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Joe Cooksey
Born (1966-06-11) June 11, 1966 (age 58)
Centralia, Illinois
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
3 races run over 1 year
Best finish83rd (2001)
First race2001 Carquest Auto Parts 250 (Gateway)
Last race2001 Sam's Town 250 (Memphis)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career
1 race run over 1 year
Best finish83rd (2002)
First race2002 Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers Ram Tough 200 (Gateway)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0
ARCA Menards Series career
145 races run over 19 years
Best finish4th (1999)
First race1996 Engineered Components 200 (Salem)
Last race2022 Rust-Oleum Automotive Finishes 100 (DuQuoin)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 57 1
Statistics current as of November 9, 2022.

Joe Cooksey (born June 11, 1966) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competed in the ARCA Menards Series from 1996 to 2022, and has 57 top-10 finishes and one pole position. He also has run three races in the NASCAR Busch Series and one race in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.

Racing career

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Cooksey first made his ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series debut in 1996 driving the No. 41 Chevrolet that he owned at Salem Speedway, where he would finish 22nd due to a rear end issue. He would make eight more starts that year and would earn four top-10's, including a best result of sixth at Indianapolis Raceway Park. In the following year, he would run twelve races, mainly in the No. 51 Chevrolet, and would earn four more top-10's with a best result of seventh at the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds Racetrack, and finish 12th in the overall standings. In 1998, he ran 18 of the 22 races on the schedule, and finished in the top-10 nine times, including a best finish of third at Winchester Speedway.

In 1999, Cooksey ran the full schedule in his self-owned No. 51 entry. In the first race of the year at Daytona International Speedway, during a caution period midway through the race, Cooksey collided with the back of the pace car. He, along with pace car driver Jack Wallace and ARCA official Buster Auton, escaped serious injury.[1] Afterwards, he earned eleven top-10's and four top-5's, including a best finish of second at Flat Rock Speedway, to finish fourth in the standings. In the following year, he partnered with Don Fauerbach for the full season in 2000, and finished on the top-10 five times with a best finish of third at the Illinois State Fairgrounds Racetrack. He got his first pole position at DuQuoin, to finish ninth in the standings. This would be the last time he would run the full ARCA schedule.

In 2001, he downsized his schedule, only racing in nine races, and finishing in the top-10 five times. It was also during this year that he made his NASCAR Busch Series driving the No. 73 Chevrolet at Gateway International Raceway, finishing 29th due to a brake issue. He would make two more Busch races that year at Indianapolis and Memphis Motorsports Park. For next year, he made his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series debut in the No. 59 Chevrolet driving for Fauerbach at Gateway, and finished 23rd. He also attempted to make the race at Memphis, but failed to qualify for the event. On the ARCA side, he made only three starts, finishing in the top-5 twice at both dirt events at Springfield and DuQuoin. In the following year, he solely focused on ARCA, running nine races with a best finish of third at DuQuoin.

In 2004, Cooksey ran a majority of the races driving for Hixson Motorsports in the No. 23, and earned five top-10's with a best finish of fifth at South Boston Speedway. In 2005, he ran thirteen races for Hixson, with one top-5, a third place finish at Springfield. In the following year, he only ran the two dirt events, and finished in the top-5 in both events. He entered in both races the following year in 2007, driving for Darrell Basham in the No. 94 Chevrolet, finishing 29th due to a crash at Springfield, and failing to qualify at DuQuoin.

After not running in ARCA competition in 2008, he returned to the ARCA circuit in 2009, driving three races in his self-owned No. 51 Chevrolet, and finished 7th at DuQuoin. After a one-year absence, he ran only one race at DuQuoin, finishing 19th. In the following year, he ran at Springfield, finishing 33rd due to an engine problem.

After not running in the series in the next three years, Cooksey ran at DuQuoin driving for Hixson in their No. 2 entry, finishing eighth.[2] He would run both dirt events the following year, finishing ninth at DuQuoin. In 2018, he ran both dirt races as well as the race at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway, and finished ninth at DuQuoin again. After another three-year absence from the series, he returned to DuQuoin in 2022, driving the No. 11 Toyota for Fast Track Racing; he finished eighth in the race.

