Coleman Pressley
Early career
| ← Previous revision | Revision as of 00:00, 23 April 2026 | ||
| Line 20: | Line 20: | ||
==Early career== |
==Early career== |
||
Coleman began racing in [[karting|karts]] as a six-year-old.{{cite web|last=Hembree|first=Mike|title=Father's experience helping Coleman Pressley navigate move into NASCAR|url=http://www.scenedaily.com/news/articles/nationwideseries/Fathers_experience_helping_Coleman_Pressley_navigate_move_into_NASCAR.html|publisher=Scene Daily}} He then raced [[Bandolero racing|Bandoleros]] at [[Lowes Motor Speedway]]. Pressley raced in [[legends car racing|legends cars]] before taking a year off. In 2005 |
Coleman began racing in [[karting|karts]] as a six-year-old.{{cite web|last=Hembree|first=Mike|title=Father's experience helping Coleman Pressley navigate move into NASCAR|url=http://www.scenedaily.com/news/articles/nationwideseries/Fathers_experience_helping_Coleman_Pressley_navigate_move_into_NASCAR.html|publisher=Scene Daily}} He then raced [[Bandolero racing|Bandoleros]] at [[Lowes Motor Speedway]]. Pressley raced in [[legends car racing|legends cars]] before taking a year off. In 2005, he began racing [[late model]]s at [[Hickory Motor Speedway]].{{cite news|last=Hamilton|first=Mark|title=All in the Family: Carrying on the Pressley family racing tradition|url=http://www.stockcarracing.com/featurestories/scrp_0608_coleman_pressley/index.html|accessdate=8 June 2010|newspaper=[[Stock Car Racing magazine]]|date=February 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205155326/http://www.stockcarracing.com/featurestories/scrp_0608_coleman_pressley/index.html|archive-date=5 December 2010|url-status=dead}} He had four second-place finishes to finish sixth in season points. In 2006, he continued racing at Hickory with additional events at other tracks. He scored his first late model victory in the second race of the season at Hickory. With the victory, he began the youngest driver to win in the track's 55-year history. |
||
He is the cousin of former [[North Carolina Tar Heels]] quarterback and current [[Barstool Sports]] blogger [[Caleb Pressley]]. |
He is the cousin of former [[North Carolina Tar Heels]] quarterback and current [[Barstool Sports]] blogger [[Caleb Pressley]]. |
||
