Jack Sprague

He led two laps and finished 23rd in his debut at Phoenix, but wrecked the following week at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

The following season, Sprague won at Phoenix, Nazareth, and Nashville Speedway USA, and won the championship.

He finished 24th in the final standings.

In addition, he returned to the Cup series, subbing for Ricky Craven at Bristol Motor Speedway, but finished 40th after a wreck.

Jack Eugene Sprague (born August 8, 1964) is an American former stock car racing driver who has competed in all of NASCAR's three top divisions, most notably in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, where he won series championships in 1997, 1999 and 2001.

Sprague was born in Spring Lake, Michigan, and began racing street stock cars at local short tracks.

After winning the track championships at Thunderbird Raceway and later Winston Raceway, Sprague began racing in the NASCAR Winston Racing Series, in its North Carolina Late Model Division competition.

He won the Big Ten Championship at Concord Motorsports Park, and won more than 30 Late Model Races.

Eventually, he won the NASCAR Winston Racing Series championship at Concord Motorsports Park.

Driving the No. 78 Griffin Racing Chevrolet, he qualified 28th but finished 41st after suffering engine failure early in the race.

Sprague finished first in the inaugural race of the NASCAR Sportsman Division at Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1989, but was disqualified in post-race inspection, giving the win to Tim Bender.

Sprague made his Busch Series debut in 1989 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

After a 40th-place finish at the Goody's 300 for Pucci & Associates, Sprague moved up to drive the No. 34 Keystone Beer-sponsored car for Frank Cicci Racing in 1990.

He competed in nineteen races and had a best finish of sixth at Orange County Speedway.

The following season, Sprague competed in seven races, driving the No. 48 Staff America-sponsored Oldsmobile.

He won his first career pole at Charlotte.

He continued to drive the car in 1992, where he had a second-place finish at New River Valley Speedway.

In 1993, Sprague signed to drive the No. 74 BACE Motorsports car.

Despite four top-ten finishes, he was released with just a handful of races left in the year.

He finished nineteenth in points.

Sprague returned to the Winston Cup Series in 1994.

Sprague began racing in the Trucks' first year of competition in 1995.

He began the season in the No. 31 Chevrolet Silverado for Griffin Racing, winning the pole at Louisville Speedway.

After the Action Packed Racing Cards 150, Sprague switched to the No. 25 Budweiser-sponsored Chevy for Hendrick Motorsports for the rest of the year.

He ended the season with a pole at Phoenix International Raceway, and had three fourth-place finishes.

In 1996, he slid over to the No. 24 Quaker State-sponsored truck owned by Hendrick, winning his first race at Phoenix, followed up by back-to-back victories at Nazareth Speedway and The Milwaukee Mile.

With five wins total and two poles, Sprague lost the championship by 53 points.

That season, he made his Winston Cup debut, running a pair of races in the No. 52 Pedigree Petfoods-sponsored Pontiac Grand Prix for Ken Schrader.

Despite winning the Truck Series championship, Quaker State did not return as Sprague's primary sponsor, forcing him to start the 1998 unsponsored.

After a one-race deal with Big Daddy's BBQ Sauce at Portland Speedway, Sprague won The No Fear Challenge in his debut for sponsor GMAC, allowing them to join full-time as sponsor.

He won five races total that season and finished second in points.

He returned to the Busch Series to drive the No. 40 Channellock-sponsored Chevy for Doug Taylor at Watkins Glen International, finishing sixth.

In 1999, Sprague won three races as well as the Craftsman Truck Series championship by eight points.

He also drove at Watkins Glen in a Terry Labonte-owned car, finishing twelfth, and attempted the Exide NASCAR Select Batteries 400 for Tyler Jet Motorsports, but failed to qualify.

He won three more times in 2000, but crashes caused him to drop to fifth in the standings.

In 2001, NetZero became his primary sponsor, and he won seven poles and four races, and took home his third championship trophy.

After 2001, Sprague and teammate Ricky Hendrick moved back to the Busch Series, with Sprague driving the No. 24 NetZero Chevy.

He won his first career Busch race at Nashville Superspeedway as well as leading the points during the season, before finishing fifth in the final standings.

That same year, he ran the IROC series, finishing in the top-ten in all four events.

He returned to Winston Cup to run a handful of races for Haas CNC Racing's No. 60 entry.