1. Tony Ave was born on 10 November 1968 and is an American race car driver born in Hurley, Wisconsin, USA.
12 Facts About Tony Ave
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Tony Ave competed in the Grand-Am Series from 2000 until 2002, in Formula Atlantic from 1996 until 2001, and in the Trans-Am Series since 2009.
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Tony Ave made three Indy Lights starts in 1993 and one Indy Pro Series start in 2003.
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Tony Ave has sporadic starts in NASCAR as a road course ringer.
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Tony Ave won the 2010 and 2011 Trans-Am Series Championships.
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In 2004, Ave made his NASCAR Nextel Cup Series debut when he drove the No 80 car owned by Hover Motorsports, a satellite team of Joe Gibbs Racing.
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Tony Ave completed eight laps and finished 43rd in his No 37 Long John Silver's Dodge owned by Front Row Motorsports.
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Tony Ave participated in the NASCAR Nationwide Series' NAPA Parts D'Auto 200 presented by Dodge at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve as a road course ringer.
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Tony Ave participated in the No 35 car owned by TriStar Motorsports in the 2010 Bucyrus 200 at Road America in his home state of Wisconsin.
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In 2011, Tony Ave made his so far last NASCAR attempt at Sonoma, attempting to qualify his No 38 Long John Silver's car for FRM.
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Tony Ave was bumped out of the field by Andy Pilgrim and did not qualify.
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In 2016, Tony Ave made an agreement with Bill Riley to build a prototype chassis for ELMS for the P3 and IMSA for the Prototype Challenge.