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| Kevin Cywinski | |||||||
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| Born | March 16, 1965 Mosinee, Wisconsin, U.S. | ||||||
| Awards | 1995 ARTGO champion 1997 American Speed Association champion | ||||||
| NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series career | |||||||
| 2 races run over 1 year | |||||||
| Best finish | 76th (1998) | ||||||
| First race | 1998 Galaxy Food Centers 300 (Hickory) | ||||||
| Last race | 1998 Hardee's 250 (Richmond) | ||||||
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| NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career | |||||||
| 46 races run over 3 years | |||||||
| Best finish | 16th (1999) | ||||||
| First race | 1997 Cummins 200 (IRP) | ||||||
| Last race | 1999 NAPA Auto Parts 200 (California) | ||||||
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Kevin Cywinski (born March 16, 1965) is an American former NASCAR driver. He competed in the Craftsman Truck Series full-time in 1998 and 1999, as well as some races in the Busch Series. After leaving NASCAR, he went back down to the short-track ranks. He won the ASA championship series in 2004. He was the co-owner of Win-Tron Racing before merging with AM Racing in 2021 and becoming the operator of the organization.
Cywinski made his debut in this series in 1997, when he competed in the No. 18 Dana Holding Corporation Dodge. His first race was at ORP, where Cywinski started 21st and finished a respectable 20th. Later in the year, Cywinski started 20th at Mesa Marin and came home with a solid 15th-place finish.
Those runs attracted the eyes of Bob Brevak, who hired Cywinski after released Tony Roper midway through 1998. Cywinski got right on it, earning an eighth-place finish in his first outing with the team at Bristol. However, Cywinski struggled for the rest of the year, only recording five top-20 finishes in nineteen races. Cywinski did not finish nine races, but seven of those were mechanical failure. Still, they did not help the team. The main highlight of Cywinski's year was winning the outside pole at Flemington. This was all en route to a 28th-place finish in points.
Brevak stood with Cywinski and his trust was greatly paid in 1999, as Cywinski roared to a 16th-place finish in points after two top-fives and seven top-tens. His best run of the season was a third at Bristol, followed closely by a fourth at Martinsville and the other five top-tens. Cywinski would have proved to be a bigger threat in the points, but his team struggled at some tracks, posting a season average 17.8 finish.
Cywinski left after the year was up to go back short track racing and was replaced by John Young.
Cywinski made two career starts in this series, both coming in 1998. Cywinski debuted in the Ruark Racing No. 89 Chevy at Hickory. The short track ace qualified the car in 29th, but steadily improved to 19th in the final showing. Key Motorsports was the team that Cywinski drove for next at Richmond. He started that event in 19th, but slid to 25th in the final rundown.
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
| 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 | NBSC | Pts | Ref |
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| 1998 | Key Motorsports | 11 | Ford | DAY | CAR DNQ |
LVS | NSV | DAR | BRI | TEX | RCH 25 |
PPR | GLN | MLW | MYB | CAL | SBO | IRP | MCH | BRI | DAR | RCH | DOV | CLT | GTY | CAR | ATL | HOM | 76th | 194 | [1] | ||||||
| NorthStar Motorsports | 89 | Ford | HCY 19 |
TAL | NHA | NZH | CLT | DOV | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | NCTC | Pts | Ref |
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| 1997 | Roehrig Motorsports | 18 | Dodge | WDW | TUS | HOM | PHO | POR | EVG | I70 | NHA | TEX | BRI | NZH | MLW | LVL | CNS | HPT | IRP 20 |
FLM | NSV | GLN | RCH | MAR | SON | MMR 15 |
CAL | PHO | LVS DNQ |
75th | 246 | [2] | |
| 1998 | Brevak Racing | 31 | Ford | WDW | HOM | PHO | POR | EVG | I70 | GLN | TEX | BRI 8 |
MLW 33 |
NZH 32 |
CAL 23 |
PPR 19 |
IRP 22 |
NHA 24 |
FLM 18 |
NSV 20 |
HPT 11 |
LVL 28 |
RCH 29 |
MEM 32 |
GTY 29 |
MAR 30 |
SON 25 |
MMR 22 |
PHO 32 |
LVS 21 |
28th | 1726 | [3] |
| 1999 | HOM 6 |
PHO 9 |
EVG 15 |
MMR 10 |
MAR 4 |
MEM 26 |
PPR 12 |
I70 6 |
BRI 3 |
TEX 21 |
PIR 24 |
GLN 24 |
MLW 18 |
NSV 10 |
NZH 23 |
MCH 31 |
NHA 19 |
IRP 15 |
GTY 11 |
HPT 27 |
RCH 25 |
LVS 21 |
LVL 24 |
TEX 27 |
CAL 33 |
16th | 2777 | [4] | |||||
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Kevin Cywinski (born March 16, 1965) is an American former NASCAR driver. He competed in the Craftsman Truck Series full-time in 1998 and 1999, as well as some races in the Busch Series. After leaving NASCAR, he went back down to the short-track ranks. He won the ASA championship series in 2004. He was the co-owner of Win-Tron Racing before merging with AM Racing in 2021 and becoming the operator of the organization.
The ARTGO Challenge Series was a late model short track racing series that ran in the Midwestern United States from 1975 until 1998. Many race car drivers used the ARTGO series as a stepping stone to get into ASA, ARCA, and NASCAR. Art Frigo created the series with the help of Bob Roper and John McKarns. He came up with the name by taking his first full name and the last two letters of his last name, coming up with the name ARTGO. The first race was held on September 7, 1975, at the Grundy County Speedway in Morris, Illinois. The inaugural Wayne Carter Classic was won by Tom Reffner. Frigo sold the series to John & Sue McKarns in 1979. In 1998 the McKarns licensed the name to NASCAR and NASCAR took full control of the series. The series went through different name changes with different title sponsors, including the RE/MAX Challenge Series, International Truck & Engine Midwest Series, and finally the AutoZone Elite Division, Midwest Series. Under the NASCAR era, the series had identical rules to three other NASCAR regional series (Northwest, Southeast, and Southwest). In 2006, after dwindling car counts and lack of races on the schedule NASCAR finally shut down the AutoZone Elite Division. To replace the NASCAR Midwest Series, the ASA Midwest Tour was created in 2007 by Racing Speed Associates, LLC as a new touring series that was similar in format to the former ARTGO Challenge Series. The ARTGO series had drivers like Paul Menard, Matt Kenseth (2003 NASCAR Cup Series Champion), Butch Miller, Dick Trickle, Joe Shear, Jim Sauter, Eddie Hoffman, Steve Carlson, Kevin Cywinski, Jim Weber, Justin Diercks, Tim Schendel, Jason Schuler and Jeff Frederickson.
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Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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