Brian Lee Vickers was born on October 24,1983 and is an American professional stock car and sports car racing driver.
69 Facts About Brian Vickers
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Brian Vickers last drove the No 14 Chevrolet SS for Stewart-Haas Racing as an interim driver in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series for the injured Tony Stewart.
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Brian Vickers won the 2003 NASCAR Busch Series championship driving for Hendrick Motorsports.
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Brian Vickers' career has been marred by a series of health issues since 2010 that have included blood clots and heart problems.
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Brian Vickers made his Busch Series debut in the 2001 GNC Live Well 250 at Milwaukee in the No 29 car; owned by his father Clyde Brian Vickers' BLV Motorsports team.
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Brian Vickers ran three more races that season; his best finish being 25th at North Carolina.
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In 2002, Brian Vickers began running the Busch Series in his father's No 40 Dodge Intrepid.
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Brian Vickers drove in twenty-one races, competing for Rookie of the Year honors; his best finish was seventh in the Hardee's 250 at Richmond, his only top ten of the season on his way to finishing thirtieth in series points.
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In 2003, Brian Vickers won three races and the championship by fourteen points over David Green.
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Brian Vickers became the then-youngest champion in Busch Series history at only 20 years old.
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Brian Vickers made his Cup debut in the 2003 UAW-GM Quality 500 at Charlotte; qualifying 20th and finishing 33rd in the No 60 Haas Automation-sponsored Chevy.
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In 2004, Brian Vickers ran the No 25 in the Cup Series full-time carrying sponsorships from Ditech and GMAC.
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Brian Vickers won two poles, had four Top 10s, and finished third behind Kasey Kahne and Brendan Gaughan for Rookie of the Year.
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Brian Vickers was right behind Mike Bliss on the last lap.
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Rather than make a move to go around Bliss, Brian Vickers ran into the back of the No 0, spinning him out.
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Brian Vickers finished the year seventeenth in Cup points with ten top tens including career runs at the Pocono 500 and the Coca-Cola 600.
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Brian Vickers returned to the Busch Series in a limited capacity in 2005, and finished third at Watkins Glen in the No 5.
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Brian Vickers started out the 2006 season with a seventh-place finish in the Daytona 500.
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Brian Vickers went on to finish fifteenth in points with nine top tens, including a win at Talladega.
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On June 25, Brian Vickers announced that he would leave Hendrick and drive for the new Team Red Bull in 2007.
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Unfourtunately, Brian Vickers was too late to follow Johnson to the inside and instead hooked Jimmie in the right rear causing Johnson to turn right into Dale Jr.
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In 2006, Brian Vickers won a one-off race for Hendrick in the Autozone West Series at Sonoma.
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Two weeks later, Brian Vickers led Toyota's first lap in the Cup series at Atlanta.
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On May 27,2007, Brian Vickers gave Toyota its first top five ever in the Coca-Cola 600.
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Toyota brought a new engine to Charlotte, and Brian Vickers showed its potential and surprised many by leading more than seventy laps of the race and having the dominant car.
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The team's luck continued to decline as Brian Vickers soon blew a tire and slid into the turn four wall.
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Immediately as Brian Vickers entered pit road, the caution flew for debris on the track; supposedly from his car.
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Brian Vickers struggled for the remainder of the season as Team Red Bull began to focus on developing its Car of Tomorrow program, which would start competing full-time the next season.
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Brian Vickers went on to make the next four races with an average finish of twenty-first including a ninth-place finish at Atlanta.
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Brian Vickers went on the next weekend and led sixty-one laps in the Coca-Cola 600 before he lost his left rear wheel and crashed about halfway through the race.
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Brian Vickers then followed up with a 2nd-place run at Pocono to Kasey Kahne.
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Brian Vickers said after the race that Earnhardt should have been black-flagged.
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Earnhardt later stated that he was unaware that Brian Vickers was a lap down, and that both were fighting for the Lucky Dog position.
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Brian Vickers won the pole for the Auto Club 500, but had to go to the rear because of an engine change.
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Brian Vickers ran in the top five all day during the Kobalt Tools 500.
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Brian Vickers won his second pole of the season for the Crown Royal 400 at Richmond.
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Brian Vickers pulled the No 83 Red Bull Toyota to the side of the road and the team changed four tires in Times Square with traffic still moving around them.
