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| Brian Vickers |
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Brian Vickers hasn't wasted any time making a name for himself in NASCAR.
In 2003, in just his first full year in the Busch Series, Vickers won the championship and made the jump to Nextel Cup, where he finished 25th in points in '04 and 17th in '05 with five top-fives and 10 top-10s in Hendrick Motorsports No. 25 Chrevrolet.
Vickers collected his first Nextel Cup victory in 2006, after he emerged from a last-lap crash at Talladega.
Vickers began his Busch Series career driving for his father, Clyde Vickers, in 2001. He started four races that season and 21 in '02, his best finish a seventh place at Richmond.
Family is where it began for Vickers, who started out in go-karts at the age of 10. He won 83 races and three national championships before moving to the Allison Legacy Cars Series in 1998.
In his only season in that series, Vickers won five times and in 1999 was competing in NASCAR's weekly Late Model series. At age 16, Vickers had taken the series by storm with six victories and 11 pole awards.
Motorsports Magazine named him the "Rising Star of the Year" in 1999, and in 2000 he joined the USAR ProCup Series. That season he won twice, becoming the series' youngest winner, and took rookie of the year honors. In 2001 Vickers won two more ProCup races and finished second in points.
Hendrick Motorsports hired Vickers in 2003 at Ricky Hendrick's persistence and it paid immediate dividends. Vickers won his first Busch race in August at Indianapolis Raceway Park. He won twice more that season and finished the year with 13 top-fives and 21 top-10s in 34 races en route to becoming the youngest champion (20) in Busch history.
Prior to collecting his first Cup victory with Hendrick Motorsports, Vickers announced he was leaving the team in 2007 to become the flagship driver at Team Red Bull and help lead Toyota's charge into the Cup Series.
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