Coleman Pressley Explained

Coleman Pressley
Birth Name:	Coleman C. Pressley
Birth Date:	10 October 1988
Birth Place:	Asheville, North Carolina
Achievements:	2010 UARA-Stars Champion
Total Busch Races:	12
Years In Busch:	2
Best Busch Pos:	57th (2010)
First Busch Race:	2009 U.S. Cellular 250 (Iowa)
Last Busch Race:	2010 Wypall 200 (Phoenix)
Busch Wins:	0
Busch Top Tens:	0
Busch Poles:	0
Updated:	November 19, 2012

Coleman C. Pressley (born October 10, 1988) is an American former professional stock car racing driver. He is the current spotter of the No. 22 Ford Mustang Dark Horse driven by Joey Logano in the NASCAR Cup Series.^[1] He is also the son of former NASCAR Cup driver Robert Pressley and the grandson of Bob Pressley. He is a Fox Sports (United States) broadcast commentator for the NASCAR Xfinity Series. He won the UARA Stars Championship in 2010.

Early career

Coleman began racing in karts as a 6-year-old.^[2] He then raced Bandoleros at Lowes Motor Speedway. Pressley raced in legends cars before taking a year off. In 2005 when he began racing late models at Hickory Motor Speedway.^[3] He had four second-place finishes to finish sixth in season points. In 2006, he continued racing at Hickory with additional events at other tracks. He scored his first late model victory in the second race of the season at Hickory. With the victory, he began the youngest driver to win in the track's 55-year history.He is the cousin of former North Carolina Tar Heels quarterback and current Barstool Sports blogger Caleb Pressley.

NASCAR career

His first race in the Nationwide Series in the No. 47 JTG Daugherty Racing at the Iowa Speedway and finished 41st.^[4] He raced for R3 Motorsports part-time in the Nationwide Series. As of June 7, 2010, his best finish was a 12th-place effort at Nashville Superspeedway, driving the No. 88 JR Motorsports Chevrolet. He spent the rest of the season racing part-time in the No. 23 car.

After ending his driving career, Pressley became a spotter, starting in 2015. His first job was spotting for A. J. Allmendinger, who was driving for JTG Daugherty Racing. In 2019, he was named Brad Keselowski's spotter.^[5] In 2020 he became the spotter for the #22 car and Joey Logano.^[6]

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

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

Nationwide Series

NASCAR Nationwide Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35		Pts	Ref
2009	JTG Daugherty Racing	47	Toyota	DAY	CAL	LVS	BRI	TEX	NSH	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	NHA	DAY	CHI	GTY	IRP	IOW 41	GLN	MCH	BRI 39	CGV	ATL	RCH 41	DOV 41	KAN	CAL	CLT	MEM 38	TEX	PHO	HOM	93rd	215	^[7]
2010	R3 Motorsports	23	Chevy	DAY	CAL	LVS	BRI 31	NSH	PHO	TEX	TAL	RCH 18	DAR 15	DOV	CLT															RCH 25	DOV	KAN	CAL	CLT	GTY	TEX	PHO 17	HOM	57th	733	^[8]
	JR Motorsports	88	Chevy													NSH 12	KEN 18	ROA	NHA	DAY	CHI	GTY	IRP	IOW	GLN	MCH	BRI	CGV	ATL

K&N Pro Series East

NASCAR K&N Pro Series East results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14		Pts	Ref
2011	X Team Racing	14	Toyota	GRE 2	SBO 4	RCH 11	IOW 5	BGS 22		LGY 7	NHA	COL	GRE	NHA	DOV			21st	948	^[9]
		59							JFC 26
2012		15		BRI	GRE	RCH	IOW	BGS	JFC	LGY	CNB	COL	IOW	NHA	DOV	GRE	CAR 4	51st	40	^[10]
2013				BRI	GRE 4	FIF	RCH	BGS	IOW	LGY	COL	IOW	VIR	GRE	NHA	DOV	RAL	50th	41	^[11]

Notes and References

1. Web site: NASCAR podcast: Coleman Pressley . Racer . August 1, 2020 . July 22, 2020.
2. Web site: Hembree. Mike. Father's experience helping Coleman Pressley navigate move into NASCAR. Scene Daily.
3. News: Hamilton. Mark. All in the Family: Carrying on the Pressley family racing tradition. 8 June 2010. Stock Car Racing magazine. February 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20101205155326/http://www.stockcarracing.com/featurestories/scrp_0608_coleman_pressley/index.html. 5 December 2010. dead.
4. Web site: Coleman Pressley Nationwide Series results. Yahoo!.
5. Web site: Albert. Zack. Coleman Pressley to serve as spotter for Brad Keselowski, No. 2 Ford in 2019. NASCAR. January 7, 2019. October 10, 2019.
6. Web site: Huber. Zachary. Can Asheville natives Nick Hensley and Coleman Pressley add Daytona win to last year's NASCAR title? . Asheville Citizen-Times. February 16, 2023. May 22, 2023.
7. Web site: Coleman Pressley – 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series Results. Racing-Reference. March 12, 2019.
8. Web site: Coleman Pressley – 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series Results. Racing-Reference. March 12, 2019.
9. Web site: Coleman Pressley – 2011 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Series Results. Racing-Reference. March 12, 2019.
10. Web site: Coleman Pressley – 2012 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Series Results. Racing-Reference. March 12, 2019.
11. Web site: Coleman Pressley – 2013 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Series Results. Racing-Reference. March 12, 2019.