B. A. Wilson

B. A. Wilson
Born	(1971-01-06) January 6, 1971 Bonham, Texas
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career
39 races run over 4 years
Best finish	21st (2000)
First race	1997 Virginia Is For Lovers 200 (Richmond)
Last race	2000 Motorola 200 (Fontana)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 2 0

B. A. Wilson (born January 6, 1971) is an American former stock car racing driver. He competed in the Craftsman Truck Series from 1997–2000.

1997

Wilson made his debut in 1997, when he drove a personally-owned vehicle into the show at Richmond with a solid qualifying effort of 17th. He drove a smart race and came home with a 14th-place finish. Wilson qualified 17th in his other 1997 race, which came at Martinsville. However, transmission troubles sidelined him this time to 31st position.

1998

Wilson ran eight more races in 1998, continuing to run his family-owned No. 85 Llumar Chevy. Wilson did a respectable job, putting the truck in the top-20 in half of his outings. His best run would end up being a 14th place at Richmond. Wilson also qualified well, getting a pair of ninth place starting positions, at Martinsville and Nashville. Bad news for Wilson was that he also did not finish half of the races and he would have to work on that to improve his 36th place in the point rankings.

1999

Wilson did improve in 1999, finishing 32nd in points after another eight-race schedule. Wilson, though, did not really have his results improve on paper as he only finished three races. However, he did set his career best finish to that point (12th at Las Vegas and career best qualifying effort (7th at Martinsville). In the season finale, at California, Wilson switched to Sonntag Racing. He finished 28th.

2000

Wilson stayed with Sonntag for the full 2000 season, he was involved in the big one at Daytona in which Geoff Bodine had the horrific crash as well. competing in twenty-one of twenty-four races and finishing 21st in points. Wilson got his first career top-10 at Texas, where he finished ninth. He later matched that effort at Chicago Motor Speedway. Other highlights included a career best qualifying effort at Pikes Peak (5th), first laps led (at Mesa Marin – 14) and then later at Chicago Motor (7 laps). However, it was not enough to keep Wilson's job and he was released following the season finale. He has not raced in NASCAR since.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

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

Craftsman Truck Series

NASCAR Craftsman Truck 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	NCTC	Pts	Ref
1997	Viper Motorsports	85	Ford	WDW	TUS	HOM	PHO	POR	EVG	I70	NHA	TEX	BRI	NZH	MLW	LVL	CNS	HPT	IRP	FLM	NSV	GLN	RCH 14	MAR 31	SON	MMR	CAL	PHO	LVS		81st	191
1998				WDW	HOM DNQ	PHO	POR	EVG	I70	GLN	TEX 34	BRI	MLW DNQ	NZH	CAL	PPR	IRP 19	NHA	FLM	NSV 30	HPT	LVL	RCH 14	MEM 18	GTY	MAR 26	SON				36th	820
		65																										MMR 28	PHO	LVS 19
1999		85		HOM	PHO	EVG	MMR 33	MAR 29	MEM 18	PPR	I70	BRI	TEX 27	PIR	GLN	MLW	NSV DNQ	NZH	MCH	NHA	IRP 33	GTY	HPT	RCH DNQ	LVS 12	LVL	TEX 24				32nd	796
	Sonntag Racing	73	Chevy																									CAL 28
2000				DAY 27	HOM 19	PHO 19	MMR 18	MAR 16	PIR	GTY 13	MEM 14	PPR 14	EVG 21	TEX 9	KEN 14	GLN 33	MLW 33	NHA	NZH	MCH 32	IRP 14	NSV 27	CIC 9	RCH 27	DOV 34	TEX 27					21st	2047
			Dodge																								CAL 22

ARCA Hooters SuperCar Series

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

ARCA Hooters SuperCar 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	AHSS	Pts	Ref
1993	Wilson Motor Co.	12	Pontiac	DAY	FIF	TWS 19	TAL	KIL	CMS	FRS	TOL	POC	MCH 10	FRS	POC	KIL	ISF	DSF	TOL	SLM	WIN	ATL	97th	-

External links

• B. A. Wilson driver statistics at Racing-Reference