Ty Majeski

Majeski after winning an ARCA Midwest Tour race in 2016
Born (1994-08-18) August 18, 1994
Seymour, Wisconsin
Championship titles
2014–2016 ARCA Midwest Tour

Ty Majeski (born August 18, 1994)[1] is an American stock car racing driver from Seymour, Wisconsin. He started racing karts on dirt near his home. After winning several national championship, Majeski moved up to racing late models on asphalt. He began racing in touring series and was the champion of the ARCA Midwest Tour in 2014, 2015, and 2016 while winning the series' 2014 Rookie of the Year award.

Majeski signed to a Roush Fenway Racing driver development program contract in 2016. He made his first ARCA start that year at Madison with a fourth-place finish.

Racing career

Majeski's 2010 kart at Meadowview Kartway

Early years

Majeski began racing as a nine-year-old on dirt karts in 2004 at Hi-Go Raceway.[2][3][4] Majeski's first win came on his tenth birthday.[2] In his first eight races, he had won three features.[5] He eventually was racing at several different tracks in his home area: GSR Kartway near Clintonville, Wisconsin, Hi-Go Raceway in Cecil, Wisconsin and Meadowview Kartway by Hilbert, Wisconsin.[4] Between 2005 and 2009, he had won five track titles and 84 features.[5] By the time that he was 15 year old, he had won a national championship in the Mid-American National Series.[4] In karting, he had won six national championships, three state championships, and five track titles.[3] In 2009, Majeski took second overall in the National Indoor Championship at Batesville, Mississippi;[5] he won three of five events which caught the attention of Bobby Waltrip, the brother of Darrell and Michael Waltrip.[4] In 2009, Waltrip arranged for Majeski to test an asphalt late model at Hickory Motor Speedway.[5] After Majeski got used to driving the car, he was posting lap times quicker that the driver[5] and Waltrip wanted Majeski to move to North Carolina for the 2009 racing season but his family didn't want to move.[4]

Majeski ended up remaining in Wisconsin and started racing limited late models in Wisconsin at Pathfinder Racing Chassis / JJ Motorsports Racing as a teammate to Ross Kenseth.[4][5] He raced a various tracks for the 2010 season including Columbus 151 Speedway, Dells Raceway Park, and Madison International Speedway with former NASCAR Busch Series driver Jason Schuler as his crew chief.[4][5] Majeski joined the Big 8 Late Model Series tour in 2011 and was awarded the series Rookie of the Year title.[3] He won three races including the Big 8 race at the National Short Track Championship weekend at Rockford Speedway.[3]

ARCA Midwest Tour/TUNDRA Late Models

He moved up to racing Super Late Models in 2012.[3] In 2013, he raced 27 events in four different cars for four different owners.[3] In the season, Majeski record his first ARCA Midwest Tour pole position at Marshfield Motor Speedway.[3] He won three races at the Oktoberfest race weekend at the LaCrosse Fairgrounds Speedway to end the season.[3]

2014 ARCA Midwest Tour car

Majeski raced for the ARCA Midwest Tour Rookie of the Year title in 2014. His first tour victory happened at Illiana Motor Speedway in May 2014.[6] That season, he also ran occasional selected weekly races at State Park Speedway on Thursdays, and LaCrosse Fairgrounds Speedway on Saturday nights, TUNDRA Super Late Model Series events, and the three Red, White, and Blue series races at Wisconsin International Raceway.[6] Majeski also won at Hawkeye Downs Speedway in July 2014.[3] He was awarded the series' the Rookie of the Year title along with the ARCA Midwest Tour championship in 2014, becoming the series' youngest champion.[7] At the 2014 Snowball Derby, Majeski started 32nd and passed his way up to a 19th-place finish.[3] He had a total of five victories in 35 races that year.[8]

