| Jack Pennington | |
| Birth Date: | 3 September 1953 |
| Birth Place: | Augusta, Georgia, United States |
| Achievements: | 1998 National 100 Winner 1998 Blue-Gray 100 Winner |
| Awards: | National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame (2006) |
| Total Cup Races: | 16 |
| Years In Cup: | 2 |
| Best Cup Pos: | 34th (1990) |
| First Cup Race: | 1989 AC Delco 500 (Rockingham) |
| Last Cup Race: | 1990 Atlanta Journal 500 (Atlanta) |
| Cup Wins: | 0 |
| Cup Top Tens: | 0 |
| Cup Poles: | 0 |
| Total Busch Races: | 6 |
| Years In Busch: | 1 |
| Best Busch Pos: | 47th (1989) |
| First Busch Race: | 1989 Goodwrench 200 (Rockingham) |
| Last Busch Race: | 1989 All Pro 300 (Charlotte) |
| Busch Wins: | 0 |
| Busch Top Tens: | 2 |
| Busch Poles: | 0 |
| Updated: | April 20, 2013 |
Jack Pennington (born September 3, 1953) is a dirt Late Model driver from Augusta, Georgia.
He was an ace in late model dirt track racing before he moved up to the Busch Series in 1989 making six starts, finishing with 2 top tens. He made his Winston Cup debut late in 1989, driving two races that year. He then ran fourteen races in 1990 in the No. 47 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme for Close Racing, he led in the 1990 Daytona 500 at one point with leading 6 laps in that race. He was second in the 1990 Rookie of the Year standings in controversial fashion (because the winner was posthumously awarded after being killed in a drunken driving incident returning home from the September North Wilkesboro round; NASCAR has since added a disciplinary rule that requires drivers to finish the season in good standing, which Pennington would have won the title under current rules). He never raced in NASCAR again after that year, returning to the Georgia dirt Late Model circuit, winning often over 20 features each year for the next decade.[1]
He was inducted in the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame in 2006.[2]
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Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)| NASCAR Winston Cup Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | Pts | Ref | ||||||||||
| 1989 | Close Racing | 47 | Olds | DAY | CAR | ATL | RCH | DAR | BRI | NWS | MAR | TAL | CLT | DOV | SON | POC | MCH | DAY | POC | TAL | GLN | MCH | BRI | DAR | RCH | DOV | MAR | CLT | NWS | CAR | PHO | 75th | 91 | [3] | ||||||||||
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| 1990 | Olds | DAY | RCH | CAR | ATL | DAR | BRI | NWS | MAR | TAL | CLT | DOV | SON | POC | MCH | DAY | POC | TAL | GLN | MCH | BRI | DAR | RCH | DOV | MAR | NWS | CLT | CAR | PHO | ATL | 34th | 1278 | [4] | |||||||||||