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an American NASCAR driver who raced ins all three of NASCAR's premier race series . Sorenson's career started at age six when he began racing quarter-midgets. He won the national championship in 1997. He moved up to Legends cars the following year, winning 13 out of 25 races, southeastern championships and breaking track records in the process. In 2004, he won his first ARCA race at Michigan International Speedway, in the #77 Sherwin Williams Dodge. He finished in the top-five in all three of his ARCA starts Sorenson also ran in 5 NASCAR Busch Series events for Chip Ganassi Racing, and had 3 top ten finishes, and a top 5, which was a 4th place finish at Homestead. Sorenson was named the full-time driver of the #41 Discount Tire Company Dodge Intrepid for Ganassi for 2005 NASCAR Xfinity Series, competing for Rookie of the Year. He won his first Xfinity Series race at Nashville Superspeedway, winning by more than 14 seconds after starting on the pole and leading 197 out of 225 laps. Towards the end of the season, he was signed to move up to Cup to drive the #41 Target car full-time. He made his Sprint Cup debut in the 2005 Bass Pro Shops MBNA 500. 2006 brought on Sorenson's first season as a Sprint Cup regular, along with running a full-time driver in the Xfinity Series. His best finish in the 2006 Cup season was a 5th place effort at Michigan International Speedway, and he ended the season with five top-ten finishes. He finished 24th in the 2006 points Cup standings and was fourth in the 2006 Raybestos Rookie of the Year contest with 198

points finishing behind Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex, Jr., and Clint Bowyer. Sorenson started the 2008 season off with a 5th place finish in the Daytona 500. On August 26, 2008, it was announced that the 2008 season was to be Sorenson's last season with Ganassi, after signing a multi-year contract with Gillett Evernham Motorsports to start the 2009 season. On January 8, 2009 Gillett Evernham Motorsports and Petty Holdings announced in principle to form a new NASCAR Cup team that would be co-owned by Richard Petty. The new car number was the #43 and driven by Sorenson. Through Sorenson's 2009 season, he has

struggled at many of the intermediate and road courses, and has excelled at flat tracks like Phoenix International Raceway and Martinsville. On September 10, 2009, Richard Petty Motorsports and Yates Racing announced that they planned to merge in 2010, and Sorenson was not to be retained as part of the merger. From 2010-2013 Sorenson has been pretty much relegated to racing in the Xfinity series, but does have an occasionally CUP start. Sorenson piloted the #32 Toyota Camry for Braun Racing in a part-time schedule consisting of 23 Nationwide races for 2010, and in mid-January, Braun Racing announced that Reed will drive a part-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. At the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona Sorenson drove the #83 car to an eighth place finish. It was the first top 10 for the team since Vickers was sidelined. Prior to the 2011 season, Braun Racing was acquired by Turner Motorsports and the team switched manufacturers from Toyota to

Chevrolet. Sorenson remained with the team to run full-time for the Xfinity Series championship. He won his first road course race at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, in his first attempt at the track. This was his first win of any level in the sport since 2007. On October 4, Turner Motorsports announced that Sorenson would no longer be driving the #32 Dollar General Chevy, and Brian Vickers would be assuming the driving duties immediately. Turner Motorsports gave no reason for the switch; and Sorenson was third in points at the time. Turner did acknowledge that Dollar General would not sponsor their car after 2011. Sorenson managed to pick up a last-minute ride with MacDonald Motorsports to drive their #82 car for the remainder of the year. He ended up finishing fifth in the points. In 2012, Sorenson drove the

#52 Chevrolet for Jimmy Means in the season-opening Xfinity Series event at Daytona International Speedway, finishing 34th. He only participated in six Nationwide events in 2012, but he did run 19 CUP events mostly for start-n-park teams. In February 2013, it was announced that Sorenson would drive full-time in the Nationwide Series in the #40 Chevrolet for The Motorsports Group. He ran in 28 of 33 races and had a best finish of 10th. As 2014 rolled around Sorenson found himself back in a Cup ride driving for Tommy Baldwin Racing. His best finish was a 14th place result at Talladega; and he coupled that with a 16th place finish at Daytona; His only two top 20 finishes for the year. At the end of the season he lost his ride and spent 2015 driving for a multitude of owners. He qualified

for the race on ten occasions; but missed the field ten other times. Most of these were start-n-park efforts. Premium Motorsports and it's owner Jay Robinson gave Sorenson a full time ride in 2016 and the results were not good. Premium Motorsports did not have a Charter and Sorenson had to make all of the races on speed. They ran the #55 car most of the season without a sponsor. This photo here (at right) shows owner Jay Robinson's support for Presidential candidate Donald Trump. He made all but one race they entered, but had only four finishes that were

inside the top 30. HScott Motorsports closed down at the end of 2016 selling their Charter to Premium Motorsports. Sorenson ran all of 2017 driving for Premium Motorsports. He posted a best finish of 25th (it came in BOTH Kansas races). Sorenson wasn't able to find a full time ride for 2018; but Robinson did field a car for him for 14 starts. He posted a season best of 27th; oddly enough again coming at Kansas. 2019 saw Sorenson split drives between two teams. In March 2019, Sorenson joined Spire Motorsports' #77 for the Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas. Throughout the 2019 season, he split the #77 ride with various other drivers and he also raced for Premium Motorsports in the #27. He had a season's best 18th place finish (Talladega) while driving for Robinson. The best he did in the #77 was 23rd. In total he raced 25 of the seasons 36 events.

2020; like previous seasons, Sorenson raced part time in the Cup Series. The majority of his races he drove for Spire Motorsports. He ran 17 races all for part time or under funded teams. His best finish was 28th at Fort Worth in July. For his career, Sorenson made 346 Cup starts over 16 seasons. He had five top five finishes, with a best finish of third at Atlanta. He made 207 Xfinity starts and had four wins and 38 top five finishes. He also made eleven Truck Series starts with a best finish of 18th at Talladega and Pocono. Some info from Wikipedia

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