles2
Best finish5th in 2019
Previous series
2012, 2020ARCA Menards Series East
Championship titles
2019
2018
2017		Short Track Nationals
World Series of Asphalt
Southern Super Series
Last updated on: March 26, 2020.

Racing career

A third-generation racer, Nasse started his racing career in the go-kart ranks at age four.[1] He won a national karting championship.[2] He grew up watching racing at his hometown track Suntime (now Showtime) Speedway. As a 13-year-old, he moved up to Florida's FasTrucks.[2][3] Nasse had his first late model win as a 14-year-old in the 2009 New Smyrna Speedway's World Series of Asphalt Racing.[2] He and his family team eventually made two NASCAR K&N Pro Series East starts in 2012.[4]

Nasse was running in the Pro Cup Series in 2013 when he caught pneumonia, keeping him off of the track for two-plus months. After he recovered, Nasse ran in the Pro Cup Series' successor, the CARS Super Late Model Tour, teaming with DLP Motorsports.[5]

In 2015, Nasse spun leader Anderson Bowen on the first lap of the Rattler 250 at South Alabama Speedway. Nasse took responsibility for the incident but called it an accident, claiming that Bowen took an irregular line into corner entry, braking earlier than Nasse was expecting.[6] A year later, in the 2016 Snowball Derby, Nasse wrecked William Byron under caution in retaliation for an on-track incident;[2] Nasse later called out Byron, Johanna Long and Todd Gilliland for moving up by writing checks and not moving up by talent.[7]

Nasse's No. 51 super late model in 2019

Nasse won the 2017 Southern Super Series championship,[3] and followed that up with an early 2018 championship in the World Series of Asphalt.[4] In April 2018, Nasse punched rival Donnie Wilson while Wilson was still in his car after an on-track incident at Five Flags Speedway.[8] At the Snowball Derby in December 2018, Nasse spent $5000[2] to hire what he thought was a Roush-Fenway Racing development pit crew for the race but had myraid problems with the crew during the day, losing spots on pit road and eventually returning to the track twice with a loose wheel, ending his day in a crash.[2] Nasse, infuriated by the smirks he saw on the rented pit crew's faces, charged the crew after exiting his car over an estimated $40,000 loss.[9]

Running with Jett Motorsports in 2019, Nasse won the super late model portion of Short Track Nationals at Bristol Motor Speedway in May.[10] He also finished first in the Snowball Derby in December, but was stripped of the win during post-race technical inspection for having titanium piston caps in the braking system, something that was explicitly disallowed in the rulebook. Nasse claimed that his former brake supplier, PFC Brakes, told technical inspectors to check the brakes, and the claim was not immediately refuted by PFC employees, although the company later released a statement denying involvement.[11] Nasse also blasted PFC for playing favorites within their customer base.[12]

In early 2020, Nasse was asked by his team owner to run the ARCA Menards Series East race at New Smyrna Speedway in an aim to get into the driver development program arena.[13]

Other racing

Nasse has said that he originally aspired to be a high-level NASCAR driver, but that the organization lost its luster for boring racing, empty stands and vanilla personalities.[3] As an alternative, Nasse said that he would like to run World of Outlaws sprint car racing with personalities like Scott Bloomquist.[3]

Personal life

When not racing, Nasse works as a foundation builder for residential construction.[1]

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.)

ARCA Menards Series East
ARCA Menards Series East results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 AMSEC Pts Ref
2012 DLP Motorsports 51 Toyota BRI GRE RCH
20		 IOW BGS GRE
22		 LGY CNB COL IOW NHA DOV GRE CAR 48th 46 [14]
2020 Jett Motorsports 09 Ford NSM
6		 FIF BRI NSH TOL BLN NHA DOV 6th* 38* [15]

* Season still in progress
1 Ineligible for series points

References
  1. "10 Questions with…Stephen Nasse". Slinger Speedway. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  2. Beck, Jason (October 2019). "No Bad Attention". Speedway Illustrated.
  3. Allen, Richard (May 7, 2019). "Stephen Nasse Choosing His Own Path in the Racing World". Inside Circle Track. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  4. Smith, David (March 24, 2020). "To short-tracker Stephen Nasse, 'classy and nasty' appeals more than NASCAR fame". The Athletic. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  5. Marquis, Andy. "Stephen Nasse Determined to Win". Short Track Scene. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  6. "Rattler 250 Notebook: Nasse Sets the Record Straight". Race22. March 16, 2015. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  7. Marquis, Andy (December 7, 2016). "Stephen Nasse Holds Nothing Back in Epic Twitter Tirade Following Snowball Derby Crash". Race22. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  8. Corder, Chuck. "After settling things with fists, Wilson-Nasse rematch set for 5 Flags". Pensacola News Journal. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  9. Walters, Shane (December 10, 2018). "Stephen Nasse explains why he tossed his helmet at his pit crew". RacingNews. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  10. "Skinner, Nasse Claim Major Victories at 3rd Annual Short Track U.S. Nationals". Tri Cities Sports. June 1, 2019. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  11. Weaver, Matt (December 10, 2019). "The reason Stephen Nasse was disqualified from his Snowball Derby win". Short Track Scene. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  12. Seelman, Jacob (December 10, 2019). "Inside Stephen Nasse's Snowball Derby Disqualification". Speed Sport. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  13. Weaver, Matt (February 10, 2020). "Stephen Nasse Returns to NASCAR with ARCA East Start". Autoweek. Hearst Digital Media. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  14. "Stephen Nasse – 2012 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  15. "Stephen Nasse – 2020 ARCA Menards Series East results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
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