Dan Pardus
Dan Pardus | |||||||
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Born | Port Orange, Florida, United States |
April 2, 1963 ||||||
NASCAR Cup Series career | |||||||
1 race run over 1 year | |||||||
Best finish | 68th (1998) | ||||||
First race | 1998 Pepsi 400 (Daytona) | ||||||
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NASCAR Xfinity Series career | |||||||
18 races run over 2 years | |||||||
Best finish | 49th (2002) | ||||||
First race | 2001 Pepsi 300 (Nashville) | ||||||
Last race | 2002 Little Trees 300 (Charlotte) | ||||||
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Dan Pardus (born April 2, 1963 in Port Orange, Florida) is a retired American stock car racing driver. He was a regular on the NASCAR Goody's Dash Series, and also competed in events in the Busch and Winston Cup Series, as well as the ARCA Re/MAX Series.
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Career
A native of Port Orange, Florida, a suburb of Daytona Beach, Pardus, a graduate of Mainland High School,[1] won back to back track championships at New Smyrna Speedway in 1980 and 1981.[2] Pardus began racing in NASCAR's touring series in 1992, competing in the Goody's Dash Series, a series for four-cylinder subcompact cars.[2] He ran in the series for several years, running a Chevrolet Cavalier and, later, a Pontiac Grand Am; he joined Jim & Judie Motorsports, the team he would run the majority of the remainder of his racing career for, before the 1995 season.[3]
Pardus moved to the ARCA Re/MAX Series, a full-size stock car series, in 1997; running approximately half the series schedule, he placed third in the series' Rookie of the Year award standings and 12th overall.[4] He ran only five races in the series in 1998, as he attempted to make his debut at the top level of NASCAR competition, the Winston Cup Series;[5] he failed to qualify for a number of races through the season,[6] and was injured early in the season in a practice crash at Texas Motor Speedway.[7] In October he successfully made his debut, in what would prove to be his only start in the series, in the Pepsi 400 in October.[8] Pardus finished 36th in the event,[9] which had been delayed from July by extensive wildfires in central Florida.[10]
Pardus entered the 1999 season indending to run the full 1999 Winston Cup Series schedule, competing for Rookie of the Year driving the No. 50 for Midwest Transit Racing.[9] The team ran a limited schedule due to limited sponsorship; following his third failure to qualify in three attempts, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May, Pardus was released as the team's driver, moving to a management position.[11]
In 2000, driving for the Gardners, Pardus failed to qualify for the Daytona 500;[12] after running a limited ARCA schedule in 2000, Pardus and the team moved to the NASCAR Busch Series in 2001, with sponsorship from The Outdoor Channel; he made his debut in the series at Nashville Superspeedway.[13] In his second Busch Series race, at Chicagoland Speedway, Pardus was involved in a hard crash with David Donohue, suffering a broken back;[14] he returned to competition later in the year, and ran a partial schedule in 2002, competing in twelve races, all but one for Jim & Judie Motorsports; the exception being a drive for Jay Robinson Racing in the GNC Live Well 250 at Daytona International Speedway;[1] he also failed to qualify for six other races. Pardus' team hired pit crews from Winston Cup Series teams to pit their cars; at Nashville, due to a scheduling conflict, the crew for ML Motorsports pitted the car.[15]
Following the 2002 season, The Outdoor Channel ended their sponsorship of Jim & Judie Motorsports;[16] Pardus attempted to qualify for two races in 2003, at Daytona International Speedway and Darlington Raceway failing to qualify for both.[17] Pardus would make one more attempt at a NASCAR start, in 2005 at Daytona, driving the No. 73 Chevrolet for Raabe Racing Enterprises in qualifying for the Pepsi 400; he failed to qualify for the event.[18]
Personal life
Pardus is married, to Allison.[2] He has two children, Danielle and Preston. He currently works as a cable system contractor, and as a part-time commentator for radio and TV broadcasts of racing events on SPEED Channel, which he joined following his racing career.[19]
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.)
Nextel Cup Series
NASCAR Nextel Cup 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 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | NSCC | Points | |||
1998 | Midwest Transit Racing | 07 | Chevy | DAY DNQ |
CAR | LVS | ATL | DAR | BRI | TEX | MAR | TAL DNQ |
CAL | CLT DNQ |
DOV | RCH | MCH | POC | SON | NHA | POC | IND DNQ |
GLN | MCH | BRI | NHA DNQ |
DAR | RCH | DOV | MAR | CLT | TAL DNQ |
DAY 36 |
PHO | CAR | ATL | 68th | 55 | ||||||
1999 | 50 | DAY DNQ |
CAR Wth† |
LVS | ATL | DAR | TEX | BRI | MAR | TAL DNQ |
CAL | RCH | CLT DNQ |
DOV | MCH | POC | SON | DAY | NHA | POC | IND | GLN | MCH | BRI | DAR | RCH | NHA | DOV | MAR | CLT | TAL | CAR | PHO | HOM | ATL | N/A | - | |||||||
2000 | Jim & Judie Motorsports | 65 | Chevy | DAY DNQ |
CAR | LVS | ATL | DAR | BRI | TEX | MAR | TAL | CAL | RCH | CLT | DOV | MCH | POC | SON | DAY | NHA | POC | IND | GLN | MCH | BRI | DAR | RCH | NHA | DOV | MAR | CLT | TAL | CAR | PHO | HOM | ATL | N/A | - | |||||
2005 | Raabe Racing Enterprises | 73 | Chevy | DAY | CAL | LVS | ATL | BRI | MAR | TEX | PHO | TAL | DAR | RCH | CLT | DOV | POC | MCH | SON | DAY DNQ |
CHI | NHA | POC | IND | GLN | MCH | BRI | CAL | RCH | NHA | DOV | TAL | KAN | CLT | MAR | ATL | TEX | PHO | HOM | N/A | - | |||
† - Replaced after first round qualifying by Billy Standridge |
Busch Series
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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 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | NNSC | Points | ||
2001 | Jim & Judie Motorsports | 32 | Chevy | DAY | CAR | LVS | ATL | DAR | BRI | TEX | NSH 35 |
TAL | CAL | RCH | NHA | NZH | CLT DNQ |
DOV | KEN DNQ |
MLW | GLN | CHI 36 |
GTY | PPR | IRP | MCH | BRI | DAR 31 |
RCH | DOV | KAN | CLT 36 |
MEM | PHO 29 |
CAR 31 |
HOM DNQ |
61st | 384 | |||
2002 | DAY DNQ |
CAR 34 |
LVS 33 |
DAR 23 |
BRI | TEX DNQ |
NSH 32 |
TAL | CAL | RCH 34 |
NHA | NZH | CLT 25 |
DOV | NSH 35 |
KEN 27 |
MLW | CHI DNQ |
GTY | PPR | IRP | MCH 27 |
BRI | DAR 39 |
RCH DNQ |
DOV | KAN | CLT 42 |
MEM DNQ |
ATL | CAR DNQ |
PHO | HOM | 49th | 780 | ||||||
Jay Robinson Racing | 49 | Ford | DAY 41 |
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2003 | 39 | DAY | CAR | LVS | DAR | BRI | TEX | TAL | NSH | CAL | RCH | GTY | NZH | CLT | DOV | NSH | KEN | MLW | DAY DNQ |
CHI | NHA | PPR | IRP | MCH | BRI | N/A | - | ||||||||||||||
Red Racing | 91 | Chevy | DAR DNQ |
RCH | DOV | KAN | CLT | MEM | ATL | PHO | CAR | HOM |
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External links
- Dan Pardus driver statistics at Racing-Reference