May 24, 2008
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600
September 14, 2007
Brian Lee Vickers is an American NASCAR driver, from
Thomasville, North Carolina. Vickers was the 2003
Busch Series champion, and at age 20, the youngest
champion in any of NASCAR's three top-tier series.
He currently drives the #83 Red Bull Toyota Camry
for Team Red Bull.
Vickers began running go-karts in 1994. Over the
next three years, he won eighty races in the World
Karting Association, and won three championships. In
1998, he moved to the Allison Legacy Series, and won
five races during the course of the season. After
competing in the NASCAR Dodge Weekly Racing Series
in 1999, he moved to USAR ProCup, winning Rookie of
the Year and two races in 2000. The next season, he
won five more races and finished second in points.
In 2001, Vickers made his Busch Series debut at the
GNC Live Well 250 in the #29 owned by his father,
Clyde Vickers. He qualified 30th but finished 37th
after a crash. Vickers ran three more races that
season, his best finish a 25th at North Carolina
Speedway. In 2002, Vickers began running the Busch
Series in his father's #40 Dodge Intrepid. He drove
in 21 races, and his best finish was 7th at the
Hardee's 250, his only top-ten of the season.
