Terry Cook (racing driver)

Terry Cook (born February 26, 1968) is an American former stock car racing driver, best known for his time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. He was married to former Craftsman Truck pit reporter Amy East, and brother-in-law to driver Bobby East. He was previously the spotter and driver coach for the late John Wes Townley and Athenian Motorsports, after serving as the competition director for Red Horse Racing.^[1]

Terry Cook
Cook in 2009
Born	(1968-02-26) February 26, 1968 (age 56) Sylvania, Ohio, U.S.
Achievements	1989 Flat Rock Speedway Track Champion 1990 Flat Rock Speedway Track Champion 1992 Toledo Speedway Track Champion 1995 Sandusky Speedway Track Champion Most consecutive Camping World Truck Series starts (298)
NASCAR Cup Series career
3 races run over 1 year
Best finish	59th (2010)
First race	2010 Food City 500 (Bristol)
Last race	2010 Crown Royal Presents the Heath Calhoun 400 (Richmond)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
27 races run over 2 years
2009 position	54th
Best finish	54th (2009)
First race	2008 Diamond Hill Plywood 200 (Darlington)
Last race	2009 Ford 300 (Homestead)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career
314 races run over 14 years
2009 position	13th
Best finish	7th (2001)
First race	1996 Sears Auto Center 200 (Milwaukee)
Last race	2009 Lucas Oil 150 (Phoenix)
First win	1998 Stevens Beil / Genuine Car Parts 200 (Flemington)
Last win	2006 O'Reilly Auto Parts 250 (Kansas)
Wins Top tens Poles 6 112 8
Statistics current as of February 3, 2012.

Early and personal life

Terry Cook is the son of Harold Cook, a former driver and mechanic, and Laureen Cook. He also has a brother Jerry (not to be confused with the NASCAR Hall of Famer of the same name), who competed in a single Truck Series race and seven ARCA Racing Series events. The two brothers worked on father Harold's car as teenagers.^[1]

Cook graduated from Sylvania Northview High School in 1986, two years after his brother.^[1]

Racing career

Cook's No. 88 truck (in the background) racing Lance Norick's No. 90 in 1998.

Cook began racing on a professional level in 1987 at Flat Rock Speedway and Toledo Speedway,^[1] collecting eleven wins in his first year of competition. Cook doubled his win total in 1988 before he moved up to super late models. He won the track championship in 1989 and 1990 at Flat Rock Speedway. Cook then went on to win the Super Late Model Championship at Toledo Speedway in 1992 and again at Sandusky Speedway in 1995.^[2]

Cook was set to make his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series debut in 1995, but an injury at Toledo curtailed those plans.^[1] Cook made his Truck Series debut in 1996 at The Milwaukee Mile. Qualifying the #88 Sealmaster Racing (now ThorSport Racing) Chevrolet Silverado^[2] 24th, he finished 24th, three laps down. He ran two additional races that season for Sealmaster, finishing 23rd at Phoenix International Raceway. In 1997, Cook ran fifteen races during the season, with sponsorship from the PBA Tour. He won his first career pole at Flemington Speedway^[2] and posted a best finish of fifteenth twice.

Cook ran the full schedule in 1998. He won his first career race at Flemington^[2] and had six top-ten finishes, ending the season 20th in the final points. Due to a lack of primary sponsorship in 1999, Cook only posted three top-ten finishes before Big Daddy's BBQ Sauce came on board towards the end of the season, when he finished fifteenth in the standings. In 2000, PickupTruck.com became the team's primary sponsor, and despite seven top-tens, Cook was released with one race to go for Matt Crafton. He drove for K Automotive Racing at the season finale, finishing seventh. He drove K Automotive's #29 Ford F-150 full-time in 2001, winning the pole at Nazareth Speedway and finishing a career-high seventh in points.

Cook's 2003 truck.

In 2002, Cook won a career best four races and two poles, but dropped to eighth in points. He won an additional two poles in 2003, but did not finish in the top-five all season. He joined ppc Racing's fledgling truck team in 2004. Despite winning the pole at the season-opening Florida Dodge Dealers 250, he dropped to sixteenth in the standings. He moved up one spot in points in 2005 after posting two top-fives.