Majeski was named one of the seven finalists for the inaugural Alan Kulwicki Driver Development Program in 2015.[7] Participants were awarded $7777 to help develop their careers. He raced a similar schedule in 2015, starting with a seven-night series at New Smyrna Speedway for the World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing. Majeski won the second program on Tuesday night and lead the series points for two nights.[3] In July 2015, Speed51.com had ranked him #4 on their short track power ranking with seven victories.[7] At the Slinger Nationals, Majeski started 20th and passed up to second place.[7] While battling for the lead near the end of the race, he got into an incident while trying to pass a lapped car and restarted at the back of the lead lap cars to finish fourth.[9]

2015 ARCA Midwest Tour car including Kulwicki Driver Development decals

Majeski raced four times during the LaCrosse Oktoberfest weekend; he won the late model feature on Thursday night, the Dick Trickle 99 on Friday night, the JMcK 63 Big 8 Series race on Saturday night.[10] With 10 laps to go, he was leading the ARCA Midwest Tour race on Sunday when a vapor lock caused his car to temporarily lose power on a restart; he finished third.[10] Majeski traveled across the United States to Florida for the Governor's Cup at New Smyrna Speedway in November. He started 27th after an A-arm broke in qualifying. After passing up through the entire field, Majeski held off Steven Wallace on numerous restarts to take the win.[11] Dale Earnhardt, Jr. tweeted about Majeski's win calling him "the Deal".[12] At the Snowball Derby, Majeski qualified second quickest and was awarded the pole position after Christopher Bell's Kyle Busch Motorsports entry was disqualified.[13]

The Kulwicki Driver Development Program (KDDP) named him their inaugural winner.[8] In 56 events, he had 18 wins,[14] 19 pole positions, and 48 Top 10 finishes.[8] Speed51 ranked him #3 on their final short track season rankings behind Whelen Modified Tour winner Doug Coby and Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series champion Jonathan Davenport.[15] ESPN featured Majeski as the main driver to watch in the future in an off-season article as it described him accepting the KDDP trophy.[14]

2016 ARCA car

He started the 2016 in February racing in the World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing at New Smyrna. It is a week-long series of racing in the Speedweeks. Majeski finished second in the first night and won the second night.[16] He won the final night for his third win and the Speedweeks division title.[17] He followed the series by racing in another southern race; he quickly went from a seventh place start to the lead as he dominated to win the Rattler 250 race at South Alabama Speedway.[18] Speed51.com rated Majeski as its #1 Short Track Draft pick in May 2016.[19] That month he won the first race of the ARCA Midwest Tour, the Joe Shear Memorial at Madison International Speedway, over Johnny Sauter.[20] In May, he joined Roush Fenway Racing's driver development program.[21] He was one of eleven drivers named to the NASCAR Next 2016–2017 class on the following day.[22] For the season, Majeski won 9 of 10 races at LaCrosse plus had several high finishes at Madison.[23] Majeski noticed that he was high in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series national points in August despite not intentionally racing for any track's points championship. The driver's top 18 finishes determine their standings.[23] He had 17 starts, so he made a late season decision to try for the national title.[23] He started double features at Elko Speedway and climbed to tenth in the standings.[23] On the following weekend he won the another feature at Madison for his 13th NASCAR weekly win of the season to climb to third in the standings.[24] He raced more at Elko and Rockford Speedway but finished third in the final points.[25] Majeski capped off the season by winning the Oktoberfest main event at La Crosse to earn his third consecutive ARCA Midwest Tour championship.[26] He returned to New Smyrna Speedway and qualified on the pole position for the Governor's Cup. He fell nearly two laps down during the race and came back to win the race for the second consecutive year.[27]

ARCA Racing Series

In June 2016, Majeski made his first ARCA start in the No. 17 Roulo Brothers Racing car.[28] He had the fastest time in practice, started seventh, raced up to second, and finished fourth.[28]

