Scott Wimmer

He finished 22nd and led nine laps in that race.

He also substituted in the No. 23 Hills Brothers Coffee-sponsored car at Talladega earning a season's best finish of 17th.

Wimmer ran two races in the No. 27 YJ Stinger-sponsored Chevrolet finishing 24th in both races at Bristol and New Hampshire.

He was dismissed from Bill Davis Racing by mail at the end of the season after only managing to squander up a 32nd in the point standings.

The nature of his firing later led to a lawsuit against Bill Davis Racing.

Scott Allan Wimmer (born January 26, 1976) is an American former professional stock car racing driver.

He has a total of six wins in the Xfinity Series.

His brother Chris Wimmer competed in the Busch Series.

Wimmer co-owns State Park Speedway in Wausau, Wisconsin.

Detjens had a race named after him after his death in 1981.

Wimmer started racing at State Park Speedway in Wausau, Wisconsin in 1991 at age 15.

He moved up through the ranks, and became a well-known driver in the Midwest.

He moved down south, and in 1997 was the Rookie of the Year in the Hooters Cup late model series.

He later finished second for the Rookie of the Year in the American Speed Association (ASA) series in 2000.

He began the season with no sponsor for his family-owned team, but was able to run the full season after winning the first two races of the year.

He also made his Winston Cup debut.

Wimmer made his NASCAR debut in 2000, when he was signed to drive the No. 20 AT&T-sponsored Pontiac Grand Prix for Bill Davis Racing in the Busch Series.

He was named Davis' permanent driver of the No. 23 Jani-King-sponsored Pontiac in the 2001.

The team only had a sponsorship from Siemens for half of the races in 2002, and many rumors circulated that the team would shut down.

The team remained open, and Wimmer won four races in the fall of that season at Dover, Memphis, Phoenix, and Homestead, and finished third in points.

Davis was able to get Siemens sponsorship for Wimmer to run seven races in a No. 27 car in the Cup Series, but Wimmer was only able to make two of them.

Wimmer got full-time sponsorships from Stacker 2, YJ Stinger, and Stamina Rx in 2003, but after losing crew chief Bootie Barker and switching to Chevrolet, he won only one race at Pikes Peak with four Top 5 finishes, 12 Top 10s, and finished ninth in points.

With four races left in the 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Wimmer was promoted to drive Bill Davis Racing's No. 22 Caterpillar Inc.-sponsored Dodge.

In his second race in the No. 22, he earned his first Cup Series Top 10 finish (a ninth) at Phoenix.

At the end of the season, Wimmer was named the full-time driver for 2004 in the No. 22 Caterpillar-sponsored Dodge.

Before the 2004 season, he was arrested in High Point, North Carolina for driving while intoxicated.

He was later convicted and sentenced to probation and 24-hour community service.

He began the year with a very strong performance at the Daytona 500, and appeared in contention to win after the final set of pit stops, but without drafting help, Wimmer was easily overtaken by Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Tony Stewart, and ended up finishing third.

The Davis team struggled in 2004; the Cup operation was reduced to only one car and the season was plagued with a lawsuit from Dodge.

He ran the full season again in 2005, but did not finish higher than 11th in a race that season.

Wimmer joined Morgan-McClure Motorsports in 2006 to drive their No. 4 Aero Exhaust-sponsored Chevrolet.

Due to nonpayment, the team lost sponsorship from Aero during the summer of the 2006 season, and Wimmer subsequently left the team following the race at Kansas Speedway.

He had two Top 5 finishes, eight Top 10 finishes and finished 11th in points, second to Greg Biffle for the Rookie of the Year title.

After this, despite leading laps at a number of other races, Wimmer only had one other Top 10 at Dover and finished 27th in points, due in part for failing to qualify for one race.

Wimmer competed in the United States National Junior Olympics in downhill and slalom skiing at age 14, and finished 13th of the 150 competitors.

His father began as the owner of his uncle Larry Detjens' racing team.

Detjens was a champion late model racer who competed at Slinger Super Speedway and Wisconsin International Raceway.

After failing to qualify for his first race at North Carolina Speedway, he finished 18th in his debut at Memphis, followed by a 19th-place finish at Phoenix.

He also made his Winston Cup debut at Atlanta, driving a car he had originally intended to drive at an ARCA RE/MAX Series race that weekend.

The qualifying session was rained out for that race, and he was able to take his No. 23 car and enter in the Cup race.