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Name: Deborah Renshaw
Birth Date: October 28, 1977
Marital Status: Single
Hometown: Bowling Green, KY
Residence: Cornelius, NC
Car Owner: Bobby Hamilton/Ray Montgomery
In 9 career ARCA RE/MAX Series starts since
2002, career-best finish 7th at Nashville
Superspeedway '02. Also finished 8th at Kentucky
Speedway '02, 9th at Chicagoland Speedway '02, 11th
at Talladega Superspeedway & Pocono Raceway
'02, 21st at Salem Speedway '03, 24th at Daytona
Int'l Speedway '03, 33rd at Kentucky '03 and 38th
at Nashville '03. Career-best qualifying runs 3rd
at Salem '03, 6th at Chicagoland '02, 7th twice at
Kentucky '02 & '03, 8th at Talladega '02 &
10th at Daytona '03. Veteran of NASCAR Winston
Racing Series late models at Fairgrounds Speedway
at Nashville (Tennessee). Graduate of Fast Track
High Performance Driving School and the Lyn St.
James Driver Development program. Finished 15th in
driver points at Fairgrounds Speedway at Nashville
in 2001 with 3 top-10 finishes. Set track record at
Riverview Speedway in Carthage, TN.
More bio info: Deborah Renshaw graduated from
Northwood University in 1997 with a Bachelor's
Degree in Business coupled with an Associate Degree
in Automotive Marketing.
Renshaw grew up in a family with two brothers
and a desire for speed. As a child, Renshaw could
be found behind the wheel of anything with an
engine, including motorcycles, four-wheelers,
jet-skis and eventually a Legends car before she
pursued a career in stock car racing.
In 1996, Renshaw attended the Legends Driving
School in Charlotte, North Carolina followed up in
1998 by attending the FastTrack High Performance
Driving School at both Atlanta Motor Speedway and
Lowe's Motor Speedway in Charlotte.
For the 1999 and 2000 season, Renshaw competed
in the Late Model Stock Car division at the
Highland Rim Speedway where she finished fifth in
points, runner-up Rookie of the Year and earned the
Pit Crew of the Year award. The 2000 and 2001
season found Renshaw competing in the NASCAR Weekly
Racing Series at Fairgrounds Speedway at Nashville
as well as Riverview Speedway. Renshaw made 27
starts throughout the season accumulating three
top-ten finishes, six top-15 finishes and one pole
position which included setting the track record at
Riverview Speedway.
Renshaw also spent much of the final half of the
2001 season doing some testing for various
professional race teams including Andy Hillenburg's
ARCA RE/MAX Series team at Atlanta Motor Speedway
as well as testing with Ultra Motorsports in a
NASCAR Craftsman Truck at Lakeland Speedway.
In 2002 Renshaw made history by becoming the
first female to lead the point's race in a
NASCAR-sanctioned series at Fairgrounds Speedway.
Deborah started all but
one of the Craftsman Truck Series races for 2005
and placed 24th of 93 drivers. Her earnings were
$221,975 for the reason. Also racing in the series
in 2005 were Erin Crocker and Kelly Sutton.
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Races: NASCAR Craftsman Trucks. What’s so
special: She is the first female to lead the
championship point standings in a NASCAR-sanctioned
series. She then took three top 10s in ARCA races
before becoming the first female to lead a lap in
the Truck Series. Deborah
Renshaw ,
info_bhr2@bellsouth.net
Deborah Renshaw drives the #8 Easy Care Dodge for
car owner Ray Montgomery. Her best finish of 2005
was a 12th place effort in Dover and she has
struggled some including a disappointing failure to
qualify at Lowes Motor Speedway in May. (of the
NASCAR craftsmen truck series). Deborah Renshaw
— The first woman to lead the point standings
in a NASCAR-sanctioned series, Renshaw (28) caught
the racing bug as a kid by hanging around
racetracks with her race team manager dad. After
proving herself in several NASCAR stock car series,
she moved into truck competition. She pilots a red
Heritage/Food City-sponsored Dodge Ram. See the
January, 2006 issue of Car
and Driver
,
page 121.
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