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Butch Gilliland

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Best finish
  
60th (1997)

Children
  
David Gilliland

Role
  
NASCAR Driver

Name
  
Butch Gilliland

Best finish
  
39th (1995)


Born
  
February 25, 1958 (age 66) Anaheim, California, U.S. (
1958-02-25
)

Achievements
  
1997 Winston West Series champion 1997 and 1999 Winston West Series Most Popular Driver

First race
  
1990 Banquet Frozen Foods 300 (Sonoma)

Last race
  
1999 Save Mart/Kragen 350 (Sonoma)

First race
  
1995 Skoal Bandit Copper World Classic (Phoenix)

Butch Gilliland 2012 West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame Inductee


Butch Gilliland (born February 25, 1958) is a former NASCAR Winston Cup Series and Craftsman Truck Series driver from California. He was the 1997 Winston West (now K&N Pro Series West) champion and based on the west coast. All of his 10 Cup starts came at either Sears Point Raceway or Phoenix International Raceway, most of them as West competitors in Cup/West combination races, and all 12 of his Truck Series starts came at various west coast tracks. He has one NASCAR top-ten, which he recorded in a Truck Series race at Saugus Speedway in Saugus, California in 1995. He retired from competitive racing in 2002.

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He is the father of Cup Series driver David Gilliland and the grandfather of K&N Pro Series West driver Todd Gilliland.

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

References

Butch Gilliland Wikipedia