Morgan M. Alexander (born April 10, 1997) is an American professional

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and

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driver who competes part-time in Dirt Super Late Models and 604 Crate Dirt Late Models, driving the No. 711 Savage Racecars for Morgan Alexander Racing. He has also previously competed in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and ARCA Menards Series.

Racing career

Alexander began racing at the age of 13 in dirt late models before transitioning to racing on asphalt in stock cars. Alexander made his

ARCA Menards Series East The ARCA Menards Series East (formerly Busch East Series, Busch North Series, Camping World East Series, and NASCAR K&N Pro Series East) is a regional stock car racing series owned and operated by the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) and ...

debut in the race at

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. He was initially going to drive the No. 50 for

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, but that car ended up being withdrawn and Alexander moved to the No. 41 for Cook-Finley Racing, which had previously been TBA on the entry list. He finished 12th out of 16 cars after suffering electrical problems. Alexander was also scheduled to make his ARCA Menards Series West debut in the race at

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in Cook-Finley's No. 42 car, but he cancelled that planned start and instead used the funding for that race to compete in the

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race at Knoxville with Niece in their No. 44 truck. Alexander did drive the No. 50 for Niece in two races in back-to-back weeks in July: the main ARCA Menards Series race at

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and the main ARCA/East Series combination race at

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. Alexander crashed in his truck debut at Knoxville with

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Personal life

He is not related to former NASCAR drivers

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and Mike Alexander or '' NASCAR on Fox'' Xfinity Series play-by-play announcer Adam Alexander.

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.)

Camping World Truck Series

ARCA Menards Series

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

ARCA Menards Series East

Season still in progress

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* Living people NASCAR drivers ARCA Menards Series drivers Sportspeople from Griffin, Georgia Racing drivers from Georgia (U.S. state) 1997 births {{US-autoracing-bio-stub