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Coleman Pressley
BornColeman C. Pressley
(1988-10-10) October 10, 1988 (age 36)
Asheville, North Carolina
Achievements2010 UARA-Stars Champion
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
12 races run over 2 years
Best finish57th (2010)
First race2009 U.S. Cellular 250 (Iowa)
Last race2010 Wypall 200 (Phoenix)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0
Statistics current as of November 19, 2012.

Coleman C. Pressley (born October 10, 1988) is an American former professional stock car racing driver. He is the current spotter of the No. 22 Ford Mustang Dark Horse driven by Joey Logano in the NASCAR Cup Series, and the spotter of the No. 16 Chevrolet Camaro driven by AJ Allmendinger in the NASCAR Xfinity Series.[1] He is also the son of former NASCAR Cup driver Robert Pressley and the grandson of Bob Pressley.[2] He is a Fox Sports (United States) broadcast commentator for the NASCAR Xfinity Series. He won the UARA Stars Championship in 2010.

Early career

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Coleman began racing in karts as a 6-year-old.[2] He then raced Bandoleros at Lowes Motor Speedway.[3] Pressley raced in legends cars before taking a year off.[3] In 2005 when he began racing late models at Hickory Motor Speedway.[3] He had four second-place finishes to finish sixth in season points.[3] In 2006, he continued racing at Hickory with additional events at other tracks.[3] He scored his first late model victory in the second race of the season at Hickory.[3] With the victory, he began the youngest driver to win in the track's 55-year history.[3] He is the cousin of former North Carolina Tar Heels quarterback and current Barstool Sports blogger Caleb Pressley.

NASCAR career

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His first race in the Nationwide Series in the No. 47 JTG Daugherty Racing at the Iowa Speedway and finished 41st.[4] He raced for R3 Motorsports part-time in the Nationwide Series. As of June 7, 2010, his best finish was a 12th-place effort at Nashville Superspeedway, driving the No. 88 JR Motorsports Chevrolet.[4] He spent the rest of the season racing part-time in the No. 23 car.

After ending his driving career, Pressley became a spotter, starting in 2015.[1] His first job was spotting for A. J. Allmendinger, who was driving for JTG Daugherty Racing.[1] In 2019, he was named Brad Keselowski's spotter.[5] In 2020 he became the spotter for the #22 car and Joey Logano.[6]

Motorsports career results

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NASCAR

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

Nationwide Series

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NASCAR Nationwide Series results
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 NNSC Pts Ref
2009 JTG Daugherty Racing 47 Toyota DAY CAL LVS BRI TEX NSH PHO TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV NSH KEN MLW NHA DAY CHI GTY IRP IOW
41 		GLN MCH BRI
39 		CGV ATL RCH
41 		DOV
41 		KAN CAL CLT MEM
38 		TEX PHO HOM 93rd 215 [7]
2010 R3 Motorsports 23 Chevy DAY CAL LVS BRI
31 		NSH PHO TEX TAL RCH
18 		DAR
15 		DOV CLT RCH
25 		DOV KAN CAL CLT GTY TEX PHO
17 		HOM 57th 733 [8]
JR Motorsports 88 Chevy NSH
12 		KEN
18 		ROA NHA DAY CHI GTY IRP IOW GLN MCH BRI CGV ATL

K&N Pro Series East

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NASCAR K&N Pro Series East results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 NKNPSEC Pts Ref
2011 X Team Racing 14 Toyota GRE
2 		SBO
4 		RCH
11 		IOW
5 		BGS
22 		LGY
7 		NHA COL GRE NHA DOV 21st 948 [9]
59 JFC
26
2012 15 BRI GRE RCH IOW BGS JFC LGY CNB COL IOW NHA DOV GRE CAR
4 		51st 40 [10]
2013 BRI GRE
4 		FIF RCH BGS IOW LGY COL IOW VIR GRE NHA DOV RAL 50th 41 [11]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "NASCAR podcast: Coleman Pressley". Racer. July 22, 2020. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  2. ^ a b Hembree, Mike. "Father's experience helping Coleman Pressley navigate move into NASCAR". Scene Daily.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Hamilton, Mark (February 2009). "All in the Family: Carrying on the Pressley family racing tradition". Stock Car Racing magazine. Archived from the original on 5 December 2010. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
  4. ^ a b "Coleman Pressley Nationwide Series results". Yahoo!.
  5. ^ Albert, Zack (January 7, 2019). "Coleman Pressley to serve as spotter for Brad Keselowski, No. 2 Ford in 2019". NASCAR. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
  6. ^ Huber, Zachary (February 16, 2023). "Can Asheville natives Nick Hensley and Coleman Pressley add Daytona win to last year's NASCAR title?". Asheville Citizen-Times. Retrieved May 22, 2023.
  7. ^ "Coleman Pressley – 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
  8. ^ "Coleman Pressley – 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
  9. ^ "Coleman Pressley – 2011 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
  10. ^ "Coleman Pressley – 2012 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
  11. ^ "Coleman Pressley – 2013 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
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