YEAR-BY-YEAR NASCAR NEXTEL CUP SERIES RECAP
2006 Finished 15th in series points. … Won first career race at Talladega in Oct. … Led 21 laps of Daytona 500
and finished seventh, a career best. … Started and finished fourth in both races at Pocono. … Started on the pole at
Texas in November race.
2005 Finished 17th in series points. … Season-best finish of second came on June 12 at Pocono Raceway. …
Finished with one pole, five top fives and 10 top 10s. … Won the pole for the July 17 event at New Hampshire
International Speedway.… Finished third in the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
2004 Finished 25th in series points. … Qualifying days were the obvious highlights of rookie season, with poles at
Richmond in May and California in September. Also had nine other top-five starts. … Best finish was seventh at Atlanta
in October race. … Qualified sixth for the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
2003 Finished 49th in series points. … Made series debut at Charlotte in October, in Hendrick Motorsports No. 60
Chevrolet. ... Also made four starts in No. 25 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet to close out season. ... Qualified in the
top five in four of the five races entered. ... Qualified on the outside pole at Phoenix and Rockingham’s fall race. ...
Finished season-best 13th at Phoenix.
PREVIOUS RACING HISTORY
Joined Hendrick Motorsports in December 2002 and completed his first full season in the NASCAR Busch Series in
2003. ... Earned one pole, three wins, 13 top-five and 21 top-10 finishes en route to series title at age 20, becoming
the youngest national series champion in NASCAR history. … Ran 21 NASCAR Busch Series events in 2001, posting
one top-10 finish. ... Made his NASCAR Busch Series debut at The Milwaukee Mile in 2000. ... Finished second in USAR
Hooter’s ProCup Series in 2001 after collecting two wins, three poles, 11 top fives and 14 top 10s. ... Named 2000
USAR Hooter’s ProCup Rookie of the Year, posting two wins and 14 top-10 finishes. ... Began racing late model stocks
in NASCAR Weekly Series in 1999. ...Won five times in Allison Legacy Series in 1998. ... Four-time North Carolina state
go-kart champion. ... Three-time World Karting Association national champion (1994-97). ... Began racing go-karts in
1994.
NOTEWORTHY
During 2002 NASCAR Busch Series season, qualified for Charlotte’s May race on a Friday, hurried home for Trinity
(N.C.) High School graduation ceremonies, then returned to Charlotte in time to race Saturday afternoon. … Earlier in
the 2002 season, Vickers missed his high school prom because he was racing at Bristol Motor Speedway.… Had a
4.43 GPA in high school.
