Sammy Swindell Earns Eight Wins In Five Different States With Four Racing Series
Story By: SHAWN MILLER / SAMMY SWINDELL RACING – GERMANTOWN, TN – Sammy Swindell is only three winning seasons away from producing at least one victory per season for 50 consecutive years.
Swindell earned eight wins this season to push his streak to 47 straight winning seasons.
“I’m 62-years-old and most people say I shouldn’t be doing this or I can’t do it,” he said. “For someone that is my age to be able to compete and do it the way I’ve done it with different series, different teams, different cars, makes it even more of an accomplishment for me.”
Swindell posted an ASCS Mid-South Region best three victories, including sweeping the Short Track Nationals for the second straight year. The win also marked his fifth career triumph in the event, which is the most of any driver in the storied history of the race.
“Winning Short Track Nationals back to back and all the good runs we had late in the year stand out,” he said. “It’s pretty neat to be part time and race at different places and be so successful. The first part of the year didn’t go right, but we know what happened and some of it was out of our control. To be able to get it back on track was pretty amazing.”
The Short Track Nationals win was his final of the season and it marked his fifth victory in a six-race span, including three with the Lucas Oil ASCS National Tour.
Seven of the season wins came with car owner A.G. Rains while the other was in New York while driving for Jared Zimbardi during an Arctic Cat All Star Circuit of Champions race.
“Going into New York and winning with the Zimbardi’s and running the Mark Coldren car in Central Pennsylvania with a second-place finish at Williams Grove was neat,” Swindell said. “It’s not easy going and getting in a different program and competing for wins.
“I want to thank all of the different car owners and teams for asking me to drive for them this year. Hopefully we can build on this year and expand in 2018.”
Swindell also claimed a USCS Series event win and he was victorious in five states – Arkansas, New York, Tennessee, Missouri and Colorado.