In 2006, Cook grabbed a win at Kansas Speedway and finished eighth in points. With no sponsorship at ppc, he left the team after the 2006 season to replace Chad Chaffin at HT Motorsports. He had four top tens and finished fourteenth in points, but was released at the end of the season. He signed to drive for Wyler Racing in 2008 and had an additional seven top-tens but was released before the season was over in favor of Jack Sprague. He immediately rejoined HT Motorsports for the remainder of the season. At the end of 2008, HT renumbered his truck to the #25, and Cajun Industries and Harris Trucking shared sponsorship duties of the truck. With two races to go in the season, Cook was released from HT. He drove the next race in the #02 Koma Unwind Chevy for Corrie Stott Racing, but was unable to find a ride for the season-ending Ford 200, ending a streak of 296 consecutive races started in the Truck Series.

In addition to his Truck Series efforts, Cook made several starts for MSRP Motorsports (now Phil Parsons Racing) in the Nationwide Series. In 2008, Cook ran 7 Nationwide races with MSRP, followed by twenty 2009 races, failed to qualify for three races. All of Cook's Nationwide starts were start-and-parks.^[3][4]

Cook started the 2010 season running for Rookie of the Year in the Cup Series in the Whitney Motorsports No. 46 car, shown here in 2011.

Cook was signed to drive the #46 Dodge in the Sprint Cup Series for the newly formed Whitney Motorsports in 2010. The cars were former Richard Petty Motorsports Dodges purchased after RPM's switch to Ford. Cook would run for Rookie of the Year against Kevin Conway.^[4] The team failed to make the first four races of 2010. Cook made a total of three starts in the #46 while failing to qualify for 7 races. He parted ways with Whitney Motorsports after Richmond.^[5] He attempted one race with Phoenix Racing but failed to qualify. He then attempted Martinsville in the fall with Prism Motorsports, but he failed to qualify.

In 2010, Cook was hired as a drivers coach for Truck Series team Red Horse Racing, assisting driver Justin Lofton. Cook became the team's competition director in 2011, serving that position until 2014.^[1][2] In 2015, he was hired by Truck and Xfinity Series team Athenian Motorsports, serving as a driver coach and spotter for drivers John Wes Townley and Dylan Lupton.^[6]

Cook remains a popular figure in the garage area and among fans.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Sprint Cup Series

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	NSCC	Pts	Ref
2010	Whitney Motorsports	46	Dodge	DAY DNQ	CAL DNQ	LVS DNQ	ATL DNQ	BRI 37	MAR DNQ	PHO 34	TEX DNQ	TAL DNQ	RCH 39	DAR	DOV	CLT																								59th	164	[7]
	Phoenix Racing	09	Chevy														POC DNQ	MCH	SON	NHA	DAY	CHI	IND	POC	GLN	MCH	BRI	ATL	RCH	NHA	DOV	KAN	CAL	CLT
	Prism Motorsports	55	Toyota																																MAR DNQ	TAL	TEX	PHO	HOM

Daytona 500

Year	Team	Manufacturer	Start	Finish
2010	Whitney Motorsports	Dodge	DNQ

Nationwide Series

NASCAR Nationwide Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	NNSC	Pts	Ref
2008	MSRP Motorsports	91	Chevy	DAY	CAL	LVS	ATL	BRI	NSH	TEX	PHO	MXC	TAL	RCH	DAR 41	CLT	DOV 41	NSH	KEN	MLW 41	NHA	DAY	CHI	GTY	IRP 43	CGV	GLN	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	DOV	KAN	CLT 42	MEM	TEX			80th	271	[8]
		90																																			PHO 40	HOM 42
2009		91		DAY DNQ	CAL 37	LVS 41	BRI 40	TEX 42	NSH 42	PHO 42	TAL	RCH 41	DAR 41	CLT 40	DOV 41	NSH	KEN	MLW 39	NHA	DAY DNQ	CHI 41	GTY	IRP 40	IOW	GLN	MCH 38	BRI 42	CGV	ATL	RCH	DOV	KAN 41	CAL 41	CLT DNQ	MEM	TEX 41	PHO 39	HOM 40	54th	833	[9]

