page_title: Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
section_title: NASCAR
hierarchical_section_title: Ricky Stenhouse Jr. / Racing career / NASCAR
caption_attribution_description: NASCAR driver Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. racing his stock car at Road America at the 2011 Bucyros 200 Nationwide Series race. This file was uploaded with Commonist.
context_page_description: Richard Lynn "Ricky" Stenhouse Jr. is an American racecar driver. He currently drives in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 17 Ford Fusion for Roush Fenway Racing. He has won the Nationwide Series championship in 2010 and 2011, and has been Rookie of the Year in both the Monster Energy Cup and Nationwide Series.
context_section_description: After running in the ARCA series, Stenhouse drove for Roush Fenway Racing in seven Nationwide Series races in 2009 with Greg Biffle, Colin Braun and Jamie McMurray completing the schedule. He qualified first at Iowa Speedway and ran all of the races in 2010, winning the Rookie of the Year award. The following year, he won the championship. He won the championship again in 2012. After the final race of 2012, Stenhouse was disappointed because he didn't win the race.
  Stenhouse made his first Sprint Cup start in 2011, driving in place of Trevor Bayne at Wood Brothers Racing. He did not run another race until the next year, when he ran four races for Roush Fenway Racing.
  He ran all of the races in 2013, winning the series' Rookie of the Year award. He came back for a full season the following year but did not qualify for one race due to a new way of qualifying. In 2015, Stenhouse had some sponsorship problems, leading to a 25th place finish in the point standings. His performance went along with the team not doing as well as before. The following year, Stenhouse finshed a career-best second at Bristol Motor Speedway; however, his crew chief was suspended the following week for a steering wheel problem. Overall, it was the best year of his Cup career.
  Stenhouse finally broke through to Victory Lane in the Cup Series in 2017, winning at Talladega Superspeedway in his 158th career start. A couple months later, he won again, this time at Daytona International Speedway. Both of his wins came on restrictor plate tracks. He also made the NASCAR Playoffs for the first time, making it through the Round of 16 before being cut in the Round of 12.
caption: Stenhouse racing in the Nationwide Series at Road America in 2011. He won the championship that year.
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