Willie Allen (racing driver)

Willie Allen (born June 15, 1980) is an American professional stock car racing driver. The 2007 Rookie of the Year in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.

Career

Allen ran two ARCA Racing Series races in 2006, with a best finish of sixth at the second of the two at Nashville Superspeedway, and is a regular competitor at Fairgrounds Speedway in Nashville.^[1] Allen won the 2006 NASCAR points title for Music City Motorplex late model stock car division and the 2015 Big Machine Records Pro Late Model Challenge Series presented by Hunter Sand & Gravel championship at Fairgrounds Speedway Nashville.

Camping World Truck Series

Allen made his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series debut in 2005 in the Kroger 200 at Martinsville Speedway driving for Morgan-Dollar Motorsports, starting 21st and finishing sixth. He made one more start in 2005 for SS-Green Light Racing before signing with ThorSport Racing to run the final race of 2006 and ultimately replace Kerry Earnhardt in the No. 13 truck for the 2007 season. Allen ran his first full season in NASCAR in 2007 and at the Mountain Dew 250 at Talladega Superspeedway, matched his career-best finish with a sixth-place run. However, it was his lone top 10 on the season, and he was replaced by Shelby Howard for the 2008 season.

For 2008, Allen returned to Morgan-Dollar Motorsports to drive the No. 46 Chevrolet Silverado to a 19th-place finish in the MemphisTravel.com 200 at Memphis Motorsports Park. He then drove two of the next three races in the No. 81 for the newly renamed Randy Moss Motorsports (RMM), after Randy Moss had bought a 50 percent share in Morgan-Dollar Motorsports. His first race was on July 19 at Kentucky Speedway with sponsorship from Rascal Flatts, where he finished 15th. Two races later, Allen made his third start of the year at Nashville Superspeedway with sponsorship from Rascal Flatts and GoDaddy, but crashed late in the race and finished 27th. Afterwards, Allen parted ways with RMM. After not racing in 2009, Allen returned to the series in 2010 for Team Gill Racing to run the No. 46 in the Nashville 200, starting 36th and finishing 29th. Allen has not raced in the series since.^[1]

Nationwide Series

Allen made his Nationwide debut in 2006 for FitzBradshaw Racing, racing at Memphis Motorsports Park and Phoenix International Raceway, with a best finish of 28th. In 2008, Allen ran two races with Sadler-Hamilton Racing (Daytona and Nashville), with a best finish of 29th at Daytona. The next year, Allen ran five races for Whitney Motorsports, but failed to finish all five. He also failed to qualify for a sixth race. He then signed to drive the No. 05 31-W Insulation/CertainTeed/Cash America car for Day Motorsports in 2010, running 18 races with a best finish of 11th. Allen also failed to qualify for four additional races. Allen ran two more races for Day Motorsports in 2011 before departing the team and the series.^[1]

After several years out of NASCAR, Allen returned to compete full-time in the Nationwide Series in 2014, driving for the debuting Martins Motorsports.^[2]

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.)

Nationwide Series

NASCAR Nationwide 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	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	NNSC	Pts
2006	FitzBradshaw Racing	14	Dodge	DAY	CAL	MXC	LVS	ATL	BRI	TEX	NSH	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	DAY	CHI	NHA	MAR	GTY	IRP	GLN	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	DOV	KAN	CLT	MEM 28	TEX	PHO 35	HOM	103rd	137
2008	Sadler Brothers Racing	95	Dodge	DAY 29	CAL	LVS	ATL	BRI	NSH 33	TEX	PHO	MXC	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	NHA	DAY	CHI	GTY	IRP	CGV	GLN	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	DOV	KAN	CLT	MEM	TEX	PHO	HOM	107th	140
2009	Whitney Motorsports	96	Dodge	DAY	CAL	LVS	BRI	TEX	NSH	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	NSH 36	KEN	MLW	NHA 42	DAY	CHI	GTY 41	IRP	IOW	GLN														96th	200
2009	Whitney Motorsports	92	Dodge																							MCH 42	BRI	CGV	ATL	RCH	DOV	KAN DNQ	CAL	CLT	MEM 43	TEX	PHO	HOM	96th	200
2010	Day Enterprises	05	Chevy	DAY	CAL 28	LVS 25	BRI 15	NSH 35	PHO	TEX	TAL DNQ	RCH 27	DAR DNQ	DOV 23	CLT 22	NSH 15	KEN 36	ROA	NHA 24	DAY	CHI 27	GTY 15	IRP	IOW	GLN	MCH 43	BRI 11	CGV	ATL 23	RCH 32	DOV 20	KAN DNQ	CAL 22	CLT	GTY DNQ	TEX	PHO	HOM	30th	1605
2011	Day Enterprises	05	Chevy	DAY	PHO	LVS	BRI 35	CAL	TEX	TAL	NSH 41	RCH	DAR	DOV	IOW	CLT	CHI	MCH	ROA	DAY	KEN	NHA	NSH	IRP	IOW	GLN	CGV	BRI	ATL	RCH	CHI	DOV	KAN	CLT	TEX	PHO	HOM		83rd	12
2014	Martins Motorsports	76	Dodge	DAY DNQ	PHO	LVS	BRI DNQ	CAL	TEX	DAR	RCH	TAL	IOW	CLT	DOV	MCH	ROA	KEN	DAY	NHA	CHI	IND	IOW	GLN	MOH	BRI	ATL	RCH	CHI	KEN	DOV	KAN	CLT	TEX	PHO	HOM			119th	0¹

