Doug McCoun is an
American
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racing driver
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who won the
NASCAR
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Weekly Series national championship in 1985 and 1985–86 Pacific Coast Regional Championships.
[Schaefer, Paul. ''Where Stars Are Born: Celebrating 25 Years of NASCAR Weekly Racing''. Coastal 181, Newburyport, Massachusetts, 2006. . pp. 23-29.]
Driving a dirt Late Model for his father, owner Dick McCoun, Doug won 27 of the 53 NASCAR-sanctioned races that he entered. Most were at Watsonville Speedway,
Merced Fairgrounds Speedway, and other race tracks in
California
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.
He had 9 wins, 49 Top 5s and 87 Top 10s in 207 races in
NASCAR Southwest Series The NASCAR AutoZone Elite Division, Southwest Series (originally NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Tour) was a late model stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR that was held in the Southwestern United States. The original NASCAR Southwest Tour beg ...
between 1992 and 2005. McCoun also ran 2 races in the
NASCAR Northwest Series, one in 1996 and the other in 1998, his best finish was a 5th-place at
Portland
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Honors
As part of the 25th anniversary of the NASCAR Weekly Series in 2006, McCoun was named one of the series' All Time Top 25 drivers.
[Schaefer, Paul. ''Where Stars Are Born: Celebrating 25 Years of NASCAR Weekly Racing''. Coastal 181, Newburyport, Massachusetts, 2006. . pp. 163-170.]
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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