Motorsports career results

ARCA Racing Series

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

* Season still in progress
1 Ineligible for series points

References

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  1. ↑ "Ty Majeski Career Statistics". Racing Reference. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
  2. 1 2 Griswald, David (July 3, 2015). "Majeski continues to #turn heads around the track". La Crosse Tribune. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "2014 ARCA Midwest Tour Champion, Ty Majeski Ready For Southern Super Series And The Rattler 250". ARCA Midwest Tour. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Lehman, Bert (July 2010). "Ty Majeski receives the opportunity of a lifetime". Full Throttle. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Goff, Tom (December 1, 2010). "Seymour Teen Making Fast Rise in Racing". The Post Crescent. Appleton, Wisconsin: Gannett.
  6. 1 2 Lehman, Bert (June 2014). "Majeski gets biggest win of career, looks for more". Full Throttle. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Kallmann, Dave (August 13, 2015). "Seymour's Ty Majeski has same drive as Alan Kulwicki". Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
  8. 1 2 3 "Ty Majeski Claims 2015 Inaugural Kulwicki Cup Championship". Alan Kulwicki Driver Development Program. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  9. ↑ Kallmann, Dave (July 14, 2015). "Dennis Prunty finishes strong at Slinger Nationals". Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  10. 1 2 Ramsell, Kevin; Johnson, Stephanie. "Dan Fredrickson's Late Charge Makes Him a Four-Time Oktoberfest Winner". LaCrosse Fairgrounds Speedway. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
  11. ↑ Kelly, Godwin (November 15, 2015). "Majeski survives, wins crash-filled Governor's Cup". The Daytona Beach News-Journal. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  12. ↑ "Midwest Star Majeski Eyes Derby Glory". National Speed Sport News. Retrieved December 5, 2015.
  13. ↑ "Ty Majeski on pole, 48th annual Snowball Derby qualifying results". Indianapolis Sun-Times. December 4, 2015. Retrieved December 5, 2015.
  14. 1 2 McGee, Ryan (January 15, 2016). "Plenty of young drivers with talent and desire to launch new era". ESPN. Retrieved January 16, 2016.
  15. ↑ "51′s Final Short Track Power Rankings of the Year". Speed51. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  16. ↑ Franceschini, Brooke (February 15, 2016). "Majeski Comes A Long Way For Win". NASCAR. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
  17. ↑ Blount, Rob (February 20, 2016). "Majeski Dominates New Smyrna for Third Victory and Championship". Speed51.com. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  18. ↑ "RATTLER: Majeski Dominates Caution Filled Rattler 250". The Pit Stop. March 20, 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  19. ↑ Paul, Brandon. "Breaking Down the Battle for Short Track Draft #1 Pick". Speed51.com. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
  20. ↑ Panure, Matt. "Majeski Strikes Again in Joe Shear Classic". Hot Rod magazine. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
  21. ↑ Kallman, Dave (May 16, 2016). "Expect announcement of Ty Majeski-Roush Fenway deal soon". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved May 16, 2016.
  22. ↑ Daniel, McFadin (May 17, 2016). "Matt Tifft, Harrison Burton and Todd Gilliland highlight newest NASCAR Next class". NBC Sports. Retrieved May 18, 2016.
  23. 1 2 3 4 Sullivan, Connor. "Majeski Blasts Into the National Title Picture". Speed51.com. Retrieved September 3, 2016.
  24. ↑ Ramsell, Kevin. "Majeski Wins Another – Closing In On Nat'l Point Lead". Speed51.com. Retrieved September 3, 2016.
  25. ↑ "2016 Final Top 500 Driver Standings". NASCAR. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  26. ↑ "Ty Majeski Wins the 47th Annual Oktoberfest and Clinches His Third Consecutive ARCA Midwest Championship". ARCA Midwest Tour. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
  27. ↑ Kelly, Godwin (November 13, 2016). "Majeski rallies to capture Governor's Cup". The Daytona Beach News-Journal. Retrieved November 26, 2016.
  28. 1 2 Ramsell, Kevin. "Majeski Learns, Excites Madison Crowd in ARCA Debut". Speed51.com. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Dan Fredrickson		 ARCA Midwest Tour champion
2014, 2015 		Succeeded by
incumbent
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