of
Wausau, Wisconsin was born
January 26 ,
1976 . He is a
NASCAR Busch Series driver who shares the #29
Holiday Inn Chevrolet for
Richard Childress Racing with
Jeff Burton , and has driven a few select races in the #21
AutoZone car for RCR and the #77
Dollar General car for
Kevin Harvick Incorporated . His brother
Chris Wimmer competed in the
Busch Series .
Scott competed in the United States National Junior Olympics in downhill and slalom skiing at age 14, and finished 13th of the 150 competitors. Wimmer's father owned Scott's uncle Larry Detjens' racing team.
"Wimmer the Latest Racing Prodigy for Mike Mittler, MB Motorsports" , Brandon W. Mudd, MB Motorsports, Retrieved
September 7 2007 Detjens was a champion late model racer who competed at
Slinger Super Speedway and
Wisconsin International Raceway . Detjens had a race named after him after his death in 1981.
Wimmer started racing at
Wausau Speedway in
Wisconsin in 1991 at age 15. He moved up through the ranks, and became a well-known driver in the Midwest. He moved down south, and in 1997 he was the Rookie of the Year in the Hooters Cup late model series. He later finished second for the Rookie of the Year in the
American Speed Association (ASA) series.
race at
Bristol Motor Speedway in
2004 .]]
Wimmer made his
Nextel Cup debut in
2000 with
Bill Davis Racing at
Atlanta . He qualified the #23
AT&T Pontiac in 31st position and would race to a finish of 22nd while leading nine laps during the race. He would return to
Nextel Cup racing in 2002 driving in three of the eight races he attempted. He would post a best finish of 17th during the year driving mainly in the #27 Dodge. In 2003, he would race in six of his seven attempted races. His first three attempts came with a third
Bill Davis Racing team, again using the #27. However,
Ward Burton would leave the #22
Caterpillar Dodge early to get acquainted with his new team and Wimmer would finish the last four races for the #22 team. His rookie year of
Nextel Cup racing would begin very well with a finish of third at the
Daytona 500 . However, he was only able to post one other top ten finish and would finish 27th in the overall point standings. He would again race the #22
Caterpillar Dodge in the 2005 season, but did not finish in the top ten in any of the 36 races. Wimmer would finish the year 32nd in points. Towards the end of the 2005 season it was stated that Wimmer would return again to the #22 team, however
Dave Blaney became available and was selected as the 2006 driver. Wimmer would then go to
Morgan-McClure Motorsports to drive the #4 AERO Exhaust Chevrolet for the 2006 season. As of August 28th, Scott's best finsh came at
Bristol Motor Speedway earlier in the season were he finished 19th. On
October 3 , Eric Mclure announced that Wimmer and Morgan-McClure would part ways a soon as Talladega. Wimmer has signed a Busch/Cup contract for
Richard Childress Racing for 2007 in a move that could resurrect his career. In 2007 Wimmer has been driving the #33
Holiday Inn /
Camping World Chevrolet , which is a
R&D car for
Richard Childress Racing , in select races this year and has qualified 22nd for the
2007 Allstate 400 At The Brickyard at
Indianapolis Motor Speedway . He is one of the drivers being considered to drive for Childress' New fourth team in
2008 .
In April 2007, Wimmer filed a lawsuit against Bill Davis Racing for $1.2 million dollars. Wimmer says that BDR failed to give him enough notice that he would be fired as the #22 driver, in fact going as far as saying he would be back at the beginning of October 2005 (only to fire him 21 days later). The lawsuit is for what Wimmer would have been paid had he driven the 2006 season for BDR.
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Wimmer began racing the
Busch Series in
2000 with
Bill Davis Racing . He would attempt four races in the #20
AT&T Pontiac and make three of them with a top finish of 18th. He would then race the full season in 2001, driving the #23
Jani-King Pontiac to a best finish of third at
Nashville . He would finish the season with two Top 5’s, eight Top 10’s and an overall points finish of 11th. He would race the full season again in 2002 with sponsorship from
Siemens for only 18 races. New England Financial and AMI were able to sponsor Wimmer’s #23 Pontiac for two races, however Bill Davis would have to race the #23 in 14 races without a sponsor. Despite a lack of sponsor, Wimmer would have a career year and finish third in the point standings with wins at
Dover ,
Memphis ,
Phoenix , and
Homestead-Miami . During this season he would accumulate 11 Top 5’s and 17 Top 10’s. In 2003, Wimmer would again compete in all of the races for
Bill Davis Racing with sponsorship this year from
Stacker 2 . He drove the #23
Stacker 2 Chevrolet to a ninth place points finish and was able to win a race at
Pikes Peak . During the 2003 he was able to race to four Top 5 finishes and twelve Top 10 finishes. Wimmer would not return to the series until 2006, where he is currently driving the #66 Ford for
Brewco Motorsports . As of 2007 he drives the #29 Holiday Inn Chevrolet for
Richard Childress Racing for weeks that Jeff Burton is taking off from the car. Wimmer won his first Busch Series pole in 2007 at
Gateway International Raceway in the
Busch Silver Celebration 250 with a time of 33.246 and a speed of 135.355.
Scott is married to his wife Jody. They had a son named Hayden Phillip Wimmer on
July 19 ,
2005 .
