Gerald Robertson (born January 2, 1962) is an American former professional
stock car racing
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driver. He competed part-time in NASCAR from 1996 to 2006 (as well as one ARCA race in 1987). He primarily drove for underfunded teams in the Cup, Xfinity and Truck Series as well as in NASCAR's Southwest and Midwest Series, winning twice in the Southwest Series. He is notable for being the first ever driver for
Furniture Row Racing, a team based out of Denver (also where Robertson is from) that would go on to win multiple races in the NASCAR Cup Series and the
2017 NASCAR Cup Series championship after starting out as an underfunded team in the series.
Racing career
Early career
Robertson began his racing career as a high school senior at
Colorado National Speedway and won eight races, garnering the Rookie of the Year title. Over the next 12 years, he was a fixture on the national dirt-track racing scene, winning 126 times. In 1994, he switched to paved racing, and was named Rookie of the Year and champion in the NASCAR Grand American Modified Division. After being named "Oval Track Driver of the Year", he ran in the NASCAR Northwest Regional Championship Series, winning titles in 2003 and 2004.
NASCAR
Robertson ran eight races in the
Craftsman Truck Series
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between
1996
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and
2001
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.
In
2005
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, he joined the upstart
Furniture Row Racing team and ran ten races in their No. 78 car. Robertson's best race finish came that year when he finished 22nd in the
Ameriquest 300 at
Auto Club Speedway
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. He also made his
Nextel Cup Series debut
that year for Furniture Row at
Phoenix, finishing 41st after suffering an engine failure. Robertson was expected to run more Cup races for Furniture Row in
2006
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. However, without a guarantee of qualifying for races, the inexperienced Robertson was scaled back to run mostly Busch Series races for the team, which were his last NASCAR starts, while Cup Series veteran driver
Kenny Wallace drove the team's Cup car.
Although Robertson did not find a NASCAR ride for the 2007 and 2008 seasons, he continued to race locally.
Motorsports career results
NASCAR
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Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. ''Italics'' – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
Nextel Cup Series
Busch Series
Craftsman Truck Series
ARCA Permatex SuperCar Series
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key
Key or The Key may refer to:
Common meanings
* Key (cryptography), a piece of information that controls the operation of a cryptography algorithm
* Key (lock), device used to control access to places or facilities restricted by a lock
* Key (map ...
) (
Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. ''Italics'' – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
References
External links
* ''Dead link''
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1962 births
Living people
NASCAR drivers
American Speed Association drivers
Racing drivers from Denver
ARCA Menards Series drivers