Joey Saldana

Joey Saldana (born March 14, 1972), known as the "Brownsburg Bullet", is an American sprint car racing driver. He is the son of former sprint car and Indy car driver Joe Saldana.

Saldana began racing at the local Indiana tracks close to his home in the early 1990s. He then moved up to the All Stars Circuit of Champions series gaining experience and great success. He ran occasionally with the World of Outlaws winning his first race with the series in 1995 and then began touring full-time with the series in 1996. He finished third in points in 2003 and 2006 and second in 2007.[1] He won 20 races (one of only four racers to do so in a season) in 2009 on his way to third in points for Kasey Kahne's race team.[2] He finished fourth in points in 2010 with 13 wins driving for the same team. He was contending for the 2011 title when he broke his arm, ribs and punctured a lung at the King's Royal race in July which caused him to be out for nine weeks.[3] He parted ways with Kasey Kahne Racing at the end of the 2012 season and teamed up with Dan Motter and the Motter Motorsports Team in 2013. Joey took the checkered flag for the Dan & Ruth Motter Motorsports sprint car team in 11 WoO races and 1 All Star race in his three years in the seat of the Motter Motorsports entry from 2013 - 2015. Joey will move back to a previous seat (1996, 2001) for the 2016 season in the Roth Motorsports team owned by Dennis and Teresa Roth. He has finished second in the Knoxville Nationals three times. Joey has won prestigious events such as the Devil's Bowl Speedway Winter and Summer Nationals, Silver Dollar Speedway's Gold Cup, Eldora Speedway's 4 Crown Sprint Nationals, and I-55 Speedway's inaugural Iron Man 55 which is the longest race on the season. His father Joe Saldana won the esteemed Knoxville Nationals race in 1970. Joey has distinguished himself as one of the greatest sprint car drivers of his generation.

During the mid-late 1990's, Saldana also raced in Australia in the World Series Sprintcars, racing for popular South Australian based former driver Bill Barrows. Racing the Barrows owned OTR (for Oval Track Racing, an Australian designed and built chassis), Joey finished second in the 1995/96 World Series Sprintcars behind multiple Australian Sprintcar Champion Brooke Tatnell.

He is married to Shannon, and has two sons: Reece & Ragan.

Joey Saldana racing at Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55 August 2013.

World of Outlaws career

Year Points Finish Wins Awards & Accomplishments
1995 - 0 Won first World of Outlaws Preliminary Feature Event
1996 11th 0 Rookie of the Year
1997 18th 0
1999 19th 0
2000 6th 3
2001 7th 1 Winter Nationals Champion
2002 4th 5 Kings Royal Champion Summer Nationals Champion
2003 3rd 2
2004 6th 3
2005 13th 0
2006 3rd 7 Kings Royal Champion
2007 2nd 13 Brad Doty Classic Champion Gold Cup Champion 4 Crown Sprint Car Champion Eagle Nationals Champion Caterpillar Clash Champion
2008 4th 5 4 Crown Sprint Car Champion
2009 3rd 20 Iron Man 55 Champion Gold Cup Champion
2010 4th 13 Dirt Car Nationals Champion
2011 11th 6
2012 4th 5
2013 4th 1
2014 5th 7 4 Crown Sprint Car Champion
2015 6th 3
2016 In Session 3

97 Total A-Main Wins: 6th All-time as of April 22, 2016

All Star Circuit of Champions career

Has posted 71 career wins for 3rd All-time

References

  1. ↑ Joey Saldana career statistics, Driver Database, Retrieved 2009-12-8
  2. ↑ , World of Outlaws, November 7, 2009, Retrieved 2009-12-8
  3. ↑ Reynolds, Patrick. "Joey Saldana and Kyle Larson Provide Heroics In World of Outlaws and USAC Dirt Races". Motor Week Live. Retrieved 14 November 2011.

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