Dominique Van Wieringen

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Dominique Van Wieringen
Nationality Canadian
Born (1995-06-22) June 22, 1995 (age 26)
Amherstburg, Ontario
ARCA Menards Series career
Debut season2020
Current teamRette Jones Racing
Car number30
EngineFord
Crew chiefLogan Yiengst
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 Camping World 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.

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

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
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

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
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
2017 NSM GRE BRI SBO SBO MEM BLN TMP NHA IOW GLN LGY
3 		NJM DOV 41st 41

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
2020 Rette Jones Racing 30 Ford DAY
25 		PHO TAL POC IRP KEN IOW KAN TOL MCH DAY GTW L44 TOL BRI MEM ISF KAN 85th 19

* Season still in progress
1 Ineligible for series points

References[]

  1. ^ a b "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.

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