Camping World Truck Series

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	NCWTC	Pts	Ref
1996	SealMaster Racing	88	Chevy	HOM	PHO	POR	EVG	TUS	CNS	HPT	BRI	NZH	MLW 12	LVL	I70	IRP DNQ	FLM	GLN	NSV 25	RCH	NHA	MAR	NWS	SON	MMR	PHO 21	LVS DNQ				51st	371	[10]
1997				WDW DNQ	TUS DNQ	HOM DNQ	PHO 19	POR	EVG	I70 23	NHA 25	TEX 33	BRI 27	NZH 15	MLW 27	LVL 15	CNS 19	HPT 24	IRP 24	FLM 18	NSV 33	GLN DNQ	RCH DNQ	MAR DNQ	SON	MMR	CAL 23	PHO 28	LVS DNQ		24th	1651	[11]
1998				WDW 21	HOM 38	PHO 16	POR 31	EVG 29	I70 20	GLN 24	TEX 10	BRI 14	MLW 32	NZH 34	CAL 19	PPR 23	IRP 20	NHA 12	FLM 1	NSV 25	HPT 2	LVL 5	RCH 9	MEM 8	GTY 22	MAR 22	SON 30	MMR 11	PHO 22	LVS 34	20th	2845	[12]
1999				HOM 19	PHO 19	EVG 26	MMR 15	MAR 25	MEM 13	PPR 17	I70 12	BRI 15	TEX 22	PIR 4	GLN 12	MLW 16	NSV 20	NZH 14	MCH 13	NHA 12	IRP 17	GTY 15	HPT 19	RCH 24	LVS 10	LVL 23	TEX 6	CAL 31			15th	2838	[13]
2000				DAY 4	HOM 8	PHO 14	MMR 7	MAR 30	PIR 22	GTY 9	MEM 31	PPR 17	EVG 13	TEX 19	KEN 35	GLN 11	MLW 21	NHA 17	NZH 6	MCH 9	IRP 28	NSV 11	CIC 8	RCH 30	DOV 14	TEX 17					14th	2805	[14]
	K Automotive Racing	29	Dodge																								CAL 7
2001			Ford	DAY 6	HOM 10	MMR 7	MAR 3	GTY 3	DAR 7	PPR 11	DOV 11	TEX 13	MEM 25	MLW 4	KAN 20	KEN 9	NHA 6	IRP 2	NSH 6	CIC 6	NZH 2	RCH 31	SBO 7	TEX 22	LVS 13	PHO 7	CAL 6				7th	3327	[15]
2002				DAY 6	DAR 29	MAR 5	GTY 1*	PPR 4	DOV 10	TEX 13	MEM 2	MLW 1*	KAN 6	KEN 6	NHA 1	MCH 6	IRP 1*	NSH 7	RCH 5	TEX 22	SBO 25	LVS 27	CAL 10	PHO 5	HOM 10						8th	3070	[16]
2003				DAY 9	DAR 8	MMR 10	MAR 9	CLT 14	DOV 20	TEX 9	MEM 9	MLW 7	KAN 12	KEN 9	GTW 9	MCH 9	IRP 9	NSH 14	BRI 27	RCH 16	NHA 15	CAL 12	LVS 7	SBO 18	TEX 7	MAR 19	PHO 16	HOM 11			9th	3212	[17]
2004	ppc Racing	10	Ford	DAY 5	ATL 18	MAR 22	MFD 3	CLT 14	DOV 20	TEX 24	MEM 27	MLW 7	KAN 10	KEN 30	GTW 26	MCH 7	IRP 14	NSH 16	BRI 24	RCH 9	NHA 35	LVS 9	CAL 19	TEX 32	MAR 13	PHO 14	DAR 12	HOM 25			16th	2821	[18]
2005				DAY 20	CAL 15	ATL 9	MAR 10	GTY 23	MFD 31	CLT 2	DOV 3	TEX 7	MCH 13	MLW 10	KAN 7	KEN 25*	MEM 15	IRP 12	NSH 32	BRI 30	RCH 19	NHA 16	LVS 18	MAR 7	ATL 16	TEX 12	PHO 25	HOM 26			15th	2936	[19]
2006				DAY 10	CAL 14	ATL 12	MAR 19	GTY 6	CLT 2	MFD 22	DOV 16	TEX 16	MCH 9	MLW 10	KAN 1	KEN 16	MEM 8	IRP 6	NSH 10	BRI 21	NHA 22	LVS 16	TAL 14	MAR 17	ATL 2	TEX 8	PHO 14	HOM 10			8th	3268	[20]
2007	HT Motorsports	59	Toyota	DAY 27	CAL 30	ATL 17	MAR 15	KAN 9	CLT 16	MFD 12	DOV 8	TEX 12	MCH 11	MLW 13	MEM 29	KEN 31	IRP 26	NSH 18	BRI 32	GTW 30	NHA 18	LVS 4	TAL 28	MAR 29*	ATL 10	TEX 12	PHO 21				14th	2568	[21]
		92																										HOM 20
2008	Wyler Racing	60	Toyota	DAY 30	CAL 4	ATL 8	MAR 13	KAN 19	CLT 6	MFD 4	DOV 13	TEX 16	MCH 10	MLW 9	MEM 17	KEN 8	IRP 11	NSH 12	BRI 23	GTW 17	NHA 18	LVS 23	TAL 23								10th	3072	[22]
	HT Motorsports	59	Toyota																					MAR 16	ATL 28	TEX 6	PHO 11	HOM 9
2009		25		DAY 3	CAL 25	ATL 5	MAR 16	KAN 20	CLT 5	DOV 10	TEX 20	MCH 10	MLW 10	MEM 13	KEN 15	IRP 13	NSH 19	BRI 15	CHI 10	IOW 11	GTW 21	NHA 16	LVS 26	MAR 10	TAL 4	TEX 24					13th	2890	[23]
	Corrie Stott Racing	02	Chevy																								PHO 36	HOM