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Brian Vickers won his third pole of the season for the Lifelock 400 at Michigan.
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Brian Vickers never led a lap in the race, and earned a ninth-place finish.
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Brian Vickers won his fifth pole of the season for the Lifelock.
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Brian Vickers won his sixth pole of the season at Michigan.
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The next day, Brian Vickers won the Carfax 400 from the pole for his second career Sprint Cup victory, Red Bull's first victory, and Toyota's first victory at Michigan.
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Brian Vickers did so after a late race gamble of not coming in to pit during the race's final caution.
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Two days after the win, Brian Vickers signed a multi-year extension with Red Bull.
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On May 13,2010, it was announced that Brian Vickers, who had earned three top 10s in the first 11 races, would not be participating in the Autism Speaks 400 at Dover International Speedway due to an undisclosed medical condition, later revealed to be blood clots in his legs and around his lungs.
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Brian Vickers hoped to run a handful of laps before handing the car over to a relief driver in order to earn points, but was not medically cleared.
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Brian Vickers's replacements were Casey Mears, Reed Sorenson, Mattias Ekstrom, Boris Said, and Kasey Kahne.
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Brian Vickers's season started out in the big one at Daytona, where he finished 31st.
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Brian Vickers was involved in two other notable run-ins with Kenseth in the fall races at Martinsville and Phoenix as well as run-ins with Tony Stewart at Sonoma, Marcos Ambrose at Richmond, and Jamie McMurray at Martinsville.
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BK Racing bought the assets and offered Brian Vickers a ride for 2012 but he declined, leaving Brian Vickers on the sidelines.
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Brian Vickers started the 2012 season without a ride, but it was announced in early March that he would drive the No 55 Toyota for Michael Waltrip Racing at both races at Bristol, Martinsville, and Loudon, sharing the ride with Mark Martin and Michael Waltrip.
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Brian Vickers drove the team's AF Corse-Waltrip No 61 Ferrari in the GTE-AM class for the FIA World Endurance Championship at the 6 Hours of Spa and the 24 Heures du Mans.
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Brian Vickers announced at the fall Martinsville race that he renewed his contract with MWR and will race 9 more times in the No 55 car next year sharing the ride with Mark Martin and Michael Waltrip.
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Brian Vickers's second ride in the No 55 at Martinsville was unlucky.
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Brian Vickers had crashed in the early laps and after repairing his car, got back on the lead lap and then spun around.
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In reply Brian Vickers bumped Harvick when entering pit road after the race was over; he climbed out and the two briefly argued.
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Brian Vickers ran the No 11 FedEx Toyota at Texas, Kansas and Richmond for an injured Denny Hamlin.
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At Sonoma, Brian Vickers started in 34th place in his 3rd ride for MWR in the No 55 Toyota.
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Brian Vickers led 4 laps and had a very fast racecar, even though he had to start at the rear of the field because Jason Bowles had qualified the car as Vickers was racing at Road America.
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Brian Vickers led 63 laps in the Nationwide Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway but finished second to Kyle Busch.
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Ironically, the next day, Brian Vickers held off Busch to win his third career Sprint Cup Series race during the 2013 Camping World RV Sales 301 at New Hampshire after making a late race pass on Tony Stewart, and retaining the lead on a green-white-checkered finish as Stewart ran out of fuel.
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For Brian Vickers, this broke a 75-race winless streak.
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On October 14,2013, it was announced that Brian Vickers would be forced to sit out the rest of the season due to the discovery of a blood clot in his right calf, a similar issue to the one that caused him to sit out much of 2010; Elliott Sadler substituted for Brian Vickers in the No 55 Sprint Cup car in the final four races of the season.
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Brian Vickers' best finish of the year was a 2nd at the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona when the rain came in and Brian Vickers missed a huge 25 car pileup and a 4th at Texas when he took two tires on the final stop.
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Brian Vickers said that his body had been rejecting an artificial patch which had been inserted in 2010 to fix a hole in his heart.
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On January 21,2015, it was announced that Brian Vickers had been medically cleared to return to racing in March, with his season debut expected at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on March 8.
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Brian Vickers did not run another race for the rest of 2015.
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The son of Clyde and Ramona Brian Vickers, Brian Vickers was born in Thomasville, North Carolina, and now resides in a suburb of New York City.
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Brian Vickers was given federal immunity under Epstein's non-prosecution agreement.