Doug McCoun

Doug McCoun is an American racing driver who won the NASCAR Weekly Series national championship in 1985 and 1985–86 Pacific Coast Regional Championships.^[1]

Driving a dirt Late Model for his father, owner Dick McCoun, Doug won 27 of the 53 NASCAR-sanctioned races that he entered. Most were at Watsonville Speedway, Merced Fairgrounds Speedway, and other race tracks in California.^[1]

He had 9 wins, 49 Top 5s and 87 Top 10s in 207 races in NASCAR Southwest Series between 1992 and 2005. McCoun also ran 2 races in the NASCAR Northwest Series, one in 1996 and the other in 1998, his best finish was a 5th-place at Portland.

Awards

As part of the 25th anniversary of the NASCAR Weekly Series in 2006, McCoun was named one of the series' All Time Top 25 drivers.^[2]
He was inducted in the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame in 2019.

References

^ ^a ^b Schaefer, Paul. Where Stars Are Born: Celebrating 25 Years of NASCAR Weekly Racing. Coastal 181, Newburyport, Massachusetts, 2006. ISBN 0-9789261-0-2. pp. 23-29.
^ Schaefer, Paul. Where Stars Are Born: Celebrating 25 Years of NASCAR Weekly Racing. Coastal 181, Newburyport, Massachusetts, 2006. ISBN 0-9789261-0-2. pp. 163-170.

External links

Doug McCoun driver statistics at Racing-Reference

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[StarsBorn_McCoun-1] Schaefer, Paul. Where Stars Are Born: Celebrating 25 Years of NASCAR Weekly Racing. Coastal 181, Newburyport, Massachusetts, 2006. ISBN 0-9789261-0-2. pp. 23-29.

[StarsBorn_Top25-2] Schaefer, Paul. Where Stars Are Born: Celebrating 25 Years of NASCAR Weekly Racing. Coastal 181, Newburyport, Massachusetts, 2006. ISBN 0-9789261-0-2. pp. 163-170.

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