Motorsports 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.)

Busch Series

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NASCAR Busch 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 NBSC Pts Ref
2001 Maurtco Motorsports 73 Chevy DAY CAR LVS ATL DAR BRI TEX NSH TAL CAL RCH NHA NZH CLT DOV KEN MLW GLN CHI GTY
29 		PPR IRP
43 		MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV KAN CLT MEM
29 		PHO CAR HOM 83th 186 [3]

Craftsman Truck Series

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NASCAR Craftsman Truck 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 NCTC Pts Ref
2002 Maurtco Motorsports 59 Chevy DAY DAR MAR GTY
23 		PPR DOV TEX MEM
DNQ 		MLW KAN KEN NHA MCH IRP NSH RCH TEX SBO LVS CAL PHO HOM 83rd 94 [4]

ARCA Menards Series

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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.)

ARCA Menards 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 AMSC Pts Ref
1996 Cooksey Racing 41 Buick DAY ATL SLM
22 		TAL FIF INF
6 		SBS N/A - [5]
51 LVL
7 		CLT CLT KIL FRS POC MCH FRS
13 		TOL
8 		POC MCH ISF
30 		DSF
9 		KIL SLM
10
Chevy WIN
13 		CLT ATL
1997 DAY ATL SLM
14 		CLT CLT POC MCH SBS
9 		TOL
11 		KIL
12 		FRS
10 		MIN
22 		POC MCH DSF
7 		SLM
12 		WIN
8 		CLT TAL ISF
17 		12th 2305 [6]
Pontiac GTW
14
Mike Lorz 76 Pontiac ATL
20
1998 Cooksey Racing 51 Chevy DAY ATL SLM
10 		MEM
9 		SBS
12 		TOL
16 		KIL
6 		FRS
9 		ISF
9 		DSF
8 		SLM
9 		WIN
3 		11th 3550 [7]
Pontiac CLT
28 		MCH
27 		POC PPR
15 		POC ATL
19 		TEX
8 		CLT
18 		TAL
18 		ATL
16
1999 Chevy DAY
28 		ATL
14 		SLM
5 		AND
6 		CLT
17 		MCH
38 		POC
13 		TOL
9 		SBS
13 		BLN
3 		POC
21 		KIL
6 		FRS
2 		FLM
12 		WIN
6 		SLM
10 		CLT
22 		TAL
7 		ATL
13 		4th 4855 [8]
Pontiac ISF
5 		DSF
6
2000 Maurtco Motorsports Chevy DAY
17 		SLM
5 		AND
21 		CLT
35 		KIL
24 		FRS
27 		MCH
25 		POC
11 		TOL
8 		KEN
33 		BLN
23 		POC
12 		WIN
19 		ISF
3 		KEN
16 		DSF
4 		SLM
7 		CLT
22 		TAL
14 		ATL
12 		9th 3965 [9]
2001 Cooksey Motorsports Chevy DAY
13 		NSH
28 		WIN
8 		GTY
10 		KEN
15 		CLT KAN MCH POC MEM
9 		GLN KEN MCH POC NSH ISF
8 		CHI DSF
5 		SLM TOL BLN CLT TAL ATL 24th 1735 [10]
57 SLM
21
2002 51 DAY
13 		ATL NSH SLM KEN CLT KAN POC MCH TOL SBO KEN BLN POC NSH ISF
4 		WIN DSF
5 		CHI SLM TAL CLT 48th 580 [11]
2003 DAY ATL NSH SLM
7 		TOL KEN
7 		CLT BLN
12 		KAN MCH LER
28 		POC POC
18 		NSH ISF
18 		WIN DSF
3 		CHI SLM TAL CLT SBO 23rd 1145 [12]
2004 DAY NSH SLM
6 		KEN TOL 15th 3700 [13]
Hixson Motorsports 23 Chevy CLT
34 		KAN
22 		POC
12 		MCH
15 		ISF
12 		DSF
9
Pontiac SBO
5 		BLN
8 		KEN
16 		GTW
17 		POC
13 		LER
13 		NSH
20 		TOL
6 		CHI
12 		SLM
32 		TAL
36
2005 Chevy DAY
23 		NSH
18 		SLM
24 		TOL
28 		ISF
3 		TOL DSF
14 		CHI SLM TAL 27th 1720 [14]
Pontiac KEN
32 		LAN
34 		MIL
17 		MCH
21 		KAN KEN BLN POC GTW
30 		LER
29 		NSH MCH
DNQ
2 POC
36
2006 Chuck Weber Racing 24 Chevy DAY NSH SLM WIN KEN TOL POC MCH KAN KEN BLN POC GTW NSH MCH ISF
5 		MIL TOL 76th 420 [15]
Eddie Sharp Racing 2 Chevy DSF
3 		CHI SLM TAL IOW
2007 Darrell Basham Racing 94 Chevy DAY USA NSH SLM KAN WIN KEN TOL IOW POC MCH BLN KEN POC NSH ISF
29 		MIL GTW DSF
DNQ 		CHI SLM TAL TOL 145th 110 [16]
2009 Joe Cooksey Racing 51 Chevy DAY SLM CAR TAL KEN TOL POC MCH MFD
13 		IOW KEN BLN POC ISF
11 		CHI TOL DSF
7 		NJE SLM KAN CAR 57th 535 [17]
2011 Joe Cooksey Racing 15 Chevy DAY TAL SLM TOL NJE CHI POC MCH WIN BLN IOW IRP POC ISF MAD DSF
19 		SLM KAN TOL 122nd 135 [18]
2012 3 DAY MOB SLM TAL TOL ELK POC MCH WIN NJE IOW CHI IRP POC BLN ISF
33 		MAD SLM DSF KAN 141st 65 [19]
2016 Hixson Motorsports 2 Chevy DAY NSH SLM TAL TOL NJE POC MCH MAD WIN IOW IRP POC BLN ISF DSF
8 		SLM CHI KEN KAN 96th 190 [20]
2017 3 Ford DAY NSH SLM TAL TOL ELK POC MCH MAD IOW IRP POC WIN ISF
12 		ROA DSF
9 		SLM CHI KEN KAN 53rd 355 [21]
2018 DAY NSH
21 		SLM TAL TOL CLT POC MCH MAD GTW CHI IOW ELK POC ISF
11 		BLN DSF
9 		SLM IRP KAN 41st 490 [22]
2022 Fast Track Racing 10 Toyota DAY PHO TAL KAN CLT IOW BLN ELK MOH POC IRP MCH GLN ISF MLW DSF
8 		KAN BRI SLM TOL 82nd 36 [23]

