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An American professional stock car race driver. Abreu first began racing dirt bikes, but later switched to go karts. When he turned 15, he was given his first Outlaw kart. To support his career, his father built a 1⁄8th-mile asphalt oval in his backyard. On January 24, 2009, Abreu made his Outlaw kart debut at Lakeport Indoor Speedway, finishing fourth, and scored his first Outlaw win at Cycleland Speedway. During the year, local driver Kyle Larson met Abreu at a charity karting event held at Abreu's backyard oval, and in 2011, introduced him to sprint cars. During the year, he made his Chili Bowl Nationals debut, along with running his first World of Outlaws sprint car race. He would eventually win the 2011 360 Winged Sprint Car Series Rookie of the Year Award. In 2012, Abreu raced in the USAC National Midget Series, clinching Rookie of the Year, while qualifying for the A-Main at the Chili Bowl. The next year he won The Belleville Midget Nationals, the Johnny Key Classic

at Ocean Speedway, the 4 Crown Nationals at Eldora Speedway and the USAC Gold Crown at Tri City Speedway. In 2014, he won his first WoO race at the Thunderbowl Raceway, and later won the USAC Honda Midget Series national title. On January 17, 2015, Abreu returned to the Chili Bowl. On lap 26, he passed the previous year's winner Bryan Clauson, and held off four-time Chili Bowl winner Kevin Swindell to win. The win was Toyota's first Chili Bowl victory, and the first for owner Keith Kunz since 2002. The following year, Abreu repeated his Chili Bowl win after again defeating Clauson. On January 20, 2015, Abreu was hired by HScott Motorsports to run full-time in the K&N Pro Series East. He made his stock car debut in the Pete

Orr Memorial Super Late Model 100 at New Smyrna Speedway later in the week. On July 4, 2015, Abreu won his first ever race in the K&N Pro Series East at Columbus Motor Speedway after starting from the pole position, setting a new track record. During the 2015 season, Abreu made his Camping World Truck Series debut in the Lucas Oil 150 at Phoenix International Raceway, driving the #31 Chevrolet Silverado for NTS Motorsports. In 2016, he signed a full-time drive for ThorSport Racing, replacing Johnny Sauter who left for GMS Racing. Abreu almost won his first career NCWTS race at Texas on June 10. He was within a car length of race leader William Byron with 2 laps to go, but scraped the wall, and ended up cutting a tire, all but riding the wall for the last lap and a half. He still ended up finishing in 9th place. He drove the #98 Toyota for record producer Mike Curb. Also in

2016 Abreu returned to his roots and had a good showing on the dirt track of Eldora where the NASCAR Camping World truck series races once a year. He has issues in his qualifying race and had to start a disappointing 27th. But he drove his way through the field and ended up with a third place finish in the race won by fellow dirt track ace Kyle Larson. Abreu would go on to place another top 5 finish this season, coming home fourth at Talladega. He had a rough start to the 2016 season posting five finishes of 18th or worse in the first eight races; but as the season wore on, he continued to improve and learn how to drive the heavy race vehicle, and ended up with five top 5 finishes for the season. Plans had Abreu set to run another full season in the truck series in 2017 ; but that fell through. He was replaced by Grant Enfinger. Abreu only ran in one race (the dirt at Eldora). Abreu is 4 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 95 pounds. He was born with achondroplasia, a genetic disorder that is the most common cause of dwarfism. Due to his short stature, he needs special modifications to the cockpit area of his race cars, such as foot blocks to help him reach

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