57 Facts About Travis Kvapil

Travis Wade Kvapil is an American professional stock car driver.

Travis Kvapil last competed part-time in the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series, driving the No 1 Chevrolet Silverado for Beaver Motorsports.

Travis Kvapil was the 2003 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion.

Travis Kvapil began racing in 1992 at the age of 16 at Rockford Speedway, competing in the NASCAR Weekly Racing Series.

Travis Kvapil went on to win the American Short Tracker division track championship in 1994 at Rockford.

Travis Kvapil became the track's Late Model Champion a year later in 1996.

Travis Kvapil moved to the ARTGO Series, a Midwest asphalt short-track motor-racing touring series.

In 2001, Travis Kvapil made his debut in the Craftsman Truck Series driving for Addington Racing in the No 60 CAT Rental Stores-sponsored Chevrolet.

Travis Kvapil got to drive a race with powerhouse Richard Childress Racing at Kentucky in the Busch Series, but he ran poorly before flipping his car in a late crash.

In 2002, Travis Kvapil managed to match his win total by winning the O'Reilly Auto Parts 200 at Memphis Motorsports Park.

Travis Kvapil finished the season with 14 Top 10's and finished ninth in the final driver points standings.

Travis Kvapil won one race during the season at Bristol Motor Speedway in the O'Reilly 200 presented by Valvoline Maxlife.

Travis Kvapil finished the season with 22 Top 10's in 25 races.

Travis Kvapil passed Brendan Gaughan and Ted Musgrave in points at the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Travis Kvapil was recorded at 99.9 percent lap completion rate, only missing one lap throughout the 2003 season.

Travis Kvapil came away with his first win of the season during the Line-X Spray-on Truck Bedliners 200 at Michigan International Speedway.

Two months later, Travis Kvapil won at New Hampshire International Speedway.

Travis Kvapil finished eight in the final driver standings of the season.

However, at the end of the 2004 season, Travis Kvapil made his first NEXTEL Cup Series start at Martinsville Speedway.

Travis Kvapil drove the No 06 Mobil 1-sponsored Dodge, the fourth car on the track from Penske Racing.

Travis Kvapil made three additional starts in the No 06 in preparation for driving Penske Racing's No 77 in 2005.

In 2005, Travis Kvapil took over the Penske's No 77 Kodak-sponsored Dodge full-time, replacing Brendan Gaughan.

Travis Kvapil scored his first ever Nextel Cup Series Top 10 at Brisol Motor Speedway when he finished seventh in the Food City 500.

Travis Kvapil picked up another Top 10 at Phoenix International Raceway during the Checker Auto Parts 500.

Travis Kvapil drove the No 32 Tide-sponsored Chevrolet for the 2006 season.

Travis Kvapil had his best finishes of the season at Kansas Speedway, Pocono Raceway, and Talladega Superspeedway, where he finished 19th in all three of those events.

Travis Kvapil finished the season 36th in points, and was forced to find a new ride for the next season as his PPI contract only lasted one year.

Travis Kvapil replaced Mark Martin in the truck, who moved to Ginn Racing, and David Ragan, who was promoted to replace Martin in the No 6 Ford in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

At only 30 years old with a Truck championship and two years of Sprint Cup experience under his belt, Travis Kvapil brings great long and short term potential to and for Roush Racing.

Travis Kvapil finished the season sixth in the driver point standings.

Travis Kvapil returned to Roush Fenway Racing as a part-time driver in 2008 when Joey Clanton was released from the No 09 Ford.

Two weeks later, Travis Kvapil scored an eighth-place finish at Las Vegas Motor Speedway during the UAW-Dodge 400.

Travis Kvapil picked up another Top 10 finish in the Dodge Challenger 500 at Darlington.

Travis Kvapil won the pole at the fall Talladega race, which turned out to be the last pole award for Yates Racing.

In 2009, Travis Kvapil returned to the No 28, but the team was forced to close after six races due to lack of funding.

In 2010, Travis Kvapil returned to a full-time ride in the Long John Silver's-sponsored Ford for Front Row Motorsports.

In 2011, Travis Kvapil returned to FRM full-time in the No 38 car, but signed up to compete for the Camping World Truck Series championship with Randy Moss Motorsports in their No 5 Toyota.

Travis Kvapil stuck with FRM in the Cup Series, driving their No 38 for most races, except in several late-season races, JJ Yeley swapped rides with Travis Kvapil several times, with the latter driving FRM's start and park No 55.

Travis Kvapil drove the No 93 Toyota starting with the second race of the year at Phoenix with Todd Anderson serving as crew chief; At Darlington, where David Reutimann drove the No 93, Kvapil drove the No 73 for BK Racing, though he drove the No 93 for the remainder of the season.

Travis Kvapil drove for RAB Racing in the season-opening Camping World Truck Series event, replacing a suspended John Wes Townley.

Travis Kvapil ended the 2012 Cup season 27th in points, his second best finish in the points since his debut.

Travis Kvapil dropped to 31st in points, recording five Top 20 finishes but nine DNFs.

Travis Kvapil ran several late-season races for Circle Sport, tying his best career finish of sixth at Talladega.

Travis Kvapil was scheduled to make a qualifying attempt for the 2015 Cup season at Atlanta, driving the No 44 Chevrolet for Team Xtreme, but was forced to withdraw when his car, hauler and truck were stolen from a hotel parking lot.

For 2015, Travis Kvapil mostly raced in the truck series driving the No 1 Chevrolet for MAKE Motorsports.

Later that season, Travis Kvapil attempted some races for Curtis Key's team, but the team was struggling to qualify, and Travis Kvapil DNQed in all of his attempts.

In 2016, Travis Kvapil announced that he would run the full Camping World Truck Series season with MAKE Motorsports .

Travis Kvapil continued to drive the No 50 truck for MAKE, now known as Beaver Motorsports, in 2017.

Travis Kvapil only attempted the first two races in 2018, making Daytona, where he finished last.

Travis Kvapil made just one start in 2019, which was at Martinsville.

Travis Kvapil is married to his wife Jennifer, and has three children: Kelsey, Carson and Caden.

Travis Kvapil competed against fellow Wisconsin native Matt Kenseth at Madison International Speedway.

Travis Kvapil, like Kenseth, is an avid Green Bay Packers fan.

On October 8,2013, Travis Kvapil was arrested by the Mooresville police department following a domestic dispute.

Travis Kvapil was charged with assault on a female and false imprisonment, and was released on $1,000 bail.

Travis Kvapil was allowed to race in that weekend's Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

On January 30,2014, it was announced that Travis Kvapil had accepted a plea deal in the case, pleading guilty in exchange for having the case dismissed following two years' probation, community service, and attending an anger management class.