References

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  1. ^ "1999 >> FirstPlus Financial 200". The Fast Lane. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  2. ^ "Local Illinois favorite Joe Cooksey returns; enters ARCA night race at DuQuoin dirt". Track Enterprises. 30 August 2016. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  3. ^ "Joe Cooksey – 2001 NASCAR Busch Series Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  4. ^ "Joe Cooksey – 2002 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  5. ^ "Joe Cooksey – 1996 ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  6. ^ "Joe Cooksey – 1997 ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  7. ^ "Joe Cooksey – 1998 ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  8. ^ "Joe Cooksey – 1999 ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  9. ^ "Joe Cooksey – 2000 ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  10. ^ "Joe Cooksey – 2001 ARCA Re/Max Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  11. ^ "Joe Cooksey – 2002 ARCA Re/Max Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  12. ^ "Joe Cooksey – 2003 ARCA Re/Max Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  13. ^ "Joe Cooksey – 2004 ARCA Re/Max Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  14. ^ "Joe Cooksey – 2005 ARCA Re/Max Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  15. ^ "Joe Cooksey – 2006 ARCA Re/Max Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  16. ^ "Joe Cooksey – 2007 ARCA Re/Max Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  17. ^ "Joe Cooksey – 2009 ARCA Re/Max Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  18. ^ "Joe Cooksey – 2011 ARCA Racing Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  19. ^ "Joe Cooksey – 2012 ARCA Racing Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  20. ^ "Joe Cooksey – 2016 ARCA Racing Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  21. ^ "Joe Cooksey – 2017 ARCA Racing Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  22. ^ "Joe Cooksey – 2018 ARCA Racing Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  23. ^ "Joe Cooksey – 2022 ARCA Menards Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
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