- Bobby Gill
Infobox NASCAR driver
Name = Robert Gill
Birthdate = 1959
Birthplace = flagicon|USAFlorida
Truck_Top_Tens = 4 | Best_Truck_Pos = 21st - 1996
First_Truck_Race = 1996Florida Dodge Dealers 400 (Homestead)
Last_Truck_Race = 2000Quaker State 200 (Memphis)
Years_In_Truck = 2
Total_Truck_Races = 16
Awards = 1999, 2000, 2001, 2007USAR Hooters Pro Cup ChampionBobby Gill is a former
NASCAR driver. He raced for a number of years in theCraftsman Truck Series , earning four top-tens in sixteen starts.Most of the starts came in 1996, when he started off with
Spears Motorsports . In his debut with the team, he started 15th and finished 23rd at Homestead-Miami. Then, the very next race at Phoenix, Gill earned his first career top-10 with a ninth-place showing. He would later better that with a 7th at Tucson and Bristol and a 6th at Milwaukee. He also earned one top-10 start at Colorado. Curiously, after an 11th place finish at Louisville, Gill was released from the team for unspecified reasons. He was running 11th in the points at the time, just thirty points out of tenth.Gill recovered by joining
Billy Ballew Motorsports for three races in later 1996. After finishing 22nd at Nashville, Gill closed out the year with a pair of 11ths, allowing him to finish 21st in points, despite missing ten races during the year.Gill returned to the series for two starts in 2000. He started 7th in his season debut at Milwaukee before finishing 34th due to a rear end gear failure. He didn't fare much better at Memphis, where he crashed to 32nd. Gill has not competed in major NASCAR since.
However, Gill has carved out a successful niche in the
USAR Hooters Pro Cup developmental series where he won three straight championships from 1999 to 2001 and he continues to race to this day. Gill added his fourth USAR championship in 2007.External links
* [http://www.racing-reference.info/driver?id=gillbo01 Gill's Stats from Racing-Reference.info]
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