Английская Википедия:Christian Eckes

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Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox NASCAR driver Christian Donald Eckes (pronounced "eck-iss"; born November 10, 2000) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 19 Chevrolet Silverado for McAnally-Hilgemann Racing. Eckes is the 2019 ARCA Menards Series champion, won the Snowball Derby in 2016, and was formerly a development driver for JR Motorsports and later Toyota.

Racing career

Eckes grew up in Greenville, New York. He began racing Legends Cars at thirteen years old. He later moved up to racing late model stock cars and super late models.

In 2015, Eckes began racing late models for JR Motorsports, as well as super late models for LFR Chassis as one of their driver development program drivers.

In April 2016, Eckes made his ARCA Racing Series debut at the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway in Tennessee, driving for Venturini Motorsports. He finished eighth, the only top-ten in four ARCA races that year. Eckes also made his NASCAR K&N Pro Series East debut at Dominion Raceway. He ran two more events that year, at Columbus Motor Speedway and New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

He won three races in a row to end the season, one at Myrtle Beach Speedway, at Southern National Motorsports Park and the Snowball Derby, at Five Flags Speedway. At the Snowball Derby, Eckes won over John Hunter Nemechek. Although some reports pegged him as the youngest winner, those reports were erroneous, as Chase Elliott won the event in 2011 at age fifteen while Eckes was sixteen when he triumphed.

In December 2016, Eckes and Venturini announced nine ARCA races in 2017.

In July 2017, Eckes and Venturini re-signed for an enlarged ARCA schedule in 2018 that included fifteen races. He triumphed for the first time at Salem Speedway in April 2018. Eckes kept fellow Venturini Motorsports driver Chandler Smith at bay over the closing portion of the race to secure the victory. He followed up with wins at Illinois State Fairgrounds and Indianapolis Raceway Park during the year.

In the week following the win, Eckes landed a deal with NASCAR Camping World Truck Series team Kyle Busch Motorsports to drive the team's No. 46 entry in four races in the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season, starting at Iowa Speedway in June.

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Eckes beside his 2019 ARCA car at Madison

On October 24, 2018, it was announced that Eckes would run the No. 15 full-time for Venturini Motorsports in 2019. Despite missing the Salem Speedway race in April due to a esophageal tear in his trachea, he went on to win the 2019 ARCA Menards Series championship with four wins, 13 top fives, and 17 top tens in 19 starts. Eckes was the first ARCA champion to not run every race since Tim Steele in 1997.

During the 2019 season, he ran eight races in the Truck Series with KBM in the No. 51. Finishing 3rd at Homestead later that year, Eckes locked up KBM’s 7th Owner’s Championship.

The following year, he joined the team's No. 18 for the full 2020 Truck season. Eckes made the NASCAR playoffs but was eliminated after the first round; at Texas in October, Eckes was intentionally spun by Ben Rhodes, eliminating Eckes from the race. He later confronted Rhodes and had a verbal and physical confrontation. He finished with a winless season and an eighth-place finish in the standings.

In 2021, Eckes moved to ThorSport Racing after being replaced at KBM by Chandler Smith. He entered 10 races of the 22-race season, sharing the schedule with Grant Enfinger.

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Eckes' No. 98 truck at Sonoma Raceway in 2022

In 2022, after his maiden win at Las Vegas, Eckes would move up to full-time in the No. 98 after Enfinger moved back to GMS Racing. He finished and tied a career-best 8th in the final standings, despite having no wins.

On December 6, 2022, McAnally-Hilgemann Racing announced that Eckes would pilot the No. 19 NAPA Auto Care Chevrolet Silverado in 2023, replacing Derek Kraus. Eckes started the 2023 season with a third place finish at Daytona. He then scored wins at Atlanta, Darlington, and Kansas. Eckes was eliminated at the conclusion of the Round of 8 at Homestead. He won two weeks later at Phoenix and finished fifth in the final points standings.

In October of 2023, McAnally-Hilgemann Racing announced that Eckes would return to drive the No. 19 NAPA Auto Care Chevrolet Silverado full time in the 2024 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.

Personal life

Eckes was born on November 10, 2000, to George and Darlene Eckes. He has an older sister, Erica. Eckes attended George Washington University Online High School.