ARCA SuperCar Series

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

ARCA SuperCar Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	ASCC	Pts	Ref
1989		41	Pontiac	DAY	ATL	KIL	TAL	FRS	POC	KIL	HAG	POC	TAL	DEL 25	FRS 22	ISF	TOL 12	DSF							50th	-	[24]
			Chevy																SLM 7	ATL
1992	Gall Racing	6	Chevy	DAY	FIF	TWS	TAL	TOL	KIL	POC	MCH	FRS 12	KIL	NSH	DEL	POC	HPT	FRS	ISF	TOL	DSF	TWS	SLM	ATL	116th	-	[25]

References

1. Lenzi, Rachel (June 15, 2014). "Father's influence steered Cooks to life in racing world". bcsn.tv. The Blade, Buckeye Cable Sports Network. Archived from the original on 15 June 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
2. Rodman, Dave (February 4, 2011). "COOK QUITS DRIVING, NOT READY TO QUIT WINNING". nascar.com. NASCAR. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
3. Zeller, Bob (February 2009). "The Quitting Game". Car and Driver. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
4. Leone, Christopher (January 17, 2010). "Explaining NASCAR's Weakest Rookie "Race" in Recent Memory". bleacherreport.com. Bleacher Report. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
5. Vincent, Amanda (January 21, 2014). "2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup rookie battle one to watch". autoracingdaily.com. Auto Racing Daily. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
6. Press Release (March 15, 2015). "Dylan Lupton Captures Top-20 In XFINITY Series Debut; John Wes Townley Looks Ahead To California". catchfence.com. Concord, North Carolina: Catchfence. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
7. "Terry Cook – 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved October 20, 2015.
8. "Terry Cook – 2008 NASCAR Nationwide Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
9. "Terry Cook – 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
10. "Terry Cook – 1996 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
11. "Terry Cook – 1997 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
12. "Terry Cook – 1998 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
13. "Terry Cook – 1999 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
14. "Terry Cook – 2000 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
15. "Terry Cook – 2001 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
16. "Terry Cook – 2002 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
17. "Terry Cook – 2003 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
18. "Terry Cook – 2004 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
19. "Terry Cook – 2005 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
20. "Terry Cook – 2006 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
21. "Terry Cook – 2007 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
22. "Terry Cook – 2008 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
23. "Terry Cook – 2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
24. "Terry Cook – 1989 ARCA Permatex SuperCar Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
25. "Terry Cook – 1992 ARCA SuperCar Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved October 19, 2015.

External links

• Official website
• Terry Cook driver statistics at Racing-Reference