Tommy Kendall was born on October 17,1966 and is an American race car driver and television broadcaster.
17 Facts About Tommy Kendall
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Tommy Kendall is best known for his IMSA GT Championship and SCCA Trans-Am Series career.
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Son of race driver Charles Kendall, Kendall began his racing career competing at the IMSA GT Championship.
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Tommy Kendall drove a Mazda RX-7 in the GTU category while studying and by the time he completed his studies, he took the 1986 and 1987 championships.
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Tommy Kendall later dominated the SCCA Trans-Am Series in the 1990s, scoring four series championships.
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Tommy Kendall ran in fourteen NASCAR Cup Series races between 1987 and 1998.
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Tommy Kendall raced primarily only on road courses as a road course ringer, and scored one Top-10 finish.
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Tommy Kendall nearly won the 1991 Banquet Frozen Foods 300K at Sears Point Raceway, in which he led 12 laps before cutting a tire with two laps to go following a late-race collision with Mark Martin.
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Johnson and Tommy Kendall finished 8th in their Ford EF Falcon.
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On June 30,1991, Tommy Kendall suffered serious leg injuries at Watkins Glen when a mechanical failure caused his Intrepid RM-1 IMSA GTP car to leave the track and crash head-on into a tire wall.
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Tommy Kendall discussed his accident on Athlete 360, a sports medicine television show hosted by Mark Adickes.
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Tommy Kendall is the host of the Speed Test Drive promotional television series where he and another professional race car driver drive a new vehicle on a race course while being able to remotely talk to each other and offer their positive thoughts on the car.
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In 2007 and 2008, Tommy Kendall was one of the hosts of the show Setup on SpeedTV.
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On July 15,2012, Tommy Kendall revealed on SpeedTV's WindTunnel program that he would be returning to the cockpit as one of four full-time drivers in a factory-backed Dodge Viper effort competing in the American Le Mans Series.
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On September 22,2013, Tommy Kendall's new show, Driven - A Race Without Boundaries, premiered on Fox Sports 1.
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Tommy Kendall was raised in the city of La Canada Flintridge, California and is a 1984 graduate of La Canada High School.
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Tommy Kendall earned a degree in economics from UCLA and to this day maintains an avid interest in business.