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	Шаблон:Tooltip	Pts	Ref
2018	Kyle Busch Motorsports	46	Toyota	DAY	ATL	LVS	MAR	DOV	KAN	CLT	TEX	IOW 8	GTW 28	CHI	KEN	ELD	POC	MCH	BRI	MSP	LVS	TAL	MAR 9	TEX	PHO 9	HOM	35th	110
2019		51		DAY 22	ATL	LVS	MAR	TEX	DOV	KAN	CLT	TEX	IOW	GTW 14*	CHI	KEN	POC 4	ELD 6	MCH 15	BRI	MSP	LVS 3	TAL	MAR 17	PHO	HOM 3	20th	271
2020		18		DAY 22	LVS 23	CLT 14	ATL 3	HOM 8	POC 33	KEN 6	TEX 2	KAN 13	KAN 2	MCH 2	DRC 12	DOV 11	GTW 32	DAR 5	RCH 18	BRI 12	LVS 8	TAL 18	KAN 6	TEX 25	MAR 4	PHO 4	8th	2238
2021	ThorSport Racing	98	Toyota	DAY	DRC 10	LVS 9	ATL	BRD	RCH	KAN 4	DAR	COA 35	CLT 11	TEX	NSH	POC 12	KNX	GLN 13	GTW 31	DAR	BRI	LVS 1	TAL	MAR	PHO 6		21st	263
2022				DAY 3	LVS 28	ATL 16	COA 6	MAR 12	BRD 5	DAR 17	KAN 5	TEX 2	CLT 4	GTW 2	SON 35	KNX 12	NSH 6	MOH 5	POC 8	IRP 16	RCH 8	KAN 10	BRI 8	TAL 5*	HOM 7	PHO 30	8th	2230
2023	McAnally-Hilgemann Racing	19	Chevy	DAY 3*	LVS 6	ATL 1	COA 30	TEX 15	BRD 30	MAR 15	KAN 30	DAR 1*	NWS 25	CLT 6	GTW 2	NSH 23	MOH 3	POC 7	RCH 11	IRP 2	MLW 3	KAN 1	BRI 2*	TAL 19	HOM 20	PHO 1	5th	2319
2024				DAY 10	ATL	LVS	BRI	COA	MAR	TEX	KAN	DAR	NWS	CLT	GTW	NSH	POC	IRP	RCH	MLW	BRI	KAN	TAL	HOM	MAR	PHO	-*	-*

Шаблон:Sup Ineligible for series points

K&N Pro Series East

NASCAR K&N Pro Series East results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Шаблон:Tooltip	Pts	Ref
2016	LFR Driver Development Group	15	Ford	NSM	MOB	GRE	BRI	VIR	DOM 7	STA	COL 9	NHA 18	IOW	GLN	GRE	NJE	DOV	31st	98

ARCA Menards Series

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

ARCA Menards 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	Шаблон:Tooltip	Pts	Ref
2016	Venturini Motorsports	66	Toyota	DAY	NSH 8	SLM	TAL	TOL	NJE	POC	MCH													40th	625
		15										MAD 14	WIN	IOW 11	IRP 26	POC	BLN	ISF	DSF	SLM	CHI	KEN	KAN
2017				DAY	NSH 3	SLM 8*	TAL	TOL 8	ELK 2	POC	MCH	MAD 5	IOW 8	IRP 10	POC	WIN 2	ISF 6	ROA	DSF	SLM 19	CHI	KEN	KAN	16th	1980
2018				DAY	NSH 8	SLM 1	TAL	TOL 21	CLT	POC 11	MCH	MAD	GTW 4	CHI	IOW 11	ELK 2	POC 13	ISF 1	BLN 11	DSF 4	SLM 7	IRP 1*	KAN	12th	2650
2019				DAY 4	FIF 3	SLM INQ†	TAL 26	NSH 1*	TOL 3	CLT 7	POC 3	MCH 7	MAD 7	GTW 2	CHI 7	ELK 11	IOW 2	POC 1	ISF 2	DSF 1*	SLM 2	IRP 2	KAN 1	1st	5045
† – Qualified for the 2019 Kentuckiana Ford Dealers 200 but was replaced by Harrison Burton due to illness

External links

• Шаблон:Official website
• Official profile at McAnally-Hilgemann Racing
• Шаблон:Racing-Reference driver