John Frank Nemechek (March 12, 1970 - March 21, 1997) was an American racing driver who competed primarily in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.
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Life and racing career
The younger brother of the four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup race champion, Joe Nemechek, John followed his brother in racing, participated in his first race at the age of twelve in the 80th class dirtbike race. After a swift development into the 250cc class, he moved to a mini car -stock, where he ran against his brother, and eventually became the final model stock.
When he did not race, Nemechek served as a front tire drive in Joe's pit crew, and was on the 1992 Joe NASCAR Busch Series champion team. He would start trying his own race NASCAR, and ran a Busch race in IRP in 1994. He finished 30 after No. 89 Chevrolet engine failure. The following season, he started racing in the new Trucker Craft Series, driving initially to Redding Motorsports, and then to NEMCO Motorsports owned by his brother. In the first year of the competition, Nemechek runs 16 races and finishes the top ten. He followed him with two more tens in 1996 and finished thirteenth point in point, running a self-built truck entitled War Wagon under his own team, Chek Racing.
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Death
On March 16, 1997, Nemechek ran a Truck race at Homestead-Miami Speedway when with 25 laps to go, he suddenly lost control of his truck and hit the first wall, the driver's first side, suffered a major head injury. He was released and transported to the nearest hospital, where he survived for the next five days before finally surrendering on 21 March, nine days after his 27th birthday.
Legacy
After the incident, Homestead is configured to be a true oval with a six-degree banking system to reduce the likelihood of the kind of accident that killed Nemechek. His brother Joe was able to pay homage to his brother by winning the November Busch Series race on a circuit that is now reconfigured; he later named his son John Hunter after his late brother.
Motorports career results
NASCAR
(lock) ( Bold Ã, - Pole position is given by qualifying time. Italics - Pole positions received by points standings or practice time. * Ã, - Most lead round. )
Busch Series
Craftsman Truck Series
References
External links
- John Nemechek driver statistics in Racing-References
- John Nemechek fatal accident on YouTube
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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