Top 5 NASCAR Truck Series drivers with only 1 Career Win


Top 5 NASCAR Truck Series drivers with only 1 Career Win
By Brian Cotnoir

This series has had so many different names since its debut season in 1995 that I’m just going to save myself frustration of typing out the title sponsors and just simply refer to it as “The Truck Series”.  Now that, I’ve got that out of the way; if you were to tell me I could only watch one NASCAR racing series for the rest of my life, I would say the Truck Series in a heartbeat.  There’s just something about watching big-bad trucks duking it out at speeds over 150 MPH going for wins and taking no prisoners.  The Truck Series has been both the launching ground for young up & coming drivers and a place where former Cup Series talent can have their careers rejuvenated.  However, some drivers bad but a brief moment in the sun, and the only thing they have to show for their efforts is one career win in the Truck Series.

As per usual, I am only including drivers that have since retired from full-time NASCAR competition to assure that there can be no updates and changes to the statistics.

5.)  Jason Leffler

Jason Leffler was a great driver and he passed away too soon.  While driving the famous #2 truck for Ultra Motorsports, Leffler would finish runner up an astounding 8 times!  He finally managed to notch that first win at Dover in 2003;  He was a threat for wins week in and week out, and I think had he stayed longer in the truck series he probably would have won a Truck Series Championship.




4.)  Ken Schrader

In 1995, Kenny Schrader won the 3rd Truck Series race ever run at Saugus Speedway in California.  That would be the only Truck Series Win of his career.  Schrader never focused his full-time driving efforts on the Truck Series and instead chose to run a part-time schedule, mostly driving for his own team, Ken Schrader Racing.   Schrader came close to winning a 2nd truck race a handful of times, but just never could get it done.  His last Truck Series race was at Eldora in 2017 and to date he has 37-career Top 10’s in the Truck Series.


3.)  Bryan Reffner

Bryan Reffner was one of the early drivers in the Truck Series.  I, personally, remember him as being the driver of the #44 Irvan-Simo Truck that was co-owned by my Favorite NASCAR driver, Ernie Irvan.  He came close to winning a few times in his rookie season, before spending two lackluster seasons at Phelon Motorsports.   His career appeared to be on a downswing with no out in sight, but that was until he joined Team Menard.  He finally got his first—and only career—win in the Truck Series at the penultimate round at Texas Motor Speedway in 2000; tragically this would be the same race that Tony Roper would die, after suffering a horrific crash on the front stretch.  Reffner ran his last Truck Series Race in 2003.




2.)  Joey Coulter
Remember Joey Coulter?  He drove for Richard Childress in the Truck Series the same time Austin Dillon raced?   The guy who Kyle Busch rammed into after a race at Kansas and then Childress put Busch in a headlock and smacked the hell out of him for doing that?   He sort of vanished off the face of the Earth, didn’t he?  Coulter was actually a very successful driver in the Truck Series, and was constantly running in the Top 10.   His only victory came at Pocono in 2012; he finished 3rd in the Final Point Standings that year.  The next season, he jumped ship to drive for Kyle Busch Motorsports (ironic, isn’t it?)  He had a few Top 5 finishes, but was dropped from the team and then signed with GMS Racing.  He did better at GMS than at KBM, but still couldn’t get that second win.  To my knowledge, he still works for GMS, and still does dirt racing on his off weekends around the Southeast.




1.)  Butch Miller

Henry “Butch” Miller was a journeyman driver in the NASCAR Cup and Busch Series in the late 1980s to early 1990s.   He ran the first season of the Truck Series Existence in 1995 for Liberty Motorsports, and was always running towards the front of the field.  He won his 1st and only Truck Series race at Colorado National Speedway in 1995.  That same year he finished 4th in the Final Points Standings and was voted the Most Popular Driver in the Series.  Over the next few seasons he’d drive full-time in the Truck Series for Liberty Motorsports, Walker Evans, Lance Norrick, and Bobby Hamilton, and although he finished in the Top 10 an amazing 51 times in his career, he never managed to return to victory lane.  The Closest he came to another win was a 2nd at Walt Disney World Speedway at in 1997.  At the turn of the new millennium, Miller was out of a full-time ride, and other than the occasional start for SS-Green Light, he never found himself driving for a competitive ride again in the sport.

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