Ryan Shane Sieg (born June 20, 1987) is an American professional

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driver and team owner. He competes full-time in the

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, driving the No. 38 and 39

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s for

RSS Racing RSS Racing (also known as Ryan Shane Sieg Racing) is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and the ARCA Menards Series. The team is owned by Rod Sieg and Pamela Sieg. The main spons ...

. He is the younger brother of late former driver

Shane Sieg Rodney Shane Sieg (August 23, 1982 – August 19, 2017) was an American professional stock car racing driver. He last drove the No. 93 S&W Services Chevrolet for RSS Racing. He was the older brother of Xfinity Series driver Ryan Sieg. Racing car ...

and older brother of current ARCA driver

Kyle Sieg Kyle C. Sieg (born April 16, 2001) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the Nos. 28, 38, and 39 Ford Mustangs for RSS Racing. He is the youngest son of RSS team owner R ...

Racing career

Gander Outdoors Truck Series

Ryan Sieg RSS Racing Chevrolet Rockingham 2012

Sieg made his

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debut in 2009, competing in the

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. Driving the No. 21

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for GunBroker Racing, Sieg started 16th but finished 34th due to an ignition problem. At

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, he would start a partial schedule for his family-owned race team. In nine races, Ryan recorded six top-20 finishes including a finish of 9th at

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. For 2010, Sieg and his brother Shane both planned to run the full Truck Series schedule in the No. 39 and No. 93 trucks, respectively. Despite having no major sponsorship, Sieg was able to run the entire season, finishing 21 of the 25 races and earning two top-10 finishes, including an 8th at

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and a 9th at

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. On June 10, 2011, Sieg finished 7th in the WinStar World Casino 400K at

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, marking his best career finish in his 44th start in the Camping World Truck Series. He also led ten laps earlier after staying out on a pit stop. At the September 2 Truck Series race at

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, he piloted his No. 39 RSS Racing Chevy to a 15th-place finish. RyanSiegRVA18

For 2012, Sieg led six laps at the

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race after staying out on a pit stop during a caution. He ran the final three laps in 3rd position before finishing in 15th after running out of fuel on the last lap at

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on August 18, marking his best final-laps position in the Camping World Truck Series. He would later score a 6th-place finish at Phoenix. In 2013, in addition to running the full Camping World Truck Series season, Sieg substituted for

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in the NASCAR

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during the latter's suspension. Later in the year he ran at the

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in the

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for his own team. In 2019, Sieg returned to the Truck Series for the

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at Dover, driving the No. 33 Chevrolet for

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. After starting last in 32nd, he finished 16th.

Xfinity Series

39 Ryan Sieg drivers side NASCAR Nationwide 2014 Gardner Denver 200 at Road America

In February 2014, RSS Racing announced that Sieg would run the full Truck Series season and at least the first five Nationwide Series races in 2014. He finished in the 9th spot in the season-opening

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, his first top 10 in the Nationwide Series. After Fontana, it was announced that Sieg would focus his efforts on the Nationwide Series for the remainder of the season, running for Rookie of the Year. Sieg then earned fame himself at the July race at Daytona when he drafted Kasey Kahne past teammate Regan Smith to his first Nationwide victory since 2007. In doing so, he also scored his first career top 5 finish with a 3rd-place finish, enough to put him in the first of four races in the 2014 Nationwide

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event the next week at New Hampshire. Sieg was rather impressive in 2014, having some other solid runs to go along with the two top 10s to finish the season 16th in points. In 2015, Sieg returned to the Xfinity Series with a new sponsor Uncle Bob's Self Storage at the season opener at Daytona. He finished 38th after being involved in the first big one. Sieg had a consistent season with finishing many races under 20th, including an 8th-place finish at Kansas, finishing 11th in points. Sieg lost the sponsorship from Uncle Bob's for 2016 but a number of sponsors filled the void. Some highlights of the season included almost qualifying for the Dash 4 Cash at

, running in the top five at

, and qualifying for the inaugural Xfinity Series

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before being knocked out after the first round. In June 2017, Sieg recorded his best career Xfinity finish of second at

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. Later in the season, Sieg's Xfinity throwback car for

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honored Ryan's brother

, who had died two weekends prior. On January 24, 2018, Sieg announced another full season with RSS Racing. After a sixth-place run at

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in the spring, Sieg qualified for the Xfinity Series

after Spencer Gallagher's eligibility was stripped. A pit road penalty during the race prevented Sieg from making it any farther in the D4C. Sieg's efforts received a boost in 2018 with the addition of two

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cars that

also fielded to help fund Sieg's efforts in the No. 39. On December 27, 2018, Sieg announced another full Xfinity season with RSS Racing, intending to make the playoffs for the first time since 2016. After scoring his second top-five of the year at the spring

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event, Sieg sat ninth in the point standings. He credited new crew chief Shane Wilson and new cars from

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as catalysts for the uptick in performance. In September 2019, Sieg finished 14th in the Rhino Pro Truck Outfitters 300 at Las Vegas but was disqualified after his car failed post-race inspection for not meeting the minimum ride height. Nevertheless, he qualified for the Xfinity playoffs and the disqualification did not affect his points standing. After a 2020 season that saw Sieg record a career-best seven top-five finishes and reach the playoffs' Round of 8 before finishing tenth in points, RSS Racing switched to Ford for 2021. During the spring 2022 Las Vegas race, Sieg lost control of his car and hit the outside wall after light contact from

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. Both drivers discussed the incident during a red flag delay. Once the race resumed, NASCAR black-flagged Sieg for not reaching the minimum speed, but instead of returning to pit road, he attempted to wreck Gibbs, but he ended up spinning and damaging

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and

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's cars before returning to the garage. Following a 10th place finish and accidents to Creed and

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at the fall 2022 Bristol race, Sieg was able to advance to the Xfinity Series Playoffs. Despite three Top 10 finishes in the Round of 12, Sieg was eliminated from the Xfinity Playoffs. He would ultimately finish 11th in the points standings.

Cup Series

In May 2017, Sieg was signed by

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to drive their No. 83

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in the

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for the

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, his MENCS debut. A month later, he replaced

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in BK's No. 23 Camry for the

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. Two years later, he returned to the Cup Series at

, driving the No. 27 for

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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.)

Monster Energy Cup Series

Xfinity Series

Gander Outdoors Truck Series

Season still in progress
Ineligible for series points
Sieg started the 2014 season running for Truck Series points but switched to Nationwide before Fontana.

References

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