Top 5 Best NASCAR Truck Series drivers with 2 career wins

Top 5 Best NASCAR Truck Series drivers with 2 career wins

By Brian Cotnoir

Let’s Talks about the Trucks!   It’s amazing how many different winners the Truck Series has had in its short existence!  Some of these drivers have even one more than once; let’s talk about the 5 Best Truck Series drivers with 2 career wins

5.)  Erik Darnell

Erik Darnell’s career in NASCAR was a flash of lightning.  It started out very promising, but then was over just as soon as it started.  Darnell was a part of the famous “Roush Racing: Driver X” series on the Discovery Channel.  Darnell was on the show competing against other future NASCAR drivers such as Regan Smith, Justin Allgaier, David Ragan, and Danny O’ Quinn. 

Darnell wound up winning more races than the shows winner, Todd Kluever!  In the 2006 Truck Season, Darnell made his Truck Series Debut with the Roush Team in the #99 truck, where he won Rookie of the Year.   In 2007, Darnell would score his first truck win at Kansas Speedway.  The following season, Darnell won one of the closest races ever at Michigan, when he defeated—eventual series champion—Johnny Benson by 0.005 seconds.

Darnell finished 4^th in the final drivers’ standings that year and the following year, made select starts for Roush Fenway in the Nationwide Series, but due to lack of sponsorship was relegated to an alternate driver role.   His last season in NASAR came with Key Motorsports in 2012, where he ran all, but 2 races that year.

4.)  Randy Tolsma

Randy Tolsma is one of only three NASCAR drivers to hail from the state of Idaho.  Tolsma struggled early on in his NASCAR Truck Series career.  He failed to qualify for 4-of-his-first-6 races with Xpress Motorsports.  Tolsma would rebound and win his first race at Mesa Marin Speedway.   Tolsma would improve his stats and finishes over the next three seasons.  After leaving Xpress Motorsports, he’d go on to drive at Impact Motorsports in 1999 and 2000.  He won his final Truck Series Race at Nashville Superspeedway in 2000.  He’d race half a season for Team Rensi in the Trucks Series in 2001, before being let go from the team, and hasn’t raced in NASCAR since.

3.)  Jon Wood

He is the grandson of NASCAR Hall of Famer, Glenn Wood.  He went into the family business in NASCAR.  He’d drive mostly for his grandfather’s team and Roush Racing.  Wood had his best season in the Truck Series in 2003.   Wood won his first race that year at Kansas Speedway by beating his teammate Carl Edwards.  Later that season he would beat Edwards again, at his home track, Martinsville Speedway, in a sponsor-less truck painted like a classic Wood Brothers car.  He finished 5^th in the final drivers’ standings.  

Wood would never be able to recapture the glory of that season.  He ran two more seasons in Trucks, and three seasons for JTG Racing, and even made a handful of starts in the famous #21 for Wood Brothers Racing.  He now works as Senior Vice President for Wood Brothers Racing.

2.)  Jimmy Hensley

Jimmy Hensley’s career in NASCAR spanned over 25 years, where he drove for a multitude of different teams.  He replaced Alan Kulwuicki at his team, after his tragic passing, and would go on to have a decent career in the Busch Series winning 9 races, and finishing runner-up in the final drivers’ standings 3 times!  

In the Truck Series, Hensley had a dominant season in 1996, but failed to win, driving the Mopar sponsored truck for the—awkwardly named— Granddaddy Racing.  The following season he would be recruited to drive for the King, Richard Petty’s newly formed truck series team, driving the famous #43 truck.   Hensley won a race at Nashville Superspeedway in 1998, and in 1999 won at Martinsville.  He also had 5 runner-up finishes in his truck series career and scored 64 Top Ten Finishes.   He retired from NASCAR in 2001.

1.)  Stacy Compton

The best driver with only 2 career wins in Stacy Compton.  During the early days of the truck series he was also competing for wins.  He won his first race for Impact Motorsports at Portland Speedway in 1997 and later that season won his 2^nd race at the road course at Heartland Park in Kansas. 

His 1998 season, yielded no wins, but he finished in the Top 15 in 22-of-25 races; that included 12 Top 5 finishes!  He finished 4^th in the final drivers’ standings that year.  He’d spend the next several seasons driving full-time in the Cup Series and Xfinity Series.   He finished his truck series career with 2 wins, 65 Top 10’s and 9 poles.

Compton would eventually become a Truck Series owner. In 2010, he bought the assets of Wyler Racing and renamed the team Turn One Racing.  The team had some pretty disastrous results and would eventually shutdown after the 2013 season, unable to successfully lockdown a deal with a driver and sponsorship.