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	24	25	NCWTC	Pts
2005	Morgan-Dollar Motorsports	47	Chevy	DAY	CAL	ATL	MAR	GTY	MFD	CLT	DOV	TEX	MCH	MLW	KAN	KEN	MEM	IRP	NSH	BRI	RCH	NHA	LVS	MAR 6	ATL	TEX			63rd	211
2005	SS-Green Light Racing	08	Chevy																								PHO 34	HOM	63rd	211
2006	ThorSport Racing	87	Chevy	DAY	CAL	ATL	MAR	GTY	CLT	MFD	DOV	TEX	MCH	MLW	KAN	KEN	MEM	IRP	NSH	BRI	NHA	LVS	TAL	MAR	ATL	TEX	PHO	HOM 25	89th	0
2007	ThorSport Racing	13	Chevy	DAY 29	CAL 22	ATL 13	MAR 22	KAN 18	CLT 21	MFD 28	DOV 14	TEX 28	MCH 22	MLW 31	MEM 23	KEN 15	IRP 29	NSH 29	BRI 19	GTW 12	NHA 28	LVS 23	TAL 6	MAR 14	ATL 20	TEX 11	PHO 17	HOM 28	15th	2524
2008	Morgan-Dollar Motorsports	46	Chevy	DAY	CAL	ATL	MAR	KAN	CLT	MFD	DOV	TEX	MCH	MLW	MEM 19														52nd	306
2008	Randy Moss Motorsports	81	Chevy													KEN 15	IRP	NSH 27	BRI	GTW	NHA	LVS	TAL	MAR	ATL	TEX	PHO	HOM	52nd	306
2010	Team Gill Racing	46	Dodge	DAY	ATL	MAR	NSH 29	KAN	DOV	CLT	TEX	MCH	IOW	GTY	IRP	POC	NSH	DAR	BRI	CHI	KEN	NHA	LVS	MAR	TAL	TEX	PHO	HOM	108th	76
2014	JJC Racing	0	Chevy	DAY	MAR	KAN	CLT 32	DOV	TEX	GTW	KEN	IOW	ELD	POC	MCH	BRI	MSP	CHI	NHA	LVS	TAL	MAR	TEX	PHO	HOM				113th	0¹

^* Season still in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

References

1 2 3 "Willie Allen Career Statistics". Racing-Reference. Retrieved February 14, 2014.
↑ "Nashville team plans to race in NASCAR's Nationwide Series". The Tennessean. January 19, 2014. Retrieved February 14, 2014.

External links

Official website
Willie Allen driver statistics at Racing-Reference

Achievements
Preceded by Erik Darnell	NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Rookie of the Year 2007	Succeeded by Colin Braun

NASCAR Rookies of the Year

Sprint Cup	1954: Pitt 1957: Rush 1958: Rollins 1959: R. Petty 1960: D. Pearson 1961: Wilson 1962: Cox 1963: Wade 1964: Cooper 1965: McQuagg 1966: Hylton 1967: Do. Allison 1968: P. Hamilton 1969: Brooks 1970: Dennis 1971: Ballard 1972: L. Smith 1973: Pond 1974: Ross 1975: B. Hill 1976: Manning 1977: Rudd 1978: Thomas 1979: Earnhardt 1980: Ridley 1981: R. Bouchard 1982: G. Bodine 1983: Marlin 1984: R. Wallace 1985: Schrader 1986: Kulwicki 1987: Da. Allison 1988: K. Bouchard 1989: Trickle 1990: Moroso 1991: B. Hamilton 1992: Hensley 1993: Gordon 1994: J. Burton 1995: Craven 1996: Benson 1997: Skinner 1998: Irwin 1999: Stewart 2000: Kenseth 2001: Harvick 2002: Newman 2003: McMurray 2004: Kahne 2005: Ky. Busch 2006: Hamlin 2007: Montoya 2008: R. Smith 2009: Logano 2010: Conway 2011: Lally 2012: Leicht 2013: Stenhouse Jr. 2014: K. Larson 2015: B. Moffitt 2016: C. Elliott

Xfinity Series	1989: K. Wallace 1990: Nemechek 1991: J. Gordon 1992: Craven 1993: H. Sadler 1994: Benson 1995: Fuller 1996: G. Allen Jr. 1997: Park 1998: Santerre 1999: Raines 2000: Harvick 2001: Biffle 2002: Riggs 2003: Stremme 2004: Ky. Busch 2005: C. Edwards 2006: O'Quinn Jr. 2007: Ragan 2008: Cassill 2009: Allgaier 2010: Stenhouse Jr. 2011: T. Hill 2012: A. Dillon 2013: K. Larson 2014: C. Elliott 2015: D. Suárez 2016: E. Jones

Camping World Truck	1996: Reffner 1997: Irwin 1998: Biffle 1999: Stefanik 2000: Ku. Busch 2001: Kvapil 2002: Gaughan 2003: C. Edwards 2004: Reutimann 2005: Kluever 2006: Darnell 2007: W. Allen 2008: Braun 2009: Jo. Sauter 2010: A. Dillon 2011: Coulter 2012: T. Dillon 2013: R. Blaney 2014: B. Kennedy 2015: E. Jones 2016: W. Byron

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