Walker Evans (racing driver)
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Racing career
Off-road
Born in Cedar Lake, Michigan, Evans began his off-road career in cross-country events in SCORE International events, including the premier event: the Baja 500. His first sample of racing was in 1969, when he drove a Rambler American for the American Motors and actor James Garner sponsored team to a third-place finish in the Baja 500.[1] His first purpose built race truck was Ford F-100 donated by Marion Beaver at Parker Motor Company and built by Bill Stroppe. The truck won 16 of 17 races.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". He won the Baja 1000 five times.
He has 142 total victories and 21 championship titles in off-road desert and short course racing.[1] He has multiple overall wins in the Baja 500, Baja 1000, Fireworks 250, Mint 400, and Parker 400.
He added the Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group Stadium Series events to his schedule to enhance his horizons. The series featured indoor races inside a stadium. The Walker Evans Racing Team won the MTEG Grand National Championship in 1999. He won his first SODA race in 1986 at the Lake Geneva Raceway in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. He won the 1994 and 1995 Class-8 (two-wheel drive) championships in SODA. He met fellow competitor Brendan Gaughan during his SODA days. He moved to CORR when most of the SODA drivers switched series. He finished with his SODA career with three overall victories and 31 class wins. He was champion of CORR's highest division, Pro-4, in 1999.[2] He won three races and the CORR Pro-4 championship in 2000 in his final full-time season in CORR before retirement from short-track off-road racing.
Around 1999 he began entering rock crawling events after a promotional trip to Moab.
NASCAR
Racing
Evans decided to try his hand as a driver/owner in the newly formed NASCAR SuperTruck Series in 1995. He had one Top 10 finish in 18 races, and he finished 14th in the final points standings. He had three Top 10 finishes in 23 events in 1996, and he finished 17th in the overall points standings.[3]
Team ownership
He continued his Walker Evans Racing team after his retirement. He hired former SODA and CORR competitor Brendan Gaughan to race for him in 2002. Gaughan won twice, on his way to the Rookie of the Year title. In 2003, Gaughan was the CTS points leader going into the final race, but was crashed out.
Halls of Fame
Evans was inducted in the Off-road Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2004.[1] In 2015, he was inducted in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America.[4] In 2022, he was inducted into the SEMA Hall Of Fame. [5]
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.)
Craftsman Truck Series
| NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />NCTSScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Pts | Ref | ||||||||||||||
| 1995 | Walker Evans Racing | 20 | Dodge | PHO 29Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
TUS 18Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
SGS 21Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
MMR 27Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
POR 23Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
EVG 28Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
I70 22Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
LVL | BRI 12Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
MLW 16Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
CNS 10Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
HPT 17Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
IRP 16Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
FLM | RCH 37Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
MAR 34Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
NWS 28Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
SON 13Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
MMR 23Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
PHO 23Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
14th | 1744 | [6] | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1996 | HOM 28Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
PHO 36Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
POR 18Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
EVG 23Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
TUS 18Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
CNS 18Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
HPT 16Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
BRI 10Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
NZH 32Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
MLW 30Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
LVL 26Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
I70 24Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
IRP 27Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
FLM 20Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
GLN 10Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
NSV 17Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
RCH 30Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
NHA 14Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
MAR 30Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
NWS 26Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
SON 24Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
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17th | 2224 | [7] | |||||||||||||||||
1 Ineligible for series points
References
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- ↑ a b c d Biography at the Off-road Motorsports Hall of Fame
- ↑ Chevy Adds to Win Tally in '99, December 22, 1999; motorsport.com; Retrieved February 15, 2008
- ↑ NASCAR drivers statistics at racing-reference.info
- ↑ Walker Evans at the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America
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