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Joe Nemechek: Busch Series
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Joe Nemechek is trying to bounce back from a disappointing 2007 season in the Sprint Cup Series with a new ride for 2008, the No. 78 Furniture Row Chevrolet. His first week of testing at Daytona, though, did not go as he had hoped, as he finished near the back of the pack in speed.
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Joe Nemechek began his racing career in motocross at age 13 taking home more than 300 trophies in six years. Making the transition to stockcars in 1986, he has posted victories in every series in which he has raced along the way.
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In 1994, Nemechek joined Larry Hedrick Motorsports to drive the #41 Meineke Discount Mufflers Chevy. Despite missing two races, he had three top-tens and finished 27th. He ... started one Busch Series race at Richmond International Raceway. The next season, he moved his 87 team up to the Cup series with sponsorship from Burger King, and posted a fourth-place finish at the MBNA 500 and finished 28th in points. After he dropped to 34th in points, he abandoned his Cup team and signed to drive the #42 Bellsouth car for SABCO Racing. After losing his brother John in an accident at Homestead-Miami Speedway early in the year, Nemechek won the first two pole positions of his career, at California Speedway and Pocono Raceway, respectively.
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Nemechek made the jump to the Cup Series in 1994. His first win came in the 1999 Jiffy Lube 300 at New Hampshire International Speedway. He found Victory Lane again in 2001 at Rockingham and at Richmond in May of 2003.
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Nemechek claimed his first NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series victory at New Hampshire in 1999. The 2000 season was another good year as he drove to three top-five finishes and nine top-10s, finishing 15th in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series point standings. His 2001 season highlights include a win at Rockingham and a sixth-place finish at Talladega.
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Nemechek began racing at the age of thirteen in motocross, and won six hundred career races over the next six years. After winning various awards in different short track series around the country, Nemechek made his Busch Series debut at North Carolina Speedway in 1989, where he started 40th and finishing 33rd after suffering engine failure in his #88 Buick.
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